Naomi Kato; Control performance in the horizontal plane of a fish robot with mechanical pectoral fins, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 25, pp. 121 - 129, January 2000.
Kenichi Asakawa, Junichi Kojima, Yoichi Kato, Shigetaka Matsumoto, Naomi Kato; Autonomous underwater vehicle AQUA EXPLORER 2 for inspection of underwater cables, Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Underwater Technology, pp. 242 - 247, May 2000.
Naomi Kato; Three-motor-driven mechanical pectoral fin, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 11, pp. 467 - 476, August 1999.
Naomi Kato; Application of swimming functions of aquatic animals to autonomous underwater vehicles, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'99 Conference, pp. 1418 - 1424, September 1999.
Junichi Kojima, Yoichi Kato, Kenichi Asakawa, Naomi Kato; Experimental results of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 'AQUA EXPLORER 2' for inspection of underwater cables, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'98 Conference, pp. 113 - 117, September 1998.
Naomi Kato, Tadahiko Inaba; Control performance of fish robot with pectoral fins in horizontal plane, Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Underwater Technology, pp. 357 - 362, April 1998.
Naomi Kato, Tadahiko Inaba; Hovering performance of fish robot with apparatus of pectoral fin motion, Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 10, pp. 177 - 188, September 1997.
Junichi Kojima, Yoichi Kato, Kenichi Asakawa, Sigetaka Matumoto, Satoru Takagi, Naomi Kato; Development of autonomous underwater vehicle 'Aqua Explorer 2' for inspection of underwater cables, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'97 Conference, pp. 1007 - 1012, September 1997.
Kenichi Asakawa, Junichi Kojima, Yoshihiko Ito, Satoru Takagi, Yuichi Shirasaki, Naomi Kato; Autonomous underwater vehicle AQUA EXPLORER 1000 for inspection of underwater cables, Proceedings of 1996 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, pp. 10 - 17, June 1996.
Naomi Kato, Motonori Furushima; Pectoral fin model for maneuver of underwater vehicles, Proceedings of 1996 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, pp. 49 - 56, June 1996.
Naomi Kato, David M. Lane; Co-ordinated control of multiple manipulators in underwater robots, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 9, pp. 34 - 50, September 1995.
Naomi Kato, Yoshihiko Ito, Junichi Kojima, Satoru Takagi, Kenichi Asakawa, Yuichi Shirasaki; Control performance of autonomous underwater vehicle "AQUA EXPLORER 1000" for inspection of underwater cables, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'94 Conference, pp. 135 - 140, September 1994.
Yoshihiko Ito, Naomi Kato, Junichi Kojima, Satoru Takagi, Kenichi Asakawa, Yuichi Shirasaki; Cable tracking for autonomous underwater vehicle, Proceedings of 1994 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, pp. 218 - 224, July 1994.
Naomi Kato, Yoshihiko Ito, Junichi Kojima, Kenichi Asakawa, Yuichi Shirasaki; Guidance and control of autonomous underwater vehicle aqua explorer 1000 for inspection of underwater cables, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 8, pp. 195 - 211, September 1993.
Naomi Kato, Takeaki Miyazaki; Model Experiments On Waves And Nearshore Currents Around Floating Wave Power Plant In Coastal Waters In Comparison With Detached Breakwater, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'91 Conference, pp. 207 - 214, October 1991.
Naomi Kato, Michimasa Endo; Guidance and Control of Unmanned, Untethered Submersible for Rendezvous and Docking with Underwater Station, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'89 Conference, pp. 804 - 809, September 1989.
Naomi Kato (A'90) received the B. Eng., M. Eng., and D. Eng. degrees in naval architecture from the University of Tokyo in 1974, 1976, and 1980, respectively.
He is currently a Professor in the Department of Marine Design and Engineering, School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan. His research interests include hydrodynamics and control of underwater vehicles, especially autonomous underwater vehicles, and aqua-bioengineering to investigate mechanisms of motion, sensors, actuators, and autonomous systems of aquatic animals. He contributed to the development of the practical AUV ``Aqua Explorer 2'' for inspection of underwater telecommunication cables in the field of the design of the configuration and the algorithm for the guidance and control. He organized the Research Group of Aqua Bio-Mechanisms in Japan in 1997, cooperating with Japanese researchers to discuss the problems of aqua-biomechanisms.