Saburo Matunaga

1.1k total citations
131 papers, 841 citations indexed

About

Saburo Matunaga is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Saburo Matunaga has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 841 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 39 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 38 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Saburo Matunaga's work include Space Satellite Systems and Control (59 papers), Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (29 papers) and Spacecraft Design and Technology (27 papers). Saburo Matunaga is often cited by papers focused on Space Satellite Systems and Control (59 papers), Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (29 papers) and Spacecraft Design and Technology (27 papers). Saburo Matunaga collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Saburo Matunaga's co-authors include Osamu Mori, Yoshiaki Ohkami, Hiroshi Furuya, Nozomu KOGISO, Hirotaka Sawada, Kei Senda, Yoji Shirasawa, T.H. Meng, Nobukatsu Okuizumi and Yasuyuki Miyazaki and has published in prestigious journals such as AIAA Journal, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics and Control Engineering Practice.

In The Last Decade

Saburo Matunaga

105 papers receiving 785 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Saburo Matunaga Japan 14 556 261 229 221 150 131 841
Hiraku Sakamoto Japan 15 354 0.6× 126 0.5× 292 1.3× 144 0.7× 419 2.8× 92 749
Brij N. Agrawal United States 19 594 1.1× 95 0.4× 112 0.5× 508 2.3× 354 2.4× 55 1.2k
Alfred Ng Canada 14 396 0.7× 166 0.6× 86 0.4× 162 0.7× 208 1.4× 53 631
Yasuyuki Miyazaki Japan 16 371 0.7× 148 0.6× 331 1.4× 195 0.9× 478 3.2× 74 833
Nobukatsu Okuizumi Japan 13 379 0.7× 177 0.7× 174 0.8× 122 0.6× 280 1.9× 69 661
Robert Hoyt United States 16 514 0.9× 413 1.6× 56 0.2× 42 0.2× 27 0.2× 63 652
R. E. Freeland United States 14 400 0.7× 170 0.7× 255 1.1× 72 0.3× 401 2.7× 39 716
David A. Spencer United States 14 526 0.9× 332 1.3× 42 0.2× 52 0.2× 66 0.4× 45 666
Hirohisa Kojima Japan 16 566 1.0× 399 1.5× 111 0.5× 412 1.9× 83 0.6× 107 832
Karol Seweryn Poland 15 608 1.1× 518 2.0× 99 0.4× 162 0.7× 28 0.2× 72 820

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Fields of papers citing papers by Saburo Matunaga

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saburo Matunaga

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Saburo Matunaga. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Saburo Matunaga based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Saburo Matunaga. Saburo Matunaga is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Okuizumi, Nobukatsu, et al.. (2021). Shape of a Square Solar Sail Consisted of Four Trapezoid Petals with Curved Thin-Film Devices: Simulations and Experiments. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 19(4). 604–611.
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Nishi, K., Satoru Ozawa, & Saburo Matunaga. (2021). Design and Guidance for Robust Orbit Raising Trajectory of All-Electric Propulsion Geostationary Satellites. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 19(4). 553–561. 3 indexed citations
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Matunaga, Saburo, et al.. (2021). On-board Relative Attitude Determination and Propagation Using Earth Sensor. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 19(2). 231–237. 1 indexed citations
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Mori, Osamu, et al.. (2018). Wrinkling of a Membrane with a Curved Small Thin Film. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 16(6). 500–505. 4 indexed citations
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Ono, Go, et al.. (2014). Study of Asynchronous Solar Sail Deployment Using Finite Element Method. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 12(ists29). Pc_63–Pc_67.
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Matunaga, Saburo, Go Ono, Hiraku Sakamoto, et al.. (2014). Experiment and Analysis of Spinning Membrane Deployment Focusing on Shape Imbalance for Solar Sail. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 12(ists29). Pc_55–Pc_62. 2 indexed citations
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Sawada, Hirotaka, Yoji Shirasawa, Osamu Mori, et al.. (2013). On-orbit Result and Analysis of Sail Deployment of World's First Solar Power Sail IKAROS. 27(1). 54–68. 9 indexed citations
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Sawada, Hirotaka, et al.. (2013). Sail Shape Estimation of IKAROS Based on Flight Images. 12(0). 47–55. 1 indexed citations
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Shirasawa, Yoji, Osamu Mori, Yasuyuki Miyazaki, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of Membrane Dynamics of IKAROS based on Flight Result and Simulation using Multi-Particle Model. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 10(ists28). Po_4_21–Po_4_26. 16 indexed citations
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Okuizumi, Nobukatsu, et al.. (2012). Enhancement of a Spring-mass System Model for Numerical Simulations of Centrifugal Deployment Dynamics of Folded Square Membranes. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 10(ists28). Pc_67–Pc_72. 1 indexed citations
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Matunaga, Saburo, et al.. (2010). High-Speed Attitude Control System for Small Satellite with Micro-CMGs. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 8(ists27). Pd_91–Pd_97. 4 indexed citations
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Matunaga, Saburo, et al.. (2010). Improved Morphable Beam Device for Equipping Camera at Beam End. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 8(ists27). Pc_53–Pc_58.
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Matunaga, Saburo, et al.. (2008). Vibration Suppression Experiment of Flexible Long Arm Operation. JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES. 56(652). 195–202. 1 indexed citations
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Matunaga, Saburo, et al.. (2005). VIBRATION SUPPRESSION EXPERIMENTS OF FLEXIBLE PAYLOAD TRANSPORTATION BY SPACE ROBOTIC ARM WITH REDUNDANT DOF. Tokyo Tech Research Repository (Tokyo Institute of Technology). 603(603). 529–536. 3 indexed citations
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Miyamoto, Kei, et al.. (2005). Tokyo Tech Small Satellite Development Projects : Cute-1.7 and TSUBAME. Tokyo Tech Research Repository (Tokyo Institute of Technology). 104(698). 35–40. 3 indexed citations
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Mori, Osamu & Saburo Matunaga. (2002). Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Tethered Multibody Systems with Friction and Impact.. JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES. 50(577). 64–71. 1 indexed citations
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Sawada, Hirotaka, et al.. (2000). Titech Cansat Project 2000 : Sub-Orbital Flight and Balloon Experiment. 16(1). 9–18. 1 indexed citations
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Hayashi, Ryoichi, Saburo Matunaga, & Yoshiaki Ohkami. (2000). Design Concept and System Architecture of Reconfigurable Brachiating Space Robot. Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics. 12(4). 425–431. 4 indexed citations
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Takahashi, T. & Saburo Matunaga. (2000). Multibody Dynamics of Reconfigurable Space System. Part I. On Dynamics Algorithm.. JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES. 48(563). 418–424. 1 indexed citations

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