Papers
5
Total Citations
143
H-Index
4
About
Kunihiro Iwamoto is a leading researcher in robotics, with key contributions spanning grasp quality evaluation, multi-robot teleoperation, and domestic service robotics. His most influential work addresses the fundamental challenge of robotic grasping under uncertainty—developing physically-based grasp quality metrics that account for object dynamics and pose uncertainty, a critical advancement over traditional static approaches. This work, published in 2013, has garnered 69 citations and directly addresses why automated grasp sets often underperform compared to human-generated ones in real-world applications. Iwamoto also made pioneering contributions to teleoperation, notably orchestrating the first-ever parallel teleoperation of four robots across France and Japan in 1996—a landmark achievement in multi-site, multi-kinematics remote control. His later work includes developing the Human Support Robot as a research platform for domestic mobile manipulation, and the innovative "Tele-museum" system, which enabled remote museum exploration via a mobile manipulator robot. With over 140 total citations across his most-cited works, Iwamoto’s research bridges fundamental grasp theory with practical teleoperation and service robotics, demonstrating lasting impact on both autonomous manipulation and human-robot interaction.
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Top Papers
- 1Physically Based Grasp Quality Evaluation Under Pose Uncertainty69 citations · 2013
- 2Parallel multi-robots long distance teleoperation34 citations · 2002
- 3Physically-based grasp quality evaluation under uncertainty25 citations · 2012
- 4Human Support Robot as Research Platform of Domestic Mobile Manipulator11 citations · 2019
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