Yohei HOSHINO

Kitami Institute of Technology, Hokkaido University

Papers

38

Total Citations

757

H-Index

13

About

Yohei Hoshino is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous mobile robot navigation, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), agricultural robotics, and motion planning. He is perhaps best known for his highly influential 2018 survey on path smoothing techniques in robot navigation, which has accumulated nearly 300 citations and serves as a foundational reference for researchers tackling the challenge of generating smooth, efficient trajectories for mobile robots. His earlier contributions to line detection algorithms using SVD and Hough transforms, as well as frameworks for indoor robot mapping in noisy environments, demonstrate a sustained expertise in sensor-based localization and environmental perception. Hoshino has also made meaningful strides in agricultural automation, developing autonomous vineyard navigation systems with collision avoidance and low-cost semantic monitoring platforms — work that directly addresses real-world labor challenges in viticulture. More recently, his development of a pumpkin-harvesting robot integrating YOLO-based AI detection and RGB-D sensing highlights his growing interest in agricultural manipulation. Complementing these contributions is earlier foundational research on mobile manipulator dynamics and vibration reduction via particle swarm optimization. With over 500 cumulative citations, Hoshino's career reflects a productive bridge between theoretical robotics and practical, field-deployable systems.

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H-Index
38
Papers
757
Total Citations
20
Avg Citations/Paper
🏆 Most Cited Paper
Path Smoothing Techniques in Robot Navigation: State-of-the-Art, Current and Future Challenges
299 citations · 2018
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2012 (5 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 20
🏛 Institutions: Kitami Institute of Technology, Hokkaido University

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