Yu Sugawara

About

Yu Sugawara is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous mobile systems, humanoid robotics, and intelligent service applications. His most influential contribution lies in the development of autonomous guard robot systems for real-world security applications. His 2002 paper, which has garnered 57 citations, documents a landmark deployment of an autonomous wheeled guard robot at a television broadcasting station — one of the early practical demonstrations of mobile robots operating in genuine commercial environments. Building on this foundation, his 2003 follow-up further refined the security service framework, earning an additional 23 citations from the robotics community. Sugawara also contributed to Japan's prestigious Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP), supported by METI, exploring how humanoid robots could be integrated into building and home management services through remote control interfaces — work that attracted 17 citations and reflected the broader ambitions of early 2000s service robotics research. In later years, his interests evolved toward software infrastructure, with research on intelligent application development platforms for service robots and stream reasoning approaches that bridge symbolic AI with real-time signal processing using ROS. His career reflects a consistent commitment to translating advanced robotics research into practical, deployable service applications.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Some results of the test operation of a security service system with autonomous guard robot

   57 citations · 2002
2. 2
   Security service system using autonomous mobile robot

   23 citations · 2003
3. 3
   Application of humanoid robots to building and home management services

   17 citations · 2004
4. 4
   Integrating Symbols and Signals Based on Stream Reasoning and ROS

   8 citations · 2016
5. 5
   An intelligent application development platform for service robots

   2 citations · 2015

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