Hiroyuki Nakagawa

University of Electro-Communications, Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)

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Hiroyuki Nakagawa’s research bridges autonomous robotics and adaptive embedded systems, with a focus on heterogeneous robot teams and bio-inspired collective dynamics. His pioneering work on UAV-UGV cooperation introduced novel strategies for obstacle removal in unstructured environments, demonstrating how aerial and ground robots can synergize to perform complex global tasks. Nakagawa also advanced infrastructure inspection robotics, developing an overhead transmission line inspection robot capable of autonomously crossing steel towers—a contribution that directly addresses safety risks and labor costs in maintenance operations. His foundational studies on collective dynamics, inspired by ant colony behavior, explored task allocation and pheromone trailing, offering early insights into population regulation and distributed coordination. More recently, Nakagawa has tackled the challenge of IoT system evolution by applying the MAPE-K loop mechanism to enable runtime adaptation in embedded systems, allowing post-deployment functional updates. Though his citation counts remain modest, his work consistently targets practical, high-impact problems in robotics and cyber-physical systems, laying groundwork for safer, more adaptive autonomous technologies.