Selected Publications

For the full list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar page or the university website. 

Journal Papers 

• Distributed control for flock navigation using nonlinear model predictive control
  A. Nag and K. Yamamoto
  Advanced Robotics, 1-13, 2024.

• Hypertracking and Hyperrejection: Control of Signals beyond the Nyquist Frequency
  K. Yamamoto, Y. Yamamoto, and M. Nagahara
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68(10), pp. 6232-6239, 2023.

• An efficient algorithm for matrix-valued and vector-valued optimal mass transport
  Y. Chen, E. Haber, K. Yamamoto, T.T. Georgiou, and A. Tannenbaum
  Journal of Scientific Computing, 77(1), pp.79-100, 2018.

• Regularization and interpolation of positive matrices
  K. Yamamoto, Y. Chen, L. Ning, T.T. Georgiou, and A. Tannenbaum
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(4), pp.1208-1212, 2018.

• Bounded disturbance amplification for mass chains with passive interconnection
  K. Yamamoto and M.C. Smith
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 61(6), pp.1565-1574, 2016.

• Instantaneous earthquake input energy and sensitivity in base‐isolated building
  K. Yamamoto, K. Fujita, and I. Takewaki
  The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 20(6), pp.631-648, 2011.

• Smart passive damper control for greater building earthquake resilience in sustainable cities
  I. Takewaki, K. Fujita, K. Yamamoto, and H. Takabatake
  Sustainable Cities and Society, 1(1), pp.3-15, 2011.

Conference Papers

• Nonlinear sampled-data systems—a lifting framework
  Y. Yamamoto and K. Yamamoto
  22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Yokohama, Japan, 2023.

• Algebraic connectivity of layered path graphs under node deletion
  R. Yoshise and K. Yamamoto
  IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, 2022.

• Flock navigation with dynamic hierarchy and subjective weights using nonlinear MPC
  A. Nag, S. Huang, A. Themelis, and K. Yamamoto
  IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Trieste, Italy, 2022.

• Scale-invariant Controller Synthesis in Mass Chains
  K. Yamamoto
  Published at the 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Cambridge, UK, 2020, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Presented at the 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Bayreuth, Germany, 2021.

• Towards Scale Free Disturbance Suppression in Heterogeneous Mass Chains
  K. Yamamoto
  18th European Control Conference (ECC), Naples, Italy, 2019.

• Sensitivity Function Trade-offs for Networks with a String Topology
  R. Pates and K. Yamamoto
  IEEE 57th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),  Miami, USA, 2018.

• Sampled-data Filters with Compactly Supported Acquisition Prefilters
  Y. Yamamoto, K. Yamamoto, and M. Nagahara
  IEEE 57th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),  Miami, USA, 2018.

• Scale Free Bounds on the Amplification of Disturbances in Mass Chains
  R. Pates and K. Yamamoto
  2018 Americal Control Conference (ACC), Milwaukee, USA, 2018.

• Signal reconstruction with generalized sampling
  K. Yamamoto, M. Nagahara, and Y. Yamamoto,
  IEEE 56th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, 2017.

• Simultaneous rejection of signals below and above the Nyquist frequency
  K. Yamamoto, Y. Yamamoto, and M. Nagahara
  IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Maui, USA, 2017.

• A Renewed Look at Zeros of Sampled-Data Systems—From the Lifting Viewpoint
  K. Yamamoto, Y. Yamamoto, and S.I. Niculescu
  20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Toulouse, France, 2017.

• Tracking of signals beyond the Nyquist frequency
  Y. Yamamoto, K. Yamamoto, and M. Nagahara
  IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, USA, 2016.

• Mass chains with passive interconnection: Complex iterative maps and scalability
  K. Yamamoto and M.C. Smith
  IEEE 52nd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Firenze, Italy, 2013.

Dissertations: 

• 1. PhD dissertation: Disturbance Attenuation in Mass Chains with Passive Interconnection
     University of Cambridge, UK
     Supervisor: Prof. Malcolm C. Smith
     Examiners: Dr. Glenn Vinnicombe and Prof. Alessandro Astolfi

  2. Master's thesis: Optimal Damper Placement in Building Structures for H-infinity Norm
     Kyoto University, Japan
     Supervisor: Prof. Izuru Takewaki

  3. Bachelor's thesis: Sensitivity Analysis on Base-isolated Buildings with respect to Model Uncertainty
     Kyoto University, Japan
     Supervisor: Prof. Izuru Takewaki