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Kenji Kawashima

Kenji Kawashima

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
31
Citations
4058
World Ranking
6572
National Ranking
286

Overview

Kenji Kawashima is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research spans across multiple fields, prominently including Engineering, Computer Science, and Medicine. Within these broader domains, Kawashima has contributed extensively to subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Surgery, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research topics cover various advanced and specialized areas. Notable subjects include Soft Robotics and Applications, Surgical Simulation and Training, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Anatomy and Medical Technology, Augmented Reality Applications, and Neural Networks and Applications.

Kawashima has a substantial number of publications in respected venues, with Sensors and Materials being the most frequent, followed by arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Access, Scientific Reports, and Surgical Endoscopy.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Kawashima include:

  • Maximum acceptable communication delay for the realization of telesurgery (2022), PLoS ONE
  • Social implementation of a remote surgery system in Japan: a field experiment using a newly developed surgical robot via a commercial network (2021), Surgery Today
  • A Coupled Spintronics Neuromorphic Approach for High-Performance Reservoir Computing (2022), Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Pneumatic Reservoir Computing for Sensing Soft Body: Computational Ability of Air in Tube and Its Application to Posture Estimation of Soft Exoskeleton (2021), Sensors and Materials
  • Impact of the suboptimal communication network environment on telerobotic surgery performance and surgeon fatigue (2022), PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in Kawashima's research include Tetsuro Miyazaki, Takahiro Kanno, Toshihiro Kawase, Maina Sogabe, and Kotaro Tadano.

Best Publications

  • Development of grip amplified glove using bi-articular mechanism with pneumatic artificial rubber muscle

    Kotaro Tadano;Masao Akai;Kazuo Kadota;Kenji Kawashima

  • Development of 4-DOFs forceps with force sensing using pneumatic servo system

    K. Tadano;K. Kawashima

  • Achieving Haptic Perception in Forceps’ Manipulator Using Pneumatic Artificial Muscle

    Hongbing Li;K. Kawashima;K. Tadano;S. Ganguly

  • Development of a Pneumatic Surgical Manipulator IBIS IV

    Kotaro Tadano;Kenji Kawashima;Kazuyuki Kojima;Naofumi Tanaka

  • Buried Heterostructure GaAs/GaAlAs Distributed Bragg Reflector Surface Emitting Laser with Very Low Threshold (5.2 mA) under Room Temperature CW Conditions

    Akira Ibaraki;Kenji Kawashima;Kohtaro Furusawa;Tohru Ishikawa

  • A new, high precision, quick response pressure regulator for active control of pneumatic vibration isolation tables

    Tomonori Kato;Kenji Kawashima;Tatsuya Funaki;Kotaro Tadano

  • Instantaneous Flow Rate Measurement of Ideal Gases

    Kenji Kawashima;Toshiharu Kagawa;Toshinori Fujita

  • Development of a Master–Slave System with Force-Sensing Abilities using Pneumatic Actuators for Laparoscopic Surgery

    Kotaro Tadano;Kenji Kawashima

  • A Pneumatically Driven Surgical Manipulator With a Flexible Distal Joint Capable of Force Sensing

    Daisuke Haraguchi;Takahiro Kanno;Kotaro Tadano;Kenji Kawashima

  • Remote control of backhoe at construction site with a pneumatic robot system

    Takahiro Sasaki;Kenji Kawashima

  • Development of Robot Using Pneumatic Artificial Rubber Muscles to Operate Construction Machinery

    Kenji Kawashima;Takahiro Sasaki;Toshiyuki Miyata;Naohiro Nakamura

  • Active control of a pneumatic isolation table using model following control and a pressure differentiator

    Tomonori Kato;Kenji Kawashima;Koichi Sawamoto;Toshiharu Kagawa

  • Development of a digital control system for high-performance pneumatic servo valve

    Takashi Miyajima;Toshinori Fujita;Kazutoshi Sakaki;Kenji Kawashima

  • Development of a Master Slave System with Force Sensing Using Pneumatic Servo System for Laparoscopic Surgery

    K. Tadano;K. Kawashima

  • Maneuvering system having inner force sense presenting function

    Kenji Kawashima;Kotaro Tadano

  • Achieving Stable Tracking in Wave-Variable-Based Teleoperation

    Hongbing Li;Kenji Kawashima

  • Application of robot arm using fiber knitted type pneumatic artificial rubber muscles

    K. Kawashima;T. Sasaki;A. Ohkubo;T. Miyata

  • Realization of virtual sub chamber on active controlled pneumatic isolation table with pressure differentiator

    Kenji Kawashima;Tomonori Kato;Koichi Sawamoto;Toshiharu Kagawa

  • Robots in laparoscopic surgery: current and future status

    Kenji Kawashima;Takahiro Kanno;Kotaro Tadano

  • Single-Master Dual-Slave Surgical Robot With Automated Relay of Suture Needle

    Kengo Watanabe;Takahiro Kanno;Kazuhisa Ito;Kenji Kawashima

  • Technology of Unmanned Construction System in Japan

    Kazuhiro Chayama;Akira Fujioka;Kenji Kawashima;Hiroshi Yamamoto

  • Plugfest 2009: Global interoperability in Telerobotics and telemedicine

    H. Hawkeye King;Blake Hannaford;Ka-Wai Kwok;Guang-Zhong Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Gen Endo
Gen Endo Tokyo Institute of Technology
Blake Hannaford
Blake Hannaford University of Washington
Kenichi Iga
Kenichi Iga Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hideki Abe
Hideki Abe National Institute for Materials Science
Koji Kimoto
Koji Kimoto National Institute for Materials Science
Jun-ichi Shimoyama
Jun-ichi Shimoyama Aoyama Gakuin University
Hajime Asama
Hajime Asama University of Tokyo
Hijiri Kito
Hijiri Kito National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Shigeo Hirose
Shigeo Hirose Hibot Corp.
Allison M. Okamura
Allison M. Okamura Stanford University

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