Tomoki Anzai
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Total Citations
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About
Tomoki Anzai is a pioneering roboticist whose work sits at the intersection of aerial robotics, transformable mechanisms, and multimodal locomotion. His most celebrated contribution is the DRAGON robot—a dual-rotor-embedded multilink aerial system capable of multi-degree-of-freedom transformation in flight, enabling full pose control in SE(3). This work, with 197 citations, has become a cornerstone in the field of morphing aerial robots. Anzai has extended this concept through a series of innovative platforms: HALO, a closed-loop multilink robot for shape-adaptive aerial grasping; SPIDAR, a quadruped that seamlessly transitions between walking and flying; and even a flying humanoid robot with a bi-copter flight unit. His research also bridges perception and manipulation, as seen in his deep gated multi-modal learning approach that fuses tactile and image data for in-hand object pose estimation. With over 500 total citations across his top papers, Anzai’s work has fundamentally advanced the capabilities of aerial robots—moving them from simple flight to complex, whole-body interaction with the environment. His designs are not only technically elegant but also practically impactful, offering new possibilities for inspection, manipulation, and rescue in confined or dynamic spaces.
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