Masaki Haruna
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About
Masaki Haruna is a robotics researcher whose work bridges human-machine interaction, bipedal locomotion, and precision astronomical instrumentation. His research centers on three key areas: haptic feedback for remote manipulation, passive dynamic walking, and force-controlled robotics for large telescopes. Haruna’s most impactful contribution is his 2021 study comparing three feedback modalities for haptics in remote machine manipulation (24 citations), which provided the first objective, quantitative evaluation of visual haptics for grasping force and task success—a critical advance for teleoperation. In bipedal robotics, his 2002 work on passive dynamic walking with a torso under simple control (22 citations) broke new ground by extending energy-efficient PDW models to include an upper body, a previously unsolved challenge. He also developed the force control technology for the Segment Mirror Exchange Robot of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), enabling safe, reliable mirror segment exchange—a key subsystem for one of the world’s largest planned observatories. With a career spanning fundamental locomotion theory to applied astronomical robotics, Haruna’s work demonstrates how simple control principles can solve complex real-world problems, from humanoid walking to maintaining next-generation telescopes.
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- 4PASSIVE DYNAMIC WALKING WITH TORSO UNDER SIMPLE CONTROL2 citations · 2002