Yasunobu Sumikawa

Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo University of Information Sciences

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Yasunobu Sumikawa is a researcher specializing in multi-robot systems, mobile agent-based control, and cooperative autonomous navigation. His work focuses on enabling teams of robots to collaboratively perform complex tasks, such as hunting and source localization, through decentralized mobile agent architectures. In his highly cited 2014 paper, "Multi-robot Hunting Using Mobile Agents," Sumikawa introduced a novel framework that allows robots to coordinate dynamically without centralized control, achieving efficient target capture. He extended this approach in his 2017 work on cooperative control for multiple source localization, demonstrating how mobile agents can guide robot swarms to identify and converge on environmental sources. Though his citation counts are modest, these foundational contributions have been recognized for their innovative use of agent-based coordination in robotics. Sumikawa’s research is particularly valuable for applications in search-and-rescue, environmental monitoring, and autonomous exploration, where robust, scalable multi-robot cooperation is essential. His work continues to inspire new approaches to distributed intelligence in robotic systems.