Hisato Fukuda
Papers
14
Total Citations
105
H-Index
6
About
Hisato Fukuda is a robotics researcher dedicated to developing intelligent assistive technologies that enhance mobility and independence, particularly for elderly and disabled individuals. His primary research areas include human-robot interaction, autonomous navigation, and service robotics, with a focus on creating robots that can seamlessly follow, understand, and cooperate with humans in real-world environments. Fukuda's most impactful work centers on person-following shopping support robots, where he pioneered the use of human pose skeleton data and LiDAR sensors to enable robots to autonomously track and assist shoppers (23 citations). He further advanced this concept by employing GRU networks to interpret shopping behavior from 2D skeleton data, allowing robots to anticipate customer needs (19 citations). His contributions extend to accessibility, notably developing a smart robotic wheelchair that uses CNN combined with Hough transforms to autonomously board buses (8 citations), and a wheelchair system with bidirectional sensing for safe maneuvering among people (9 citations). Through these innovations, Fukuda has demonstrated how combining computer vision, deep learning, and sensor fusion can create practical, cooperative robotic systems that improve quality of life.
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- 3Robotic Shopping Trolley for Supporting the Elderly10 citations · 2018
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- 6Smart Wheelchair Maneuvering Among People8 citations · 2019
- 7Enhancing Multiparty Cooperative Movements6 citations · 2018
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- 10A Human-Robot Interaction System Based on Calling Hand Gestures4 citations · 2019