Hideto Ide

About

Hideto Ide is a robotics researcher whose work spans human-machine interfaces, autonomous systems, and multi-robot coordination. His foundational contributions in the early 1990s focused on electromyogram (EMG)-based robot control, exploring how surface muscle signals could be harnessed to direct robotic hands and arms. Recognizing the inherent variability of biological signals, Ide pioneered fuzzy logic approaches to make EMG-driven control more robust and adaptive — work that earned him his most-cited publications and helped lay groundwork for modern prosthetic and assistive robotics. Alongside his bioelectric research, Ide investigated autonomous mobile robots and obstacle avoidance using real-time potential field generation, contributing practical solutions to motion planning challenges. Perhaps most distinctively, his later career turned toward emotion-driven multi-robot systems, examining how artificial emotional models could foster emergent cooperation, burden sharing, and flexible task coordination among robot teams — a line of inquiry that spanned multiple publications between 2004 and 2008. His 2009 work on Q-learning for autonomous robot shape reconfiguration further demonstrated his engagement with machine learning. With over 60 cumulative citations across a diverse body of work, Ide's research reflects a sustained commitment to making robots more adaptive, cooperative, and intuitively responsive to human needs.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   The Control Method for the Robot Hand Based on the Fuzzy Theory

   15 citations · 1992
2. 2
   Characteristics of Behavior of Robots with Emotion Model

   12 citations · 2004
3. 3
   Control of a Robot Arm by Myoelectric Potential

   12 citations · 1993
4. 4
   Characteristics of behavior of robots with emotion model

   8 citations · 2005
5. 5
   Emergent of Burden Sharing of Robots with Emotion Model

   3 citations · 2005
6. 6
   Autonomous reconfiguration of robot shape by using Q-learning

   3 citations · 2009
7. 7
   Development of Autonomous Mobile Robot for Obstacle Avoidance

   3 citations · 1993
8. 8
   Emergence of burden sharing by robots equipped with an emotional model

   2 citations · 2008
9. 9
   Application of robot techniques to research of brain neuron.

   2 citations · 1988
10. 10
    Fuzzy Control of Robot Hand Based on EMG

    2 citations · 1991

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