Papers
43
Total Citations
275
H-Index
8
About
Akira Yanou is a robotics researcher whose work spans visual servoing, humanoid locomotion, medical robotics, and autonomous systems. His most influential contribution lies in visual servo control, particularly his development of dual-eye camera systems for underwater remotely operated vehicles, enabling autonomous docking and 3D pose tracking for applications such as submarine resource surveys and radiation decontamination — a paper that has garnered 35 citations. His 2011 work on "Approaching Visual Servoing" with Lyapunov-stable pose tracking (30 citations) advanced how robotic end-effectors intelligently approach and grasp objects using hand-eye vergence control. Yanou has also made notable strides in humanoid robotics, proposing dynamic reconfiguration manipulability indices that quantify a robot's ability to adapt its configuration mid-task, and developing vision-based bipedal walking stabilization strategies that move beyond traditional ZMP-dependent control. His research extends into medical robotics, with puncture robot systems for CT-guided interventional radiology demonstrating his applied focus on low-invasiveness surgical assistance. Additional contributions include deformable object recognition and intelligent road sign detection for autonomous vehicles. With over 120 cumulative citations across diverse domains, Yanou represents a versatile robotics engineer bridging fundamental control theory with real-world applications.
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- 3Dynamic Reconfiguration Manipulability analyses of humanoid bipedal walking15 citations · 2013
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- 6Shape modeling of a string and recognition using distance sensor10 citations · 2015
- 7Visual Lifting stabilization of dynamic Bipedal Walking8 citations · 2011
- 8Dynamic Reconfiguration Manipulability for Redundant Manipulators8 citations · 2016
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