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Shinichi Hirai

Shinichi Hirai

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
37
Citations
6534
World Ranking
2359
National Ranking
54

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
37
Citations
6549
World Ranking
5083
National Ranking
211

Overview

Shinichi Hirai is affiliated with Ritsumeikan University in Japan and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of engineering. Their research spans various subfields, notably biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, control and systems engineering, condensed matter physics, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The research topics Shinichi Hirai has contributed to cover a broad range of areas within robotics and materials science. Key topics include soft robotics and applications, modular robots and swarm intelligence, robot manipulation and learning, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, micro and nano robotics, robotic locomotion and control, and advanced materials and mechanics.

Publications by Shinichi Hirai have appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec)
  • Advanced Robotics
  • Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Shinichi Hirai include:

  • A dual-mode soft gripper for food packaging, 2020, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Challenges and Opportunities in Robotic Food Handling: A Review, 2022, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Circular Shell Gripper for Handling Food Products, 2020, Soft Robotics
  • A Scooping-Binding Robotic Gripper for Handling Various Food Products, 2021, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • A Soft Needle Gripper Capable of Grasping and Piercing for Handling Food Materials, 2021, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Shinichi Hirai include Zhongkui Wang, Takahiro Matsuno, Hidemitsu Furukawa, and Sadao Kawamura.

Best Publications

  • A Prestressed Soft Gripper: Design, Modeling, Fabrication, and Tests for Food Handling

    Zhongkui Wang;Yuuki Torigoe;Shinichi Hirai

  • Crawling and Jumping by a Deformable Robot

    Yuuta Sugiyama;Shinichi Hirai

  • A dual-mode soft gripper for food packaging

    Zhongkui Wang;Keung Or;Shinichi Hirai

  • Circular/Spherical Robots for Crawling and Jumping

    Y. Sugiyama;A. Shiotsu;M. Yamanaka;S. Hirai

  • Knotting/Unknotting Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects

    Hidefumi Wakamatsu;Eiji Arai;Shinichi Hirai

  • Crawling by body deformation of tensegrity structure robots

    Mizuho Shibata;Fumio Saijyo;Shinichi Hirai

  • Static Modeling of Linear Object Deformation Based on Differential Geometry

    Hidefumi Wakamatsu;Shinichi Hirai

  • Kinematics and Statics of Manipulation Using the Theory of Polyhedral Convex Cones

    Shinichi Hirai;Haruhiko Asada

  • Rolling tensegrity driven by pneumatic soft actuators

    Yuusuke Koizumi;Mizuho Shibata;Shinichi Hirai

  • Challenges and Opportunities in Robotic Food Handling: A Review

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  • Elastic Model of Deformable Fingertip for Soft-Fingered Manipulation

    T. Inoue;S. Hirai

  • Soft Gripper Dynamics Using a Line-Segment Model With an Optimization-Based Parameter Identification Method

    Zhongkui Wang;Shinichi Hirai

  • 3D printed soft gripper for automatic lunch box packing

    Zhongkui Wang;Damith Suresh Chathuranga;Shinichi Hirai

  • Development and Analysis of a Sliding Tactile Soft Fingertip Embedded With a Microforce/Moment Sensor

    Van Anh Ho;Dzung Viet Dao;S Sugiyama;S Hirai

  • Circular Shell Gripper for Handling Food Products

    Zhongkui Wang;Ryo Kanegae;Shinichi Hirai

  • Robust manipulation of deformable objects by a simple PID feedback

    T. Wada;S. Hirai;S. Kawamura;N. Kamiji

  • Indirect simultaneous positioning of deformable objects with multi-pinching fingers based on an uncertain model

    S. Hirai;T. Wada

  • Modeling of linear objects considering bend, twist, and extensional deformations

    H. Wakamatsu;S. Hirai;K. Iwata

  • Micro fabricated tunable bending stiffness devices

    Osamu Tabata;Satoshi Konishi;Pierre Cusin;Yuichi Ito

  • Towards a symbolic-level force feedback: recognition of assembly process states

    Haruhiko Asada;Shinichi Hirai

  • Robust grasping manipulation of deformable objects

    S. Hirai;T. Tsuboi;T. Wada

  • Robust real time material classification algorithm using soft three axis tactile sensor: Evaluation of the algorithm

    Damith Suresh Chathuranga;Zhongkui Wang;Yohan Noh;Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Frequent Co-Authors

Sadao Kawamura
Sadao Kawamura Ritsumeikan University
Susumu Sugiyama
Susumu Sugiyama Ritsumeikan University
Dzung Viet Dao
Dzung Viet Dao Griffith University
Kevin M. Lynch
Kevin M. Lynch Northwestern University
Kaspar Althoefer
Kaspar Althoefer Queen Mary University of London
Yoshiaki Shirai
Yoshiaki Shirai Ritsumeikan University
Cyrill Stachniss
Cyrill Stachniss University of Bonn
Jean-Paul Laumond
Jean-Paul Laumond École Normale Supérieure
Stergios I. Roumeliotis
Stergios I. Roumeliotis University of Minnesota

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