Michio Ueno
Papers
3
Total Citations
14
H-Index
2
About
Michio Ueno is a specialist in deep-sea robotics, with a focused career dedicated to the engineering challenges of underwater vehicle deployment. His primary research areas include the dynamics of descending motion for subsea systems and the design of compact, launcher-based monitoring robots. Ueno’s major contribution is the development and analysis of a Compact Deep-Sea Monitoring Robot System, a novel architecture where a vehicle is stored within a launcher during its descent to the seabed. This design is critical for investigating sunken ships in deep-sea environments, a project he advanced in collaboration with the National Maritime Research Institute and the University of Tokyo. His foundational work, including the 2003 analysis of steady descending motion and the 2006 study on deep-sea robot descent, has been cited a combined 12 times, establishing the theoretical and experimental groundwork for this system. Through model experiments and nonlinear equilibrium equations, Ueno has provided essential insights into the gravitational descent of launchers from the surface to the seabed, making him a key figure in the niche but vital field of deep-sea monitoring technology.
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Top Papers
- 1On the descending motion of a deep-sea robot6 citations · 2006
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- 3Model experiment of a launcher of a Deep-Sea Monitoring Robot System2 citations · 2003