Keihachiro Tachibana
Osaka Gakuin University, Hiroshima City University, Setsunan University
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Total Citations
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About
Keihachiro Tachibana is a robotics researcher whose career has spanned over two decades, focusing primarily on autonomous mobile robot systems, distributed control architectures, and wireless inter-robot communication. His work addresses fundamental challenges in robot autonomy, particularly enabling robots to navigate safely in constrained indoor environments and to coordinate effectively within multi-robot systems. Tachibana's early contributions in the 1990s laid important groundwork in distributed computing for robotics, including parallel control architectures using microcomputer networks and implementations of Communicating Sequential Processes for robot system design. These foundations informed his later research into more sophisticated multi-robot coordination strategies. A significant thread of his research involves sensor-based obstacle detection, with notable work on multichannel ultrasonic sonar systems that allow robots to accurately perceive their surroundings and avoid collisions in cramped workspaces. Complementing this, he developed innovative space-division optical wireless communication systems enabling autonomous robots to localize one another while exchanging data — a meaningful step toward genuinely cooperative robot teams. With his most-cited papers accumulating citations in robotics and autonomous systems literature, Tachibana's contributions represent steady, practical advances in making mobile robots more capable, communicative, and spatially aware in real-world deployment scenarios.
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