Yoshihiro Sakamoto
Papers
13
Total Citations
119
H-Index
6
About
Yoshihiro Sakamoto is a multidisciplinary researcher whose work spans indoor positioning and localization systems, robotics actuation, and minimally invasive surgical techniques. His most significant contributions lie in the development of high-accuracy indoor positioning technologies for mobile robots, particularly leveraging GPS-pseudolite systems, Indoor Messaging System (IMES) radio, and carrier-phase methods such as real-time kinematic (RTK) Doppler positioning. His foundational 2008 work on multi-channel pseudolite-based indoor GPS helped lay groundwork for structured environments enabling seamless human-robot integration, a thread he continued through innovations addressing cycle slip mitigation and dead reckoning integration. In robotics hardware, Sakamoto has contributed to safer and more responsive robot-environment interaction through research on series clutch actuators and friction-based adjustable torque limiters, addressing critical challenges in open-loop torque control and collision safety. More recently, his involvement in a 2021 global expert survey on minimally invasive anatomic liver resection demonstrates a notable breadth extending into surgical science. With cumulative citations across diverse engineering and medical domains, Sakamoto exemplifies the kind of cross-disciplinary researcher whose technically rigorous work meaningfully advances both autonomous robotics and clinical practice.
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- 2GPS-based indoor positioning system with multi-channel pseudolite27 citations · 2008
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- 8Real-time kinematic Doppler pose estimation for IMES5 citations · 2013
- 9Accurate indoor positioning using IMES radio3 citations · 2015
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