Papers
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Total Citations
358
H-Index
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About
Natsuki Miyata is a robotics researcher whose work spans multi-robot coordination, cooperative transport systems, and humanoid robot development — fields in which he has made lasting and practical contributions. His most influential work, "Cooperative Transport by Multiple Mobile Robots in Unknown Static Environments Associated with Real-Time Task Assignment" (2002, 135 citations), established a foundational task-assignment architecture enabling robot teams to dynamically handle complex, large-scale transportation problems in real time. This research, complemented by related studies on regrasping strategies, car-like mobile robots, and motion planning in dynamic environments, effectively defined a comprehensive framework for multi-robot cooperative transport that continues to be widely referenced. Beyond multi-robot systems, Miyata contributed significantly to humanoid robotics, co-developing the Virtual Humanoid Robot Platform (V-HRP), which elegantly unified controllers for virtual and real robots — streamlining development workflows and earning 60 citations. His comparative biomechanical studies of humanoid H7 and human walking (2004) further demonstrated a commitment to bridging engineering and human movement science. With a career spanning from early motion-planning algorithms in 1995 to dual-arm robot simulation in 2022, Miyata's sustained output reflects both technical depth and remarkable research longevity across the evolving landscape of robotics.
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- 4Measurement and comparison of humanoid H7 walking with human being41 citations · 2004
- 5Cooperative transport system with regrasping car-like mobile robots33 citations · 2002
- 6Measurement and comparison of human and humanoid walking18 citations · 2004
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