Takanori Oku

13 papers A* 2Journal 3Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A* conf
PiaMuscle: Improving Piano Skill Acquisition by Cost-effectively Estimating and Visualizing Activities of Miniature Hand Muscles.
CHI
Ruofan Liu, Yichen Peng, Takanori Oku, Chen-Chieh Liao, Erwin Wu, Shinichi Furuya, Hideki Koike
2025 J jnl
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton.
Sci. Robotics
Shinichi Furuya, Takanori Oku, Hayato Nishioka, Masato Hirano
2024 — conf
PianoKeystroke-EMG: Piano Hand Muscle Electromyography Estimation from Easily Accessible Piano Keystroke.
SIGGRAPH Asia Posters
Ruofan Liu, Yichen Peng, Takanori Oku, Erwin Wu, Shinichi Furuya, Hideki Koike
2022 J jnl
Noncontact and High-Precision Sensing System for Piano Keys Identified Fingerprints of Virtuosity.
Sensors
Takanori Oku, Shinichi Furuya
2019 A* conf
A Novel Vibrotactile Biofeedback Device for Optimizing Neuromuscular Control in Piano Playing.
VR
Takanori Oku, Shinichi Furuya
2016 — conf
Exploiting invariant structure for controlling multiple muscles in anthropomorphic legs: II. Experimental evidence for three equilibrium-point-based synergies during human pedaling.
Humanoids
Eichi Watanabe, Takanori Oku, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumiaki Yoshikawa, Yuma Nagakawa, Akira Kuroiwa, Emerson Paul Grabke, Mitsunori Uemura, Fumio Miyazaki, Hermano Igo Krebs
2015 — conf
Exploiting invariant structure for controlling multiple muscles in anthropomorphic legs: An inspiration from electromyography analysis of human pedaling.
Humanoids
Eichi Watanabe, Takanori Oku, Hiroaki Hirai, Kanna Uno, Mitsunori Uemura, Fumio Miyazaki
2014 — conf
A novel muscle synergy extraction method to explain the equilibrium-point trajectory and endpoint stiffness during human upper-limb movements on a horizontal plane.
BioRob
Kanna Uno, Takanori Oku, Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Keitaro Koba, Yuto Yamashita, Kenta Murakami, Mitsunori Uemura, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki
2014 J jnl
Extraction and implementation of muscle synergies in neuro-mechanical control of upper limb movement.
Adv. Robotics
Hang T. T. Pham, Yohei Ariga, Kenta Tominaga, Takanori Oku, Kanna Nakayama, Mitsunori Uemura, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki
2014 — conf
Pilot study on quantitative assessment of muscle imbalance: Differences of muscle synergies, equilibrium-point trajectories, and endpoint stiffness in normal and pathological upper-limb movements.
EMBC
Takanori Oku, Kanna Uno, Tomoki Nishi, Masayuki Kageyama, Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Keitaro Koba, Yuto Yamashita, Kenta Murakami, Mitsunori Uemura, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki, Hiroaki Naritomi
2014 — conf
Tacit representation of muscle activities during coordination training: Muscle synergy analysis to visualize motor enhancement in virtual trajectory of multi-joint arm movement.
BioRob
Keitaro Koba, Kenta Murakami, Takanori Oku, Kanna Uno, Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Yuto Yamashita, Mitsunori Uemura, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki
2012 — conf
Analysis of muscle coordination in human pedaling and implementation with a musculoskeletal robot.
Humanoids
Takanori Oku, Keita Inoue, Hang T. T. Pham, Kenta Tominaga, Daisuke Maeda, Mitsunori Uemura, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki
2012 — conf
Muscle synergy analysis of human adaptation to a variable-stiffness exoskeleton: Human walk with a knee exoskeleton with pneumatic artificial muscles.
Humanoids
Daisuke Maeda, Kenta Tominaga, Takanori Oku, Hang T. T. Pham, Shin Saeki, Mitsunori Uemura, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki