Kaoru Yamamoto's website
Contact:
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Room W2-651
(Phone) +81-92-802-3669
Email: yamamoto.kaoru.481[at]m.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Research Group Website
Personal Webpage at Kyushu University
About:
Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Japan, 2018 Aug. -
Postdoctoral researcher, Lund University, Sweden, 2017 Jan. - 2018 Jul.
Postdoctoral associate, University of Minnesota, USA, 2015 Nov. - 2016 Dec.
Ph.D. in Control Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, 2011 Oct. - 2016 Jan.
Master's degree in Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 2011
Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 2009
Research Interests:
Control of interconnected dynamical systems, distributed control, multi-agent systems
Sampled-data systems (especially lifting, optimising intersample behaviour, and controlling signals beyond the Nyquist frequency)
Vibration control, anti-vibration systems
Mechanical networks, passivity-based control
Spectral analysis, spectral interpolation
General audience talks and articles:
Gave a public talk on scalability in swarm robotics: 九州大学Brown Bag Seminar「ロボット群の「スケーラブル」な制御」（山本薫） [in Japanese]
Gave a seminar at Maizuru Industrial College of Technology for elementary school & junior high school students (2021 Dec. 5 [in Japanese] https://jrdoctor.maizuru-ct.ac.jp/archives/1014)
Gave a talk on YouTube about my experience abroad (2020 July 12 [in Japanese])
イギリス，アメリカ，そしてスウェーデンへ, システム／制御／情報, 2018, 62 巻, 11 号, p. 466-471
Tutorial talks (2023~):
Gave a talk about advanced air mobility at "Fukuoka Air Mobility Lecture Series Part 3".
Gave a tutorial talk on advanced air mobility for Waseda University Extension Center.
Gave a tutorial talk on "Ensemble Control of Mobile Robots" at one of the pre-conference workshops "Systems Theory of Ensembles: Fundamentals, Learning, and Application" for the 62nd IEEE CDC.
Service:
Conference organisations (selected)
Program Committee for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (2022 - 2024)
International Program Committee for the 4th IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON 2024)
Assistant Secretary for The 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2023)
Editorial work
Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society (2020 - present)
Associate Editor of Journal of Systems & Control Engineering (2020 - present)
Associate Editor of International Journal of Systems Science (2021 - present)
Technical committees
Member of IFAC TC 2.1 - Control Design (2020 - present)
Member of IFAC TC 1.5 - Networked Systems (2024 - present)
Other
Member of the selection committee of Funai Overseas Scholarship, the Funai Foundation of Information Technology (2021 - present)
Delegate of SICE (The Society of Instrumente and Control Engineers) (2021 - present)
Reviewer of scientific journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica.