Masahide Ito

About

Masahide Ito is a robotics researcher whose work centers on vision-based motion control, visual tracking, and the integration of computer vision with robotic systems. His most influential contribution, "Vision-based Motion Control for Robotic Systems" (2009, 32 citations), surveys advances in visual feedback control, demonstrating how camera-guided systems can dramatically enhance robot dexterity and adaptability across complex tasks. Alongside this, his early interdisciplinary work on rat-robot interaction (2002, 26 citations) explored novel frameworks for creature-machine communication, using animal subjects as proxies for understanding future human-humanoid relationships — a creative and forward-thinking approach that garnered significant attention. Much of Ito's subsequent research focuses on real-time visual tracking challenges, including compensating for motion delays in hand-eye robotic systems, controlling nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots using single cameras, and achieving robust tracking of fast-moving targets with stereo and binocular vision setups. His contributions to redundant manipulator kinematics and joint-limit avoidance further demonstrate a broad technical range. With a body of work spanning manipulation, mobile robotics, and bio-inspired systems, Ito has established himself as a thoughtful contributor to practical and theoretical problems in robotic perception and control.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Vision‐based motion control for robotic systems

   32 citations · 2009
2. 2
   Interaction between creature and robot: development of an experiment system for rat and rat robot interaction

   26 citations · 2002
3. 3
   Feature-based visual target following for a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot with a single camera

   10 citations · 2010
4. 4
   Non-delayed visual tracking of hand-eye robot for a moving target object

   8 citations · 2009
5. 5
   Visual Tracking of a Hand–Eye Robot for a Moving Target Object with Multiple Feature Points: Translational Motion Compensation Approach

   6 citations · 2011
6. 6
   Maximal Admission of Joint Range of Motion for Kinematically Redundant Manipulators with Joint Limits

   5 citations · 2010
7. 7
   Image-based visual tracking to fast moving target for active binocular robot

   5 citations · 2010
8. 8
   Visual tracking control for stereo vision robot with high gain controller and high speed cameras

   5 citations · 2011
9. 9
   Visual tracking control to fast moving target for stereo vision robot

   5 citations · 2010
10. 10
    Vision-based switching control strategy for a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot with a pan camera

    4 citations · 2013

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