Papers
31
Total Citations
290
H-Index
11
About
Yuka Kato is a prominent researcher whose work spans cloud robotics, robot service platforms, and intelligent mobile systems. She is perhaps best known for her foundational contributions to the RSi Research Cloud (RSi-Cloud) and the Robot Service Network Protocol (RSNP), a standardized communication framework she has helped develop and refine since 2004. Her influential papers on RSi-Cloud — collectively garnering over 80 citations — established a robust architecture for integrating robot services with internet and cloud computing environments, enabling scalable, reliable, and interoperable robot service platforms at a time when cloud robotics was an emerging frontier. Beyond cloud infrastructure, Kato has made significant strides in human-robot coexistence, developing pedestrian trajectory prediction models using transfer learning and pedestrian behavior modeling for safe mobile robot navigation. Her 2021 work on human-following robots reflects a keen interest in real-world service robot deployment. She has also contributed to data science workflows, proposing APREP-DM, an automated pre-processing framework for sensor data analysis grounded in the CRISP-DM methodology. Rounding out her portfolio is research on virtual reality-enhanced tele-presence navigation. With over 180 cumulative citations, Kato's work consistently bridges theoretical protocol design with practical, human-centered robotic applications.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1RSi-cloud for integrating Robot Services with internet services38 citations · 2011
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5Push communication for network robot services and RSi/RTM interoperability17 citations · 2009
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9Reliable cloud-based robot services12 citations · 2013
- 10