Yuichi Tazaki

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
Nagoya University
Last update : Apr. 18, 2011.

Research Interests Walking Robots
Human-like Robots
Finite-state Modeling of Complex Systems
Control of Hybrid Systems

Biography
1980 Born in Kanagawa, Japan.
2004 Received Master degree in control engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.
2007 Research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
2008 Received Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology
Guest scientist at Honda Research Institute Europe (Germany)
2009- Assistant Professor at Nagoya University, Japan.
Publications journal paper    book chapter    conference paper
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Verification and Design of Discrete Abstractions Based on Error Propagation Analysis,
accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Multiresolution Discrete Abstraction for Optimal Control,
49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2010), December 15-17, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010.
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Approximately Bisimilar Discrete Abstractions of Nonlinear Systems Using Variable-resolution Quantizers,
2010 American Control Conference (ACC2010), pp.1015-1020, June 30 - July 2, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2010.
J. Xiang, Y. Tazaki, S. Inagaki and T. Suzuki Variable-resolution Map Building and Real-time Path Planning of Omni-directional Mobile Robots,
2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.3014-3019, May 3-8, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2010.
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Planar Bipedal Locomotion Control Based on State-Discretization,
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, Volume 58, Issue 5, pp.657-665, 2010.
Y. Tazaki, H. Sugiura, H. Janssen and C. Goerick Decentralized Planning for Dynamic Motion Generation of Multi-Link Robotic Systems,
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Intelligent Systems, pp.1582-1587, Oct. 11-15, St.Louis, USA, 2009.
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Discrete-State Abstractions of Nonlinear Systems Using Multi-resolution Quantizer,
12th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'09), pp.351-365,
San Francisco, CA, USA, April, 2009.
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Finite Abstractions of Discrete-time Linear Systems and Its Application to Optimal Control, in CDROM,
17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008.
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Bisimilar Finite Abstractions of Interconnected Systems,
11th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'08), St. Louis, MO, USA, April 22-24, 2008.
M. Honarvarmahjoobin,
Y. Tazaki and J. Imura
State Waypoint Approach to Continuous-time Nonlinear Optimal Control Problems,
Asian Journal of Control, Vol.11, No.6.
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Model Predictive Control for Continuous-time Piecewise Affine Systems Based on Mode Controllability,
IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Munich, Germany, October 4-6, 2006.
Y. Tazaki, J. Imura Graph-based Model Predictive Control of a Planar Bipedal Walker,
17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, pp128-133, Kyoto, Japan, July 24-28, 2006.

[ Publications in Japanese]
田崎,井村 状態量子化に基づく線形システムの離散状態近似とその最適制御への応用,
計測自動制御学会論文集,Vol.44, No.10, pp.786-792, 2008.
田崎,井村 連続時間区分的アファインシステムのモデル予測制御と事前計算による高速解法
計測自動制御学会論文集,Vol.43, No.6, pp.500-505, 2007.
田崎,井村 平面二足歩行ロボットのグラフ型モデル予測制御
日本ロボット学会誌,Vol.24, No.5, pp101-109, 2006.
田崎,井村 平面二足歩行における足の省エネルギ効果の考察
日本ロボット学会誌,Vol.23, No.1, pp131-138, 2005.

Softwares
Springhead Physics Simulation Library [JP][EN]



C++ physics engine developed by my colleagues and myself
DiMP Motion Planning Library [EN]

Scene graph-based motion planning library
Scene Builder - convenient way for building virtual scenes Tool for rapidly building a 3D world