Yasuyo Kita

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Yasuyo Kita is a robotics researcher whose work centers on robotic manipulation of deformable objects, with a particular focus on clothing handling and computer vision for autonomous systems. Her most significant contributions lie in developing intelligent strategies that enable robots to recognize and manipulate highly deformable garments — a notoriously challenging problem due to complex shape variation and self-occlusion that rigid-object manipulation techniques cannot address. Kita's most influential work, "Clothes Handling Based on Recognition by Strategic Observation" (2011, 41 citations), introduced the concept of using purposeful robotic actions to actively simplify visual recognition tasks during clothing manipulation. Complementary papers on dual-arm clothing handling (35 citations) and action-cooperative visual recognition (21 citations) established her as a leading voice in this specialized domain. Her research extended into physical edge detection for garment recognition (2017) and cloth unfolding through dual edge classification (2021), demonstrating sustained innovation over more than a decade. Beyond clothing robotics, Kita contributed to industrial applications including dual-arm random bin-picking systems (30 citations) and camera-based inspection technologies for nuclear power plants. Across her career, her work has collectively accumulated over 160 citations, reflecting meaningful influence on the robotics community's understanding of deformable object manipulation and robot perception.

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1. 1
   Clothes handling based on recognition by strategic observation

   41 citations · 2011
2. 2
   A method for handling a specific part of clothing by dual arms

   35 citations · 2009
3. 3
   Project on Development of a Robot System for Random Picking-Grasp/manipulation planner for a dual-arm manipulator

   30 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Clothes handling using visual recognition in cooperation with actions

   21 citations · 2010
5. 5
   Physical edge detection in clothing items for robotic manipulation

   12 citations · 2017
6. 6
   Strategy for Folding Clothing on the Basis of Deformable Models

   7 citations · 2014
7. 7
   Dual edge classifier for robust cloth unfolding

   6 citations · 2021
8. 8
   3D shape measurement of a large cloth close to a fisheye stereo

   4 citations · 2012
9. 9
   Position and pose detection of active camera-head in a nuclear power plant

   3 citations · 2002
10. 10
    Archiving technology for plant inspection images captured by mobile active cameras "4D visible memory"

    2 citations · 2005

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