Papers
Papers
Biosystems Engineering,Volume 242, 2024, pp100-106
Keisuke Kazama , Kazuma Kashiwabara , Masahisa Watanabe, Kenshi Sakai, Driving Stability of an Agricultural Articulated Vehicle based on the Closed-loop System, Volume： 86 Issue： 1 Page： 44-51 Publication year： Jan. 01, 2024. Journal of the Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery and Food Engineers
Masahisa Watanabe, Keisuke Kazama and Kenshi Sakai, "Dynamical Modeling of the Power Hop Phenomenon in an Agricultural Tractor with Front Axle Suspension", 21ST INTERNATIONAL AND 12TH ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ISTVS, 2024.
Masahisa Watanabe, Kenshi Sakai, “Driving force control of nonlinear dynamics in agricultural tractor ”, The Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Machinery and Mechatronics for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, 2024.
Masahisa Watanabe, Keisuke Kazama, Kenshi Sakai. (2024). Enhancing Stability through Passive Axle Suspension in Nonlinear Bouncing Agricultural Tractor. In 2024 ASABE Annual International Meeting (p. 1). American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
Masahisa Watanabe, Keisuke Kazama, Kenshi Sakai. (2023). Development of nonlinear bouncing tractor model with semi-active axle suspension system. In 2023 ASABE Annual International Meeting (p. 1). American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
Masahisa Watanabe, Kenshi Sakai, "Stick Slip Vibration in Tractor Dynamics ", NOLTA 2019, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, December, 2-6, 2019.
Masahisa Watanabe, Kenshi Sakai (2019, Sep.), "Investigation by Driving Simulation of Tractor Overturning Accidents Caused by Steering Instability", 13th CIGR VI Technical Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, September 3-6, 2019.
Masahisa Watanabe, Kenshi Sakai, “NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACTOR MODEL INCORPORATING BOUNCING PHENOMENON”, The Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Machinery and Mechatronics for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, 2018.
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 23K14043(2023.4-2026.3)
Title：Development of tractor driving simulator for safey education purpose using XR technology
Budget：4,680,000 yen
Grant in Aids for young researchers 19J11183 (2019.4-2021.3)
Title：Development of tractor driving simulator for reduction of overturning accidents
Budget：2,100,000 yen
Oversea presentation aids for young researchers (JSAM, 2019)
Title：Development of Tractor Bicycle Model with Ride Vibration
Budget：150, 000 yen
Special budget for leading graduate school at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (2018)
Title：Tractor overturning mechanism clarification and control logic development using tractor driving simulator with nonlinear elements
Budget：300, 000 yen
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The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers : www.sice.jp/
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American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers : www.asabe.org/
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:https://www.ieee.org/
JSAM Research paper award (2018): Algorithm of generating road for tractor driving simulator
JSAM Research award(2024): Study on nonlinear dynamcis of agricultural tractor and driving simulation
2022 Oct. - Present
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Tenure track assistant professor for agricultural engineering.
Research interests: Vehicle dynamics, Vehicle control, Nonlinear dynamics, Chaos.
2025 Apr. - 2025 Sep. (expected)
University of Delhi
Visiting researcher
Prof. Awadesh Prasad's Laboratory (Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi)
Collaboration between agricultural off-road vehicle and nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
Hitachi, Ltd.
Researcher - Prognostics and Health Management for industrial machinery, Statistics & Machine learning applications.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science @ Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Research Fellow DC2 - Development of tractor driving simulator for preventing overturning accidents.
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Research assistant - Nonlinear dynamics simulations on agricultural tractor for preventing overturning accidents.
Teaching assistant - Agricultural engineering experiment, Information processing and statistics
Neorium technology, ltd.
Engineering internship - Design control system and simulation using MATLAB/Simulink
NEC Corporation
Research internship - Machine learning analysis using Python
Technical University of Munich - Agricultural Systems Engineering Laboratory, TUM School of Life Sciences, Weihenstephan
Visiting researcher - Numerical analysis on large-sized tractor generally used in Germany for safety improvement
Works Applications Co., Ltd.
Student internship
TLO University of Tokyo
Student internship
Ph.D. in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
B.S. in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2022, Japan Statistical Society Certificate Grade 1 Semi (The Japan Statistical Society, Japan)
2022, Course Certificate for Leading Data Analytics Talents (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
2021, Fundamentals of Deep Learning (NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute)
2021, Course Certificate for Data Analysis Using Python (Coursera, University of Pennsylvania)
2020, Course Certificate for Machine Learning (Coursera, Stanford University)
2020, TOEFL ibt 92/120 (ETS)
2015, TOEIC 860/990 (ETS)