YU KAWANO

Last Updated :2026/05/11

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Professor
Web Site
E-mail
ykawanohiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2026/05/07, 2026/07/31, University Grenoble Alpes, Gipsa-Lab, Visiting Researcher
  • 2025/03/12, 2027/03/11, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Center of Systems and Control, Visiting Associate Professor
  • 2026/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Full Professor
  • 2025/10/01, 2026/03/31, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Visiting Scholar
  • 2025/04/01, 2025/09/30, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Visiting Researcher
  • 2023/02/27, 2023/03/31, University of Pavia, Italy, Faculty of Engineering, Visiting Professor
  • 2020/04/01, 2026/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
  • 2019/04/01, 2020/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor
  • 2016/11/16, 2019/03/31, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Researcher
  • 2013/10/01, 2016/11/15, Kyoto University, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2015/04/01, 2015/11/30, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Visiting Researcher

Educational Backgrounds

  • Osaka University, Japan, 2011/04, 2013/09
  • Tallinn Univ. of Technology, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia, 2012/08, 2012/11
  • Osaka University, Japan, 2009/04, 2011/03

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D. (Engineering), Osaka University
  • Master (Engineering), Osaka University

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • IEEE Control Systems Society

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Design and Optimization of Mechanical Systems
  2. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, CalculusII
  3. 2026, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Experiments in Mechanical Engineering II
  4. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Measurement Signal Processing
  5. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Stochastic Processes
  6. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Exercises on Mechanical Engineering A
  7. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Exercises on Mechanical Engineering A
  8. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Special Exercises on Mechanical Engineering B
  9. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Special Exercises on Mechanical Engineering B
  10. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Year, Special Study on Mechanical Engineering
  11. 2026, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Year, Special Study on Mechanical Engineering
  12. 2026, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Year, Special Study on Informatics and Data Science

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Design of Stochastic Quantizers for Privacy-Preserving Control, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 71(2), 1160-1174, 202602
  2. On differential controllability and observability functions, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CONTROL, 86, 202511
  3. Contraction Analysis of Differentially Positive Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 70(8), 5238-5253, 202508
  4. A Unified Framework for Dynamics Modeling and Control Design Using Deep Learning With Side Information on Stabilizability, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, 36(8), 15244-15254, 202508
  5. Distributionally Robust Model Order Reduction for Linear Systems, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 9, 1147-1152, 2025
  6. Stability Conditions for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems Introduced on Left-Bounded Time Interval, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 9, 1057-1062, 2025
  7. Contraction Analysis of Almost Surely Monotone Discrete-Time Systems With Unknown Time Delay, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 9, 426-431, 2025
  8. Multi-Stable Monotone Networks, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 9, 144-149, 2025
  9. Forty Plus Years of Model Reduction and Still Learning, 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control, 4480-4493, 20250226
  10. Stabilizing control design by integrable differential passive outputs, 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control, 3723-3728, 20250226
  11. Balancing for nonlinear differential-algebraic control systems, 2024 American Control Conference, 3231-3236, 20240905
  12. Model reduction of cooperative systems using separable energy functions, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 58(5), 96-101, 20240816
  13. Cooperative Distributed Stabilization of Nonlinear Networks and Its Application to Driver Node Selection -An Approach based on Incremental Exponential Dissipativity-, 60(11), 595-603, 202411
  14. Youla-Kucera Parameterization in Contraction Framework, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 70(3), 1667-1682, 202503
  15. Krasovskii Passivity for Sampled-Data Stabilization and Output Consensus, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 70(2), 1038-1053, 202502
  16. Decentralized Voltage Control of Boost Converters in DC Microgrids: Feasibility Guarantees, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, 33(1), 3-15, 202501
  17. Incremental Versus Differential Approaches to Exponential Stability and Passivity, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 69(9), 6450-6457, 202409
  18. K-Monotonicity and Feedback Synthesis for Incrementally Stable Networks, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 69(10), 7067-7074, 202410
  19. Estimation of States and Cornering Stiffness of a Vehicle by LPV-MHE, IEEJ TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, 19(10), 1673-1682, 202410
  20. Estimation of Crosswind Disturbances for a Vehicle by LPV-MHE and its Application to Disturbance Cancellation, IEEJ TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, 19(10), 1690-1700, 202410
  21. Full Differential Privacy Preserving for Switched LPV Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN CYBERNETICS-SYSTEMS, 54(5), 3153-3163, 202405
  22. Contraction Analysis of Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 69(2), 982-997, 20240201
  23. Stabilizing Unknown Nonlinear Systems via Decentralized High-gain Adaptive Control, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 9209-9214, 20231122
  24. Symplectic discrete-time Krasovskii passivity-based control for output consensus, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 8562-8567, 20231122
  25. Image and Kernel Representations for Variational Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 797-802, 20231122
  26. Passivity of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 8568-8573, 20231122
  27. Stabilization for a Class of Positive Bilinear Systems, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 3519-3524, 20231121
  28. Balancing for nonlinear differential-algebraic systems, Proc. 42nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, 203-203, 202303
  29. Output consensus control for linear port-Hamiltonian systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 55(30), 230-235, 202211
  30. Parametrization of Linear Controllers for p-Dominance, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 1879-1884, 20230605
  31. Novel Control Approaches Based on Projection Dynamics, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 2179-2184, 20230614
  32. Voltage Control of Boost Converters: Feasibility Guarantees, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 803-808, 20231122
  33. Stabilization for a Class of Bilinear Systems: A Unified Approach, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 2791-2796, 20230626
  34. Krasovskii and shifted passivity based output consensus, AUTOMATICA, 155, 20230901
  35. Krasovskii and Shifted Passivity Approaches to Mixed Input/Output Consensus, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 1951-1956, 20230605
  36. Path-based stability analysis of monotone control systems on proper cones, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 67(10), 5517-5524, 202210
  37. Nonlinear Eigenvalue Approach to Differential Riccati Equations for Contraction Analysis, 20160719
  38. Towards time-varying proximal dynamics in Multi-Agent Network Games, 20181111
  39. Empirical Differential Gramians for Nonlinear Model Reduction, 20191029
  40. Krasovskii's Passivity, 20190622
  41. Partial Phase Cohesiveness in Networks of Kuramoto Oscillator Networks, 20190603
  42. Krasovskii and Shifted Passivity Based Control, 20200126
  43. Asynchronous and time-varying proximal type dynamics multi-agent network games, 20190924
  44. Partial Exponential Stability Analysis of Slow-fast Systems via Periodic Averaging, 20191016
  45. Scalable Control Design for K-positive Linear Systems, 20200126
  46. An LMI framework for contraction-based nonlinear control design by derivatives of Gaussian process regression, AUTOMATICA, 151, 20230501
  47. Controller Reduction for Nonlinear Systems by Generalized Differential Balancing, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 67(11), 5856-5871, 202211
  48. Partial Exponential Stability Analysis of Slow-Fast Systems via Periodic Averaging, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 67(10), 5479-5486, 202210
  49. Path-Based Stability Analysis for Monotone Control Systems on Proper Cones, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 67(10), 5517-5524, 202210
  50. Scalable Control Design for K-positive Linear Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 54, 84-89, 20210901
  51. Partial phase cohesiveness in networks of networks of Kuramoto oscillators, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(12), 6100-6107, 20211201
  52. Krasovskii and shifted passivity based control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(10), 4926-4932, 20211001
  53. Privacy protection with heavy-tailed noise for linear dynamical systems, Automatica, 131, 109732, 20210901
  54. Accessibility and system reduction of nonlinear time-delay control systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(8), 3781-3788, 20210801
  55. Asynchronous and time-varying proximal type dynamics in multi-agent network games, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(6), 2861-2867, 20210601
  56. Empirical differential Gramians for nonlinear model reduction, Automatica, 127, 109534, 20210501
  57. Modular control under privacy protection: fundamental trade-offs, Automatica, 127, 109518, 20210501
  58. Contraction analysis of virtually positive systems, SYSTEMS & CONTROL LETTERS, 168, 202210
  59. Asynchronous and Time-Varying Proximal Type Dynamics in Multiagent Network Games, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 66(6), 2861-2867, 202106
  60. Modular control under privacy protection: Fundamental trade-offs, AUTOMATICA, 127, 202105
  61. Empirical differential Gramians for nonlinear model reduction, AUTOMATICA, 127, 202105
  62. Realizations in feedforward forms of nonlinear input-output equations with time-delays, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL, 30(17), 7560-7573, 20201125
  63. Design of Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Controllers, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 65(9), 3863-3878, 20200901
  64. Contraction Analysis of Monotone Systems via Separable Functions, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 65(8), 3486-3501, 202008
  65. Data-Driven Model Reduction of Monotone Systems by Nonlinear DC Gains, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 65(5), 2094-2106, 202005
  66. Design of Intermittent Control for Cortisol Secretion Under Time-Varying Demand and Holding Cost Constraints, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 67(2), 556-564, 202002
  67. Converse stability theorems for positive linear time-varying systems, Automatica, 20200101
  68. Resolving discrepancies in problem formulations for electricity pricing by control engineers and economists, Economically Enabled Energy Management: Interplay Between Control Engineering and Economics, 59-78, 20200101
  69. Real-time pricing for electric power systems by nonlinear model predictive control, Economically Enabled Energy Management: Interplay Between Control Engineering and Economics, 245-277, 20200101
  70. Neural Network-Based Adaptive Control for Spacecraft Under Actuator Failures and Input Saturations, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, 31(9), 3696-3710, 2020
  71. Robust Passivity-Based Control of Boost Converters in DC Microgrids, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019-December, 8435-8440, 20191201
  72. Krasovskii’s passivity, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(16), 466-471, 20190901
  73. Balanced Model Reduction for Linear Time-Varying Symmetric Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(7), 3060-3067, 20190701
  74. Model Reduction of Multiagent Systems Using Dissimilarity-Based Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(4), 1663-1670, 20190401
  75. Evolutionary dynamics of two communities under environmental feedback, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 3(2), 254-259, 20190401
  76. Revisit Input Observability: A New Approach to Attack Detection and Privacy Preservation, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018-December, 7095-7100, 20190118
  77. Stability of Remote Synchronization in Star Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018-December, 5209-5214, 20190118
  78. Towards Time-Varying Proximal Dynamics in Multi-Agent Network Games, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018-December, 4378-4383, 20190118
  79. Adaptive Failure-Tolerant Control for Spacecraft Attitude Tracking, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(3), 67-72, 20190101
  80. Structural Accessibility and Its Applications to Complex Networks Governed by Nonlinear Balance Equations, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 64(11), 4607-4614, 2019
  81. Structure Preserving Truncation of Nonlinear Port Hamiltonian Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(12), 4286-4293, 20181201
  82. Partial Phase Cohesiveness in Networks of Communitinized Kuramoto Oscillators, 2018 European Control Conference, ECC 2018, 2028-2033, 20181127
  83. Algebraic approach to nonlinear finite-horizon optimal control problems with terminal constraints, 2017 Asian Control Conference, ASCC 2017, 2018-January, 1-6, 20180207
  84. Structural observability and sensor node selection for complex networks governed by nonlinear balance equations, 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017, 2018-January, 2587-2592, 20180118
  85. Differential Privacy and Qualitative Privacy Analysis for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(23), 52-57, 20180101
  86. Algebraic approach to nonlinear finite-horizon optimal control problems of discrete-time systems with terminal constraints, 2017 56th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan, SICE 2017, 2017-November, 220-225, 20171110
  87. Reduction of Second-Order Network Systems with Structure Preservation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(10), 5026-5038, 20171001
  88. Model Reduction by Differential Balancing Based on Nonlinear Hankel Operators, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(7), 3293-3308, 20170701
  89. Empirical Differential Balancing for Nonlinear Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), 6326-6331, 20170701
  90. PBH tests for nonlinear systems, Automatica, 80, 135-142, 20170601
  91. Observability Conditions by Polynomial Ideals, Asian Journal of Control, 19(3), 821-831, 20170501
  92. Load frequency control by integrating real-Time price presentations for consumers and direct commands issued to generators and batteries, IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, ICSET, 0, 396-400, 20170109
  93. Graph structure-preserving model reduction of linear network systems, 2016 European Control Conference, ECC 2016, 1970-1975, 20170106
  94. Nonlinear Eigenvalue Approach to Differential Riccati Equations for Contraction Analysis, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 62(12), 6497-6504, 2017
  95. Real-time Pricing with Consumers Estimation by a Particle Filter, Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 53(8), 463-472, 2017
  96. Spot Pricing of Electricity Market with Network Structure Composed of Consumers, Suppliers, and Transmission Companies, Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, 30(9), 366-372, 2017
  97. Real-Time Pricing by On-Line Estimation of Consumer Characteristics, Proceedings of the Conference of Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology, 2017(0), B-3-5, 2017
  98. A Recursive Elimination Method for Finite-Horizon Optimal Control Problems of Discrete-Time Polynomial Systems with Fixed Terminal States, Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, 59(0), 969-973, 2016
  99. Single-experiment observability decomposition of discrete-time analytic systems, SYSTEMS & CONTROL LETTERS, 97, 193-199, 2016
  100. Load Frequency Control in Electric Power Systems via Real-time Price Optimization:—Cost Function Design for Distribution of Renewable Energy—, Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 52(12), 653-660, 2016
  101. Model reduction of second-order network systems using graph clustering, 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016, 7471-7476, 20161227
  102. Any dynamical system is fully accessible through one single actuator and related problems, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 26(8), 1748-1754, 20160525
  103. Real-Time Price Optimization for Load Frequency Control in Electric Power Systems with Wind Farms, Proceedings of 2016 SICE International Symposium on Control Systems, ISCS 2016, 20160513
  104. Commutative algebraic methods for controllability of discrete-time polynomial systems, International Journal of Control, 89(2), 343-351, 20160201
  105. Generalized Differential Balancing for Variationally Symmetric Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 49(18), 844-849, 20160101
  106. Load Frequency Control by Combining Direct Commands to Generators and Batteries with Real-time Price Presentations to Consumers, Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, 59(0), 154-158, 2016
  107. Stability criteria with nonlinear eigenvalues for diagonalizable nonlinear systems, Systems and Control Letters, 86, 41-47, 20151201
  108. On differential balancing: Energy functions and balanced realization, 2015 European Control Conference, ECC 2015, 1165-1170, 20151116
  109. Model predictive control based real-time pricing for load frequency control of 60 Hz electric power system in western Japan, 59, 20150520
  110. Sufficient condition for minimal realization of incrementally stable nonlinear systems based on differential energy functions, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 54rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,CDC 2015, 4656-4661, 20150208
  111. On integrability of observable space for discrete-time analytic systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 54rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,CDC 2015, 7137-7142, 20150208
  112. Model reduction by generalized differential balancing, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 461, 349-362, 20150101
  113. On Integrability of Observable Space for Discrete-Time Polynomial Control Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 60(7), 1987-1991, 2015
  114. Polynomial accessibility condition for the multi-input multi-output nonlinear control system, Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 63(2), 136-150, 20140101
  115. Algebraic Function Solutions to Infinite-horizon Nonlinear Discrete-time Optimal Control Problems, Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 50(7), 556-558, 2014
  116. Sufficiency of a necessary condition for local observability of discrete-time polynomial systems, 2013 European Control Conference, ECC 2013, 1722-1727, 20131201
  117. Observability analysis of nonlinear systems using pseudo-linear transformation, IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), 9(PART 1), 606-611, 20131022
  118. Simple Sufficient Conditions for Reachability of Discrete-Time Polynomial Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 58(12), 3203-3206, 2013
  119. Observability at an initial state for polynomial systems, AUTOMATICA, 49(5), 1126-1136, 2013
  120. Analysis of Nonlinear Systems by Applying Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra(Advanced Theory for Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems), SYSTEMS, CONTROL AND INFORMATION, 57(6), 230-235, 2013
  121. Algebraic Properties of Transfer Function Matrices for Meromorphic Nonlinear Time-Varying Systems, Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, 26(6), 185-192, 2013
  122. Necessary condition for local observability of discrete-time polynomial systems, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 6757-6762, 20121126
  123. An algebraic solution method for the unsteady Hamilton-Jacobi equation, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 7741-7746, 20111201
  124. An algebraic approach to Hamilton's canonical equations, Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference, 370-375, 20110101
  125. An algebraic approach to local observability at an initial state for discrete-time polynomial systems, IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), 44(1 PART 1), 6449-6453, 20110101
  126. Global Observability of Input-affine Polynomial Systems, 46(6), 353-355, 20100630
  127. Global observability of polynomial systems, Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference, 2038-2041, 20100101
  128. Decentralized Control for Large Flexible Space Structures by Local Proper Controllers Using Displacement Output, Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, 52(0), 272-272, 2009
  129. Robust Stabilization for Flexible Space Structures by a Proper Controller Using Displacement Output, Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, 51(0), 303-303, 2008
  130. Privacy protection with heavy-tailed noise for linear dynamical systems, AUTOMATICA, 131, 202109
  131. Accessibility and System Reduction of Nonlinear Time-Delay Control Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 66(8), 3781-3788, 202108
  132. Krasovskii and Shifted Passivity-Based Control, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 66(10), 4926-4932, 202110
  133. Partial Phase Cohesiveness in Networks of Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 66(12), 6100-6107, 202112