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735
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  • 2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to fuzzy control system design and analysis

Overview

Kazuo Tanaka is affiliated with the University of Electro-Communications in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, particularly in control and systems engineering. Their research spans several subfields including biomedical engineering, computer vision and pattern recognition, aerospace engineering, and mechanical engineering.

Their main research topics cover various aspects of robotics and control systems such as:

  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Soft Robotics and Applications

Kazuo Tanaka has published research in a number of venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Advanced Robotics
  • The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec)
  • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  • International Journal of Fuzzy Systems
  • IEEE Access

Notable publications by Kazuo Tanaka include:

  • "A Rational Polynomial Tracking Control Approach to a Common System Representation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 2020, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Their frequent coauthors include Motoyasu Tanaka, Ying-Jen Chen, Mizuki Nakajima, Yutoku Takahashi, and Mei Yamamoto. Collaboration with these researchers has been significant in the advancement of control and robotic systems.

Kazuo Tanaka was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2014 for contributions to fuzzy control system design and analysis.

Best Publications

  • Fuzzy Control Systems Design and Analysis: A Linear Matrix Inequality Approach

    Kazuo Tanaka;Hua O. Wang

  • Stability analysis and design of fuzzy control systems

    Kazuo Tanaka;Michio Sugeno

  • An approach to fuzzy control of nonlinear systems: stability and design issues

    H.O. Wang;K. Tanaka;M.F. Griffin

  • Fuzzy regulators and fuzzy observers: relaxed stability conditions and LMI-based designs

    K. Tanaka;T. Ikeda;H.O. Wang

  • Comments on "Robust stabilization of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems via fuzzy control: quadratic stabilizability, H/sup /spl infin// control theory, and linear matrix inequalities"

    Hyung-Jin Kang;Cheol Kwon;Mignon Park;K. Tanaka

  • A multiple Lyapunov function approach to stabilization of fuzzy control systems

    K. Tanaka;T. Hori;H.O. Wang

  • A robust stabilization problem of fuzzy control systems and its application to backing up control of a truck-trailer

    K. Tanaka;M. Sano

  • Parallel distributed compensation of nonlinear systems by Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model

    H.O. Wang;K. Tanaka;M. Griffin

  • Fast heating scalable to laser fusion ignition

    R. Kodama;H. Shiraga;K. Shigemori;Y. Toyama

  • Successive identification of a fuzzy model and its applications to prediction of a complex system

    Michio Sugeno;Kazuo Tanaka

  • Fuzzy control systems design and analysis

    Kazuo Tanaka;Hua O. Wang

  • A Sum-of-Squares Approach to Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Polynomial Fuzzy Systems

    K. Tanaka;H. Yoshida;H. Ohtake;H.O. Wang

  • Model construction, rule reduction, and robust compensation for generalized form of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems

    T. Taniguchi;K. Tanaka;H. Ohtake;H.O. Wang

  • Electroencephalogram-based control of an electric wheelchair

    K. Tanaka;K. Matsunaga;H.O. Wang

  • A unified approach to controlling chaos via an LMI-based fuzzy control system design

    K. Tanaka;T. Ikeda;H.O. WAng

  • Fuzzy descriptor systems and nonlinear model following control

    T. Taniguchi;K. Tanaka;H.O. Wang

  • A Descriptor System Approach to Fuzzy Control System Design via Fuzzy Lyapunov Functions

    K. Tanaka;H. Ohtake;H.O. Wang

  • Calibration of imaging plate for high energy electron spectrometer

    Kazuo A. Tanaka;Toshinori Yabuuchi;Takashi Sato;Ryosuke Kodama

  • Beat-Wave Excitation of Plasma Wave and Observation of Accelerated Electrons

    Y. Kitagawa;T. Matsumoto;T. Minamihata;K. Sawai

  • A fuzzy Lyapunov approach to fuzzy control system design

    K. Tanaka;T. Hori;H.O. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hua O. Wang
Hua O. Wang Boston University
Fumitoshi Matsuno
Fumitoshi Matsuno Kyoto University
Zhi-Hong Guan
Zhi-Hong Guan Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Yan-Wu Wang
Yan-Wu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Masayoshi Watanabe
Masayoshi Watanabe Yokohama National University

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