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Design and Application of
Structurally Advanced Materials
and Reliability Evaluation Project
Functional Device System
Integration Project to
Create Intelligent Artificial Objects
Design and Development
Project of Materials for
Biological Reconstruction
Organization Members
Organization Members
※Click on each Investigator's name to read about their research.
■Name   Professor Yukichi Umakoshi (Age 57)
■Affiliation   Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Dean of Graduate School/School of Engineering, Osaka University
■Supervising Area of
Research
  Planning and Directing of Research and Education Projects at Center of Excellence for Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design
■Research Plan   Observation of Lattice Defects in Intermetallic Compounds and Elucidation of Fatigue Behavior Through Magnetic Properties
Planning and Directing of Research and Education Projects at Center of Excellence for Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design
■Background  
March 1967
March 1969
July 1969
April 1978-July 1979

September 1981-August 1982
July 1987

November 1990
April 2001-March 2002
April 2002
  Bs of Engineering, Osaka University
Ms of Engineering, Graduate School of Osaka University
Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University
Visiting Scientist at Max-Planck Institute, Germany (Supported by Alexsander von Humboldt Foundation)
Visiting Scientist at University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering,
Osaka University
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Board of Trustees, Osaka University
Dean of Graduate School/School of Engineering, Osaka University
■Affiliated Academic Societies   Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
Japan Institute of Metals
Science Council of Japan
The Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine
Japan Heat Treatment Society
Japan Institute of Biomaterials
Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (USA)
Materials Research Society (USA)
■Research Keywords   Crystal plasticity,Fatigue,Strength,Organization control,Electron beam irradiation,Nano-materials,Nano-composites,Materials reliability,Magnetic property and deformable nano-organization/materials reliability evaluation,Intermetallic compunds.Biological tissue engineering,Bone regeneration and evaluation thereof,Biomaterials
■Field of Specialization   Crystal plasticity,Materials strength,Organization control.Biological tissue engineering
Awards   Murakami Memorial Award
The Memorial Owner Award, Japan Institute of Metal 1990
Sawamura Award, The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan 1993
Komoo Award, Tanigawa Netsu Gagu Foundation 1996
MRS Best Poster Awards 1998, 2000
Tanigawa-Harris Award, Japan Institute of Metals 2000
The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan Academic Achievement Award 2002
■Major Publications  
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M. Asada, S. Noda, S. Tawaratumida, and K. Hosoda. Purposive Behavior
Acquisition for a Real Robot by Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning.
Machine Learning, Vol.23, pp.279-303, 1996.
Minoru Asada, Shoichi Noda, and Koh Hosoda. Action Based Sensor Space
Segmentation For Soccer Robot Learning. Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol.12,
No.2-3, pp.149-164, 1998.
M. Asada, E. Uchibe, and K. Hosoda. Cooperative behavior acquisition for mobile
robots in dynamically changing real worlds via vision-based reinforcement learning
and development. Artificial Intelligence, Vol.110, pp.275-292, 1999.
Kitano, H. and Asada, M.. The RoboCup Humanoid Challenge as the Millennium
Challenge for Advanced Robotics. Advanced Robotics, Vol.13, 723−736, 2000.
Minoru Asada, Karl F. MacDorman, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
Cognitive Developmental Robotics As a New Paradigm for the Design of Humanoid
Robots. Robotics and Autonomous System, Vol.37, pp.185-193, 2001.
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