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Robust High Gain Adaptive Output Feedback Tracking Control for Nonlinear Systems

  • Kohara, Koshiro;Mizumoto, Ikuro;Iwai, Zenta;Michino, Ryuji;Kumon, Makoto
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.444-444
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    • 2000
  • For a class of nonlinear systems which satisfy a certain condition so called output feedback exponential passivity (OFEP), it is well known that one can easily design a high-gain output feedback control system. The designed high-gain controller has simple structure and high robustness. However, from the viewpoint of practical application, it is important to consider a robust control scheme for controlled systems for which some of the assumptions of output feedback stabilization are not valid. In this paper. we deal with a design problem of the robust high-gain adaptive output feedback control for the above-mentioned class of nonlinear systems with uncertain nonlinearities and/or disturbances.

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Metal Ion Selectivity of Surface Templated Resins Carrying Phosphate Groups

  • Murata, Masaharu;Maeda, Mizuo;Takagi, Makoto
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.529-534
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    • 1995
  • The metal ion selective resins were prepared by surface template polymerization using monooleyl phosphoric acid (1), oleyl methyl phosphoric acid (2) or oleyl ethyl phosphoric acid (3) as an amphiphilic host surfactant. The $Cu^{2+}$-imprinted resins prepared in the presence of $Cu^{2+}$ adsorbed $Cu^{2+}$ much more effectively than did their reference resins. On the other hand, the $Cu^{2+}$-imprinted resins showed much less binding ability to $Zn^{2+}$. The template-dependent selectivity should be ascribed to a favorable placement of the surface-anchored metallophilic groups for multidentate coordination to specific metal ion.

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Comparison of Bacterial Cellulose Production in a Jar Fermentor Between Acetobacter xylinum BPR2001 and its Mutant, Acetan-Nonproducing Strain EP1

  • BAE SANG OK;SUGANO YASUSHI;SHODA MAKOTO
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.247-253
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    • 2005
  • The bacterial cellulose (BC) production by a wild­strain Acetobacter xylinum BPR2001 and that by its acetan­nonproducing mutant, EPI, were compared in a jar fermentor. EPI produced about $28\%$ less BC than the wild-strain. The apparent difference in the cultivation of the two strains was the viscosity increase in the culture broth that was closely associated with acetan production. Increasing the viscosity of the culture broth of EPI by adding agar led to the formation of relatively small and uniform BC pellets, and BC production consequently became two-fold higher than that in the absence of agar and was almost equal to that by BPR2001. Therefore, acetan has an important role in BC production by inducing physical changes in the culture broth of the wild-type strain.

Microbial Diversity Information Facility: Bacteriology Insight Orienting System (BIOS)

  • Shimura, Junko;Shimiz, Hideyukiu;Tsuruwaka, Keiji;Moritani, Yukimitsu;Miyazaki, Kenji;Tsugita, Akira;Watanabe, Makoto M.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Applied Microbiology Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.135-141
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    • 2000
  • Global Biodiversity is common interest of humans for better health and sustainable development of the society. To provide access and analysis on microbial diversity information, Bacteriology Insight Orienting System (BIOS) has been developed. BIOS contains 6402 species and subspecies names of bacteria and archaea, 2606 names of cyanobacteria by March 2000. BIOS of which web based analytical tool provides windows to compare the results of phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rDNA sequence and the results of cluster analysis on proteome profiling. The sequence data and 2 dimensional gel electrophoresis analysis data were accumulated in BIOS database content for cyanobacteria reclassification and taxonomy. (BIOS URL: http.://www-sp2000ao.nies.go.jp/bios/index.html).

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Bistable Liquid Crystal Device Realized on Microscopic Orientational Pattern

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun;Yoneya, Makoto;Yokoyama, Hiroshi
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.187-190
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    • 2005
  • Alignment pattern of checkerboard was constructed by the stylus of atomic force microscope. Orientational bistability of the nematic liquid crystal was realized on that frustrated surface alignment. Macroscopic orientational switching between two perpendicular directions took place by an appropriate in-plane electric field. The threshold electric fields decreased in both switching directions as temperature increased. The focused laser heated up only the limited domains in the cell including a light-absorbing medium. Irradiating the laser concurrently with an appropriate electric field, we switched the selected unit domains in the alignment pattern. The switched domains maintained stably the switched direction without the disturbance from the exterior. Extending and repeating this process, we realized extremely fine devices of bistable switching.

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New Launching Concept for Free-Fall Lifeboats and Validation by Model Experiments and Numerical Simulations

  • Arai, Makoto
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2002
  • A new concept for launching free-fall lifeboats, proposed by Yokohama National University is described in this paper. It has been pointed out that, using the conventional single-skid free-fall system, the potential for dangerous lifeboat motions (in which the lifeboat moves backward or jerks on the surface after entering the water) increases with the fall height of the lifeboat. One of the principal causes of this undesirable motion is vertical rotation of the lifeboat during its restricted fall at the edge of the launching skid. Thus a new "double-skid"launching concept is proposed to effectively eliminate the rotation of the lifeboat at the skid end and to enable the lifeboat to move smoothly after entering the water. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, a series of model experiments and numerical simulations is carried out in which two lifeboat models with overall lengths of 1 meter and 6 meters are used. The effects of design parameters such as skid angle and skid height are investigated, and an example of the implementation of this new system at the stern of a large merchant ship is illustrated.

Fabrication of Large-area Micro-lens Arrays with Fast Tool Control

  • Noh, Young-Jin;Arai, Yoshikazu;Tano, Makoto;Gao, Wei
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.32-38
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    • 2008
  • This paper describes a fast tool control (FTC)-based diamond turning process for fabricating large-area high-quality micro-lens arrays. The developed FTC unit has a stroke of $48{\mu}m$ and a resonance frequency of 4.9 kHz. Micro-lens arrays were fabricated using a micro-cutting tool with a nose radius of $50{\mu}m$. The FTC unit was integrated with a force sensor so that the initial position of the micro-cutting tool with respect to the workpiece surface could be detected through monitoring the contacting force. The length and depth of the designed parabolic micro-lens profile were $190{\mu}m$ and $20{\mu}m$, respectively. A micro-lens array was fabricated on a cylinder surface over an area of ${\phi}55 mm{\times}40 mm$.

Geness for degradation of storage oil and their application to oil biotechnology

  • Nishimura, Mikio;Hayashi, Makoto;Kato, Akira;Mano, Shoji;Hayashi, Hiroshi;Yamaguchi, Katushi;Nito, Kazumasa;Fukao, Youichiro
    • Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.37-40
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    • 1999
  • cDNAs for long- and short-chain acyl-CoA oxidases in fatty acid $\beta$-oxidation were isolated and were characterized their enzymatical and molecular properties. Both oxidases were exclusively localized in glyoxysomes, indicating that glyoxysomes can completely metabolize fatty acids to acyl-CoA by their cooperative action. In order to clarify the regulatory mechanisms underlying degradation of storage oil, we tried to obtain glyoxysome-deficient mutants of Arabidopsis. We screened 2,4-dichlorophenoxybutyric acid (2,4-DB) mutants of Arabidopsis which have defects in glyoxysomal fatty acid $\beta$-oxidation. Four mutants can be classified as carrying alleles at three independent loci, which we designated pedl, ped2, and ped3, respectively (where ped stands for peroxisome defective). The characteristics of these ped mutants are described.

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Synthesis, End-Functionalization and Characterization of Hyperbranched Polysiloxysilanes from $AB_3$ Type Monomer

  • Ishida, Yoshihito;Yokomachi, Kazutoshi;Seino, Makoto;Hayakawa, Teruaki;Kakimoto, Masa-aki
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.147-153
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    • 2007
  • Hyperbranched polysiloxysilanes (HBPSs), with a variety of terminal functional groups (vinyl, epoxy, carboxyl and hydroxyl), were synthesized by the self-polymerization of an $AB_3$ type monomer of tris(dimethylvinylsiloxy) silane, with subsequent end-functionalizations, such as epoxidation and radical addition reaction, respectively. The ratio of the $\alpha-and$ $\beta-addition$ linkages in the HBPS polymerized by hydrosilylation of the $AB_3$ monomer was found to be approximately 1 to 3. The thermal stability and solubility were affected by the terminal functional groups.