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Total Citations
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About
Hiroaki Yamaguchi is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work has fundamentally advanced the fields of multi-robot coordination, formation control, and cooperative autonomous systems. His research centers on developing distributed control strategies that enable groups of mobile robots to operate cohesively without centralized direction — a challenge at the heart of modern swarm robotics and autonomous surveillance systems. Yamaguchi's most influential contribution, "A Cooperative Hunting Behavior by Mobile-Robot Troops" (1999), has garnered over 243 citations and introduced an elegant feedback-control framework enabling multiple holonomic robots to collaboratively capture and encircle a moving target — with compelling applications in security and intruder deterrence. This work laid the conceptual foundation for an extensive research program, with subsequent papers extending these principles to the considerably more complex domain of nonholonomic robots, which face fundamental motion constraints that demand sophisticated time-varying control laws. His Linear Autonomous System (LAS) framework for group shape generation and his adaptive formation control methods further demonstrate his commitment to scalable, mathematically rigorous solutions for real-world deployment. Collectively accumulating over 800 citations across his most-cited works alone, Yamaguchi's research remains essential reading for anyone studying distributed robotics, multi-agent systems, or autonomous surveillance technologies.
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Top Papers
- 1A Cooperative Hunting Behavior by Mobile-Robot Troops243 citations · 1999
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- 5Adaptive formation control for distributed autonomous mobile robot groups69 citations · 2002
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- 7A cooperative hunting behavior by mobile robot troops57 citations · 2002
- 8A cooperative hunting behavior by multiple nonholonomic mobile robots25 citations · 2002
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