Akira Mita
Papers
18
Total Citations
66
H-Index
4
About
Akira Mita is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics, structural health monitoring, and smart building design, with a focus on creating adaptive living environments for aging populations. His central concept, the "Biofied Building," envisions structures that behave like living organisms, using sensor agent robots to monitor and respond to both human occupants and the building's own structural integrity. Mita's major contributions include developing mobile robots equipped with accelerometers for low-cost structural health monitoring (SHM), enabling response estimation of buildings during large earthquakes using data from a single floor. He has also advanced human-robot interaction in domestic spaces, creating systems for markerless human tracking, gait parameter extraction using Kinect sensors, and emotion identification from facial RGB data. His work on automatic floorplan generation and indoor scenario simulation supports elderly residents living independently with robotic assistance. With papers accumulating citations from 4 to 7, Mita's research is steadily gaining recognition. Notable achievements include the "e-bio" prototype robot and the SISG4HEI_Alpha simulator, which together represent a holistic approach to making homes safer, more responsive, and more comfortable for an increasingly single and elderly society.
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- 8Emotion identification method using RGB information of human face4 citations · 2015
- 9HUMAN TRACKING USING SENSOR AGENT ROBOT FOR BIOFIED BUILDING4 citations · 2012
- 10Gait parameters extraction by using mobile robot equipped with Kinect v24 citations · 2016