Yasunori YAMADA

English/Japanese

　　　　　　

Biography

BS of Engineering
The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2010

MA of Information Science & Technology
The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2012

Ph.D. student (2012~)
Grad. School of Information Science & Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan

 A research fellow (2012~)
in Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Affiliation

Intelligent Systems & Informatics Lab (ISI laboratory)
Dept. of Mechano-Informatics
Grad. School of Information Science & Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Research keywords

  • intention, adaptive system, development, embodied intelligence
  • synchronization, senosrimotor integration, chaos, self-organization
  • musculoskeletal body, motor synergies

International Conference (Refereed)

  1. Yasunori Yamada, Keiko Fujii & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Does embodiment contribute to the development of consciousness? Fetus simulation with a thalamocortical model,
    Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) 17, July, 2013.


  2. Keiko Fujii, Yasunori Yamada & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Development of multisensory integration and prediction: Fetus simulation with cortex model,
    Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) 17, July, 2013.


  3. Akimasa Nakashima, Yasunori Yamada & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Uterine environment guides organization of somatosensory area: a computational approach,
    Humanoids Workshop on Developmental Robotics, pp.44-46, 2012.


  4. Yasunori Yamada & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Embodiment guides motor and spinal circuit development in vertebrate embryo and fetus,
    International Conference on Development and Learning-EpiRob, 2012.
    Paper of Excellent Award
    NSF Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Travel Grant Award
    IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Student Paper Travel Grant Award


  5. Yasunori Yamada & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Emergent Spontaneous Movements Based on Embodiment: Toward a General Principle for Early Development,
    Post-Graduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition, pp.52-55, 2012.
    Student Travel Bursaries


  6. Yasunori Yamada, Satoshi Nishikawa, Kazuya Shida, Ryuma Niiyama & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Neural-Body Coupling for Emergent Locomotion: a Musculoskeletal Quadruped Robot with Spinobulbar Model,
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.1499-1506, 2011.


  7. Yasunori Yamada, Satoshi Nishikawa, Kazuya Shida & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Emergent Locomotion Patterns from a Quadruped Pneumatic Musculoskeletal Robot with Spinobulbar Model,
    International workshop on bio-inspired robots, 2011.


  8. Satoshi Nishikawa, Yasunori Yamada, Kazuya Shida & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Dynamic Motions by a Quadruped Musculoskeletal Robot with Angle-Dependent Moment Arms,
    International workshop on bio-inspired robots, 2011.


  9. Yasunori Yamada, Hiroki Mori and Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    A Fetus and Infant Developmental Scenario: Self-organization of Goal-directed Behaviors Based on Sensory Constraints,
    10th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, pp.145-152, 2010.


  10. Alex Pitti, Hiroki Mori, Yasunori Yamada & Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    A Model of Spatial Development from Parieto-Hippocampal Learning of Body-Place Associations,
    10th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, pp.89-96, 2010.



Awards

  • Paper of Excellent Award at the International Conference on Development and Learning-EpiRob (2012).
  • NSF Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Travel Grant Award at the International Conference on Development and Learning-EpiRob (2012).
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Student Paper Travel Grant Award at the International Conference on Development and Learning-EpiRob (2012).
  • Student Travel Bursaries at the Post-Graduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition (2012).
  • Poster Award at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Baby Science (2012).

Events

  1. Satoshi Nishikawa, Yasunori Yamada & Kazuya Shida
    Musculoskeletal Quaruped Robot: PIGORASS,
    iii Exhibition 12, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2010.

Contact

  • e-mail: y-yamada[at]isi.imi.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  • address: ISI laboratory. 8F Room#82B2, Eng. Bldg.2, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.