Papers
7
Total Citations
46
H-Index
3
About
Kenichi Abe is a robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robot localization, swarm intelligence, and assistive teleoperation technologies. His most significant contributions lie in developing innovative methods for autonomous robot navigation in indoor environments, particularly leveraging ultrasonic and sonar sensors to estimate robot position and orientation using geometric features such as walls, corners, and edges. His 2002 paper on ultrasonic-based localization remains his most influential work, accumulating 29 citations and establishing a practical framework for sensor-based robot positioning that diverged meaningfully from prior approaches. Complementing this, his research on combining sonar sensing with dead-reckoning offered efficient solutions for long-distance indoor navigation. Abe also explored emergent collective behavior, investigating how swarm intelligence arises from simple multi-robot foraging systems through analytical modeling. In more recent years, his research has taken a distinctly humanitarian turn, focusing on enabling persons with severe motor dysfunctions to remotely operate robots for caregiving and employment tasks, addressing both efficiency and user experience. His latest work ventures into cyber-secure bilateral teleoperation using homomorphic encryption. Across more than two decades, Abe's research reflects a sustained commitment to making robots more intelligent, navigable, and socially purposeful.
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- 1A mobile robot localization using ultrasonic sensors in indoor environment29 citations · 2002
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- 4Localization using combining sensors and dead-reckoning2 citations · 2004
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- 7Cyber-Secure Teleoperation With Encrypted Four-Channel Bilateral Control1 citations · 2025