Kousuke Sekiyama
Papers
7
Total Citations
42
H-Index
4
About
Kousuke Sekiyama is a pioneering researcher in robotics, whose work spans service robotics, multi-locomotion systems, and intelligent robot vision. His research addresses critical societal challenges, including aging populations and labor shortages, by developing advanced robotic systems for human assistance and support. Sekiyama’s most-cited paper (9 citations) explores service robotics for human aid, while his work on multiple object detection using growing neural gas (8 citations) advances intelligent robot vision. He has made significant contributions to heterogeneous robot cooperation, notably in geometric relation matching for UAV and UGV systems (8 citations), enabling cognitive object sharing between aerial and ground robots. Sekiyama is also recognized for his foundational work in distributed intelligent systems and cellular robotics (1995, 7 citations). His research on multi-locomotion robots is particularly notable, including dynamic transitions between biped and quadruped walking, ladder climbing, and brachiation—a form of locomotion inspired by gibbons. His energy-efficient swing-back control for brachiation robots (3 citations) demonstrates his focus on optimizing robotic movement. With a career spanning from the 1990s to the 2010s, Sekiyama’s work has laid groundwork for versatile, adaptive robots capable of operating in complex, real-world environments.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Advanced service robotics for human assistance and support9 citations · 2011
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- 4Distributed Intelligent Systems in Cellular Robotics7 citations · 1995
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- 7Energy Efficient Swing-Back Control for Brachiation Robot3 citations · 2006