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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

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 61 636 579 5 5 1036 17142
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 61 1509 1442 48 45 1044 17175
Computer Science 61 3032 2943 24 24 984 17103

Masayuki Inaba publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Masayuki Inaba between 1966 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Masayuki Inaba published across 60 years, from 1966 to 2025, averaging 19.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 76 publications in 2024. 90 of the 1,193 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1966 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 76. Peak 76 publications in 2024. 1966: 1 publication 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 2 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 2 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 2 publications 1991: 4 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 6 publications 1994: 4 publications 1995: 7 publications 1996: 17 publications 1997: 20 publications 1998: 14 publications 1999: 17 publications 2000: 22 publications 2001: 23 publications 2002: 26 publications 2003: 35 publications 2004: 27 publications 2005: 24 publications 2006: 36 publications 2007: 21 publications 2008: 55 publications 2009: 29 publications 2010: 62 publications 2011: 63 publications 2012: 43 publications 2013: 37 publications 2014: 33 publications 2015: 34 publications 2016: 45 publications 2017: 38 publications 2018: 69 publications 2019: 55 publications 2020: 52 publications 2021: 50 publications 2022: 55 publications 2023: 67 publications 2024: 76 publications 2025: 14 publications
1966 2025

1,193 publications in total across all disciplines

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Masayuki Inaba: publications per year, 1966 to 2025
Year Publications
1966 1
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 2
1986 1
1987 2
1988 1
1989 1
1990 2
1991 4
1992 3
1993 6
1994 4
1995 7
1996 17
1997 20
1998 14
1999 17
2000 22
2001 23
2002 26
2003 35
2004 27
2005 24
2006 36
2007 21
2008 55
2009 29
2010 62
2011 63
2012 43
2013 37
2014 33
2015 34
2016 45
2017 38
2018 69
2019 55
2020 52
2021 50
2022 55
2023 67
2024 76
2025 14
Total 1,193
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Masayuki Inaba publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masayuki Inaba sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 659+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 155. Most scientists, 155, have 147–156 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 659+ publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 10 scientists 57–66 publications: 23 scientists 67–76 publications: 32 scientists 77–86 publications: 62 scientists 87–96 publications: 67 scientists 97–106 publications: 91 scientists 107–116 publications: 113 scientists 117–126 publications: 115 scientists 127–136 publications: 130 scientists 137–146 publications: 140 scientists 147–156 publications: 155 scientists 157–166 publications: 132 scientists 167–176 publications: 133 scientists 177–186 publications: 130 scientists 187–196 publications: 140 scientists 197–206 publications: 115 scientists 207–216 publications: 125 scientists 217–226 publications: 117 scientists 227–236 publications: 99 scientists 237–246 publications: 92 scientists 247–256 publications: 100 scientists 257–266 publications: 95 scientists 267–276 publications: 88 scientists 277–286 publications: 77 scientists 287–296 publications: 74 scientists 297–306 publications: 74 scientists 307–316 publications: 62 scientists 317–326 publications: 70 scientists 327–336 publications: 59 scientists 337–346 publications: 58 scientists 347–356 publications: 45 scientists 357–366 publications: 44 scientists 367–376 publications: 36 scientists 377–386 publications: 41 scientists 387–396 publications: 32 scientists 397–406 publications: 23 scientists 407–416 publications: 28 scientists 417–426 publications: 27 scientists 427–436 publications: 25 scientists 437–446 publications: 23 scientists 447–456 publications: 23 scientists 457–466 publications: 20 scientists 467–476 publications: 12 scientists 477–486 publications: 24 scientists 487–496 publications: 18 scientists 497–506 publications: 12 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 21 scientists 527–536 publications: 12 scientists 537–546 publications: 8 scientists 547–556 publications: 16 scientists 557–566 publications: 3 scientists 567–576 publications: 11 scientists 577–586 publications: 6 scientists 587–596 publications: 5 scientists 597–606 publications: 6 scientists 607–616 publications: 7 scientists 617–626 publications: 7 scientists 627–636 publications: 10 scientists 637–646 publications: 4 scientists 647–656 publications: 3 scientists 657–658 publications: 2 scientists 659+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 659+

This scientist: 1,036 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 10
57–66 23
67–76 32
77–86 62
87–96 67
97–106 91
107–116 113
117–126 115
127–136 130
137–146 140
147–156 155
157–166 132
167–176 133
177–186 130
187–196 140
197–206 115
207–216 125
217–226 117
227–236 99
237–246 92
247–256 100
257–266 95
267–276 88
277–286 77
287–296 74
297–306 74
307–316 62
317–326 70
327–336 59
337–346 58
347–356 45
357–366 44
367–376 36
377–386 41
387–396 32
397–406 23
407–416 28
417–426 27
427–436 25
437–446 23
447–456 23
457–466 20
467–476 12
477–486 24
487–496 18
497–506 12
507–516 13
517–526 21
527–536 12
537–546 8
547–556 16
557–566 3
567–576 11
577–586 6
587–596 5
597–606 6
607–616 7
617–626 7
627–636 10
637–646 4
647–656 3
657–658 2
659+ 100 1,036
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Masayuki Inaba D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masayuki Inaba sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 93+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 189. Most scientists, 189, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 61 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 83
31 113
32 144
33 153
34 189
35 158
36 139
37 127
38 130
39 126
40 104
41 100
42 107
43 101
44 103
45 79
46 88
47 70
48 83
49 44
50 64
51 56
52 50
53 48
54 58
55 52
56 48
57 42
58 34
59 42
60 37
61 42 61
62 44
63 22
64 33
65 29
66 23
67 29
68 24
69 19
70 34
71 26
72 19
73 18
74 19
75 14
76 19
77 8
78 18
79 16
80 12
81 17
82 11
83 16
84 7
85 9
86 8
87 6
88 6
89 7
90 10
91 4
92 4
93+ 100
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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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