Jun‐ichi Imura
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kyoto University, Honda (Germany)
Papers
20
Total Citations
267
H-Index
9
About
Jun-ichi Imura is a versatile robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans multiple decades and disciplines, from classical manipulator control to cutting-edge molecular robotics. His early contributions in the 1990s established foundational advances in robust and adaptive control of robot manipulators, notably developing simplified yet powerful control schemes that exploit manipulator dynamics structure and leverage joint torque sensor information — work that has collectively garnered nearly 70 citations and remains influential in motion control literature. Imura later expanded into hybrid dynamical systems, proposing energy-preserving Hamiltonian-based control for hopping robots and graph-based model predictive control for bipedal locomotion, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of complex, switching robotic behaviors. A particularly productive thread in his research addresses ego noise suppression — the challenge of filtering out motor-generated noise in humanoid robots to enable reliable speech recognition. His template subtraction and hybrid cancellation frameworks, cited over 80 times combined, represent practical and innovative solutions to a uniquely robotics-specific acoustic problem. Perhaps most strikingly, Imura's intellectual range extends to the molecular scale, with his DNA feedback regulator for molecular robotics reflecting a bold interdisciplinary vision bridging control theory and synthetic biology. His career exemplifies how rigorous systems thinking can illuminate challenges from mechanical joints to biological circuits.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Ego noise suppression of a robot using template subtraction52 citations · 2009
- 2Adaptive robust control of robot manipulators-theory and experiment46 citations · 1994
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- 6A hybrid framework for ego noise cancellation of a robot17 citations · 2010
- 7Graph Based Model Predictive Control of a Planar Bipedal Robot17 citations · 2006
- 8Molecular Governor: DNA Feedback Regulator for Molecular Robotics15 citations · 2016
- 9Incremental learning for ego noise estimation of a robot11 citations · 2011
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