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Mar 23, 2025 I will serve as a co-chairman for the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE-ICRA EXPO 2025 at Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Feb 08, 2025 One paper titled “Somnomat Care: A Novel Robotic Bed for Vestibular Stimulation in Nursing Homes” got accepted to 2025 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) to be held in Chicago, IL USA, on May 12-16, 2025.
Jan 26, 2025 Our paper titled “Open Vocabulary Object Search Utilizing Large Language Models and Fuzzy Inferencing” presented at the IEEE/SICE (SII2025) in Munich won the Best Student Paper Award.
Jan 18, 2025 Our first work on LLM for service robots titled “Task Planning for a Factory Robot Using Large Language Model” got accepted and published in IEEE-RAL.
Nov 08, 2024 Two papers accepted for IEEE (SII2025) to be held in Munich, Germany in January 2025.
Nov 03, 2024 I have been appointed as Associate Editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Sep 20, 2024 I will serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE-International Symposium on System Integration Conference (SII2025).
Sep 02, 2024 I participated in the 33rd IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (IEEE-ROMAN2024) at Pasadena, LA, USA. Our paper on Avatar Teleoperation was presented during the conference.
Aug 15, 2024 Our paper got accepted to IEEE ACCESS journal.
Jun 03, 2024 One paper got accepted to IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering IEEE CASE.
May 28, 2024 I have been appointed as Junior Editorial Board Member in the Journal of Intelligence & Robotics.
May 20, 2024 Our paper titled “Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential” got accepted for IEEE-RAL.
May 05, 2024 Our paper titled “A method for detecting wear and damage on railcar wheel tread surface using a combination of laser measurement and machine vision” got accepted for JSME Mechanical Engineering Journal.
May 02, 2024 Our group presented eight papers at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan (1 RAL submission, 1 Late Breaking Paper, 1 Video Paper, and 5 ICRA EXPO paper).
May 02, 2024 I will serve as a organizing committee for the IEEE-ICRA EXPO 2024 at Yokohama, Japan.
Mar 20, 2024 Our paper titled “Automatic inspection of wheel surface defects using a combination of laser sensors and machine vision” got accepted for SICE JCMSI Journal.
Feb 25, 2024 I got the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Communication, Computing and Data Security, (IC-CCDS) 2024, Mumbai, India.
May 14, 2023 I am appointed as the Planning Committee Chair for the 41st Robot Society of Japan (RSJ) Annual Conference on Robotics 第41回日本ロボット学会学術講演会(RSJ2023) to be held in Sendai.
Mar 17, 2022 I gave an invited lecture at the 27th Robotics Symposia 2022 The title of my talk was “Robot Exploration and Mapping of Unstructured Indoor Environments using segment-based Clustering of Range Data with Uncertainty”
Sep 09, 2021 I received the SICE Best Journal Paper Award for our publication in the Journal of Control, Measurements, and System Integration (Taylor and Francis). Paper Title: Line Segment Extraction and Polyline Mapping for Mobile Robots in Indoor Structured Environments Using Range Sensors
Nov 07, 2015 A long announcement with details