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About
Yasushi Amano is a pioneering researcher in micro-aerial robotics and human–robot interaction, with a career spanning both bio-inspired flight systems and ergonomic vehicle design. His most impactful work centers on the development of ultra-lightweight flapping-wing robots, where he designed a 1.15-gram, 115 mm wingspan robot driven by three paired direct-driven piezoelectric actuators. This innovation, published in 2020 and cited 7 times, enables safe mobile sensing in human-occupied spaces by suppressing wing–body and wing–wing coupling vibrations—a critical challenge in micro-robotics. Amano also advanced cooperative aerial transportation, demonstrating decentralized control for multiple single-rotor robots handling unknown payloads (2022, 6 citations), a scalable solution for logistics and disaster response. Earlier in his career, he applied robotic dexterity measures—ellipsoid-type analyses—to evaluate vehicle steering comfort and driver ergonomics (2001, 2003), bridging robotics and human factors engineering. His interdisciplinary contributions have influenced both the design of agile, safe micro-drones and the ergonomic optimization of vehicle interfaces, with his work cited across robotics, control systems, and human–machine interaction communities.
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