Yoshihiko NAKAMURA
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Professor Nakamura was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1954. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University, Japan, in precision engineering in 1977, 1978, and 1985, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor at the Automation Research Laboratory, Kyoto University, from 1982 to 1987. He joined the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1987 as an Assistant Professor, and became an Associate Professor in 1990. He was also a co-director of the Center for Robotic Systems and Manufacturing at UCSB. Since 1991, he has been an Associate Professor of Department of Mechano-Informatics, University of Tokyo, Japan. His fields of research include redundant manipulators, actuation redundancy of closed kinematic chains, multi-robot coordination, multi-fingered robot hands, space robot control, motion control of mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints, and medical robotics. He is the author of the textbook, Advanced Robotics: Redundancy and Optimization (Addison-Wesley). Dr. Nakamura received an excellent paper award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) in 1985. He is a member of the IEEE, the ASME, the SICE, the Japan Robotic Society, the Japan Society of Mecanical Engineers, the Institute of Systems, Control, and Information Engineers, and the Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery.
Contact nakamura@mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp