Yuya Nishida
Papers
13
Total Citations
105
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About
Yuya Nishida is a robotics researcher whose work spans two dynamic frontiers: autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for deep-sea exploration and intelligent agricultural robotics. With a body of work accumulating nearly 100 citations, Nishida has made significant contributions to ocean technology, particularly in developing AUV platforms capable of seafloor mapping, biological surveys, and mineral resource estimation. His 2020 paper on deep-sea robotic methods for mapping manganese crust distribution (26 citations) stands as his most influential work, demonstrating how AUVs and remotely operated vehicles can efficiently characterize economically valuable mineral deposits on seamounts. Nishida has also pioneered vision systems and human-aware navigation for underwater robots, enabling autonomous benthos sampling and visual tracking of sea creatures in challenging marine environments. Beyond the ocean, he has championed smart agriculture through organizing and reporting on Japan's Tomato-Harvesting Robot Competition, addressing critical labor shortages caused by an aging farming population. His interdisciplinary reach — from designing compact handheld AUVs to engineering unmanned surface towing systems for multi-vehicle seafloor surveys — reflects a researcher committed to pushing the boundaries of autonomous systems across some of the world's most demanding environments.
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- 5Tomato-Harvesting-Robot Competition Towards Smart Agriculture10 citations · 2021
- 6Report on the 8th Tomato-Harvesting Competition toward Smart Agriculture5 citations · 2023
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- 8Development of a Handy Autonomous Underwater Vehicle"Kyubic"4 citations · 2021
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