2015 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Journals Rintaro Ono, Chiaki Katagiri, Hironobu Kan, Masayuki Nagao, Yumiko Nakanishi, Yuji Yamamoto, Fumiaki Takemura, and Norimitsu Sakagami, "Discovery of Iron Grapnel Anchors in Early Modern Ryukyu and Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage in Okinawa, Japan", International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (accepted).
Proceedings Norimitsu Sakagami, Song K. Choi, "Robust object tracking for underwater robots by integrating stereo vision, inertial and magnetic sensors", Extended abstracts of the 47th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications, 2015.br>
Norimitsu Sakagami, Katsuya Otomasu, Song K. Choi, "Modeling and Simulation of Closed-Loop Mechanical Systems for Underwater Applications", Extended abstracts of the 47th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications, 2015.

Norimitsu Sakagami, Fumiaki Takemura, Rintaro Ono, Chiaki Katagiri, Yumiko Nakanishi, Yuji Yamamoto, "Observation Support System of an ROV for Underwater Archaeology, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences (ICIIBMS2015), 2015

Kazuma Noha, Fumiaki Takemura, Kuniaki Kawabata, Satoru Takahashi, Norimitsu Sakagami, Shinichi Sagara, "Accuracy Verification of the Image-Based and Underwater Object Position Measurement", Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences (ICIIBMS2015), 2015.

Mizuho Shibata, Norimitsu Sakagami, "A Robot Fish Encapsulated by An Electromagnetic Wave-Transmitting Plastic Film", Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2015.

Fumiaki Takemura, Natsuki Uechi, Kazuma Noha, Norimitsu Sakagami, Kuniaki Kawabata, Satoru Takahashi, Shinichi Sagara, Rintaro Ono, Chiaki Katagiri, Yumiki Nakanishi, Yuji Yamamoto, "A Basic Experiment for Image-Based Position Measurement of Objects at Sea", Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2015.

Mizuho Shibata, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Attitude Control Mechanism for Underwater Robot with Flexible Plastic Film Body", Proceedings of International Ocean and Polar Engineering ConferenceC2015.

Akihiro Kawamura, Manami Kubo, Kenshiro Yokoi, Norimitsu Sakagami, Sadao Kawamura, "Motion Control Of Underwater Robotic Arm Using Calibration-Free Visual Servoing System", Proceedings of OCEANS MTS/IEEE 2014, Genova, Italy, 141205-016, 2015.
Others Associate Editor for IROS2015(IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)

Technical Program Committee member for ISOPE 2015(The 25th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference)

Program & Steering Committee member for SSS 2015(The 47th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications)

Visiting researcher, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii, -9/4/2015

2014 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Journals Mizuho Shibata, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Fabrication of A Fish-like Underwater Robot with Flexible Plastic Film Body", Advanced Robotics, Vol. 29, Issue 1, pp.103-113, 2015.

Yutaka Terao, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Design and Development of an Autonomous Wave-Powered Boat with a Wave Devouring Propulsion System", Advanced Robotics, Vol. 29, Issue 1, pp.89-102, 2015.
Proceedings Kenshirou Yokoi, Michitaka Kawabata, Sonoko Sakai, Sadao Kawamura, Norimitsu Sakagami, Shinji Matsuda, Atsushi Mitsui, Ko Sano, "Improvement of a Human-portable Underwater Robot for Soil Core Sampling", Proceedings of OCEANS MTS/IEEE 2014, St. John's, Newfoundland. 140326-187C2014.

Mizuho Shibata, Takahiro Miyamura, Norimitsu Sakagami, "A Portable Underwater Robot with Tensegrity Body Composed of Thruster Units", Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots(CLAWAR), pp.503-510, 2014.

Mahadi Choyekh, Masahiro Ukita, Ryouta Kimura, Naomi Kato, Hidetaka Senga, Muneo Yoshie, Toshinari Tanaka, Norimitsu Sakagami,"Structure of Control System of SOTAB-I for Autonomous Spilled Oil Tracking and its Collision Avoidance Maneuver", Proceedings of International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, pp.624-631, 2014.

Rintaro Ono, Hironobu Kan, Norimitsu Sakagami, Masayuki Nagao, Chiaki Katagiri, "First Discovery and Mapping of Early Modern Grapnel Anchors in Ishigaki Island and Cultural Resource Management of Underwater Cultural Heritages in Okinawa", Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage, 2014.

Kensei Ishizu, Haruki Nakayama, Norimitsu Sakagami, Mizuho Shibata, Sadao Kawamura, Shinji Matsuda, Atsushi Mitsui, "Preliminary Experiments of a Human-Portable Underwater Gripper Robot for Dexterous Tasks", Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2014, 131129-124, 2014.

Yutaka Terao, Norimitsu Sakagami, "A Feasibility Study on the Ocean Higher Altitude Strong Wind Energy Utilization System", Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2014, 131128-004, 2014.
Others Technical Program Committee member for ISOPE 2015(The 25th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference)

Session Chair, MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2014, TP 2.2 Offshore Wind Farms-2

Visiting researcher, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii, 9/5/2014-

2013 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Journals Norimitsu Sakagami, Kouhei Ishimaru, Sadao Kawamura, Mizuho Shibata, Hiroyuki Onishi, Shigeo Murakami, "Development of an Underwater Robotic Inspection System using Mechanical Contact", Journal of Field Robotics, Vol.30, Issue 4, pp.624-640, 2013.

Mizuho Shibata, Takahiro Miyamura, Norimitsu Sakagami, Shigeharu Miyata, "Use of a Deformable Tensegrity Structure as an Underwater Robot Body", Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.25, No.5, pp.804-811, 2013.
Proceedings Mizuho Shibata, Norimitsu Sakagami, "A Fish-like Underwater Robot with Flexible Plastic Film Body", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference Robotics and Biomimetics(ROBIO), 2013. (Best Paper Finalist)

Norimitsu Sakagami, Shinnosuke Sasaki, Michitaka Kawabata, Kenshirou Yokoi, Shinji Matsuda, Atsushi Mitsui, Ko Sano, Kouichi Tago, Sadao Kawamura, "Development of A Human-portable Underwater Robot for Soil Core Sampling", Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2013, Bergen, Norway, 130128-001, 2013.

Norimitsu Sakagami, Amira Shazanna Binti Abdul Rahim and Satoshi Ishikawa, "Preliminary experiments of dynamic buoyancy adjusting device with an assist spring", Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Robotics, automations, telecommunication facilities, and applications (IRoA), pp. 985-993, 2013.

Yutaka Terao, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Application of Wave Propulsion System for Ocean Engineering", Proceedings of International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), OMAE2013-10691, 2013.

Mahadi Choyekh, Ryouta Kimura, Naomi Kato, Hidetaka Senga, Hiroyoshi Suzuki, Yasunori Okano, Takahiko Ban, Youhei Takagi, Muneo Yoshie, Toshinari Tanaka, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Development of Autonomous Spilled Oil and Blowout Gas Tracking and Monitoring Buoy System and Its Application to Marine Disaster Prevention", Proceedings of International Ocean (Offshore) and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE), pp. 695-702, 2013.

Naomi Kato, Hidetaka Senga, Hiroyoshi Suzuki, Mahadi Choyekh, Ryouta Kimura, Tatsuya Akamatsu, Youhei Takagi, Muneo Yoshie, Toshinari Tanaka, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Development of Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking and Monito ring Autonomous Buoy System and its Application to Marine Disaster Prevention ", Proceedings of SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SPE166586, 2013.
Others Advisory committee member for International Conference on Power and Energy Systems(ICPES'13)

2012 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Proceedings Norimitsu Sakagami, Yutaka Terao, "Development of a measurement and autonomous control system for wave-powered boats", Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2013, Yeosu, Republic of Korea, 120114-002, 2012.

Kensei Ishizu, Norimitsu Sakagami, Kouhei Ishimaru, Mizuho Shibata, Hiroyuki Onishi, Shigeo Murakami, Sadao Kawamura, "Ship Hull Inspection Using A Small Underwater Robot With A Mechanical Contact Mechanism", Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2013, Yeosu, Republic of Korea, 120113-143, 2012.

Yutaka Terao, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Application of Wave Devouring Propulsion System for Ocean Engineering", Proceedings of World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental, and Materials Research (ACEM), pp.1795-1808, 2012.

Naomi Kato, Hidetaka Senga, Hiroyoshi Suzuki, Yasunori Okano, Takahiko Ban, Youhei Takagi, Muneo Yoshie, Toshinari Tanaka, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Autonomous Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Buoy System and Application to Marine Disaster Prevention System: Part 1", Proceedings of SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SPE159254, 2012.

Mizuho Fujihara, Naomi Kato, Hidetaka Senga, Hiroyohi Suzuki, Yasunori Okano, Takahiko Ban, Youhei Takagi, Muneo Yoshie, Toshinari Tanaka, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Autonomous Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Buoy System and Application to Marine Disaster Prevention System", Proceedings of Advanced Maritime Engineering Conference (AMEC), SEPAS_06, 2012.

Naomi Kato, Hidetaka Senga, Hiroyohi Suzuki, Yasunori Okano, Takahiko Ban, Youhei Takagi, Muneo Yoshie, Toshinari Tanaka, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Autonomous Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking Buoy System and Application to Marine Disaster Prevention System", Proceedings of InterSpill 2012 (USB), London, 2012.

2011 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Journals Bin Xu, Shunmugham R. Pandian, Norimitsu Sakagami, Fred Petry, "Neuro-Fuzzy Control of Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems", Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 349, Issue 3, pp.1125-1138, 2012.
Proceedings Norimitsu Sakagami, Daisuke Ibata, Takaaki Ikeda, Mizuho Shibata, Tomohiro Ueda, Kouhei Ishimaru, Hiroyuki Onishi, Shigeo Murakami, Sadao Kawamura, "Development of A Removable Multi-DOF Manipulator System for Man-portable Underwater Robots", Proceedings of International Conference on Ocean (Offshore) and Polar Engineering Conference, pp.279-284, 2011.

Norimitsu Sakagami, Tomohiro Ueda, Mizuho Shibata, Sadao Kawamura, "Pitch and Roll Control Using Independent Movable Floats for Small Underwater Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.4756-4761, 2011.

2010 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Proceedings Mizuho Shibata, Takaaki Saito, Norimitsu Sakagami, Sadao Kawamura, "Simultaneous Operation of Dual Arm and Body of Mobile Robots", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp.149-154, 2010.

Norimitsu Sakagami, Mizuho Shibata, Hideki Hashizume, Yuuta Hagiwara, Kouhei Ishimaru, Tomohiro Ueda, Takayuki Saitou, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshifumi Inoue, Hiroyuki Onishi, Shigeo Murakami, Sadao Kawamura, "Development of a Human-Sized ROV with Dual-Arm", Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS 2010, Sydney, Australia, 100116-005, 2010.

Norimitsu Sakagami, Mizuho Shibata, Sadao Kawamura, Toshifumi Inoue, Hiroyuki Onishi, Shigeo Murakami, "An Attitude Control System for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.1761-1767, 2010.

Norimitsu Sakagami, Takafumi Kanayama, Tomohiro Ueda, Hideki Hashizume, Mizuho Shibata, Sadao Kawamura, Hiroyuki Onishi, Shigeo Murakami, "Design and Development of An Attitude Control System for a Human-sized ROV", Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), pp.2141-2146, 2010.

Shunmugham R. Pandian, Norimitsu Sakagami, "A Neuro-Fuzzy Controller for Underwater Robot Manipulators", Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), pp.2135-2140, 2010.
Others Program Committee Member for ICARCV2010

2009 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Proceedings Norimitsu Sakagami, "Precise Control of Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems Using Iterative Learning Control", Proceedings of ICROS-SICE International Joint Conference, pp.3089-3093, 2009.

2008 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Reviews Shunmugham R. Pandian, Norimitsu Sakagami, "System Integration Aspects of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems for Oceanic Exploration", Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol.47, No.10, pp.830-836, 2008.

2007 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Proceedings Yasuhiko Hatanaka, Norimitsu Sakagami, Sadao Kawamura, Tadao Isaka, "Formation of torque load patterns for underwater exercise based on a time-scale transformation", Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 40, S293, 2007.

2006 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Journals Bin Xu, Shunmugham R. Pandian, Manabu Inoue, Norimitsu Sakagami, Sadao Kawamura, "Model-Based Sliding Mode Control of Underwater Robot Manipulators", International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, Vol.16, No.3, pp.210-217, 2006.
Books Sadao Kawamura, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Planning and Control of Robot Motion Based on Time-Scale Transformation", Advances in Robot Control: From Everyday Physics to Human-like Movements, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Part I, pp. 157-178, 2006.
Proceedings Bin Xu, Shunmugham R. Pandian, Norimitsu Sakagami, Fred Petry, "Neuro-Fuzzy Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems", Proceedings of International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA), Sharjah, U.A.E., March-26-29, 2007.

Shunmugham R. Pandian, V. Tinnium, F. Petry, Norimitsu Sakagami, "Fuzzy Control of Underwater Robot Manipulators", Proceedings of Underwater Intervention 2007 Conference, pp. 101-106, 2007.

Takafumi Kanayama, Norimitsu Sakagami, Sadao Kawamura, "Motion Planning of Mechanical Underwater Fins Based on Time-Scale Transformation", Proceedings of Techno-Ocean 2006/19th JASNAOE Ocean Engineering Symposium, Paper No. 188, 2006.

2005 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Proceedings Bin Xu, Shunmugham R. Pandian, Manabu Inoue, Norimitsu Sakagami, Sadao Kawamura, "Model-Based Sliding Mode Control of Underwater Robot Manipulators", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.980-986, 2005.

Bin Xu, Seiji Abe, Norimitsu Sakagami, Shunmugham R. Pandian, "A Robust Nonlinear Controller for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems", Proceedings of IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp.711-716, 2005.

Shohei Taniguchi, Ryuta Ozawa, Norimitsu Sakagami, Hitoshi Kino, Sadao Kawamura, "Estimation and Decomposition of Human Joint Torque in Passive Motion", Proceedings of International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, pp.157-162, 2005.

Bin Xu, Norimitsu Sakagami, Shunmugham R. Pandian, "A Fuzzy Controller for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems", Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2005, Vol. 2, pp. 1110-1115, 2005.

2003 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Journals Norimitsu Sakagami, Manabu Inoue and Sadao Kawamura, "Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Iterative Learning Control for Underwater Robots", International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering(IJOPE), Vol.13, No.2, pp.120-127, 2003.
Proceedings Norimitsu Sakagami, Sadao Kawamura, "Time Optimal Control for Underwater Robot Manipulators Based on Iterative Learning Control and Time-Scale Transformation ", Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2003, pp.1180-1186, San Diego, 2003.

2002 (Japanese journals or proceedings are not included.)

Proceedings Norimitsu Sakagami and Sadao Kawamura,gAnalysis on dynamics of 3-DOF underwater robot manipulators based on time-scale transformationh, Proceedings of 2002 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, Vol.3, pp.1139-1145, Hiroshima, 2002.

Norimitsu Sakagami, Manabu Inoue and Sadao Kawamura,gTheoretical and Experimental Studies on Iterative Learning Control for Underwater Robotsh Proceedings of International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference(ISOPE), pp.295-300, Kitakyushu, 2002.

Sadao Kawamura and Norimitsu Sakagami,gAnalysis on Dynamics of Underwater Robot Manipulators basing on Iterative Learning Control and Time-Scale Transformationh Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation(IROS), pp.1088-1094, Washington DC, 2002.