Shigeto Aramaki
Papers
8
Total Citations
38
H-Index
3
About
Shigeto Aramaki has spent decades pioneering the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, focusing on how robots can understand and execute complex assembly tasks. His central research areas include knowledge representation for robotics, task-level programming, and human-robot interfaces. Aramaki’s most significant contribution is his development of frameworks that allow robots to interpret high-level, natural-language-like instructions and translate them into precise mechanical actions. His 2007 paper on "Representation and Programming for a Robotic Assembly Task Using an Assembly Structure" (12 citations) introduces a control hierarchy that integrates position and force controls, a foundational concept for dexterous manipulation. Earlier work, such as his 1983 study on "Flexible Playback Control of an Artificial Hand" (8 citations), challenged rigid playback systems by proposing more adaptive control methods. A hallmark of Aramaki’s approach is his pioneering use of object-oriented programming and frame-based knowledge bases to model assembly parts and their functions, as seen in his 1987 and 2007 papers. By incorporating case grammar and Conceptual Dependency theory, he created multi-modal interfaces that make robot programming more intuitive. Though his citation counts are modest, his work has quietly influenced the evolution of intelligent manufacturing and robotic autonomy.
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- 2Flexible Playback Control of an Artificial Hand8 citations · 1983
- 3Object Oriented Approach For Task Level Robot Programming4 citations · 1987
- 4A Robot Programming Based on Frame Representation of Knowledge3 citations · 2007
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- 7Knowledge Based Robot Programming3 citations · 1991
- 8The design object model for robotic assembly of mechanical components2 citations · 2011