Papers
5
Total Citations
222
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About
Shizuko Hattori is a leading researcher in humanoid robotics, specializing in locomotion planning, gait generation, and contact dynamics. Her work addresses the fundamental challenge of enabling bipedal robots to walk stably across diverse terrains, from flat surfaces to rough, uneven ground. Hattori’s most influential contribution is a rigorous motion pattern generator that guarantees desired contact between a humanoid robot and the terrain by maintaining the contact wrench sum within safe bounds—a foundational paper with 84 citations. She also developed a constraint-based dynamics simulator for humanoid robots with shock-absorbing mechanisms, achieving realistic and efficient contact simulations (83 citations). Her two-stage time-parametrized gait planning framework (28 citations) enables collision-free walking by integrating constraint generation with pattern generation. More recently, Hattori has advanced multi-contact locomotion planning using a sustainable contact graph, allowing robots to modify contacts locally while maintaining stability. Her work has been instrumental in bridging theoretical guarantees with practical robot control, making her a key figure in the field of bipedal locomotion.
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Top Papers
- 1A Pattern Generator of Humanoid Robots Walking on a Rough Terrain84 citations · 2007
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- 3Two-Stage Time-Parametrized Gait Planning for Humanoid Robots28 citations · 2009
- 4Motion planning for walking pattern generation of humanoid17 citations · 2007
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