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Keiji Nagatani

Keiji Nagatani

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
42
Citations
8284
World Ranking
1799
National Ranking
39

Overview

Keiji Nagatani is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has a research profile primarily focused on engineering. Their work spans several subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, biomedical engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

Themes central to Nagatani's research include robotic path planning algorithms, robotic locomotion and control, advanced manufacturing and logistics optimization, building information modeling (BIM) and construction integration, robotics and sensor-based localization, 3D surveying and cultural heritage, and hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

Nagatani has contributed to numerous publications, with notable recent papers such as:

  • Innovative technologies for infrastructure construction and maintenance through collaborative robots based on an open design approach (2021), published in Advanced Robotics
  • Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Artificial Intelligence, and Remote Measurement Technology for Bridge Inspections (2020), published in Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
  • Estimation of articulated angle in six-wheeled dump trucks using multiple GNSS receivers for autonomous driving (2021), published in Advanced Robotics
  • Multimodal artificial intelligence approaches using large language models for expert-level landslide image analysis (2025), published in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
  • Improvement in Measurement Area of 3D LiDAR for a Mobile Robot Using a Mirror Mounted on a Manipulator (2020), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Nagatani include Hajime Asama, Atsushi Yamashita, Ryosuke Yajima, Shota Chikushi, and Tomohiro Komatsu.

Nagatani's research outputs have been featured in prominent venues with multiple publications in:

  • The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec)
  • Proceedings of the... ISARC
  • Advanced Robotics
  • Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
  • ROBOMECH Journal

Best Publications

  • Topological simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM): toward exact localization without explicit localization

    H. Choset;K. Nagatani

  • Emergency response to the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants using mobile rescue robots

    Keiji Nagatani;Seiga Kiribayashi;Yoshito Okada;Kazuki Otake

  • Collaborative Mapping of an Earthquake Damaged Building via Ground and Aerial Robots.

    Nathan Michael;Shaojie Shen;Kartik Mohta;Vijay Kumar

  • Collaborative mapping of an earthquake-damaged building via ground and aerial robots

    Nathan Michael;Shaojie Shen;Kartik Mohta;Yash Mulgaonkar

  • Terramechanics-based model for steering maneuver of planetary exploration rovers on loose soil

    Genya Ishigami;Akiko Miwa;Keiji Nagatani;Kazuya Yoshida

  • Redesign of rescue mobile robot Quince

    Keiji Nagatani;Seiga Kiribayashi;Yoshito Okada;Satoshi Tadokoro

  • Experimental study and analysis on driving wheels' performance for planetary exploration rovers moving in deformable soil

    Liang Ding;Haibo Gao;Zongquan Deng;Keiji Nagatani

  • The arc-transversal median algorithm: a geometric approach to increasing ultrasonic sensor azimuth accuracy

    H. Choset;K. Nagatani;N.A. Lazar

  • Improvements to the Rescue Robot Quince Toward Future Indoor Surveillance Missions in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

    Tomoaki Yoshida;Keiji Nagatani;Satoshi Tadokoro;Takeshi Nishimura

  • Path Planning for Planetary Exploration Rovers and Its Evaluation based on Wheel Slip Dynamics

    G. Ishigami;K. Nagatani;K. Yoshida

  • Mechanical design of the Wheel-Leg hybrid mobile robot to realize a large wheel diameter

    Kenjiro Tadakuma;Riichiro Tadakuma;Akira Maruyama;Eric Rohmer

  • Adaptive Kalman Filtering for GPS-based Mobile Robot Localization

    G. Reina;A. Vargas;K. Nagatani;K. Yoshida

  • Improvement of odometry for omnidirectional vehicle using optical flow information

    K. Nagatani;S. Tachibana;M. Sofne;Y. Tanaka

  • Traveling performance evaluation of planetary rovers on loose soil

    Masataku Sutoh;Junya Yusa;Tsuyoshi Ito;Keiji Nagatani

  • Motion planning for mobile manipulator with keeping manipulability

    K. Nagatani;T. Hirayama;A. Gofuku;Y. Tanaka

  • Toward robust sensor based exploration by constructing reduced generalized Voronoi graph

    K. Nagatani;H. Choset

  • Path following control for tracked vehicles based on slip-compensating odometry

    D. Endo;Y. Okada;K. Nagatani;K. Yoshida

  • Multirobot exploration for search and rescue missions: A report on map building in RoboCupRescue 2009

    Keiji Nagatani;Yoshito Okada;Naoki Tokunaga;Seiga Kiribayashi

  • Quince : A Collaborative Mobile Robotic Platform for Rescue Robots Research and Development

    Eric Rohmer;Tomoaki Yoshida;Kazunori Ohno;Keiji Nagatani

  • Planetary rovers' wheel---soil interaction mechanics: new challenges and applications for wheeled mobile robots

    Liang Ding;Zongquan Deng;Haibo Gao;Keiji Nagatani

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuya Yoshida
Kazuya Yoshida Tohoku University
Satoshi Tadokoro
Satoshi Tadokoro Tohoku University
Hajime Asama
Hajime Asama University of Tokyo
Howie Choset
Howie Choset Carnegie Mellon University
Zongquan Deng
Zongquan Deng Harbin Institute of Technology
Liang Ding
Liang Ding Harbin Institute of Technology
Shaojie Shen
Shaojie Shen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Nathan Michael
Nathan Michael Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Kumar
Vijay Kumar University of Pennsylvania

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