1982
Sawaragi Memorial Research Promotion Prize
Society of Systems, Control and Information Engineers
1983
Best Paper Award
Society of Instruments and Control Engineers
“Analysis of redundancy of Articulated Manipulators and its Application to Tasks
with Priority,” H. Hanafusa, T. Yoshikawa and Y. Nakamura, Trans. Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 19, pp. 421-426 (in Japanese), 1983.
1991
Finalist of Best Student Award
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
“Principal Base Parameters of Open and Closed Kinematic Chains,” M. Ghodoussi and Y. Nakamura, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sacramento, CA, April, pp.84-89, 1991.
1996
Best Paper Award
Journal of Robotics Society of Japan
“Theoretical Design and Nonlinear Control of Nonholonomic Manipulators,”
Yoshihiko Nakamura, O.J. Sørdalen, and Woojin Chung, Journal of Robotics
Society of Japan (in Japanese), Vol.13, No.5, pp.674-682, 1995.
1997
Academic Contribution Award
Division of Robotics and Mechatronics, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2000
Best Paper Award
Journal of Robotics Society of Japan
“Dynamics Computation of Structure-Varying Kinematic Chains and Motion Computation of Human Figures,” Yoshihiko Nakamura, Katsu Yamane, and Fumio Nagashima, Journal of Robotics Society of Japan (in Japanese), pp.1152-1159, Vol.16, No.8, 1998.
2001
King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions Paper Award
IEEE Transaction of Robotics and Automation
“Dynamics Computation of Structure-Varying Kinematic Chains and Its
Application to Human Figures,” Y. Nakamura and K. Yamane, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol.16, No.2, pp.124-134, 2000.
2002
King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions Paper Award
IEEE Transaction of Robotics and Automation
“Design and Control of the Nonholonomic Manipulator,” Yoshihiko Nakamura, Woojin Chung and Ole Jacob Sordalen, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol.17, No.1, pp.48-59, February, 2001.
2003
Finalist of the Best Conference Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
“Polynomial Design of Nonlinear Dynamics for the Brain-Like Information
Processing of the Whole Body Motion”
2003
Society Contribution Award
Division of Robotics and Mechatronics, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2003
Robomech Award
JSME Annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics
“Choreography of Humanoid Motion with Dynamic Consistency Based on Inverse
Dynamics Computation”
2003
Best Paper Award
Annual Conference of Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence
“United Model of Recognition/Generation of Motion Patterns and Integration of Behavioral Intelligence by Discrete Hierarchy”
2003
International 3D Award, Technical Innovation Special Award
“ANIMANIUM: An Application for Character Animation with Flexible Inverse Kinematics”
2004
Best Paper Award
Journal of Robotics Society of Japan
“Heart-Best Synchronization Using High-Speed Camera and its Application to Robotic Systems that Support Cardiac Surgery,” Yoshihiko Nakamura, Kousuke Kishi, Masafumi Okada, Journal of Robotics Society of Japan (in Japanese), Vol.21, No.4, pp.117-125, May, 2003.
2004
Best Session Talk Award
Annual Conference of System Integration Department
Society of Instruments and Control Engineers
“Relative Calibration of Small-Size Robot Systems that Support Endoscopic
Surgery”
2005
Best Paper Award
The 10th Robotic Symposia, Robotics Society of Japan
“On-Line Walk Planning of Biped Robots Based on Boundary Condition Relaxation” Tomomichi Sugihara, Yoshihiko Nakamura
2005
Fellow
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2005
Authoring Award
Society of Instruments and Control Engineering
“Robot Motion” Volume 2 Lecture of Robotics, Iwanami Shoten
Co-Authored with Prof. Masaru Uchiyama
2005
Best Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Tomomichi Sugihara, Wataru Takano, Katsu Yamane, Kou Yamamoto and Yoshihiko Nakamura: “Online Dynamical Retouch of Motion Patterns Towards Animatronic Humanoid Robots,” pp.117-122, Tsukuba, Dec., 2005
2006
Distinguished Lecturer
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
2006
Best Paper Finalist
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Tomomichi Sugihara, Kou Yamamoto and Yoshihiko Nakamura, Architectural Design of Miniature Anthropomorphic Robots Towards High-Mobility, pp.1083-1088, Edmonton, Aug., 2005.
2006
Funai Award
The 2nd Second Digital Contents Symposium
“Spiderman Capture System: Towards Markerless Motion Measurement”
2007
Best Paper Award
Journal of Robotics Society of Japan
“Whole-body Cooperative Reaction Force Manipulation on Legged Robots with COG Jacobian involving Implicit Relationship of Unactuated Coordinates,” Tomomichi Sugihara and Yoshihiko Nakamura, Journal of Robotics Society of Japan, Vo. 24, No. 2, pp.222-231, 2006.
2007
Most Active Distinguished Lecturer Award
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
2007
Foreign Member
Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia and Montenegro
2007
Fellow
World Academy of Art and Science
2008
Best Conference Paper Finalist
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
“Employing wave variables for coordinated control of robots with distributed control architecture,” C. Ott and Y. Nakamura, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 575 – 582, 2008.
2009
Best Conference Paper Finalist
Ko Ayusawa, Gentiane Venture, Kou Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Nakamura
Contact Force Sensor Based Identification of Humanoid Robot, the 14th Robotics Symposia, March 2009.
2009
Best Conference Paper Finalist
Research Promotion Prize, SICE SI Division
Akihiko Murai, Kosuke Kurosaki, Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura: Realtime Estimation and Visualization of Muscle Tension Based on Motion capture, EMG,
and Dynamic Muscle Model, the 14th Robotics Symposia, March 2009.
2009
Fellow
Robotics Society of Japan
2011
Fellow
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2011
TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor
Technische Universität München.
2011
Excellent Paper Award
Wataru Takano and Yoshihiko Nakamura, “Stochastic Synthesis of Motion Symbols and Language that Enables Linguistic Interpretation and Generation of Behavior for Humanoid Robot” Joint Agent Workshop and Symposium 2011.
2012
Best Conference Paper Award
Research Promotion Award, Robotics Symposia
Research Promotion Award, SICE SI Division
K. Ayusawa, Y. Nakamura, “Fast Inverse Kinematics Algorithm for Large DOF System with Decomposed Computation of Gradient and its Application to Musculoskeletal Model,” the17th Robotics Symposia, pp.148-155, Yamaguchi, Japan, March 14-15, 2012.
2012
Best Paper Award in Kinematics
K. Ayusawa, Y. Ikegami, Y. Nakamura, “Simultaneous Solver for Kinematic Identification and Inverse Kinematics of Human Skeletal Model from Motion Capture Data,” 2nd IFToMM Asian Conf. on Mechanism and Machine Science, ID_87, 2012.
2012
Best Paper Award
Quang-Cuong Pham and Yoshihiko Nakamura, “Affine Trajectory Deformation for Redundant Manipulators,” Robotics: Science and Systems, Sydney, Australia, July 9-12, 2012.
2013
Best Conference Paper Award
Research Promotion Award, SICE SI Division
H. Kaminaga, Y. Ando, T. Ootsuki, K. Odanaka, Y. Nakamura, “Force Sensitive Control of Backdrivable Static Hydraulic Actuators Using Output Axis Torque Sensors,” the 18th Robotics Symposia, pp.28-34, 2013.
2013
Achievement Award, Robotics Society of Japan
Y. Nakamura, For “Promotion of Application Policy for Disaster Response Robots.”
2014
Best Paper Award
W. Takano and Y. Nakamura, “Language Space from Whole Body Motions and Its Application to Motion Recognition,” Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.28, No.4, PP.361-369, 2013.
2017
Research Promotion Award, SI-Division, Society of Instruments and Control Engineers
Ayaka Yamada, Yosuke Ikegami and Yoshihiko Nakamura. “Study on Sports Training Methods based on Biomechanics: Analysis of Rotating Movements on Pommel Horse using Estimated Muscle-Force,” Proceedigs of the 17th Annual Conference of System Integration Division, Society of Instruments and Control Engineers, 2O1-1, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Dec 15-17, 2016.
2018
Mike Stilman Award
Best Interactive Paper Award Finalist
Tianyi Ko, Ko Yamamoto, Kazuya Murotani and Yoshihiko Nakamura, “Compliant Biped Locomotion of Hydra, an Electro-Hydrostatically Driven Humanoid,” IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2018.
2018
Best Paper Award Finalist
Takuya Ohashi, Yosuke Ikegami, Kazuki Yamamoto, Wataru Takano and Yoshihiko Nakamura, “Video Motion Capture from the Part Confidence Maps of Multi-Camera Images by Spatiotemporal Filtering Using the Human Skeletal Model,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018.
2020
JSME Medal for Distinguished Engineers, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Research on Motion and Control of Large Degrees-of-Freedom Systems including Humanoids and Humans
2020
Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo
2020
IEEE Life Fellow
2020
Advanced Robotics Excellent Paper Award, Robotics Society of Japan
Tianyi Ko, Hiroshi Kaminaga and Yoshihiko Nakamura, “Key design parameters of a few types of electro-hydrostatic actuators for humanoid robots,” Advanced Robotics, Vol. 32, No. 23, pp. 1241-1252, 2018.
2020
Best Research Paper Finalist
Ko Yamamoto, Ryo Yanase and Yoshihiko Nakamura. “Maximal Output Admissible Set of Foot Position Control in Humanoid Walking,” the 23rd CISM IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics and Control (ROMANSY), Sep 20-24, 2020.
2021
IEEE RAS Pioneer Award
For pioneering contributions to the foundations of optimization and computation for large-DOF mechanisms and their application to human neuromuscular analysis.
2021
Excellency Award of the 26th Robotics Symposia
Takahiro Nakanishi, Mitsuo Komagata, Ko Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Nakamura. “Design of Hight Power-Weight Ratio EHA using Frameless Motor and its Evaluation of Backdrivability,” The 26th Robotics Symposia, March 16-17, 2021.
2021
Young Investigator Fund Best Paper Award
Akimitsu Sakurai, Yosuke Ikegami, Ko Yamamoto, Milutin Nikolic, Yoshihiko Nakamura. “Fast and Interactive Visualization of Musculoskeletal Information and its VR Implimentation toward Sports Training,” Jc-IFToMM Symposium, March 19, 2021.
2022
Tateishi Prize Achievement Award
For contributions to information theory and its application to natural interaction between human and machine.
2022
Robomech Awad (Academic Research)
Takahiro Nakanishi, Mitsuo Komagata, Ko Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Nakamura. “Design of Hight Power-Weight Ratio EHA using Frameless Motor and its Evaluation of Backdrivability,” 2022/6/2.