Survey paper

Mobile Robots / Towards New Applications, Advanced Robotic Systems International and pro literature Verlag, 2006, (pp. 1-26).

Mobile Robots / Perception and Navigation, Advanced Robotic Systems International and pro literature Verlag, 2007, (pp. 111-136).

Tactile sensors

Masahiro  Ohka, Yasunaga  Mitsuya, Yasuaki  Matsunaga and Shuichi  Takeuchi, Sensing characteristics of an optical three-axis tactile sensor under combined loading, Robotica, 2004, vol.22, pp. 213-221.

M. Ohka, Y. Mitsuya, I. Higashioka, H. Kabeshita,  An Experimental Optical Three-axis Tactile Sensor for Micro-Robots, Robotica, vol.23-4, 2005, pp. 457-465.

M. Ohka, H. Kobayashi, J. Takata, Y. Mitsuya,  Sensing Precision of an Optical Three-axis Tactile Sensor for a Robotic Finger, Proc. of  ROMAN 2006-The 15^th IEEE Inter. Sympo. On Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Hatfield, UK, Sep. 6-8, 2006, pp. 214-219.

　

Psychophysics

Tetsu Miyaoka and Masahiro Ohka, Tactile information processing mechanisms to discriminate foil thickness. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, 17, 2001, pp. 529-534.

Tetsu Miyaoka and Masahiro Ohka, The Duplex Theory of Thickness Discriminations by Touch,Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, October, 22-26, 2002, pp.474-479.

M. Ohka，Takuya Kawamura, T. Itahashi, T. Miyaoka,Y.Mitsuya,  A Tactile Recognition System Mimicking Human Mechanism for Recognizing Surface Roughness, JSME International Journal, Series C. Vol. 48, No.2, 2005, pp.278-285.

　

Tactile virtual reality

Yasunaga Mitsuya, Surface Texture Presentation Using a Masahiro Ohka, Hiroshi Koga, Tokuhiro Sugiura, Tactile Display Featuring an Array of Piezoelectric Bimorph Actuators, Proc. of 2002 Seventh International Pacific Conference on Manufacturing and Management (Volume one), November 27-29, 2002, pp. 246-251.

M. Ohka, T. Fujiwara, S. Matuskawa, K. Kato and Y. Mitusya,  A Tactile-haptic Display System Using Micro-actuator Arrays, Proc. of Actuator 2006, 10^th Inter. Conf. on New Actuator, 14-16 June, Bremen, Germany, (2006), pp. 223-226.

Yiru Zhou, Masahiro Ohka, Tetsu Miyaoka and Yasunaga Mitsuya, Effectiveness of Distributed Pressure and Slippage Force Presentation in Tactile Virtual Reality, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2006), Kunming, China, 17-20 Dec. 2006, p.37-42.

　

Actuators

M. Ohka, Y. Sawamoto, S. Matsukawa, T. Miyaoka and Y. Mitsuya,  A Two-axis Bimorph Piezoelectric Actuator Controlled by a Multi-layered Neural Network, Proc. of Actuator 2006, 10^th Inter. Conf. on New Actuator, 14-16 June, Bremen, Germany, (2006), pp. 503-506.

　

Humanoid robot

Hanafiah Yussof, Mitsuhiro Yamano, Yasuo Nasu, Masahiro Ohka, Inter. J. of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 2-No. 3, 2005, pp.251-258[3.919KB].

H. Yussof, Y. Mitsuo, Y. Nasuo, M. Ohka, Trajectory Generation in Groping Locomotion of a 21-DOF Humanoid Robot, Inter. J. of Simulation / Systems, Science & Technology / Special Issue on: Mechatronics Technology, Volume 7, Number 8, 2006, pp. 55-63[408KB].