Shigemune Taniwaki
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5
Total Citations
44
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4
About
Shigemune Taniwaki is a pioneering researcher in agricultural robotics and space manipulator control, whose work bridges precision automation with real-world operational challenges. His most influential contribution is the development of an end-effector and control system for a tomato cluster harvesting robot, a paper that has garnered 17 citations and addresses the critical difficulty of detecting occluded peduncles during fruit harvesting. This work directly tackles the need for high-speed, low-vibration transportation of delicate crops, as further explored in his 2009 study on path planning for tomato cluster robots. In parallel, Taniwaki has made significant advances in the coordinated control of satellite-mounted manipulators, a series of papers (1998–2001) that collectively earned 20 citations. His research here focuses on compensating for inertial parameter variations and payload flexibility, ensuring that manipulator movements do not destabilize satellite attitude. By formulating feedforward control strategies based on real-time parameter estimation, Taniwaki has contributed foundational methods for both terrestrial automation and space-based manipulation, demonstrating a rare versatility that impacts agriculture, robotics, and aerospace engineering.
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- 1n End-Effector and Manipulator Control for Tomato Cluster Harvesting Robot17 citations · 2007
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