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Keiichi Onodera is a robotics researcher specializing in the development of autonomous systems for hazardous environments, with a primary focus on façade cleaning robots and reconfigurable quadruped locomotion. His most significant contribution is the design and experimental validation of a novel façade cleaning robot featuring a biped mechanism, a breakthrough aimed at eliminating the dangers faced by human workers cleaning high-rise buildings. This work, published in 2018, has garnered 25 citations, reflecting its practical relevance and innovation in the field of service robotics. Onodera also advanced the state of the art in reconfigurable robotics through his development of the quadruped robot "Scorpio," which can perform both crawling and rolling locomotion. He applied the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for this platform, enabling autonomous navigation in crawling mode. His additional work on modeling rolling locomotion for state estimation further demonstrates his systematic approach to robot autonomy. Onodera’s research bridges the gap between mechanical design and intelligent control, offering tangible solutions for real-world challenges in building maintenance and mobile robotics.