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Minoru Asada
Minoru Asada (1953 - Present) is a Japanese engineer who is a Professor of Adaptive Machine Systems at the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University, Japan. He is a research leader for and director of neuroscience robotics and Constructive Developmental Science based on understanding the Process of Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction. His research focuses on emergent robotics to better understand the interaction between the robot and its environment in an attempt to comprehend the complex cognitive processes in both natural and artificial systems.

Early Life and Education
Asada received 7 years of school in Nagahama City in Japan; 6 in elementary and 1 in junior high school. Shortly after the year, he and his family moved a little up from the city. His father was an employee of the JNR, Japan National Railroad, and was placed in the north part of Japan to Toyama Prefecture. After one year, his father had to move one more time, however, fortunately for Asada, his older brother had just gotten into Toyama University. This allowed Asada to complete his education in this city. While in high school, he decided on the direction he would go as an engineer or scientist. At the end of his career, he then decided to enter Osaka University at the age of 18 for control engineering.

He received a Ph.D. in control engineering from Osaka in 1982 and later became the Professor in the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems at the Graduate School of Engineering at the same university he graduated from.

Research and Career
In 1982, after graduating with a Ph.D. in control engineering and began his research on “computer vision”, or pattern recognition, and the structure of motion in mobile robots. Asada is known for his work on image processing and robotic behaviors. AS mentioned previously, he was a graduate professor for the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University in 1997. He was president of the International RoboCup Federation from 2002 to 2008 and Research “Director of the ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project of ERATO” from 2005 to 2011.

In 2012, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) named him to serve as the Research Leader for the Specially Promoted Research Project (Tokusui) on Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding the Process From Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction. Since 2018, he has been the administrative director of Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center at the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University.

Awards and Honors

 * 1992 Best Paper Award of IEEE/RSJ during International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System
 * 1996 Best Paper Award of the Robotics Society of Japan
 * 2001 Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, And Technology, Japan Government as Persons of Distinguished Services to Enlighten People on Science and Technology
 * 2006 NISTEP Award from the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
 * 2007 Owaka Publications Prize
 * 2008 The Good Designs Award

Selected Publications

 * Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human-Robot Interactions https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9745545
 * Effects of Observing Eye Contact between a Robot and Another Person https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12369-010-0072-9
 * RoboCup 1997. LNCS, vol. 1395 https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=Fg_FtkkAAAAJ&citation_for_view=Fg_FtkkAAAAJ:roLk4NBRz8UC
 * Robot intelligence https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=Fg_FtkkAAAAJ&citation_for_view=Fg_FtkkAAAAJ:_FxGoFyzp5QC
 * Towards understanding the origin of infant-directed speech: A vocal robot with infant-like articulation https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6652562
 * Cognitive Developmental Robotics towards Understanding and Designing Body https://scholar.google.com/citationsview_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=Fg_FtkkAAAAJ&citation_for_view=Fg_FtkkAAAAJ:W7OEmFMy1HYC
 * gRoboCup: A Challenge At Problem,• h At Maga zine https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=Fg_FtkkAAAAJ&citation_for_view=Fg_FtkkAAAAJ:WF5omc3nYNoC
 * RoboCup: the World Cup Initiative https://philpapers.org/rec/KITRTW
 * Analysis of causality network from interactions between nonlinear oscillator networks and musculoskeletal system https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/ecal2015/late-breaking/162.pdf