Tetsuo YOSHIMITSU

(吉光徹雄)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Degree: Dr.(Mar, 2000, The University of Tokyo)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2626-0578
researchmap Member ID: 5000019499

Major Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Oct, 2003 - Present

Department of Spacecraft Engineering, The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Apr, 2000 - Sep, 2003

The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Apr, 1994 - Mar, 1997

(株) 日立製作所

Education

Apr, 1997 - Mar, 2000

Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 1992 - Mar, 1994

Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 1988 - Mar, 1992

Department of Electronic Engineering, The Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2025

実用化技術賞選考委員, 日本ロボット学会
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024

学会誌論文賞選考委員会委員, 日本ロボット学会
Apr, 2001 - Mar, 2003

論文査読委員, 日本ロボット学会
Apr, 2001 - Mar, 2003

会誌編集委員, 日本ロボット学会
Member of International Programme Committee, International Academy of Astronautics

Awards

Sep, 2025

第30回実用化技術賞, 超小型月面自律探査ローバLEV-1, 日本ロボット学会

吉光徹雄, 大槻真嗣, 前田孝雄, 吉川健人, 國井康晴, 冨木淳史, 廣瀬智之, 長谷川昭彦, 室井秀作
Jun, 2025

日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス部門 ROBOMECH表彰 (学術研究分野), 小型月面表面探査ホッピングローバLEV-1の開発, 一般社団法人日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス部門

吉光徹雄, 大槻真嗣, 吉川健人, 前田孝雄, 國井康晴, 冨木淳史, 宇佐美尚人, 廣瀬智之, 秋山演亮
Apr, 2025

JSME Medal for New Technology, Nano Lunar Rover with Fully Autonomous Control and Hopping Mobility, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

Takao Maeda, Kent Yoshikawa, Masatsugu Otsuki, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, Yasuharu Kunii
Apr, 2025

Technology Award, The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Feb, 2025

第25回計測自動制御学会システムインテグレーション部門講演会優秀講演賞, 宇宙のしきいを下げる小型月面探査ロボット, 計測自動制御学会

吉光徹雄, 大槻真嗣, 國井康晴, 前田孝雄, 吉川建人, 冨木淳史, 鳥居航, 宇佐美尚人

Papers

130

Mars Exploration: An Approach for International Partnerships with Emerging Space Nations

Nick Carter, Sydney Do, Mark Dunn, Masaki Fujimoto, Chad Hargrave, Kimal Hiralall, Jane Hodgkinson, Kristina Hogstrom, Craig James, Sophia Ly, Steve Matousek, J.Michael Newman, Claire E. Parfi, Joe Parrish, Frederick Pauling, Jonathon Ralston, Michelle Viotti, Andrew Williams, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, Jacopo Carradori

Proceedings of 76th International Astronautical Congress, IAC-25-A3,3A,6, Oct 1, 2025 Peer-reviewed
Locomotion of small hopping rover LEV-1 and application for future lunar lava tube exploration

Takao Maeda, Kent Yoshikawa, Masatsugu Otsuki, Yasuharu Kunii, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, Atsushi Tomiki, Naoto Usami, Wataru Torii

Proceedings of 76th International Astronautical Congress, IAC-25-A3,2B,3, Sep 30, 2025 Peer-reviewed
A Study on Terrain Adaptive Moving Method using Reinforcement Learning for a Ball-Stick Structure Modular Robot

Eisuke KATAOKA, Tetsuo YOSHIMITSU, Tatsuaki HASHIMOTO, Takashi KUBOTA

30th Robotics Symposia, 30 271-272, Mar, 2025 Peer-reviewed
Design of wheel grouser geometry with reduced sinkage for LEV-1 lunar rover

Masatsugu Otsuki, Kent Yoshikawa, Takao Maeda, Naoto Usami, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1-8, 2025
Operational Plan, Results and Recovery Scenarios of CubeSat Lunar Lander OMOTENASHI

Ryo Hirasawa, Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Kakeru Tokunaga, Shintaro Nakajima, Kota Miyoshi, Chikako Hirose, Junji Kikuchi, Nobutaka Bando, Naoki Morishita, Atsushi Tomiki, Wataru Torii, Taichi Ito, Masatsugu Otsuki, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, Yasuo Ishige, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Yukio Yamamoto

Springer Aerospace Technology, 695-720, Dec 14, 2024

Misc.

130

完全自律制御と跳躍式移動を実現した超小型月面ローバ

前田孝雄, 吉川健人, 大槻真嗣, 吉光徹雄, 國井康晴

一般社団法人日本機械学会 2024年度(第102期) 定時社員総会, 139-139, Apr 24, 2025 Invited
次，月で何する? 月面科学のためのロボット

吉光徹雄

ISAS News, (528) 5-5, Mar, 2025 Lead authorCorresponding author
The Design of CubeSat Moon Lander OMOTENASHI

HASHIMOTO Tatsuaki, KIKUCHI Junji, HIROSE Chikako, OTSUKI Masatsugu, HIRASAWA Ryo, TOYOTA Hiroyuki, MIYOSHI Kota, YOSHIMITSU Tetsuo, ISHIGE Yasuo, TORII Wataru, TOMIKI Atsushi, BANDO Nobutaka, MORISHITA Naoki, NAGAMATSU Aiko, TOKUNAGA Kakeru, HORI Keiichi, ITO Taichi, NAKAJIMA Shintaro

JAXA Research and Development Report, JAXA-RR -24-003, Feb, 2025
月面天文台TSUKUYOMIの実現に向けた概念設計検討 4

井口聖, 磯部直樹, 山田亨, 大西利和, 山崎康正, 松本健, 山内大介, 土屋史紀, 高橋慶太郎, 岩田隆浩, 宇佐美尚人, 関本裕太郎, 宮崎康行, 佐伯孝尚, 森治, 吉光徹雄

日本天文学会年会講演予稿集, 2024, 2024
宇宙の暗黒時代における中性水素21cm線グローバルシグナルを検出するための月面電波分光システムに要求する感度

山崎康正, 井口聖, 松本健, 大西利和, 山田亨, 磯部直樹, 山内大介, 土屋史紀, 高橋慶太郎, 岩田隆浩, 宇佐美尚人, 関本裕太郎, 宮崎康行, 佐伯孝尚, 森治, 吉光徹雄

日本天文学会年会講演予稿集, 2024, 2024

Books and Other Publications

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society - Aogs 2021

Tetsuo YOSHIMITSU, Takashi KUBOTA (Role: Contributor, Asteroid Surface Exploration by MINERVA-II Small Rovers)

World Scientific Publishing Company, May 22, 2022 (ISBN: 9811260095)
Space Operations: Beyond Boundaries to Human Endeavours

C.Krause, U.Auster, J.P.Bibring, J.Biele, C.Cenac-Morthe, F.Cordero, B.Cozzoni, C.Dudal, D.Embacher, C.Fantinati, H.-H.Fischer, K.H.Glassmeier, D.Granena, M.Grott, J.T.Grundmann, V.Hamm, D.Hercik, T.-M.Ho, R.Jaumann, K.Kayal, J.Knollenberg, O.Küchemann, C.Lange, L.Lorda, M.Maibaum, D.May, Y.Mimasu, A.Moussi, T.Okada, J.Reill, T.Saiki, K.Sasaki, M.Schlotterer, N.Schmitz, N.Toth, Y.Tsuda, S.Ulamec, T.Yoshimitsu, S.Watanabe, F.Wolff, MASCOT team (Role: Contributor, MASCOT – a Mobile Lander on-board Hayabusa2 Spacecraft – Operations on Ryugu)

Springer, Mar 16, 2022 (ISBN: 3030946274)
「はやぶさ2」のすべて : 小惑星リュウグウ探査プロジェクト

(Role: Contributor)

誠文堂新光社, Dec, 2020 (ISBN: 9784416620649)
小惑星探査機「はやぶさ」の超技術 : プロジェクト立ち上げから帰還までの全記録

「はやぶさ」プロジェクトチーム, 川口, 淳一郎, 國中, 均, 堀内, 康男, 萩野, 慎二, 橋本, 樹明, 小湊, 隆, 白川, 健一, 安部, 正真, 久保田, 孝, 矢野, 創, 大島, 武, 山田, 哲哉, 吉光, 徹雄 (Role: Contributor)

講談社, Mar, 2011 (ISBN: 9784062577229)
Space lexicon: English-Japanese & Japanese-English

Keiken Ninomiya, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu (Role: Joint author)

The international academy of astronautics (IAA), 2010 (ISBN: 9782917761090)

Presentations

139

複数ロボットの協調による位置・姿勢推定法

久保田孝, 住田圭吾, 吉光徹雄

第43回日本ロボット学会学術講演会, Sep 4, 2025
Tiny lunar rover for lowering the hurdle of space exploration

Tetsuo YOSHIMITSU, Masatsugu OTSUKI, Takao MAEDA, Kent YOSHIKAWA, Yasuharu KUNII, Atsushi TOMIKI, Naoto USAMI, Wataru TORII

35th The International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS), Jul 16, 2025
Current status of consideration of in-situ sample selection for lunar sample return

Hiroshi Nagaoka, Tomokatsu Morota, Yuichiro Cho, Yusuke Nakauchi, Seiji Sugita, Makiko Ohtake, Haruhisa Tabata, Masahiro KAYAMA, Takafumi Niihara, Risa Miyazaki, Mari Aida, Kasumi Yogata, Kazuto Saiki, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, Osamu Mori, Takanao Saiki

Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025, May 30, 2025
High-Precision Permittivity Measurements with the Lunar Dielectric Analyzer (LDA) and Surface Dielectric Analyzer (SDA)

Hideaki Miyamoto, Makito Kobayashi, Yuki Murakami, Shunya Takekura, Airi Toida, Yuta Shimizu, Tomohiro Takemura, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, Nato Usami, Masatsugu Otsuki, Yasuharu Kunii, Takao Maeda, Atsushi Kumamoto, Yusuke Nakauchi, Takafumi Niihara, Tomohiro Usui, Hiroshi Nagaoka, Kazuto Saiki, John Culton, Erik Asphaug, Takehiro Himeno, Patrick Michel, Masahito Watanabe

Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025, May 29, 2025
In-situ analyses and sample return using a pressurized rover

H.Nagaoka, T.Morota, Y.Cho, Y.Nakauchi, S.Sugita, M.Ohtake, H.Tabata, M.Kayama, T.Niihara. R.Miyazaki, M.Aida, K.Yogata, K.Saiki, T.Yoshimitsu, O.Mori, T.Saiki

Lunar Surface Science Workshop 26: Uncrewed Science with the Pressurized Rover, Apr 10, 2025

Teaching Experience

Apr, 2024 - Present

足からロケットまで (東京大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

ロボティクスソリューション総論 (Iwate University)
Feb, 2023 - Feb, 2025

ITA19 Reliable System for Lunar and Planetary Explorations (University of Aizu)
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2024

Electronics and information for space applications II (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Measurement and control technology for experimental physics (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

Major Professional Memberships

Works

LEV-1 Moon rover onboard SLIM lander

Tetsuo YOSHIMITSU

Sep, 2023 - Jan 19, 2024 Others
MINERVA rover onboard Hayabusa

2003 - 2005 Others
Rover 1B of MINERVA-II onboard Hayabusa2
Rover 1A of MINERVA-II onboard Hayabusa2

Research Projects

環境適応型分散協調知能の創発と月縦穴洞窟探査への適用

科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2026

久保田孝, 大槻真嗣, 吉光徹雄, 宇佐美尚人
環境適応型分散協調知能の創発と月縦穴洞窟探査への適用

科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2026

久保田孝, 吉光徹雄, 大槻真嗣, 宇佐美尚人
Study on Next-generation Mobility Mechanism for New Small Body Exploration

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2016

KUBOTA TAKASHI, YOSHIMITSU Tetsuo
Research on Autonomous Lunar Exploration Rover

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2014

NAKATANI Ichiro, ONISHI Masatoshi, CHINONE Naoki, OKUYAMA Keiichi, YOSHIMITSU Toshio
小天体表面において新しい科学探査を可能とする移動メカニズムの研究

科学研究費補助金, 2012 - 2014

Media Coverage

大阪「新鋭経営会」，とがった企業集う梁山泊革新育む

日本経済新聞社, 日本経済新聞電子版, Feb 27, 2025 Internet
とがった企業，大阪に梁山泊

日本経済新聞社, 日本経済新聞大阪夕刊, Feb 27, 2025 Newspaper, magazine
余録

毎日新聞東京支社, 毎日新聞, 第1面, Jan 15, 2024 Newspaper, magazine
月探査に挑む

The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials, Materia Japan, Volume 62 Issue 12, pp.772--775, Dec, 2023 Promotional material
のしろ銀河フェスティバル最終日月面探査ロボットを解説 JAXA宇宙科学研究所実験機デモンストレーション

北羽新報, 北羽新報, Aug 21, 2023 Newspaper, magazine

● 専任大学名

Affiliation (university)

総合研究大学院大学（SOKENDAI)

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