Toru EGUCHI

Kyushu Institute of Technology, Hiroshima University

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Toru Eguchi is a leading figure in the field of cooperative robotics, with his research fundamentally advancing the coordination and control of multiple mobile robots for material handling and transportation. His major contributions center on developing dynamic control frameworks that enable teams of nonholonomic wheeled robots to collaboratively manipulate and transport a single, heavy object. Eguchi pioneered the use of a specialized coupler mechanism—combining an active prismatic joint with a passive rotary joint—which allows standard mobile robots to overcome their inherent motion constraints and precisely maneuver a shared payload. His most influential work, "Dynamic control approach for motion coordination of multiple wheeled mobile robots transporting a single object" (2002), has garnered 63 citations, establishing a foundational methodology for the field. He further extended these principles by proposing trajectory generation and tracking control methods for his advanced METROS (Multiple Transfer Robots System), designed for automated factory logistics. With a career spanning from the mid-1990s, Eguchi’s research has been instrumental in transforming theoretical multi-robot coordination into practical, dynamic object-transportation solutions.