Yasunori Abe
Papers
22
Total Citations
187
H-Index
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About
Yasunori Abe is a pioneering researcher in autonomous mobile robotics, with a primary focus on vision-based navigation systems for indoor environments. His most significant contribution lies in developing landmark recognition techniques that utilize ceiling-mounted air-conditioning vents (anemos) as navigational reference points—a clever approach that avoids the common problem of floor-level obstacles obstructing robot vision. Abe’s landmark 2002 paper on this system has accumulated 43 citations, establishing a foundation for practical indoor robot navigation. He advanced this work through fuzzy template matching (26 citations) and variable template matching (20 citations), addressing real-world challenges like landmark size variation and recognition failure. Beyond navigation, Abe contributed to construction robotics, developing a marking robot for building sites and a parallel-link robot for pipe inspection in air conditioning systems. His early work on self-locating measurement systems for mobile robots in building environments (1991) demonstrates his long-standing commitment to solving real-world industrial problems. Abe’s research bridges computer vision, fuzzy logic, and mechanical design, offering practical solutions for autonomous robots operating in complex, human-built spaces.
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- 7Parallel-link robot for pipe inspection7 citations · 2005
- 8Development of Marking Robot Working at Building Sites6 citations · 1995
- 9Development of a Construction Robot for Marking on Ceiling Boards5 citations · 1997
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