Papers
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Total Citations
1,061
H-Index
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About
Kenichiro Tani is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work has fundamentally shaped the field of biped locomotion and mobile robot control. His most celebrated contribution is the development of the **Linear Inverted Pendulum Mode (LIPM)**, a groundbreaking control framework that simplifies the complex dynamics of biped walking by constraining the robot's center of mass to move along a straight line. First introduced theoretically in 1991 and refined through extensive experimentation with his custom-built six-degree-of-freedom robot "Meltran II," this approach has become a cornerstone of humanoid robotics research, amassing over 420 citations on his foundational paper alone and more than 130 citations each on key experimental follow-ups. Tani further extended LIPM to rugged terrain navigation and real-time adaptive gait control using ultrasonic sensing, demonstrating both theoretical rigor and practical engineering vision. His research portfolio also encompasses wheeled robots capable of stair negotiation, cooperative multi-robot object transportation using inverted pendulum platforms, and landmark-based mobile robot navigation. With cumulative citations exceeding 1,000 across his published work, Tani's contributions represent a vital intellectual foundation for anyone studying legged locomotion, dynamic stability control, or autonomous mobile robotics.
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- 2Experimental study of biped dynamic walking in the linear inverted pendulum mode133 citations · 2002
- 3Experimental study of biped dynamic walking131 citations · 1996
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- 8Planning Of Landmark Measurement For The Navigation A Mobile Robot31 citations · 2005
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