IEEE Control Systems Letters Papers Published by Researchers in Japan

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Highly contributed researchers

In recent 10 years: Hai Lin (13)

Toshimitsu Ushio (11) / Kenji Kashima (9) / Kenji Fujimoto (7) / Hiroaki Mukaidani (6) / Yu Kawano (6)

Since 2017: Hai Lin (13)

Toshimitsu Ushio (11) / Kenji Kashima (10) / Yu Kawano (10) / Kenji Fujimoto (7)

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2025

Mutual Information Optimal Control of Discrete-Time Linear Systems

Authors: Shoju Enami and Kenji Kashima

Stability Conditions for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems Introduced on Left-Bounded Time Interval

Authors: Daiki Hayashi, Yohei Hosoe, Yu Kawano, Tomomichi Hagiwara

Gradient-Based Co-Design of Nonlinear Optimal Regulators With Stability Guarantee

Author: Hikaru Hoshino

Statistical Guarantees in Data-Driven Nonlinear Control: Conformal Robustness for Stability and Safety

Authors: Ting-Wei Hsu and Hiroyasu Tsukamoto

Parameter Invariance Analysis of Moment Equations Using Dulmage-Mendelsohn Decomposition

Authors: Akito Igarashi and Yutaka Hori

Energy-Aware Task Allocation for Teams of Multi-Mode Robots

Authors: Takumi Ito, Riku Funada, Mitsuji Sampei, Gennaro Notomista

Localized Data-Driven Distributed Controller Design for Positive Stabilization

Authors: Takumi Iwata, Shun-ichi Azuma, Masaaki Nagahara

Formation Control of Nonholonomic Agents by Discrete-Valued Inputs and Multi-Step Movements

Authors: Shinsaku Izumi and Takeru Nakayama

Contraction Analysis of Almost Surely Monotone Discrete-Time Systems With Unknown Time Delay

Authors: Yu Kawano and Yohei Hosoe

A Gap Penalty Reformulation for Mathematical Programming With Complementarity Constraints: Convergence Analysis

Authors: Kangyu Lin and Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

Distributionally Robust Model Order Reduction for Linear Systems

Authors: Le Liu, Yu Kawano, Yangming Dou, Ming Cao

On Feedback Design for Systems With an Agent in the Loop

Authors: Jos Mara Maestre, F. Lpez-Rodrguez, Paula Chanfreut, Takeshi Hatanaka

Compression Method for Deep Diagonal State Space Model Based on H2 Optimal Reduction

Authors: Hiroki Sakamoto and Kazuhiro Sato

Relative Entropy Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Encrypted Policy Synthesis

Authors: Jihoon Suh, Yeongjun Jang, Kaoru Teranishi, Takashi Tanaka

Direct Bayesian Identification of Inverse Linear Systems

Authors: Rikuto Suzuki, Tom Oomen, Rodrigo A. Gonzlez

Multi-Stable Monotone Networks

Authors: Rintaro Watanabe, Yu Kawano, Nobutaka Wada

2024

Experimental Modeling and Variable Structure Control for Cyborg Cockroaches

Authors: Antonio Caforio, Elisabetta Punta, Keisuke Morishima

Input-to-State Stable Hybrid Momentum Observer for Mechanical Systems

Authors: Joel Ferguson, Naoki Sakata, Kenji Fujimoto

Design of Distributed Controller for Discrete-Time Systems via the Integration of Extended LMI and Clique-Wise Decomposition

Authors: Sotaro Fushimi, Yuto Watanabe, Kazunori Sakurama

Two-Agent Noncooperative Dynamical Systems With Quadratic Vector-Valued Payoff Functions and Weak Pareto Improvement

Authors: Zehui Guo and Tomohisa Hayakawa

Design of Sparse Control With Minimax Concave Penalty

Authors: Naoki Hayashi, Takuya Ikeda, Masaaki Nagahara

Stochastic Gain-Scheduled Control of Discrete-Time Systems Characterized by Random Polytopes

Authors: Yohei Hosoe, Yuki Michitani, Dimitri Peaucelle, Tomomichi Hagiwara

Data Informativity for Distributed Positive Stabilization

Authors: Takumi Iwata, Shun-ichi Azuma, Ryo Ariizumi, Toru Asai

Sampled-Data Circular Path Following Control of Four Wheeled Mobile Robots With Steering Angle Saturation

Authors: Hitoshi Katayama, Kohei Hayashi, Yuya Imamura

A Robust and Regularized Algorithm for Recursive Total Least Squares Estimation

Authors: Hugo Koide, Jrmy Vayssettes, Guillaume Mercre

Proximal Dynamic Method With Time-Varying Coefficients for Equilibrium Problems: Fixed-Time Convergence

Authors: Suhela Lushate, Shuxin Liu, Rukeya Tohti, Haijun Jiang, Abdujelil Abdurahman

Sparse Topology Estimation for Consensus Network Systems via Minimax Concave Penalty

Authors: Fumiya Matsuzaki and Takuya Ikeda

Adaptive Passification of Unknown Input-Affine Nonlinear Systems

Authors: Tatsuya Miyano, Ryotaro Shima, Yuji Ito

Minimum Energy Density Steering of Linear Systems With Gromov-Wasserstein Terminal Cost

Authors: Kohei Morimoto and Kenji Kashima

Calculation Method of Static Friction Forces for Multi-Joint Manipulators

Authors: Yusuke Murayama and Yoshiro Fukui

Feedback Control Balancing Quadratic Performance and Input Sparsity

Authors: Shumpei Nishida and Kunihisa Okano

Rate-Distortion Achievability via Event Threshold Quantizers for Planer Wiener Processes

Authors: Ronald Ogden and Takashi Tanaka

Imitation-Regularized Optimal Transport on Networks: Provable Robustness and Application to Logistics Planning

Authors: Koshi Oishi, Yota Hashizume, Tomohiko Jimbo, Hirotaka Kaji, Kenji Kashima

Discrete-Time Stochastic LQR via Path Integral Control and Its Sample Complexity Analysis

Authors: Apurva Patil, Grani A. Hanasusanto, Takashi Tanaka

Contraction Analysis of Continuation Method for Suboptimal Model Predictive Control

Authors: Ryotaro Shima, Yuji Ito, Tatsuya Miyano

Robust Controller Synthesis Under Markovian Mode Switching With Periodic LTV Dynamics

Authors: Shaurya Shrivastava and Kenshiro Oguri

Port-Hamiltonian-Based Geometric Control for Rigid Body Platoons With Mesh Stability Guarantee

Authors: Zihao Song, Panos J. Antsaklis, Hai Lin

Covert Vehicle Misguidance and Its Detection: A Hypothesis Testing Game Over Continuous-Time Dynamics

Authors: Takashi Tanaka, Kenji Sawada, Yohei Watanabe, Mitsugu Iwamoto

Low-Rank Approximated Kalman-Bucy Filters Using Ojas Principal Component Flow for Linear Time-Invariant Systems

Authors: Daiki Tsuzuki and Kentaro Ohki

Guaranteed Pseudospectral Sequential Convex Programming for Accurate Solutions to Constrained Optimal Control Problems

Authors: Keitaro Yamamoto, Kenji Fujimoto, Ichiro Maruta

Structured Kalman Filter for Time Scale Generation in Atomic Clock Ensembles

Authors: Yuyue Yan, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Yuichiro Yano, Yuko Hanado, Takayuki Ishizaki

Orthogonal Modal Representation in Long-Term Risk Quantification for Dynamic Multi-Agent Systems

Authors: Ryoma Yasunaga, Yorie Nakahira, Yutaka Hori

On Generating Explanations for Reinforcement Learning Policies: An Empirical Study

Authors: Mikihisa Yuasa, Huy T. Tran, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas

A Lyapunov-Based Method of Reducing Activation Functions of Recurrent Neural Networks for Stability Analysis

Authors: Tsuyoshi Yuno, Kazuma Fukuchi, Yoshio Ebihara

2023

A Passivity-Based Integral Sliding Mode Controller for Mechanical Port-Hamiltonian Systems

Authors: Takahiro Baba, Kenji Fujimoto, Ichiro Maruta

Data Informativity for Lyapunov Equations

Authors: Ikumi Banno, Shun-ichi Azuma, Ryo Ariizumi, Toru Asai, Jun-ichi Imura

Memory Saving State-Sharing Multi-Observer for a Class of Multi-Observer-Based Algorithms

Authors: Michelle S. Chong, Masashi Wakaiki, Joo P. Hespanha

Linear Programming Approach to Relative-Orbit Control With Element-Wise Quantized Control

Authors: Kazuya Echigo, Christopher R. Hayner, Avi Mittal, Selahattin Burak Sarsilmaz, Matthew W. Harris, Behet Aikmese

Novel Control Approaches Based on Projection Dynamics

Authors: Zao Fu, Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Yu Kawano, Wenwu Yu, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

Scalable Long-Term Safety Certificate for Large-Scale Systems

Authors: Kenta Hoshino, Zhuoyuan Wang, Yorie Nakahira

H₂ Performance Analysis and Synthesis for Discrete-Time Linear Systems With Dynamics Determined by an i.i.d. Process

Authors: Yohei Hosoe, Takashi Okamoto, Tomomichi Hagiwara

High-Order Mean and Moment Exponential Stability Analysis Using Elimination and Duplication Matrices

Authors: Yuji Ito and Kenji Fujimoto

Entropic Model Predictive Optimal Transport for Underactuated Linear Systems

Authors: Kaito Ito and Kenji Kashima

Distributed Spatial Filtering by a Two-Hop Consensus-Type Algorithm

Authors: Shinsaku Izumi, Xin Xin, Taiga Yamasaki

Hausdorff Dimension Estimates for Interconnected Systems With Variable Metrics

Authors: Rui Kato and Hideaki Ishii

Stabilization for a Class of Positive Bilinear Systems

Authors: Yu Kawano and Michele Cucuzzella

Krasovskii and Shifted Passivity Approaches to Mixed Input/Output Consensus

Authors: Yu Kawano, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

Robust Control of Discrete-Time Systems With Coefficient Matrices Given by Polytopic Martingales

Authors: Tomoya Kitahiro, Yohei Hosoe, Tomomichi Hagiwara

Observability Gramian for Bayesian Inference in Nonlinear Systems With Its Industrial Application

Authors: Lee Kunwoo, Yusuke Umezu, Kaiki Konno, Kenji Kashima

Harmonic Balance Analysis of Lur'e Oscillator Network With Non-Diffusive Weak Coupling

Authors: Bryan Lee and Tetsuya Iwasaki

Leader-Follower Formation of Second-Order Agents via Delayed Relative Displacement Feedback

Authors: Fausto Francesco Lizzio, Elisa Capello, Yasumasa Fujisaki

Stabilization for a Class of Bilinear Systems: A Unified Approach

Authors: Morteza Nazari Monfared, Yu Kawano, Juan E. Machado, Daniele Astolfi, Michele Cucuzzella

Some Remarks on LQ Mean-Field Social Control Problems for Stochastic Input Delay Systems

Authors: Hiroaki Mukaidani, Shunpei Irie, Hua Xu, Weihua Zhuang

Cooperative Learning for Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit on Open Multi-Agent Systems

Authors: Tomoki Nakamura, Naoki Hayashi, Masahiro Inuiguchi

Cloud-Mediated Self-Triggered Synchronization of Physically Coupled Linear Agents

Authors: Takumi Namba and Kiyotsugu Takaba

Personalization of Control Systems by Policy Update With Improving User Trust

Authors: Tomotaka Nii and Masaki Inoue

Rigid Motion Gaussian Processes With SE(3) Kernel and Application to Visual Pursuit Control

Authors: Marco Omainska, Junya Yamauchi, Armin Lederer, Sandra Hirche, Masayuki Fujita

Combinatorial Optimization Approach to Client Scheduling for Federated Learning

Authors: Tomohito Omori and Kenji Kashima

Deception by Motion: The Eater and the Mover Game

Authors: Violetta Rostobaya, Yue Guan, James Berneburg, Michael R. Dorothy, Daigo Shishika

Parametrization of Linear Controllers for p-Dominance

Authors: Yusuke Sato, Yu Kawano, Nobutaka Wada

Differentiable Sparse Optimal Control

Authors: Ryotaro Shima, Ryuta Moriyasu, Sho Kawaguchi, Kenji Kashima

Optimal Controller and Security Parameter for Encrypted Control Systems Under Least Squares Identification

Authors: Kaoru Teranishi and Kiminao Kogiso

Structural Balance of Complex Weighted Graphs and Multi-Partite Consensus

Authors: Honghui Wu, Ahmet Taha Koru, Guanxuan Wu, Frank L. Lewis, Hai Lin

Conjugate Gradient Methods for Optimization Problems on Symplectic Stiefel Manifold

Authors: Mitsutaka Yamada and Hiroyuki Sato

Control Synthesis for Stability and Safety by Differential Complementarity Problem

Authors: Yinzhuang Yi, Shumon Koga, Bogdan Gavrea, Nikolay Atanasov

A Jump Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Bridge Based on Energy-Optimal Control and Its Self-Exciting Extension

Authors: Hidekazu Yoshioka and Kazutoshi Yamazaki

Parameterized Synthesis of Discrete-Time Positive Linear Systems: A Geometric Programming Perspective

Authors: Chengyan Zhao, Bohao Zhu, Masaki Ogura, James Lam

Provable-Correct Partitioning Approach for Continuous-Observation POMDPs With Special Observation Distributions

Authors: Wei Zheng and Hai Lin

2022

Weighted Graph-Based Signal Temporal Logic Inference Using Neural Networks

Authors: Nasim Baharisangari, Kazuma Hirota, Ruixuan Yan, Agung Julius, Zhe Xu

Instabilizability Conditions for Continuous-Time Stochastic Systems Under Control Input Constraints

Authors: Ahmet Cetinkaya and Masako Kishida

Simultaneous Fault and Input Time Delay Estimation for an Actuator System: Theory and Flight Data Validation

Authors: Lejun Chen, Christopher Edwards, Halim Alwi, Masayuki Sato

A Lower-Bound for Variable-Length Source Coding in Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian Control With Shared Randomness

Authors: Travis C. Cuvelier, Takashi Tanaka, Robert W. Heath Jr.

A Passivity-Based Sliding Mode Controller for a Class of Electro-Mechanical Systems

Authors: Kenji Fujimoto, Takahiro Baba, Naoki Sakata, Ichiro Maruta

Constrained Smoothing Splines by Optimal Control

Authors: Takuya Ikeda, Masaaki Nagahara, Debasish Chatterjee, Sukumar Srikant

Formation Control of Four-Legged Robots Using Discrete-Valued Inputs

Authors: Shinsaku Izumi, Kiko Shinagawa, Xin Xin, Taiga Yamasaki

Hyper-Labeled Transition System and Its Application to Planning Under Linear Temporal Logic Constraints

Authors: Takuma Kinugawa and Toshimitsu Ushio

A More Scalable Mixed-Integer Encoding for Metric Temporal Logic

Authors: Vince Kurtz and Hai Lin

Mixed-Integer Programming for Signal Temporal Logic With Fewer Binary Variables

Authors: Vincent Kurtz and Hai Lin

Modular Similarity Control of Nondeterministic Discrete Event Systems With Modular Specifications

Authors: Jinglun Li and Shigemasa Takai

Maximally Permissive Modular Similarity Control of Composite Nondeterministic Discrete Event Systems

Authors: Jinglun Li and Shigemasa Takai

Learning Stochastic Optimal Policies via Gradient Descent

Authors: Stefano Massaroli, Michael Poli, Stefano Peluchetti, Jinkyoo Park, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama

H2-Optimal Reduction of Positive Networks Using Riemannian Augmented Lagrangian Method

Authors: Sota Misawa and Kazuhiro Sato

Abstraction-Based Symbolic Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems

Authors: Masashi Mizoguchi and Toshimitsu Ushio

Abstraction-Based Control Under Quantized Observation With Approximate Opacity Using Symbolic Control Barrier Functions

Authors: Masashi Mizoguchi and Toshimitsu Ushio

Deep Learning-Based Inverse Modeling for Predictive Control

Authors: Edgar Ademir Morales-Perez and Hitoshi Iba

Structured Hammerstein-Wiener Model Learning for Model Predictive Control

Authors: Ryuta Moriyasu, Taro Ikeda, Sho Kawaguchi, Kenji Kashima

Robust Incentive Stackelberg Games With a Large Population for Stochastic Mean-Field Systems

Authors: Hiroaki Mukaidani, Shunpei Irie, Hua Xu, Weihua Zhuang

Infinite Horizon Stackelberg Games With a Large Follower Population for Stochastic LPV Systems

Authors: Hiroaki Mukaidani and Hua Xu

Iterative Greedy LMI for Sparse Control

Authors: Masaaki Nagahara, Masaki Ogura, Yutaka Yamamoto

Learning-Based Bounded Synthesis for Semi-MDPs With LTL Specifications

Authors: Ryohei Oura and Toshimitsu Ushio

Tuning Cooperative Behavior in Games With Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics

Authors: Shinkyu Park, Anastasia S. Bizyaeva, Mari Kawakatsu, Alessio Franci, Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Epistemic Signaling Games for Cyber Deception With Asymmetric Recognition

Authors: Hampei Sasahara and Henrik Sandberg

Angle-Aware Coverage Control for 3-D Map Reconstruction With Drone Networks

Authors: Takumi Shimizu, Shunya Yamashita, Takeshi Hatanaka, Kuniaki Uto, Martina Mammarella, Fabrizio Dabbene

Establishment of Strictly Positive Real Condition for Tuning MIMO Feedforward Control

Authors: Kenji Sugimoto and Wataru Imahayashi

Bayesian Differential Privacy for Linear Dynamical Systems

Authors: Genki Sugiura, Kaito Ito, Kenji Kashima

Strict Zeroing Control Barrier Function for Continuous Safety Assist Control

Authors: Issei Tezuka and Hisakazu Nakamura

Direct Data-Driven Tuning of Look-Up Tables for Feedback Control Systems

Authors: Shuichi Yahagi and Itsuro Kajiwara

Privacy-Preserving POMDP Planning via Belief Manipulation

Authors: Wei Zheng, Taeho Jung, Hai Lin

Point-Based Value Iteration for VAR-POMDPs

Authors: Wei Zheng and Hai Lin

2021

Point-Based Value Iteration and Approximately Optimal Dynamic Sensor Selection for Linear-Gaussian Processes

Authors: Michael Hibbard, Kirsten Tuggle, Takashi Tanaka

On Analytical Construction of Observable Functions in Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Nonlinear Estimation and Prediction

Authors: Marcos Netto, Yoshihiko Susuki, Venkat Krishnan, Yingchen Zhang

Passivity-Based Lag-Compensators With Input Saturation for Mechanical Port-Hamiltonian Systems Without Velocity Measurements

Authors: Kiyoshi Hamada, Pablo Borja, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Kenji Fujimoto, Ichiro Maruta

Data-Driven Human Modeling: Quantifying Personal Tendency Toward Laziness

Authors: Keita Hara, Masaki Inoue, Jos Mara Maestre

Maximum Hands-Off Control With Time-Space Sparsity

Authors: Takuya Ikeda and Masaaki Nagahara

Optimal Transport-Based Coverage Control for Swarm Robot Systems: Generalization of the Voronoi Tessellation-Based Method

Authors: Daisuke Inoue, Yuji Ito, Hiroaki Yoshida

Extended, Unscented Kalman, and Sigma Point Multiple Distribution Estimation Filters for Nonlinear Discrete State-Space Models

Authors: Masaya Murata, Isao Kawano, Koichi Inoue

Reinforcement Learning of Control Policy for Linear Temporal Logic Specifications Using Limit-Deterministic Generalized Bchi Automata

Authors: Ryohei Oura, Ami Sakakibara, Toshimitsu Ushio

Optimal Scheduling of Storage Batteries and Power Generators Based on Interval Prediction of Photovoltaics - Monotonicity Analysis for State of Charge

Authors: Masakazu Koike, Takayuki Ishizaki, Nacim Ramdani, Jun-ichi Imura

Static Output Feedback Stabilization of Discrete-Time Linear Systems With Stochastic Dynamics Determined by an Independent Identically Distributed Process

Authors: Yohei Hosoe and Dimitri Peaucelle

Static Output-Feedback Incentive Stackelberg Game for Discrete-Time Markov Jump Linear Stochastic Systems With External Disturbance

Authors: Hiroaki Mukaidani, Hua Xu, Vasile Dragan

Nonlinear Optimal Control Design Considering a Class of System Constraints With Validation on a Magnetic Levitation System

Authors: Anh Tuan Tran, Shogo Suzuki, Noboru Sakamoto

Riemannian Optimal Model Reduction of Linear Second-Order Systems

Author: Kazuhiro Sato