Friday, August 17, 2007

Customer Testimony: Kenichi Yano, Gifu University, Japan




Dr. Kenichi Yano
Associate Professor,
Department of Human and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University,
1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1193
Japan



Teaching and Research Areas


Control theory and its applications to transfer systems, industrial robots and medical and welfare systems.


Projects with Quanser’s Product


Development of control system for welfare robots and medical systems.


Advantages of Quanser’s Product


It is very easy to start experiments with high specs. Therefore, we can avoid many troublesome works. For this reason, Quanser’s products are very effective for us.

Using the Quanser software, we can easily design control systems for many plants.

We can apply complex control strategies quickly and effectively.

It is very easy to verify the theoretical results on the real plant.


Selected Papers


K.Yano and K.Terashima, “Robust Liquid Container Transfer Control for Complete Sloshing Suppression”, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.483-493, 2001

K.Terashima and K.Yano“Sloshing Analysis and Suppression Control of Tilting-Type Automatic Pouring Machine”, IFAC Journal of Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp.607-620, 2001

K.Terashima, K.Yano, K.Okamura, H.Kawagishi and M.Watanabe, “An Optimum Design with Sloshing Suppression on Container Transfer Control of Molten Metal Using Computer Fluid Dynamics Model”, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 435-440, 2002, and Proc. of MCSP5 (5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Modeling of Casting & Solidification Processes) , 2001, Nagoya, Japan

Y. Shen, K. Terashima and K. Yano, “Optimal Control of Rotary Crane Using the Straight Transfer Transformation Method to Eliminate Residual Vibration”, Trans. of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 817-826, 2003

K.Yano and K.Terashima, “Sloshing Suppression Control of Liquid Transfer Systems Considering 3D Transfer Path”, IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, Vol.10 , No. 1, pp.8-16, 2005

K.Terashima, Y.Shen and K.Yano, “Modeling and Optimal Control of a Rotary Crane Using the Straight Transfer Transformation Method”, IFAC Journal of Control Engineering Practice, Vol.15, pp.1179-1192, 2007

A.Takemoto, K.Yano, and K.Terashima“Obstacle Avoidance Control System of Rotary Crane Using Proposed Haptic Joystick”, Proc. of First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, 18- 20 March, 2005

Y.Noda, K.Yano, and K.Terashima, “Control of Self-Transfer-Type Automatic Pouring Robot with Cylindrical Ladle” , Proc. of IFAC'05 (The 16th International Federation of Automatic Control Triennial World Congress) , Prague, 3- 8 July, 2005

Y.Shen, K.Terashima, and K.Yano, “Minimum Time Control Using Straight Transfer for a Rotary Crane”, Proc. of IFAC'05 (The 16th International Federation of Automatic Control Triennial World Congress) , Prague, 3- 8 July, 2005

K.Yano, A.Takemoto, and K.Terashima, “Semi-Automatic Obstacle Avoidance Control for Operation Support System with Haptic Joystick”, IROS'05 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), pp. 698-703, Edmonton, Canada, 2 - 6 August, 2005

H.Esen, K.Yano and M.Buss“Interaction with Virtual Deformable Objects for Surgery Simulation Using a Hyper Redundant Haptic Display”, Proc. of Euro Haptics 2006, pp. 519-522, Paris, France, 3 –6 July, 2006

K.Yano, K.Kaneko, Y.Noda and K.Terashima, “Adaptive Feedforward Control of Automatic Pouring Robot Considering Influence of the Accumulating Disturbance”, Proc. of IEEE CCA (Conference on Control Applications), pp. 2820-2825, Muenchen, Germany4–6 October, 2006

K.Yano, K.Kaneko, Y.Noda and K.Terashima,, “Supervisory Control of Automatic Pouring Process Considering Residual Pouring Quantity”, Proc. of ECC (European Control Conference), pp. 2045-2050, Kos, Greece, 2 –5 July, 2007

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