Kousuke Inoue
Hitachi (Japan), The University of Tokyo, Ibaraki University
Papers
13
Total Citations
164
H-Index
8
About
Kousuke Inoue is a robotics researcher whose work spans bio-inspired locomotion, cooperative mobile robotics, and adaptive control systems. He is perhaps best known for his sustained investigation into snake-like robots, developing central pattern generator (CPG)-based controllers that enable these systems to adapt dynamically to changing environmental conditions such as varying ground friction and slope gradients — work that has collectively attracted dozens of citations and remains influential in the field of biologically inspired robotics. His 2007 paper on CPG-based snake locomotion stands as his most cited contribution, with 41 citations, reflecting its significance to the broader community studying undulatory movement. Inoue has also made meaningful contributions to multi-robot coordination, with early work in the mid-to-late 1990s addressing iterative transportation planning by cooperative mobile robots in unknown environments. His interest in mechanical innovation is evident in his development of a novel polymorphic crawler mechanism driven by a single actuator, demonstrating resourceful engineering design. More recently, his 2023 work on decoupled neural oscillators for field locomotion signals continued productivity across a career spanning nearly three decades, while his quadruped robot research further illustrates the breadth of his expertise in legged and unconventional robotic systems.
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- 3Development of a novel crawler mechanism with polymorphic locomotion20 citations · 2007
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- 7Iterative Transportation by Cooperative Mobile Robots in Unknown Environment11 citations · 1998
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- 10Omnidirectional Static Walking of a Quadruped Robot on a Slope3 citations · 2006