Ikuo Mizuuchi:
"Whole-body acting robot system which deals with variable flexible torso structure",
Ph.D. Thesis, The University of Tokyo, 2002.
Ikuo Mizuuchi:
"A Musculoskeletal Flexible-Spine Humanoid Kotaro Aiming at the Future in 15 years' time",
in Aleksandar Lazinica (Eds), Mobile Robots - Towards New Applications, pp.45-56, Advanced Robotics Systems International and pro literatur Verlag, 2006.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Yuto Nakanishi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Body Information Acquisition System of Redundant Musculo-Skeletal Humanoid",
in Marcelo H. Ang Jr. and Oussama Khatib (Eds), Experimental Robotics IX, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, pp.249-258, Springer, 2006.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Shigenori Yoshida, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"The Development and Control of the Flexible-Spine of a Human-Form Robot",
Advanced Robotics, Vol.17, No.2, pp.179--196, 2003.
(Best Paper Award)
Tomoaki Yoshikai, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Daisuke Sato, Shigenori Yoshida, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Behavior System Design and Implementation in Spined Musle-Tendon Humanoid 'Kenta'",
Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.15, No.2, pp.143--152, 2003.
Masayuki Inaba, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Ryosuke Tajima, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Koichi Nagashima, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Building Spined Muscle-Tendon Humanoid",
in Robotics Research: The Tenth International Symposium, Springer Verlag, pp.113--130, 2003.
Ikuo MIZUUCHI, Masayuki INABA, and Hirochika INOUE:
"Adaptive pick-and-place behaviors in a whole-body humanoid robot with an autonomous layer based on parallel sensor-motor modules",
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol.28, pp.99-113, 1999.(PDF)
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Yuto Nakanishi, Yuta Namiki, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yoshinao Sodeyama, Tamaki Nishino, Junichi Urata, and Masayuki Inaba:
"Realization of Standing of the Musculoskeletal Humanoid Kotaro by Reinforcing Muscles",
in Proceedings of 2006 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids'06), pp.176--181, Genoa, Italy, December, 2006.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yoshinao Sodeyama, Yuto Nakanishi, Akihiko Miyadera, Taichi Yamamoto, Tuomas Niemelä, Marika Hayashi, Junichi Urata, Yuta Namiki, Tamaki Nishino, and Masayuki Inaba:
"Development of Musculoskeletal Humanoid Kotaro",
in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2006), pp.339--344, Florida, USA, May, 2006.
Tomoaki Yoshikai, Ikuo Mizuuchi, and Masayuki Inaba:
"Humanoid's Imitation Behavior with Reflexes by Parallel Evaluating Monitors",
in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2006), pp.4440--4442, Florida, USA, May, 2006.
Junichi Urata, Yuto Nakanishi, Akihiko Miyadera, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, and Masayuki Inaba:
"A Three-Dimensional Angle Sensor for a Spherical Joint Using a Micro Camera",
in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2006), pp.4428--4430, Florida, USA, May, 2006.
Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yuto Nakanishi, Ikuo Mizuuchi, and Masayuki Inaba:
"Pedaling Motion of a Cycle by Musculo-skeletal Humanoid with Adapting Ability Based on an Evaluation of the Muscle Loads",
in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp.767--775, 2006.
Yuto Nakanishi, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Tetsunari Inamura, and Masayuki Inaba:
"Tendon Arrangement Based on Joint Torque Requirements for a Reinforceable Musculo-Skeletal Humanoid",
in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp.786--793, 2006.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yuto Nakanishi, Yoshinao Sodeyama, Taichi Yamamoto, Akihiko Miyadera, Tuomas Niemela, Marika Hayashi, Junichi Urata, and Masayuki Inaba:
"Development of Muscle-Driven Flexible-Spine Humanoids",
In Proceedings of 2005 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2005), pp.339--344, Japan, December, 2005.
Tomoaki Yoshikai, Ikuo Mizuuchi, and Masayuki Inaba:
"A Humanoid Behavior Modification System by Monitoring & Evaluating Causality between Sensors & Actions",
in Proceedings of 2005 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2005), pp.202--207, Japan, December, 2005.
Yuto Nakanishi, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Tetsunari Inamura, and Masayuki Inaba:
"Pedaling by a Redundant Musculo-Skeletal Humanoid Robot",
in Proceedings of 2005 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2005), pp.68--73, Japan, December, 2005.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yoshinao Sodeyama, Yuto Nakanishi, Akihiko Miyadera, Taichi Yamamoto, Tuomas Niemela, Marika Hayashi, Junichi Urata, Yuta Namiki, Tamaki Nishino, and Masayuki Inaba:
"A Musculoskeletal Flexible-Spine Humanoid `Kotaro' Aiming at Year 2020",
in Proceedings of 36th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR2005), TH1C4, Japan, November-December, 2005.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yuto Nakanishi, and Masayuki Inaba:
"A Reinforceable-Muscle Flexible-Spine Humanoid ``Kenji''",
in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2005), pp.692--697, Canada, August, 2005. (PDF(corrected))
Yoshinao Sodeyama, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yuto Nakanishi, and Masayuki Inaba:
"A Shoulder Structure of Muscle-Driven Humanoid with Shoulder Blades",
in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2005), pp.1077--1082, Canada, August, 2005.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Hironori Waita, Yuto Nakanishi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Design and Implementation of Reinforceable Muscle Humanoid",
in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2004), pp.828--833, Japan, September-October, 2004.
Tomoaki Yoshikai, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Development of an Imitation Behavior in Humanoid Kenta with Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Based on the Attention during Imitation",
in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2004), pp.1192--1197, Japan, September-October, 2004.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Yuto Nakanishi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Body Information Acquisition System of Redundant Musculo-Skeletal Humanoid",
in Proceedings of The 9th International Symposium of Experimental Robotics (ISER2004), paper164, Singapore, June, 2004.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Daisuke Sato, Shigenori Yoshida, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Behavior Developing Environment for the Large-DOF Muscle-driven Humanoid Equipped with Numerous Sensors",
in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2003), pp.1940--1945, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2003.
(Best Conference Paper Award Finalist)
Tomoaki Yoshikai, Shigenori Yoshida, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Daisuke Sato, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Multi-sensor guided behaviors in whole body tendon-driven humanoid Kenta",
in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems(MFI), pp.9--14, Tokyo, Japan, July-August, 2003.
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Ryosuke Tajima, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Daisuke Sato, Koichi Nagashima, Masayuki Inaba, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Hirochika Inoue:
"The Design and Control of the Flexible Spine of a Fully Tendon-Driven Humanoid ``Kenta''",
in Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2002), pp.2527--2532, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, October, 2002.(PDF)
Ikuo Mizuuchi, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue:
"A Flexible Spine Human-Form Robot --- Development and Control of the Posture of the Spine ---",
in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2001), pp.2099-2104, Maui, Hawaii, USA, October-November, 2001.(PDF)
Masayuki Inaba, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Ryosuke Tajima, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Koichi Nagashima, and Hirochika Inoue:
"Building Spined Muscle-Tendon Humanoid",
in Proceedings of International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2001.
Ikuo MIZUUCHI, Masayuki INABA, and Hirochika INOUE:
"Adaptive Pick-and-Place Behaviors Based on Parallel Sensor-Motor Modules in a Whole Body Humanoid",
in Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems 5, pp.504--510, Sapporo, Japan, June, 1998.(PDF)
Fumio Kanehiro, Ikuo MIZUUCHI, Kotaro KOYASAKO, Youhei KAKIUCHI, Masayuki INABA, and Hirochika INOUE:
"Development of a Remote-Brained Humanoid for Research on Whole Body Action",
in Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.1302--1307, Leuven, Belgium, May, 1998.