Shinobu Sasaki
Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Papers
6
Total Citations
55
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About
Shinobu Sasaki is a robotics researcher whose work has made meaningful contributions to two interconnected areas of autonomous systems: robot manipulator kinematics and mobile robot navigation. Beginning in the late 1980s, Sasaki pioneered novel computational approaches to solving the inverse kinematics problem for six-link robot manipulators, notably applying optimization theory and polynomial expressions as alternatives to conventional homogeneous transformation methods. This foundational work evolved through the early 1990s into broader, widely applicable frameworks for general serial-link manipulators, addressing both forward and inverse kinematics through recursive Jacobian formulations and unconstrained optimization principles — contributions documented across several publications that collectively reflect a sustained effort to make kinematics solutions more practical and reliable for real-world robotic arms. Sasaki's most impactful contribution came in 2002 with a motion planning strategy for mobile robots navigating static environments, which garnered 32 citations — his most recognized work. Departing from conventional artificial potential field methods, this approach leveraged elliptic boundary value problem formulations to achieve smoother, more reliable navigation paths. Across his career, Sasaki's research stands as a coherent body of work dedicated to bridging rigorous mathematical theory and practical implementation in robotics engineering.
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- 1A practical computational technique for mobile robot navigation32 citations · 2002
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