Hiroyuki Tanaka
Papers
9
Total Citations
205
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7
About
Hiroyuki Tanaka is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work centers on haptic technology, bilateral control systems, and their applications in surgical and human-robot interaction contexts. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to FPGA-based haptic endoscopic surgery robots, with his 2008 paper on bilateral control systems for multi-DOF haptic surgical robots accumulating 126 citations — a landmark achievement that demonstrated how field-programmable gate arrays could meet the demanding computational requirements of minimally invasive surgery systems. This work directly addressed a critical challenge in surgical robotics: scaling bilateral control to the multiple degrees of freedom needed for complex endoscopic procedures while preserving real-time performance. Beyond surgical robotics, Tanaka has explored haptic skill transfer and education, proposing methods to abstract and reproduce expert human motion using haptic sensing — work with meaningful implications for training in high-precision domains. His research also extends into tendon-driven actuation, real-time haptic communication networks, and, more recently, augmented reality-based self-localization for mobile robots. Across his career, Tanaka has consistently bridged hardware implementation and control theory, producing systems-oriented research that translates theoretical advances into functional robotic platforms with real-world relevance.
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- 4Haptic Endoscopic Surgery Robot Utilizing FPGA10 citations · 2008
- 5An approach to acceleration estimation using FPGA9 citations · 2008
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- 9Haptic communication system using FPGA and real-time network framework3 citations · 2009