Yosuke Ikegami
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About
Yosuke Ikegami is a robotics researcher whose work bridges the critical gap between human biomechanics and robotic assistive technology. His primary research areas include rehabilitation robotics, prosthetic design, and human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on improving the safety and performance of robotic joints and prosthetic limbs. Ikegami’s most significant contributions center on the development of the Redundant Drive Joint (RD-Joint) and the Admittance Enhanced Redundant Joint Mechanism (AERJM), which enhance backdrivability and joint admittance—key factors for making rehabilitation robots safer and more responsive to human movement. His 2009 paper on the RD-Joint, with 12 citations, remains his most influential work, presenting a systematic approach to designing robotic joints with adjustable stiffness and damping. More recently, Ikegami has advanced the field of sports prosthetics, applying the Piece-wise Constant Strain model to analyze flexible deformation in prosthetic legs, and developing a human-prosthesis coupled musculoskeletal model for transtibial amputees. His 2025 paper on this coupled model demonstrates his ongoing commitment to integrating human physiology with robotic systems, offering new tools for inverse kinematics and dynamics calculations that promise to improve prosthetic performance and amputee mobility.
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