Kentaro Takemura

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Kentaro Takemura is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a focus on creating natural, multi-party communication systems that blend gesture, speech, and autonomous mobility. His most cited work, "A Gesture-Centric Android System for Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction" (43 citations), pioneered a system enabling robots to adjust gestures and facial expressions in real-time during group interactions—a critical step toward human-robot symbiosis. Takemura’s contributions extend to smooth, interruptible gesture planning (12 citations) and inverse kinematics for android faces with elastic skin, enhancing robots’ social expressiveness. He also developed a remote control system for multiple mobile robots using touch panels and autonomous navigation (15 citations), and a view-sequence-based navigation method robust to illumination changes (9 citations). His early work on the robotic receptionist ASKA (10 citations) established a foundational platform for HRI research. Takemura’s innovations in self-organizing knowledge networks for robots (17 citations) and mobility assistance for electric wheelchairs (7 citations) demonstrate his commitment to practical, user-friendly robotics. With over 140 total citations, his work continues to shape how robots perceive and respond to humans in dynamic, real-world environments.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A Gesture-Centric Android System for Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction

   43 citations · 2013
2. 2
   Robots on self-organizing knowledge networks

   17 citations · 2004
3. 3
   Remote control system for multiple mobile robots using touch panel interface and autonomous mobility

   15 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Inverse Kinematics Solver for Android Faces with Elastic Skin

   13 citations · 2012
5. 5
   Smooth human-robot interaction by interruptible gesture planning

   12 citations · 2010
6. 6
   Robotic receptionist ASKA : a research platform for human-robot interaction

   10 citations · 2003
7. 7
   Gaze motion planning for android robot

   9 citations · 2011
8. 8
   View-sequece based indoor/outdoor navigation robust to illumination changes

   9 citations · 2009
9. 9
   Generating natural hand motion in playing a piano

   7 citations · 2010
10. 10
    Mobility assistance system for an electric wheelchair using annotated maps

    7 citations · 2015

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