Curriculum Vitaes
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Degree
- 博士(工学)(Mar, 2000, 東京大学)
- Researcher number
- 10342619
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 202101019944115931
- researchmap Member ID
- R000018454
- External link
Major Research Interests
2Major Awards
18Papers
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Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 25-29, Mar 11, 2025 Peer-reviewed
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Acta Astronautica, 226(P1) 772-781, Nov 13, 2024 Peer-reviewed
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Aerospace Science and Technology, 155(P1), Sep 23, 2024 Peer-reviewed
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Journal of Evolving Space Activities, 2, Sep 2, 2024 Peer-reviewed
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Journal of Evolving Space Activities, 2, Sep 2, 2024 Peer-reviewed
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Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 67(1) 23-31, Jan 4, 2024 Peer-reviewed
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Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 66(6) 199-208, Nov 4, 2023 Peer-reviewed
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The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 69 1726-1743, Nov 11, 2022 Peer-reviewed
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計測自動制御学会論文集, 58(3) 194-201, Apr 7, 2022 Peer-reviewed
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JOURNAL OF SPACECRAFT AND ROCKETS, 59(2) 651-659, Mar 29, 2022 Peer-reviewed
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JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE, CONTROL, AND DYNAMICS, 46(4) 695-708, Feb 1, 2022 Peer-reviewed
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Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 45(2) 280-295, Feb 1, 2022 Peer-reviewed
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Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 58(3) 194-201, 2022
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, 19(3) 334-343, May 4, 2021 Peer-reviewed
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Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, C4, 2021
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AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum, 2021, 2021
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Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 44(4) 854-861, Dec 1, 2020 Peer-reviewed
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Acta Astronautica, 176(6) 438-454, Nov 1, 2020 Peer-reviewed
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JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 68(2) 89-95, Aug 1, 2020 Peer-reviewed<p>A Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) algorithm for attitude control systems is a key technology to increasing the reliability and survivability of spacecraft. Micro/nano interplanetary spacecraft, which are rapidly evolving in recent years, also require robust FDIR algorithms. However, the implementation of FDIR algorithms to these micro/nano spacecraft is difficult because of the limitations of their resources (power, mass, cost, and so on). This paper shows a strategy of how to construct a FDIR algorithm in the limited resources, taking examples from micro deep space probe PROCYON. The strategy focuses on function redundancies and multi-layer FDIR. These ideas are integrated to suit the situation of micro/nano interplanetary spacecraft and demonstrated in orbit by the PROCYON mission. The in-orbit results are discussed in detail to emphasize the effectiveness of the FDIR algorithm. </p>
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Aerospace, 7(97) 97-97, Jul 1, 2020 Peer-reviewedJAXA’s ERG (Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace) Spacecraft, which is nicknamed Arase, was launched on 20 December 2016. Arase is a spin-stabilized and Sun-oriented spacecraft. Its mission is to explore how relativistic electrons in the radiation belts are generated during space storms. Two different on-ground attitude determination algorithms are designed for the mission: A TRIAD-based algorithm that inherits from old missions and a filtering-based new algorithm. This paper, first, discusses the design of the filtering-based attitude determination algorithm, which is mainly based on an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), specifically designed for spinning spacecraft (SpinUKF). The SpinUKF uses a newly introduced set of attitude parameters (i.e., spin-parameters) to represent the three-axis attitude of the spacecraft and runs UKF for attitude estimation. The paper then presents the preliminary attitude estimation results for the spacecraft that are obtained after the launch. The results are presented along with the encountered challenges and suggested solutions for them. These preliminary attitude estimation results show that the expected accuracy of the fine attitude estimation for the spacecraft is less than 0.5°.
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ISA Transactions, Sep 1, 2019 Last author
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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FIBER OPTIC ROTATION SENSORS, 113-124, Jul 1, 2019
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Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, 2019-, 2019
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Earth, Planets and Space, 70(1) 102, Dec 1, 2018
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Acta Astronautica, 152 299-309, Nov 1, 2018
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航空宇宙技術(Web), 17 69-78, May 1, 2018
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AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 17 45-54, Mar 1, 2018
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AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 17 35-43, Mar 1, 2018<p>SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) is the Lunar Landing Demonstrator which is under development at ISAS/JAXA. SLIM demonstrates not only so-called Pin-Point Landing Technique to the lunar surface, but also demonstrates the design to make the explorer small and lightweight. Realizing the compact explorer is one of the key points to achieve the frequent lunar and planetary explorations. This paper summarizes the preliminary system design of SLIM, especially the way to reduce the size.</p>
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航空宇宙技術(Web), 17 61-67, Mar 1, 2018
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Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, 162 1175-1193, 2018
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AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 17 1-9, Jan 1, 2018 Last author
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 840(1) 012010-012010, May, 2017 Peer-reviewed
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Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, 2 856-866, 2017
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Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, 160 2615-2629, 2017
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SPACEFLIGHT MECHANICS 2017, PTS I - IV, 160 2615-2629, 2017
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Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 60(3) 181-191, 2017
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 60(3) 181-191, 2017
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2016 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2016
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, 14(30) Pt_7-Pt_14, 2016<p>In this study, a crater detection method for a moon-landing system with low computational resources is proposed. The proposed method is applied to the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which aims for a pin-point landing on the moon. According to this plan, surface images of the moon will be captured by a camera mounted on the space probe, and the craters are to be detected from the images. Based on the positional relationship between detected craters, the method estimates the exact flight position of the space probe. Because the computational resources of SLIM are limited, rapid and accurate crater detection must be performed using fixed-point arithmetic on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). This study proposes a crater detection method that uses principal component analysis (PCA). The computational processing for crater detection by PCA is performed by product-sum operations, which are suitable for fixed-point arithmetic. Moreover, this method is capable of parallel processing; hence high-speed processing is expected. This study not only introduces a crater detection method using PCA but also evaluates the properties of this method.</p>
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JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 63(6) 257-264, 2015 Peer-reviewedIn this paper is presented a microgravity experiment system utilizing a high altitude balloon. The feature is a double shell structure of a vehicle that is dropped off from the balloon and a microgravity experiment section that is attached to the inside of the vehicle with a liner slider. Control with cold gas jet thrusters of relative position of the experiment section to the vehicle and attitude of the vehicle maintains fine microgravity environment. The design strategy of the vehicle is explained, mainly referring to differences from the authors' previous design. The result of the flight experiment is also shown to evaluate the characteristics of the presented system.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MICROGRAVITY SCIENCE AND APPLICATION, 32(2), 2015 Peer-reviewed
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SPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 14 59-65, 2015In this paper, direction control of balloon gondola with only untwisting motor is proposed. Typically a reaction wheel and another actuator for unloading the reaction wheel are in use to control the attitude (or direction) of the gondola. Although this method can get high accuracy control performance, two actuators spend many resources of the gondola. The proposed method uses only untwisting motor installed above the gondola to rotate. This method can not realize such high accuracy control performance but realize direction control with the most simple configuration. The proposed method is applied to prototype GAPS (General Anti-Particle Spectrometer) balloon experiment in 2012. This paper shows control design for this experiment and the results of the proposed method.
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SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS, 184(1-4) 259-274, Nov, 2014 Peer-reviewed
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SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2014: OPTICAL, INFRARED, AND MILLIMETER WAVE, 9143, 2014
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SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2012: OPTICAL, INFRARED, AND MILLIMETER WAVE, 8442, 2012
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, SPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, 10(28) Pf_15-Pf_19, 2012We are in progress to develop a system for automatic operation of a satellite in order to reduce human load at satellite steady operation phase. The ground station for small satellite REIMEI (INDEX : INnovative-technology Demonstration EXperiment) is used as a test bench for verification of the proposed method. In our new automatic operation system, a scheduler software as a substitutive operator manages all the operations through a unified procedure, including sending command, receiving telemetry, and driving antenna in accordance with an operation time line which is prepared before the operation pass. The scheduler also performs diagnostics of satellite anomaly based upon the received telemetry data and status of the ground station. In case that some anomaly of the satellite is detected, the scheduler initiates an emergency schedule that was prepared depending on the emergency level. The automatic operation system is nearly completed for downlink operations of the data recorder that account for 75% of REIMEI steady operation. This approach is very effective to reduce psychological and physical load of operators.
Misc.
42Major Presentations
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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (JpGU) 2025, Mar 25, 2025
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IEEE Aerospace Conference, Mar 5, 2025
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35th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Jan 20, 2025
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AIAA Scitech Forum 2025, Jan 9, 2025
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AIAA Scitech Forum 2025, Jan 6, 2025
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31st International Display Workshops (IDW'24), Dec 4, 2024 Invited
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16th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS), Nov 20, 2024
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16th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS), Nov 20, 2024
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35th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (PVSEC-35), Nov 12, 2024
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35th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (PVSEC-35), Nov 12, 2024 Invited
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75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC),, Oct 18, 2024
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75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC),, Oct 18, 2024
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75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC),, Oct 15, 2024
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Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2024, Jun 26, 2024
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Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2024, Jun 25, 2024 Invited
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United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Jun 21, 2024, United Nations Invited
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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (JpGU) 2024, May 27, 2024 Invited
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The 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), Mar 14, 2024
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The 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), Mar 14, 2024
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The 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), Mar 12, 2024
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34th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science(ISTS), Jun 5, 2023
Research Projects
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, May, 2013 - Mar, 2018
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011 - 2013
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2004 - 2008
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科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, 2005 - 2006
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003 - 2004