Papers
7
Total Citations
67
H-Index
4
About
Shun Ushida is a robotics researcher whose work spans visual servoing, biped locomotion, and adaptive control systems, with a particular focus on bridging biological intelligence and robotic engineering. His most celebrated contribution, "A Goal Oriented Just-In-Time Visual Servoing for Ball Catching Robot Arm" (2008, 21 citations), introduced a groundbreaking framework enabling robot arms to perform dynamic catching tasks through real-time 3D motion control driven purely by visual feedback — a significant leap in image-based robot control. Complementing this, his investigations into gaze control mechanisms for biped robots demonstrated how vision-stabilizing strategies dramatically improve locomotion reliability, with multiple papers across 2005–2006 accumulating nearly 30 citations collectively. Ushida also made notable theoretical contributions by establishing rigorous control-theoretic foundations for the feedback error learning method applied to nonlinear systems with time delays, earning 12 citations and advancing adaptive control design for robotic manipulators. His biomimetic research further explored how human stick-balancing behavior can inspire visual servoing algorithms. More recently, his work on compliance control for humanoid joints reflects a sustained commitment to practical humanoid robotics. Across his career, Ushida has consistently sought to make robots smarter by learning from human perceptual and motor strategies.
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- 1A goal oriented just-in-time visual servoing for ball catching robot arm21 citations · 2008
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- 42DOF motion stabilization of biped robot by gaze control strategy11 citations · 2005
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- 6Adaptive modeling and compliance control for RC servo motor2 citations · 2017
- 7Motion Stabilization of Biped Robot by Gaze Control2 citations · 2006