Papers
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Total Citations
275
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About
Hiroyuki Kawai is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of visual feedback control, robot manipulators, and passivity-based methods. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to vision-based robot control, particularly his development of passivity-based dynamic visual feedback frameworks for three-dimensional target tracking. His most influential paper on this topic, published in 2007, has accumulated 122 citations and rigorously established stability guarantees and L₂-gain performance analysis for camera-guided robotic systems — a foundational result for researchers working in visual servoing. Kawai has also made notable advances in predictive visual feedback control, applying receding horizon strategies to both eye-in-hand and fixed camera configurations, improving real-time estimation and robustness in dynamic environments. A distinctive thread in his later research concerns robot manipulators with antagonistic bi-articular muscles — biomechanically inspired systems where muscles span two joints simultaneously — for which he developed passivity-based, open-loop, and iterative learning control strategies. His edited volume on robot manipulators further demonstrates his breadth across the field. Collectively, his body of work offers both theoretical rigor and practical insight, making it valuable reading for students and researchers tackling advanced robotics control problems.
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- 2Robot Manipulators New Achievements28 citations · 2010
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- 5Stabilizing predictive visual feedback control for fixed camera systems11 citations · 2011
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