Shinya Hamamoto
Papers
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Total Citations
116
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About
Shinya Hamamoto is a robotics researcher whose work centers on disaster response robotics, legged locomotion, and biologically inspired robot design. He is best known for his contributions to the development of WAREC-1, a four-limbed robot engineered to navigate the complex and unpredictable environments encountered at disaster sites — including rough terrain, narrow passages, stairs, and vertical ladders. His most-cited paper introducing WAREC-1 (2017, 44 citations) stands as a landmark contribution to versatile disaster-response robotics, demonstrating a system capable of switching fluidly between multiple locomotion styles. Hamamoto has also made significant advances in crawling gait control for uneven terrain, developing strategies that lower a robot's center of mass to reduce fall risk and improve stability. Complementing this, his trajectory generation and event-based motion planning methods provide robust frameworks for complex maneuvers such as ladder climbing. His earlier work explored biomechanically inspired robot legs that replicate the elastic spring-like dynamics of human running, bridging biological insight and mechanical engineering. With a cumulative body of work accumulating over 110 citations, Hamamoto's research meaningfully advances the field of mobile robotics, particularly in designing machines capable of operating reliably where human rescue workers face the greatest dangers.
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- 2Crawling gait for four-limbed robot and simulation on uneven terrain17 citations · 2016
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- 10Event-based climbing motion planning for a quadruped robot2 citations · 2015