Jun Sasaki
Papers
13
Total Citations
188
H-Index
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About
Jun Sasaki is a robotics researcher whose work has made significant contributions to the field of multi-robot cooperation, with a particular focus on cooperative transport, grasping, and motion planning for multiple mobile robots. His most impactful research, conducted primarily in the early 2000s, addresses the complex challenge of enabling groups of mobile robots to collaboratively manipulate and transport large objects — a problem with profound implications for industrial automation and autonomous systems. Sasaki's most cited work, "Transferring and regrasping a large object by cooperation of multiple mobile robots" (2002, 50 citations), tackles real-time motion planning in dynamic environments, a critical requirement for practical deployment. His broader body of work systematically explores related challenges: handling nonholonomic constraints in car-like robots (33 citations), optimizing grasping arrangements for objects of unknown properties (31 citations), and managing torque-limited robot teams (23 citations). Notably, he also developed methods for estimating an object's center of gravity and mass through cooperative tilting — enabling robots to handle truly unknown objects intelligently. His earlier work from the mid-1990s on motion planning using learned visibility graphs demonstrates a sustained, evolving research trajectory. With over 180 cumulative citations, Sasaki's contributions remain a valuable reference for researchers advancing cooperative robotics and autonomous manipulation systems.
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- 2Cooperative transport system with regrasping car-like mobile robots33 citations · 2002
- 3Cooperating grasping of a large object by multiple mobile robots31 citations · 2002
- 4Cooperative transport with regrasping of torque-limited mobile robots23 citations · 2002
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- 6Motion skills in multiple mobile robot system9 citations · 1996
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