Shogo Okamoto
Tohoku University, Nagoya University, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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756
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About
Shogo Okamoto is a robotics and human-robot interaction researcher whose work spans tactile sensing, wearable robotics safety, and collaborative robot systems. His early contributions include pioneering research in remote haptic transmission, developing a real-time master-slave system capable of delivering multiple tactile properties while compensating for communication delay — a foundational advance for teleoperation technologies. His most visible work, presented at the prestigious IROS 2011 conference, has accumulated over 260 citations, reflecting his prominence in the intelligent robotics community. A significant thread of Okamoto's research addresses the safety challenges of physical assistant robots, particularly wearable lower-limb exoskeletons. He has systematically investigated skin injuries caused by cuff interactions, developing biomechanical models to estimate interaction forces, measure slippage, and verify friction blister prevention — work that bridges engineering rigor with user welfare. His more recent contributions tackle collaborative robot safety, including probabilistic methods for speed and separation monitoring and runaway motion analysis. Okamoto also explores tribology at the human-machine interface, examining finger-surface friction across varying material hardness and lubrication conditions. Together, these contributions make him a versatile and impactful figure in robot safety, haptics, and human-centered robotics design.
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