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Megumi Fujita’s research lies at the intersection of logic programming, autonomous robotics, and decision-making under uncertainty. Her work addresses a fundamental challenge: how can robots with physical embodiment operate robustly in the messy, dynamic real world? Fujita’s key contribution is a logic-based framework that enables robots to reason about their goals and actions even when sensor noise or environmental changes disrupt their plans. In her most-cited paper (2018, 5 citations), she extended this to 3-valued paraconsistent logic, allowing agents to make decisions even with contradictory information—a critical step toward truly autonomous systems. Her 2014 work (4 citations) demonstrated a robot that could reach its destination despite action disturbances, while her 2013 paper (3 citations) proposed an architecture for embodied robots to dynamically adjust plans, much like humans do. Fujita’s approach uniquely combines formal logical rigor with practical experimentation, as shown in her 2016 study (2 citations) where a robot used logical map representations for navigation. Though her citation counts are modest, her work is foundational for researchers building resilient, reasoning robots for real-world deployment.