Yuichi Asahiro
Papers
12
Total Citations
67
H-Index
5
About
Yuichi Asahiro is a leading researcher in distributed algorithms for autonomous mobile robots, with a particular focus on multi-robot coordination and self-stabilizing systems. His work addresses fundamental challenges in robotics, including how groups of oblivious robots can achieve complex tasks through simple, decentralized control. Asahiro's most influential contribution is the development of a self-stabilizing marching algorithm for robot swarms (2008, 13 citations), which ensures that robots can autonomously recover from failures and maintain formation without centralized oversight. He has also made significant advances in cooperative object transportation, notably designing distributed algorithms for two omnidirectional robots to carry a ladder through constrained environments like corridors with 90-degree corners (2002, 7 citations), and optimizing these methods for near-optimal time performance (1999, 3 citations). His research extends to dynamic target collection, where he explores how robots can gather moving objects in the Euclidean plane (2004, 6 citations). More recently, Asahiro has introduced the concept of monotonic self-stabilization (2022, 3 citations), a novel framework that guarantees gradual improvement in system state quality, enhancing robustness and adaptability in pattern formation tasks. With over 60 citations across his most-cited works, Asahiro's contributions continue to shape the theory and practice of distributed robotics, offering elegant solutions for real-world multi-robot systems.
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Top Papers
- 1A Self-stabilizing Marching Algorithm for a Group of Oblivious Robots13 citations · 2008
- 2Grasp and Delivery for Moving Objects on Broken Lines12 citations · 2007
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- 4How to Collect Balls Moving in the Euclidean Plane6 citations · 2004
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- 6How to collect balls moving in the Euclidean plane5 citations · 2006
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