Luis Yoichi Morales
Nagoya University, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Papers
12
Total Citations
210
H-Index
7
About
Luis Yoichi Morales is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous navigation, mobile robot localization, infrastructure inspection, and human-robot interaction. He is perhaps best known for developing OpenPlanner, an open-source integrated planning framework for autonomous robot navigation in highly dynamic environments, which has garnered over 80 citations and become a valuable resource for the robotics community. His research has been significantly shaped by participation in the Tsukuba Challenge Real World Robot Challenge, a demanding benchmark for autonomous navigation among real pedestrians and cyclists, contributing datasets, localization methods, and end-to-end navigation systems that collectively reflect over a decade of field robotics experience. Morales has also advanced robot-assisted infrastructure inspection through cooperative hammer sounding techniques, enabling robots to help human inspectors detect subsurface defects in concrete. More recently, his interests have expanded into human-robot and human-vehicle interaction, including studies on pedestrian gaze behavior toward automated vehicles and eye-gaze analysis for robotic wheelchair operators. With a body of work exceeding 200 total citations, Morales consistently bridges theoretical innovation and real-world deployment, making meaningful contributions to safe, robust, and socially aware autonomous systems.
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- 3Mobile Robot Localization Considering Class of Sensor Observations25 citations · 2018
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- 9Robot-assisted Hammer Sounding Inspection of Infrastructures6 citations · 2015
- 10Teaching-Playback Navigation Without a Consistent Map5 citations · 2018