Fuminori OBA
Papers
5
Total Citations
60
H-Index
4
About
Fuminori Oba is a pioneering researcher in mobile robotics, with a career spanning from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. His primary research areas include multi-robot coordination, laser-based navigation, and sensor fault detection for wheeled mobile robots. Oba’s most notable contribution is a dynamic control method for multiple mobile robots to transport a common object, a foundational work in cooperative robotics that has garnered 15 citations. He also developed a laser-based multi-target tracking system for mobile robots, his most cited paper with 28 citations, which advanced real-time environmental perception. Additionally, Oba integrated laser navigation with dead reckoning systems to improve position estimation, a key innovation for autonomous navigation. Later in his career, he focused on fault detection and diagnosis of internal sensors using multiple-model approaches and Kalman filters, enhancing the robustness of dead reckoning systems. His work on sensor-scale failures and hard/noise failures has been cited in subsequent robotics research. Oba’s contributions have laid groundwork for reliable, cooperative mobile robot systems, influencing both academic research and practical applications in autonomous navigation and multi-robot coordination.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1A Laser Based Multi-Target Tracking for Mobile Robot.28 citations · 2006
- 2Dynamic Object-Transportation Control Method by Multiple Mobile Robots.15 citations · 1995
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