Papers
29
Total Citations
300
H-Index
11
About
Osamu Matsumoto is a versatile robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robot control, human-cooperative systems, gesture recognition, and autonomous navigation. Beginning his career with foundational contributions to dynamic mobile robot attitude estimation using internal sensors — work that accumulated nearly 60 citations across its 1990 and 1992 publications — Matsumoto established himself as a key figure in understanding how robots maintain stability in unstructured environments. His development of biped-type leg-wheeled robots and two-wheeled inverted pendulum platforms further cemented his expertise in novel locomotion systems and balance control. Matsumoto's research took a distinctly human-centered turn with investigations into safety-critical human-cooperative robots, assistive excretion care robotics, and an autonomous robotic wheelchair designed for urban elderly transportation. His most-cited work (45 citations) bridges machine learning and wearable sensing, applying collaborative representation in the spectral domain to EMG-based hand gesture recognition using the MYO armband — demonstrating his adaptability to emerging technologies. Additional contributions to multi-robot cooperative transportation and energy-minimizing path planning round out a body of work totaling over 200 citations, reflecting broad and sustained influence across rehabilitation robotics, autonomous systems, and human-machine interaction.
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- 4Biped-type leg-wheeled robot19 citations · 1998
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- 6Controller design of a two-wheeled inverted pendulum mobile robot16 citations · 2008
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- 10A Reasonable Path Planning via Path Energy Minimization12 citations · 2014