Yuichi Tadokoro a.k.a. Teng Tokoro

Graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology

Yokohama, Japan

Contact : tokoro10g [[a]] tokor.org

Interests

• Control and Systems Theory
• Simulation and Visualization
• Robotics and Mechatronics
• Embedded Systems

Honors and Awards

• James Dyson Award 2014, 5th Place, Japan Region Competition (Dec. 2014)
  • Awarded for the project “HoverBall”.
• The 35th All Japan Micromouse Contest, Special Award, Expert Class (Nov. 2014)
• The 34th All Japan Micromouse Contest, 2nd Place and Special Award, Freshman Class (Nov. 2013)
• Good Design Award 2013 (Oct. 2013)
  • Awarded as a director for the project “konashi”, a physical computing toolkit.

Skills

• MATLAB/Simulink with understanding of Model-Based Design
• Mathematica
• Linux (Ubuntu Server, CentOS for servers, Arch Linux for my laptops)
• Vim
• STM32 (F1, F3, F4)
• AVR (ATtiny, ATMega)
• 3D CAD (Autodesk Inventor, Onshape, SolidWorks)
• Electronic circuit design (CADSoft EAGLE, KiCad EDA)
• Soldering extremely small parts (e.g. 0402-inch SMD resistors)

Languages

Japanese, English, MATLAB, LaTeX / XeTeX, C, C++, Python and Ruby

Personal Projects

Robot

Particularly focusing on small, simple, and clever mobile robots.

• Micromouse
  Robots that can solve maze intelligently. Made for annual contests in Japan.
  • Xiphosura (2015)
  • Kabutogani Aniki (2014)
  • Kabutogani Yarou (2013)
• Other Mobile Robots
  • Quadruptor (2014)
    A super tiny quadrotor made from scratch.
  • VORAS (2013)
    An eight-legged robot inspired by jumping spiders.
  • Omniel (2012)
    A mobile robot with 3 omni-wheels. This robot can move in any direction and rotation.

OSS

GitHub
Bitbucket

• torqml (2015)
  A 3D visualization toolkit for numerical simulations.

Web

• BGM ShareHouse (2012-)
  A simple JavaScript-based web service that provides BGM playlists, shared with someone else in real time.
• Tokoro’s Tech-Note (Wiki) (2011-)

Others

• VR jubeat Gamepad (2011)
  A gamepad for “jubeat”-like music games using image processing technique to achieve virtual reality experiences.