M. Kabasawa

The University of Tokyo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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M. Kabasawa is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work bridges legged locomotion and auditory perception for mobile robots. His most significant contribution is the design and development of the JROB-1, a self-contained legged robot research platform created through a Japanese inter-university program on intelligent robotics. This platform, detailed in a 2002 paper with 20 citations, was built on RT-Linux and addressed fundamental challenges in vision-based legged robotics, particularly the problem of view instability caused by walking vibrations. Kabasawa proposed an innovative integration of color segmentation, optical flow, and stereo correlation to maintain stable perception despite mechanical disturbances. Expanding into spatial awareness, he later developed a spherical microphone array for sound localization on mobile robots, introducing a novel evaluation index for beamforming directional characteristics to optimize array design. This work, cited 18 times, demonstrates his commitment to multimodal sensing for autonomous systems. Kabasawa’s research has laid essential groundwork for robust, perceptive legged robots capable of operating in complex, real-world environments.