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Chie Kasuga is a pioneering researcher in autonomous mobile robotics and mechatronics education, with a career spanning foundational work in robot positioning systems and hands-on learning methodologies. Her most influential contribution is the development of a self-positioning system for autonomous mobile robots using a digital mark pattern and CCD camera, which reads Grey-coded landmarks on ceilings to determine horizontal distance—a method that avoids complex calculations required by conventional triangulation (10 citations). This work, along with her identification method using ceiling-mounted pixel codes (4 citations), laid early groundwork for vision-based indoor navigation. Kasuga is also deeply committed to engineering pedagogy, creating line-trace robots as teaching materials for mechatronics courses (4 citations) and evaluating cross-cultural education programs integrating Japanese and Brazilian students (1 citation). Her analysis of contest robots, including Micro Mouse maze solvers and Sumo robots (2 citations), reflects a passion for competitive robotics as a learning tool. With over 20 citations across her key papers, Kasuga’s dual focus on practical robot localization and accessible, project-based education has inspired both technical advances and the next generation of roboticists.