Papers
10
Total Citations
70
H-Index
5
About
Toru Murayama is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans three decades, from pioneering distributed control architectures to cutting-edge multi-robot network theory. His 1991 paper on the Distributed Control System — his most cited work with 24 citations — laid early groundwork for modular, network-oriented controllers for industrial robots and assembly machines, replacing centralized systems with interconnected modules communicating over high-speed networks. In recent years, Murayama has focused predominantly on the robustness and connectivity of multi-robot systems, addressing a critical challenge: how networked robot swarms maintain reliable communication when individual robots fail. His contributions include distributed algorithms for preserving bi-connectivity, a topology that remains connected even after a single node is removed, as well as novel frameworks for estimating articulation node importance — the weak points of robot networks. He has also explored line-of-sight communication constraints and perturbed algebraic connectivity as practical tools for real-world deployment. With cumulative citations across a focused body of work, Murayama represents a researcher steadily building theoretical and applied foundations for resilient autonomous multi-robot systems, making his work particularly relevant to students studying swarm robotics, networked control, and fault-tolerant autonomous systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Distributed Control System24 citations · 1991
- 2Distributed control for bi-connectivity of multi-robot network9 citations · 2022
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- 5Distributed model predictive consensus control for robotic swarm system5 citations · 2018
- 6Improvement of network fragility for multi-robot robustness5 citations · 2019
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