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Total Citations
87
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About
Noboru Sugimoto is a pioneering researcher in the field of human-robot coexistence and robot safety systems, whose work has fundamentally shaped how engineers approach the design of safe interactions between humans and robotic systems. Beginning as early as 1988 with foundational investigations into man-machine interfaces for remote control robots, Sugimoto built a career dedicated to ensuring that robotic technologies could operate reliably and safely alongside humans. His most influential contributions center on the biomechanical analysis of human pain tolerance as a design standard for human-robot coexistence systems — a novel and rigorous approach that established measurable physiological thresholds to guide safe robot behavior. His 1996 paper on failure-to-safety robot systems, garnering 35 citations, remains his most recognized work, complemented by closely related 1997 studies on pain tolerance and safe contact detection that collectively underscore his methodological rigor. Sugimoto further extended his impact through safety evaluations of service robots, including the humanoid Wakamaru, and contributed to international safety standardization frameworks under ISO guidelines. With a body of work spanning industrial robot controllers, inherently safe robot design, and emerging service robot certification, Sugimoto's research provides an enduring foundation for the safety engineering principles that inform modern human-robot collaborative systems.
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- 1A failure-to-safety robot system for human-robot coexistence35 citations · 1996
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- 72927 Safety certification of service robot : wakamaru3 citations · 2005
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- 9The Construction of Man-Machine Interface for Remote Control Robot2 citations · 1988