Genki Miyauchi
Papers
8
Total Citations
36
H-Index
4
About
Genki Miyauchi investigates the intersection of swarm robotics, human-robot collaboration, and soft robotics, with a focus on enabling reliable collective behavior from imperfect components. His most impactful work, "Coherent movement of error-prone individuals through mechanical coupling" (13 citations), introduces a paradigm where highly stochastic robotic modules achieve coordinated motion through elastic physical links—demonstrating how mechanical coupling can compensate for individual unreliability. This foundational insight extends to his development of scalable "robotic fabrics" using interconnected Kilobot modules, enabling plug-and-play reconfigurability for arbitrary shapes and sizes. In human-swarm interaction, Miyauchi advances supervisory control theory to allow multiple operators to manage connectivity-preserving robot swarms without direct communication, distributing cognitive workload effectively. His applied research includes human-robot collaboration in agriculture, where he studies error responses during selective harvesting tasks, and comparative analyses of energy replenishment strategies for long-duration swarm operations. Through these contributions, Miyauchi bridges theoretical distributed algorithms with practical implementations, addressing fundamental challenges in scalability, fault tolerance, and multi-operator control. His work has accumulated over 36 citations, with recent publications in 2023-2025 signaling growing impact in both soft robotics and human-swarm systems.
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- 1Coherent movement of error-prone individuals through mechanical coupling13 citations · 2023
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- 6Scalable Plug-and-Play Robotic Fabrics Based on Kilobot Modules3 citations · 2025
- 7Toward Robot Co-Labourers for Intelligent Farming3 citations · 2020
- 8A Comparative Study of Energy Replenishment Strategies for Robot Swarms1 citations · 2024