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About
Hiroaki Uchida is a robotics researcher whose work spans humanitarian demining and agricultural automation. His primary research areas include legged locomotion, force/attitude control, and autonomous navigation for robotic systems. Uchida’s most significant contribution is the development of COMET-1, a teleoperated six-legged walking robot designed for mine detection and field mapping, which has garnered 31 citations. This work addresses the critical challenge of safely detecting landmines on uneven terrain. He further advanced this field by proposing a mine-detecting method that integrates attitude control for stable walking on rough surfaces, ensuring reliable sensor operation. In the realm of agricultural robotics, Uchida has developed automatic operation systems for paddy field weeding robots, focusing on precise path and speed tracking to improve weed control efficiency. His research on disturbance rejection and posture control for six-legged robots, using techniques like imaginary impedance and RNN-based trajectory correction, has laid groundwork for robust locomotion in unstructured environments. With over a dozen publications, Uchida’s work demonstrates a consistent commitment to solving real-world problems through innovative robotic control systems, from humanitarian demining to sustainable agriculture.
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- 3Force/attitude control of mine detecting six-legged locomotion robot6 citations · 2002
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