Hiromasa Kawana
Papers
9
Total Citations
120
H-Index
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About
Hiromasa Kawana is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics and oral surgery, specializing in haptic feedback systems, autonomous bone drilling, and image-guided navigation for dental and microsurgical applications. His most influential work, a telerobotic-assisted bone-drilling system with bilateral control and force scaling (52 citations), introduced a novel approach to preventing surgical accidents by enabling precise, scaled force feedback during drilling. He further advanced implant surgery through stereo vision-based robot navigation using modulated potential fields (18 citations), allowing cooperative guidance for three-degree-of-freedom assistant robots. Kawana’s development of a multi-DOF haptic robot for dentistry and oral surgery (15 citations) addressed complex procedures like orthognathic surgery and osteotomy, while his frequency-based analysis of cutting force and CT number (11 citations) provided an objective, data-driven method for classifying bone quality—a critical factor in implant prognosis. He also contributed to microsurgery with a robot for high-precision thread traction and tension control (8 citations). Collectively, his work has garnered over 120 citations, establishing him as a key innovator in surgical robotics, particularly for enhancing safety, accuracy, and haptic realism in dental and microsurgical interventions.
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- 3Development of a Multi DOF Haptic Robot for Dentistry and Oral Surgery15 citations · 2020
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- 7Bone Density Classification Method for Robotic Drilling System3 citations · 2013
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