Takeshi Hatanaka
Papers
43
Total Citations
701
H-Index
12
About
Takeshi Hatanaka is a prominent robotics and control systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of networked robotics, multi-agent systems, and human-robot interaction. He is perhaps best known for his expertise in passivity-based control, a physically intuitive framework rooted in energy dissipation principles, which he has applied to networked and collaborative robotic systems. His 2015 book "Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics," accumulating over 234 citations, stands as a landmark contribution to the field and a key reference for researchers worldwide. Hatanaka has made significant strides in coverage control for mobile sensor networks, pioneering anisotropic and angle-aware sensor models that account for both distance and orientation — work that has found modern application in drone-based 3D environmental mapping. His research on human-swarm interaction is equally influential, developing passivity-based frameworks that enable human operators to intuitively guide swarms of robots while preserving system stability, even when accounting for the dynamics of the human operator themselves. With contributions spanning quadcopter teams, control barrier functions, and semi-autonomous swarms, Hatanaka's body of work represents a rigorous yet practical approach to the challenges of coordinated autonomous systems, making him an essential figure for students and researchers in modern robotics and control theory.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics234 citations · 2015
- 2Coverage control for mobile networks with limited-range anisotropic sensors63 citations · 2008
- 3Coverage Control with Information Decay in Dynamic Environments43 citations · 2008
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- 5Angle-Aware Coverage Control for 3-D Map Reconstruction With Drone Networks26 citations · 2021
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