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Total Citations
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About
Shunsuke Kimura is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans two interconnected domains: advanced multi-limbed robotics for disaster response and rigorous nonlinear control theory for mobile systems. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to the development of WAREC-1, a four-limbed robot engineered to navigate the treacherous and unpredictable environments encountered at disaster sites. His research into crawling gaits, ladder climbing strategies, and stability margins — including methods based on the Normalized Energy Stability Margin — has significantly advanced the practical locomotion capabilities of legged robots on uneven and hazardous terrain, with his landmark 2017 WAREC-1 paper accumulating 44 citations. Alongside this applied robotics work, Kimura has made notable theoretical contributions to the stabilization of two-wheeled mobile robots, developing innovative control Lyapunov function approaches rooted in generalized homogeneous and semiconcave frameworks for nonholonomic systems. More recently, he has extended his expertise into human-assist control, leveraging Control Barrier Functions and point cloud data to enforce safety constraints in human-robot collaborative systems. Collectively, his research bridges fundamental control mathematics with real-world robotic deployment, making him a valuable contributor to the fields of rescue robotics, locomotion planning, and safety-critical autonomous systems.
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- 2Crawling gait for four-limbed robot and simulation on uneven terrain17 citations · 2016
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- 6Control Barrier Function based on Point Cloud for Human Assist Control7 citations · 2020
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