Hideaki Yamato
Papers
9
Total Citations
42
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About
Hideaki Yamato is a pioneering roboticist whose work bridges the critical gap between disaster response, personal mobility, and human-robot interaction. His most impactful contributions center on developing robots for extreme environments, most notably his work on the exploring robot for future indoor surveillance missions at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (12 citations). Yamato’s research addresses the fundamental challenge of creating compact, agile robots capable of navigating both rough terrain and confined spaces, as demonstrated by his innovative omni-directional all-terrain mobile robot with globular metal spring wheels (7 citations). He has also made significant advances in camera arm systems for disaster response robots, developing collision protection mechanisms and motion control algorithms that function reliably even in poor network environments. Beyond hazardous site inspection, Yamato’s creative vision extends to partner robots that transform into personal vehicles, exemplified by the CanguRo project, which features an in-wheel drive unit with cycloid gear. His work on risk-reducing algorithms for personal mobility robots has been practically evaluated in Tsukuba’s Special District for Mobility Robots, while his contributions to RT-middleware standardization enhance the reusability of robotic components across the field.
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- 9Biped Walking Using Multiple-Link Virtual Inverted Pendulum Models2 citations · 1999