• Affiliation, Contact Information
• Education & Qualifications
• Work Experiences

Introduction

• Affiliation, Contact Information

  Research Fellow of Japan Science and Technology Agency
  
  Department of Information Physics and Computing
  University of Tokyo
  7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, JAPAN
  Tel: +81-(0)3-5841-6894, Fax: +81-(0)3-5841-6886
  E-mail: M.Kanno.99 "at" cantab.net , Masaaki_Kanno "at" ipc.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp

• Education & Qualifications

  • PhD
    University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Department of Engineering, Information Engineering (2004)
  • MPhil
    University of Sussex (United Kingdom), School of Engineering, Control Engineering (2000)
  • Master's degree
    University of Tokyo (Japan), Information Engineering (March 1993)
  • Bachelor's degree
    University of Tokyo (Japan), Mechanical Engineering (March 1991)

• Work Experiences

  • Research Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (June 2005 onward)
  • Research Associate, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) (June 2003 - May 2005)
  • Designer of Diesel Engines, Isuzu Motors Ltd. (Japan) (April 1993 - March 1998)

Research Topics

• Guaranteed accuracy compuation for control analysis & synthesis
• Characterization of easily controllable plants
• Algebraic approaches to control analysis & synthesis
• Hybrid approach combining symbolic computaiton and numerical computation

Publications

• Journals
  • H. Anai, S. Hara, M. Kanno, and K. Yokoyama:
    Parametric Polynomial Spectral Factorization Using the Sum of Roots and Its Application to a Control Design Problem
    Journal of Symbolic Computation, accepted
  • S. Hara and M. Kanno:
    Sum of Roots Characterization for $ \mathcal{H}_2 $ Control Performance Limitations
    SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, 1(1), 58-65, January 2008
  • S. Hara, T. Bakhtiar, and M. Kanno:
    The Best Achievable $ \mathcal{H}_2 $ Tracking Performances for SIMO Feedback Control Systems
    Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2007, Article ID 93904, 12 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/93904
  • M. Kanno and M. C. Smith:
    Validated Numerical Computation of the L_\infty-norm for Linear Dynamical Systems
    Journal of Symbolic Computation, 41(6), 697-707, June 2006
  • M. Kanno and T. C. Yang:
    On Stability Margins of the Fiat Dedra Engine Model
    IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 10, Number 5, Pages 690-695, September 2002
• Book Chapters
  • S. Hara and M. Kanno:
    When is a Linear Continuous-time System Easy or Hard to Control in Practice?
    In V. D. Blondel et al., editors, Recent Advances in Learning and Control, volume 371 of Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS), 111-124, Springer, 2008
  • M. Kanno, H. Anai, and K. Yokoyama:
    On the Relationship between the Sum of Roots with Positive Real Parts and Polynomial Spectral Factorization
    In T. Boyanov et al., editors, Numerical Methods and Applications --- 6th International Conference, NMA 2006, Borovets, Bulgaria, August, 2006, Revised Papers, volume 4310 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 320-328, Springer, 2007.
• Books
  • Jan M. Maciejowski (author), Adachi & Kanno (translation):
    Preductive Controlw: With Constraints
    Tokyo Denki University Press (January 2005)
• Refereed International Conference Papers
  • M. Kanno, K. Yokoyama, H. Anai, and S. Hara:
    Symbolic Optimization of Algebraic Functions
    International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) 2008, Hagenberg, Austria, July 2008, accepted
  • M. Kanno and S. Hara:
    Sum of Roots Characterization for Parametric State Feedback $ \mathcal{H}_\infty $ Control (invited). 17th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Seoul, Korea, July 2008, accepted
  • M. Kanno, S. Hara, H. Anai, and K. Yokoyama:
    Sum of Roots, Polynomial Spectral Factorization, and Control Performance Limitations
    In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2968-2973, New Orleans, USA, December 2007
  • M. Kanno, S. Gandy, H. Anai, and K. Yokoyama:
    Optimizing the Maximal Real Root of a Polynomial by a Special Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition
    Presented at the Second International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences, Paris, France, December 2007
  • M. Kanno, K. Yokoyama, H. Anai, and S. Hara:
    Parametric Optimization in Control Using the Sum of Roots for Parametric Polynomial Spectral Factorization
    In Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, 211-218, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, July-August 2007
  • M. Kanno, S. Hara, and M. Onishi*
    Characterization of Easily Controllable Plants Based on the Finite Frequency Phase/Gain Property: A Magic Number $ \sqrt{4+2\sqrt{2}} $ in $ \mathcal{H}_\infty $ Loop Shaping Design (Best Paper in the Session)
    In Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, 5816-5821, New York City, USA, July 2007
  • S. Hara, M. Kanno, and T. Bakhtiar:
    Optimal Tracking Performance for SIMO Feedback Control Systems: Analytical Closed-Form Expressions and Guaranteed Accuracy Computation
    45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 887-892, San Diego, CA, USA, December 2006
  • M. Kanno and S. Hara:
    Guaranteed Accuracy Algorithm in H2 Optimal Tracking Controller Synthesis
    IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control Systems Design (CACSD) 2006, 397-402, Munich, Germany, October 2006
  • M. Kanno, H. Anai, K. Yokoyama:
    On the Relationship between the Sum of Roots with Positive Real Part and Polynomial Spectral Factorization (key lecture)
    Sixth International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications (NM&A'06), Borovets, Bulgaria, August 2006
  • M. Kanno:
    On the Effect of Plant Uncertainty on the H2 Tracking Performance
    17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) 2006, 2583-2586, Kyoto, July 2006
  • M. Kanno and H. Anai:
    $ \mathcal{H}_\infty $ Model Reduction Using Quantifier Elimination
    17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) 2006, 268-273, Kyoto, July 2006
  • M. Kanno:
    $ \mathcal{H}_2 $ Model Reduction Using LMIs
    Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005 (CDC-ECC'05), 5887-5892, Seville, Spain, December 2005
  • M. Kanno and M. C. Smith:
    Guaranteed Accuracy Computations in Systems and Control
    European Control Conference ECC 2003, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK, September 2003
  • M. Kanno M. and M. C. Smith:
    Validated Numerical Methods for Systems and Control Engineering
    Poster presented at the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation ISSAC 2003, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2003.
• Technical Reports
  • M. Kanno, S. Hara, and M. Onishi:
    Characterization of Easily Controllable Plants Based on the Finite Frequency Phase/Gain Property: A Magic Number $ \sqrt{4+2\sqrt{2}} $ in $ \mathcal{H}_\infty $ Loop Shaping Design.
    Technical Report METR 2007-18, Department of Mathematical Informatics, The University of Tokyo, March 2007.
  • M. Kanno:
    $ \mathcal{H}_2 $ Model Reduction Using LMIs
    CUED/F-INFENG/TR.519, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, March 2005
  • M. Kanno:
    On the Computation Cost of the Determinant of F(g,s) := g2 I - G~(s)G(s) in the Guaranteed Accuracy L-infinity-norm Computation
    CUED/F-INFENG/TR.492, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, September 2004

Awards/Bursaries

• SICE 2007 Award for Outstanding Book (2007)
• Mellon Scholarship (2000-2003)
• Overseas Research Students (ORS) Award (2000-2003)
• Cambridge Overseas Trust (1999-2002)