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Original Papers

  1. Hiraku KOMURA, Tomoya MOCHIZUKI, Kyohei YAMASHITA, Masahiro OHKA, Basic investigation of velvet hand illusion using a dot matrix for haptic display development, Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems and Manufacturing Vol. 19, No. 1, 2025 🔗

  2. H. Komura, T. Nozawa, M. Honda, & M., Ohka, Investigation of kinesthetic illusion of biceps brachii muscle using a miniature voice coil motor, Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems and Manufacturing Vol. 18, No. 5, 2024 🔗

  3. M., Oya, H., Komura, Robust active suspension control of vehicles with varying vehicle mass, Artificial Life and Robotics, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 326-333, 2024 🔗

  4. H. Komura, M. Oya, Development of robust braking controller for autonomous vehicles to achieve any ride comfort performance. Artif Life Robotics, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 418-424, 2023. 🔗

  5. K., Watanabe , Y., Chen , H., Komura , M., Ohka, Tangential-force detection ability of three-axis fingernail-color sensor aided by CNN, Robotica, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 2050-2063, 2023 🔗

  6. H. Komura, T. Kubo, M. Honda & M. Ohka, Degree of muscle-and-tendon tonus effects on kinesthetic illusion in wrist joints toward advanced rehabilitation robotics, Robotica, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 1222–1232, 2022 🔗

  7. H. Komura; T, Nakamura; M. Ohka, Investigation of Tactile Illusion Based on Gestalt Theory. Philosophies, Vol. 6, No. 60, 2021 🔗

  8. M. Ohka; H. Komura; K. Watanabe; R. Nomura, Two Experimental Devices for Record and Playback of Tactile Data. Philosophies, Vol. 6, No. 54, 2021 🔗

  9. H. Komura, T. Nakamura, M. Ohka, Formulation of tactile Gestalt to express variation in velvet hand illusion caused by out-of-phase cycles of two wires, Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, Vol. 14, Issue 6, 2020 🔗

  10. H. Komura, M. Ohka: Edge angle perception precision of active and passive touches for haptic VR using dot-matrix display, Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 1-11, 2019 🔗

  11. Ayaka Yokoyama, Kei Komura, Satoshi Tsuboi, Masahiro Ooka: Improvement of hardness expression ability by combined presentation of pseudo-haptics and tactile stimulation, Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 84, No. 868, pp. 1-8, 2018 🔗

  12. Kei Komura and Masahiro Ooka: Basic research on tactile Gestalt inducing smoothness, Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Vol. 24-1, pp. 43-51, 2019 🔗

  13. N. Rajaei, M. Ohka, H. Nomura, H. Komura, S. Matsushita, T. Miyaoka: Tactile mouse generating velvet hand illusion on human palm, Int. J. Adv. Rob. Syst., pp.1-10, 2016 🔗

International conference (peer reviewed)

  1. 〇H. Komura, and K. Honda, Basic Research on Vibration-Induced Kinesthetic Illusion, Tonic Vibration Reflex, and Antagonist Vibratory Response for Human-Assistive Robot Development, AROB 2025, 30th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, (page：6), (2025), (Oral presentation and peer review) 

  2. 〇H.Komura, M. Oya, Development of Adaptive Braking Controller for Autonomous Vehicles to Achieve Any Ride Comfort Performance Without Using Wheel Velocity, AROB 2024, 29th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, (page：6), (2024), (Oral presentation and peer review) 

  3. 〇H.Komura, M. Oya, Development of Robust Braking Controller for Autonomous Vehicles to Achieve Any Ride Comfort Performance Without Using Wheel Velocity, AROB 2023, 28th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, (page：6), (2023), (Oral presentation and peer review) 

  4. 〇H.Komura, T. Takeshige, and M. Ohka, Development of Tactile Display for Measuring Human Dexterity, Proceedings of the International Display Workshops, (page：4), (2022), (Oral presentation and peer review) 🔗

  5. 〇H.Komura, M. Ohka, Development of the Control Method of Kinesthetic Illusion Considering Physical Information towards AI-based Rehabilitation, 2022 JSME-IIP/ASME-ISPS Joint International Conference on Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment Nagoya University, Japan, August 28-31, 2022 (Oral presentation and peer review) 

  6. 〇H.Komura, M. Oya, Development of Robust Braking Controller for Autonomous Vehicles to Achieve Any Ride Comfort Performance, AROB 2022, 27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, ONLINE, January 25-27, 2022 (Oral presentation and peer review)

  7. 〇H.Komura, T. Nozawa, M. Ohka, Investigation of main factors causing kinesthetic illusion in elbow joints towards rehabilitation robotics, AROB 2021, 26th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, ONLINE, January 21-23, 2021 (Oral presentation and peer review)

  8. 〇T. Hanai, H. Komura, M. Ohka, Enhancement process of kinesthetic illusion caused by stimuli of vibrations and movies, Proceedings of the International Display Workshops Vol. 27, ONLINE, pp. 615 – 618, Dec. 9th -11th, 2020 (Oral presentation and peer review)

  9. 〇H.Komura, H. Kosugi, M Ohka, Elucidation of Velvet Hand Illusion using LABNIRS toward a New Haptic Display, 2019 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, Nagoya University, Dec. 1st - 4th, 2019 (Oral presentation and peer review) 🔗

  10. 〇H.Komura, K. Ikeda, M Honda, M Ohka, Control method of kinesthetic illusion using natural frequency of tendon toward compact rehabilitation devices, 2019 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Hong Kong, China, July 8-12, 2019 (Oral presentation and peer review)🔗

  11. 〇H.Komura, T. Shimura, M. Honda, M Ohka, Combined Effect of Kinesthetic Illusion and Rubber Hand Illusion, The 8th International Conference on Manufacturing, Machine Design and Tribology 2019, Kagoshima, April 24th – 27th, 2019 (Oral presentation and peer review)

  12. 〇M. Ohka, H. Komura, T. Nakamura, Formulation of Tactile Gestalt to Express Variation in Velvet Hand Illusion Caused by Out-of-Phase Cycles of Two Wires, The 8th International Conference on Manufacturing, Machine Design and Tribology 2019, Kagoshima, April 24th – 27th, 2019 (Oral presentation and peer review)

  13. 〇H.Komura, M Ohka, The Effects of Tactile Gestalt on Generating Velvet Hand Illusion, IEEE VR 2019, Osaka, March 23rd – 27th, 2019 (Oral presentation and peer review)　🔗

  14. ○M. Ohka, Y Mitsui, H Komura, Brain Activation Measurement of Velvet Hand Illusion Using Pocket NIRS, ASME-JSME 2018 Joint International Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems and Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment, San Francisco, California, USA, August 29–30, 2018 (Oral presentation and peer review)

  15. 〇H.Komura, M Ohka, Stimulation Conditions to Generate Velvet Hand Illusion Through a Dot-matrix Display, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications, University of Ottawa, June 12-14, 2018 (Oral presentation and peer review)　🔗

  16. 〇H. Komura, S. Yoshida, Y. Kato, T. Shimura, M. Honda, M. Ohka, Research on a Haptic Device’s Capability to Enhance the Degree of Kinesthetic Illusion Though Vibro- and-Visual Stimulation, The 24th International Display Workshops, Sendai International Center, Dec. 7th, 2017 (Oral presentation and peer review)

  17. 〇H. Komura, S. Yoshida, T. Shimura, M. Honda, M. Ohka, Vividness control of KI with variations in visual stimulus patterns, 2017 International Symposium on Micro-Nanomechatronics and Human Science, Nagoya University, Dec. 5th, 2017 (Poster and peer review)　🔗

  18. 〇H. Komura, M. Ohka, Effects of active or passive touch on perception precision of edge direction using tactile mouse exhibiting convex dot-patterns on the palm, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors, Ottawa University, Oct. 5th, 2017 (Oral presentation and peer review)　🔗

  19. 〇N. Rajaei, H. Nomura, S. Matsushita, H. Komura, M. Ohka, and T. Miyaoka, Using psychophysical experiment to investigate velvet hand illusion (VHI) characteristics for new tactile display, 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors, Hosei University, Dec. 19th, 2016 (Oral presentation and peer review)　🔗

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