Faculty and Staff
Post-doctoral researcher/ Mituru Taniwaki
http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/taniwaki/

 

Peer Reviewed Original Papers
(16) Design and verification of low acoustic loss suspension systems for measuring the Q-factor of a gravitational wave detector test mass, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Li Ju, David G. Blair and Michael E. Tobar, Physics Letters A, Vol. 246, Issues 1-2, pp. 37-42, (1998).
(15) The quality factor of niobium flexure pendulums, Li Ju, David G. Blair, Mitsuru Taniwaki and Rebecca Andrew, Physics Letters A, Vol. 254, Issue 5, pp. 239-244, (1999).
(14) Development of method for quantifying food texture using blanched bunching onions, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Takanori Hanada and Naoki Sakurai, Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science, Vol. 75, No. 5, pp. 410-414, (2006).
(13) Device for acoustic measurement of food texture using a piezoelectric sensor, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Takanori Hanada and Naoki Sakurai, Food Research International, Vol. 39, Issue 10, pp. 1099-1105, (2006).
(12) Device for measuring water content of wood using piezoelectric elements, Mitsuru Taniwaki and Naoki Sakurai, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 77, Issue 8, 084301, (2006).
(11) Improved methodology of measuring moisture content of wood by a vibrational technique, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Hidemi Akimoto, Takanori Hanada, Minami Tohro and Naoki Sakurai, Wood Material Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 77-82, (2007).
(10) Localization of CO2 source by a hexapod robot equipped with an anemoscope and a gas sensor, Michihisa Iida, Donghyeon Kang, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Mutsumi Tanaka and Mikio Umeda, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol. 63, Issue 1, pp. 73-80, (2008).
(9) Walking behavior of a hexapod robot using a wind direction detector, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Michihisa Iida, Donghyeon Kang, Mutsumi Tanaka, Takahito Izumi and Mikio Umeda, Biosystems Engineering, Vol. 100, Issue 4, pp. 516-523, (2008).
(8) Texture measurement of cabbages using an acoustical vibration method, Mitsuru Taniwaki and Naoki Sakurai, Postharvest Biology and Technology, Vol. 50, Issues 2-3, pp. 176-181, (2008).
(7) Postharvest quality evaluation of “Fuyu” and “Taishuu” persimmons using a nondestructive vibrational method and an acoustic vibration technique, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Takanori Hanada and Naoki Sakurai, Postharvest Biology and Technology, Vol. 51, Issue 1, pp. 80-85, (2009).
(6) Improved methodology of measuring moisture content of wood by a vibrational technique, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Hidemi Akimoto, Takanori Hanada, Minami Tohro and Naoki Sakurai, Wood Material Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 77-82, (2007).
(5) Non-destructive determination of the optimum eating ripeness of pears and their texture measurements using acoustical vibration techniques, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Takanori Hanada, Minami Tohro and Naoki Sakurai, Postharvest Biology and Technology, Vol. 51, Issue 3, pp. 305-310, (2009).
(4) Effects of harvest time and low temperature storage on the texture of cabbage leaves, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Masahiro Takahashi, Naoki Sakurai, Atsushi Takada and Masayasu Nagata, Postharvest Biology and Technology, Vol. 54, Issue 2, pp. 106-110, (2009).
(3) Texture measurement of potato chips using a novel analysis technique for acoustic vibration measurements, Mitsuru Taniwaki and Naoki Sakurai, Food Research International; in press.
(2) Measurement of ripening speed and determination of the optimum ripeness of melons using nondestructive acoustic vibration method, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Minami Tohro and Naoki Sakurai, Postharvest Biology and Technology; in press.
(1) Nondestructive measurement of the elasticity index of growing 10 grape cultivars and comparison with the firmness measured by two penetration methods, Masahiro Takahashi, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Naoki Sakurai, Toshihito Ueno and Hiroshi Yakushiji, Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science; under review.

 

Introduction
(1) Evaluation of the internal quality of agricultural products using acoustic vibration techniques, Mitsuru Taniwaki and Naoki Sakurai, Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science, in press.

 

Proceedings
(9) The development of technology for high performance laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors at the UWA, Chunnong Zhao*, John Winterflood, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Mark Notcutt, Jianfang Liu, Li Ju and David G. Blair, Proc. of the 1st Australasian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (edited by David L. Wiltshire, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Adelaide, 1996), pp. 7-12, Adelaide, South Australia, Feb. 12-17, 1996.
(8) The development of technology for high performance laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors, Chunnong Zhao*, John Winterflood, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Mark Notcutt, Jianfang Liu, Li Ju and David G. Blair, Proc. of the International Conference on Gravitational Waves: Sources and Detectors (edited by Ignazio Ciufolini and Francesco Fidecaro, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 1997), pp. 211- 216, Cascina (Pisa) Italy, Mar. 19-23, 1996.
(7) Progress in the development of technology for advanced laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors, D. G. Blair*, M. Notcutt, L. Ju, M. E. Tobar, Y. M. Yang, E. Wang, C. Taylor, J. Winterflood, J. F. Liu, M. Taniwaki, C. N. Zhao, D. McClelland, C. Harb, M. B. Gray, E. H. Huntington, T. C. Ralph, H. -A. Bachor, J. Sandeman, D. Mudge, D. Ottaway, M. W. Hamilton, J. Munch and P. J. Veitch, Proc. of the TAMA InternationalWorkshop on GravitationalWave Detection (edited by K. Tsubono, M.-K. Fujimoto and K. Kuroda, Universal Academy Press Inc., Tokyo, 1997), pp. 75-94, Saitama, Japan, Nov. 12-14, 1996.
(6) Sapphire test masses and Nb flexure suspensions to reduce the thermal noise in laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors, Li Ju*, Mitsuru Taniwaki, David G. Blair, Fetah Benabid and Mark Notcutt, Proc. of the 8th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theories, Part B (edited by Tsvi Piran, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 1999), pp. 1060-1062, Jerusalem, Israel, Jun. 22-27, 1997.
(5) Using sapphire test masses and niobium flexure suspension in laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors, Li Ju*, Mitsuru Taniwaki, David G. Blair, Fetah Benabid and Mark Notcutt, Proc. of the 2nd Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (edited by E. Coccia, G. Veneziano and G. Pizzella,World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 1998), pp. 386-390, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul. 1-4, 1997.
(4) Low acoustic loss niobium suspension for observing high Q factor material, Mitsuru Taniwaki*, Li Ju, David G. Blair and Michael E. Tobar, Proc. of the 2nd Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (edited by E. Coccia, G. Veneziano and G. Pizzella,World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 1998), pp. 474-478, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul. 1-4, 1997.
(3) Characterization of airflow and gas sensors for hexapod robots, Mitsuru Taniwaki*, Michihisa Iida, Takahito Izumi, Donghyeon Kang and Mikio Umeda, Preprints of the 3rd IFAC InternationalWorkshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems (edited by Takashi Kataoka, Noboru Noguchi and Haruhiko Murase), pp. 355-358, Sapporo, Japan, Sep. 9-10, 2006.
(2) Walking behavior of hexapod robot using optical sensors, Donghyeon Kang*, Michihisa Iida, Mitsuru Taniwaki and Mikio Umeda, Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on Machinery and Mechatronics for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ISMAB), pp. 232-237, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 23-25, 2006.
(1) Walking behavior of hexapod robot using wind direction sensor, Michihisa Iida*, Donghyeon Kang, Mitsuru Taniwaki, Mutsumi Tanaka and Mikio Umeda, Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on Machinery and Mechatronics for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ISMAB), pp. 238-243, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 23-25, 2006.

 

 

Education
December 2008

 Ph.D. in Agriculture
Hiroshima University

April 2001

 Ph.D.
Department of Physics, The University of Western Australia

March 1994

M.S.in Science
Ibaraki University graduate school science research course

March 1992

B.S.in Science
Physical geography of Department of Science at Osaka City University department

 

Professional Society Activities
(1) The Japanese Society for Horticultural Sience 2007〜
(2) Japan Society for Food Engineering 2007〜
(3) Food Sience and Technology Reseach 2007〜
(4) American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers 2008〜
(5) American Physical Society (APS) 2006〜