Katsuhiro Maeda

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Katsuhiro Maeda’s research focuses on advancing multi-robot teleoperation systems, with a particular emphasis on enabling effective remote collaboration despite network constraints. His major contributions center on developing frameworks for multi-site and multi-telerobot coordination, addressing the critical challenge of communication delays that distort human operators’ visual perception and degrade collaborative performance. In his most cited work, “A collaborative multi-site teleoperation over an ISDN” (2003, 25 citations), Maeda demonstrated how multiple operators could jointly control robots across distant locations using integrated services digital networks. His foundational studies, including “Development of a multi-telerobot system for remote collaboration” (2002, 17 citations) and an earlier 2000 paper (6 citations), were conducted at the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL) in partnership with Toshiba Mechanical Systems Laboratory (TMSL). These projects pioneered technologies for multi-robot teamwork in hazardous or inaccessible environments. While his citation counts are modest, Maeda’s work represents early, practical steps toward networked robotic collaboration—a field now central to disaster response, space exploration, and remote surgery. His research legacy lies in identifying and addressing the perceptual and control challenges that continue to define modern telerobotics.