Tadahisa Kondo

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

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Tadahisa Kondo is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on human-robot interaction, assistive mobility, and autonomous navigation, particularly for elderly care and robotic wheelchairs. His most influential contribution is a 3D visibility model for comfortable autonomous vehicle navigation (35 citations), which correlates a wheelchair’s pose with human comfort, offering a novel framework for designing more natural and acceptable autonomous movement. Kondo also pioneered robotic service coordination for elderly people and caregivers using the Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform (13 citations), demonstrating how to deploy integrated robotic services in real-world environments. Additionally, he developed a model of human velocity habituation (9 citations), defining how riders adapt to repetitive robotic wheelchair motion and how preferred speeds shift over time. These contributions address critical challenges in assistive robotics—comfort, coordination, and adaptation—making Kondo’s work foundational for developing socially-aware and user-centered autonomous systems. His research is particularly relevant for students and engineers working on human-aware navigation, service robotics, and aging-in-place technologies.