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Masayuki Inaba

Masayuki Inaba

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Japan
2026
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Computer Science
Japan
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
61
Citations
17103
World Ranking
3032
National Ranking
24

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
61
Citations
17142
World Ranking
635
National Ranking
5

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
61
Citations
17175
World Ranking
1509
National Ranking
48

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Masayuki Inaba is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, specializing in the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Their research spans several subfields, with notable contributions to Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Mechanical Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The primary focus of Inaba's work lies in robotics and its related disciplines. Their research topics cover a variety of areas including Robotic Locomotion and Control, Robot Manipulation and Learning, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Robotics and Automated Systems, Soft Robotics and Applications, as well as Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics.

Inaba has published extensively, with key venues including The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec), arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Advanced Robotics, and the Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan.

  • TrTr: Visual Tracking with Transformer, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bilateral Humanoid Teleoperation System Using Whole-Body Exoskeleton Cockpit TABLIS, 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control, 2022, The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Musculoskeletal AutoEncoder: A Unified Online Acquisition Method of Intersensory Networks for State Estimation, Control, and Simulation of Musculoskeletal Humanoids, 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Online Motion Planning for Deforming Maneuvering and Manipulation by Multilinked Aerial Robot Based on Differential Kinematics, 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Inaba include Kei Okada, Kento Kawaharazuka, Moju Zhao, and Akihiro Miki. This network reflects ongoing partnerships within their research community.

Best Publications

  • Learning by watching: extracting reusable task knowledge from visual observation of human performance

    Y. Kuniyoshi;M. Inaba;H. Inoue

  • Dynamically-Stable Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots

    James J. Kuffner;Satoshi Kagami;Koichi Nishiwaki;Masayuki Inaba

  • Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots

    James Kuffner;James Kuffner;Koichi Nishiwaki;Satoshi Kagami;Masayuki Inaba

  • Online generation of humanoid walking motion based on a fast generation method of motion pattern that follows desired ZMP

    K. Nishiwaki;S. Kagami;Y. Kuniyoshi;M. Inaba

  • Visual navigation using view-sequenced route representation

    Y. Matsumoto;M. Inaba;H. Inoue

  • Design and development of research platform for perception-action integration in humanoid robot: H6

    K. Nishiwaki;T. Sugihara;S. Kagami;F. Kanehiro

  • Footstep planning among obstacles for biped robots

    J.J. Kuffner;K. Nishiwaki;S. Kagami;M. Inaba

  • Dynamic walking pattern generation for a humanoid robot based on optimal gradient method

    K. Nagasaka;H. Inoue;M. Inaba

  • Robot vision system with a correlation chip for real-time tracking, optical flow and depth map generation

    H. Inoue;T. Tachikawa;M. Inaba

  • Home-Assistant Robot for an Aging Society

    K. Yamazaki;R. Ueda;S. Nozawa;M. Kojima

  • An advanced musculoskeletal humanoid Kojiro

    I. Mizuuchi;Y. Nakanishi;Y. Sodeyama;Y. Namiki

  • Design, Modeling, and Control of an Aerial Robot DRAGON: A Dual-Rotor-Embedded Multilink Robot With the Ability of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Aerial Transformation

    Moju Zhao;Tomoki Anzai;Fan Shi;Xiangyu Chen

  • Plane segment finder: algorithm, implementation and applications

    K. Okada;S. Kagami;M. Inaba;H. Inoue

  • EusLisp: an object-based implementation of Lisp

    Toshihiro Matsui;Masayuki Inaba

  • Pivoting: A new method of graspless manipulation of object by robot fingers

    Y. Aiyama;M. Inaba;H. Inoue

  • Motion planning for humanoid robots under obstacle and dynamic balance constraints

    J. Kuffner;K. Nishiwaki;S. Kagami;M. Inaba

  • A full-body tactile sensor suit using electrically conductive fabric and strings

    M. Inaba;Y. Hoshino;K. Nagasaka;T. Ninomiya

  • Toe joints that enhance bipedal and fullbody motion of humanoid robots

    K. Nishiwaki;S. Kagami;Y. Kuniyoshi;M. Inaba

  • A Fast Dynamically Equilibrated Walking Trajectory Generation Method of Humanoid Robot

    Satoshi Kagami;Tomonobu Kitagawa;Koichi Nishiwaki;Tomomichi Sugihara

  • Hand Eye Coordination in Rope Handling

    Masayuki Inaba;Hirochika Inoue

  • Development of an autonomous tomato harvesting robot with rotational plucking gripper

    Hiroaki Yaguchi;Kotaro Nagahama;Takaomi Hasegawa;Masayuki Inaba

Frequent Co-Authors

Kei Okada
Kei Okada University of Tokyo
Hirochika Inoue
Hirochika Inoue National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Satoshi Kagami
Satoshi Kagami National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Koichi Nishiwaki
Koichi Nishiwaki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
James J. Kuffner
James J. Kuffner Toyota Motor Corporation (United States)
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi University of Tokyo
Fumio Kanehiro
Fumio Kanehiro National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Michael Beetz
Michael Beetz University of Bremen
Elizabeth A. Croft
Elizabeth A. Croft Monash University
Yoshio Matsumoto
Yoshio Matsumoto Tokyo University of Science

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