Tomoaki Yoshida
Chiba Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, NTT (Japan)
Papers
43
Total Citations
1,767
H-Index
18
About
Tomoaki Yoshida is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work has profoundly shaped the field of disaster response and search-and-rescue robotics. His research centers on mobile rescue robots, autonomous control systems, and robot navigation in hazardous environments — areas where his contributions have had both scientific and real-world humanitarian impact. Yoshida is perhaps best known for his central role in developing the Quince rescue robot platform, a highly mobile tracked vehicle designed to operate in environments too dangerous for human responders. When the catastrophic 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, Yoshida and his team rapidly redesigned and deployed Quince for surveillance missions inside the stricken reactor buildings — work documented in his most cited paper, which has accumulated over 600 citations. His series of papers on Quince's development, radiation hardening, and iterative improvements collectively represent a landmark body of work in field robotics. Beyond Fukushima, Yoshida has advanced semi-autonomous control systems for flipper-equipped crawlers, shared autonomy on rough terrain, multi-robot exploration, and 3D laser-based outdoor navigation. With over 1,300 combined citations, his research stands as essential reading for anyone working at the intersection of robotics, disaster response, and human-robot collaboration.
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