Yukio ASARI
Kyoto University, Toshiba (Japan), Toshiba (South Korea), TEPCO (Japan)
Papers
9
Total Citations
186
H-Index
6
About
Yukio Asari is a robotics researcher whose work spans human-robot interaction, skill transfer, autonomous robot systems, and remote maintenance robotics. His most influential contribution lies in the domain of robot teaching through impedance identification — a framework in which a skilled human worker's tool manipulation motions are recorded and analyzed to extract the underlying force-displacement dynamics, enabling robots to replicate complex, experience-acquired skills. This line of research, first explored in 1988 and significantly expanded in a 2003 paper that garnered 118 citations, represents a foundational approach to bridging human expertise and robotic execution. Asari also demonstrated a flair for human-interactive robotics through his development of a volleyball-playing robot capable of autonomously engaging human players in real-time — an achievement that earned 24 citations and highlighted his broader interest in socially responsive machines. His extensive series on model-based remote maintenance robot systems reflects a sustained commitment to deploying autonomous robots in hazardous environments such as nuclear facilities, encompassing task planning, environment sensing, and compliant redundant arm control. Collectively, his research reflects a career dedicated to making robots not only capable collaborators in industrial settings, but also intelligent and adaptive partners in human environments.
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Top Papers
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- 2A volleyball playing robot24 citations · 2002
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- 9Beach Ball Volley Playing Robot2 citations · 1998