Yoshio Maeda
Papers
7
Total Citations
28
H-Index
4
About
Yoshio Maeda’s research lies at the intersection of human-robot interaction, service robotics, and middleware architecture, with a central focus on creating intuitive, intelligent systems for everyday environments. His most influential work, including papers with up to 5 citations each, pioneers the concept of “Kukanchi”—Interactive Human Space Design and Intelligence—where robots seamlessly assist humans in physical spaces. Maeda’s major contributions include developing a task management system that decomposes simple user requests, like “Bring me the newspaper,” into dynamic robotic task plans, and proposing the Kukanchi Middleware Architecture to support interactions between humans, robots, and environments. He has also advanced human-robot interfaces by tracking and estimating pointing gestures in 3D space, enabling more natural communication, and addressing ambiguous commands through commonsense knowledge integration. Notably, his framework based on “4W1H” (Who, What, Where, When, How) and robot/object properties provides a structured approach for developing physical service systems, such as object delivery via heterogeneous robots. Though his citation counts are modest, Maeda’s work is foundational for building service robots that understand and act in human-centric spaces, making him a key figure in the evolution of interactive robotics and middleware design.
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Top Papers
- 1Task management of object delivery service in kukanchi5 citations · 2012
- 2Architecture of Kukanchi Middleware5 citations · 2011
- 3Pointing Angle Estimation for Human-Robot Interface4 citations · 2013
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- 5Tracking and detection of pointing gesture in 3D space4 citations · 2012
- 6Ambiguous command understanding with commonsense3 citations · 2012
- 7Architecture of Kukanchi Middleware: The second report3 citations · 2011