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Toshio Fukuda

Toshio Fukuda

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Japan
2026
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
83
Citations
33146
World Ranking
165
National Ranking
1

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
83
Citations
33260
World Ranking
422
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in China Leader Award
  • 2010 - IEEE Robotics & Automation Award “For leadership and pioneering contributions to Intelligent Robotic Systems and Micro and Nano Robotic Systems.”

Overview

Toshio Fukuda is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has a research focus primarily within the field of Engineering, with a significant number of publications totaling 107. Their work spans several subfields, including Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research topics encompass Micro and Nano Robotics, 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Robotic Locomotion and Control, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering. These areas highlight a multidisciplinary approach toward robotics and related technologies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Toshio Fukuda include Qiang Huang, Qing Shi, Huaping Wang, Tao Sun, and Karen Hawkins, indicating sustained research partnerships over time.

Key recent publications include:

  • Ionic shape-morphing microrobotic end-effectors for environmentally adaptive targeting, releasing, and sampling, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A review on microrobots driven by optical and magnetic fields, 2023, Lab on a Chip
  • Programmable aniso-electrodeposited modular hydrogel microrobots, 2022, Science Advances
  • Development of a Small-Sized Quadruped Robotic Rat Capable of Multimodal Motions, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Human-Following Control of Cane-Type Walking-Aid Robot Within Fixed Relative Posture, 2021, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Frequent publication venues where Toshio Fukuda's work appears are:

  • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Lab on a Chip
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Toshio Fukuda is also an author of academic books, with at least one publication by Springer Nature titled Robust and Intelligent Control of a Typical Underactuated Robot published in 2023.

The scientist has been recognized with the IEEE Robotics & Automation Award in 2010, cited for leadership and pioneering contributions to Intelligent Robotic Systems and Micro and Nano Robotic Systems.

Best Publications

  • A bioinspired multilegged soft millirobot that functions in both dry and wet conditions

    Haojian Lu;Mei Zhang;Yuanyuan Yang;Qiang Huang

  • Theory and applications of neural networks for industrial control systems

    T. Fukuda;T. Shibata

  • A new type of fish-like underwater microrobot

    Shuxiang Guo;T. Fukuda;K. Asaka

  • Dynamically Reconfigurable Robotic System

    Toshio Fukuda;Seiya Nakagawa

  • Shape Sensing Techniques for Continuum Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Survey

    Chaoyang Shi;Xiongbiao Luo;Peng Qi;Tianliang Li

  • Assembly of nanodevices with carbon nanotubes through nanorobotic manipulations

    T. Fukuda;F. Arai;L. Dong

  • Cellular robotic system (CEBOT) as one of the realization of self-organizing intelligent universal manipulator

    T. Fukuda;Y. Kawauchi

  • Mechanism and swimming experiment of micro mobile robot in water

    T. Fukuda;A. Kawamoto;F. Arai;H. Matsuura

  • Sliding-Mode Velocity Control of Mobile-Wheeled Inverted-Pendulum Systems

    Jian Huang;Zhi-Hong Guan;Takayuki Matsuno;Toshio Fukuda

  • Micro manipulation based on micro physics-strategy based on attractive force reduction and stress measurement

    F. Arai;D. Ando;T. Fukuda;Y. Nonoda

  • Mechatronics - "What Is It, Why, and How?" An editorial

    Fumio Harashima;Masayoshi Tomizuka;Toshio Fukuda

  • Feedback Control of an Omnidirectional Autonomous Platform for Mobile Service Robots

    Keigo Watanabe;Yamato Shiraishi;Spyros G. Tzafestas;Jun Tang

  • Self-tuning fuzzy modeling with adaptive membership function, rules, and hierarchical structure based on genetic algorithm

    Koji Shimojima;Toshio Fukuda;Yasuhisa Hasegawa

  • A brachiating robot controller

    J. Nakanishi;T. Fukuda;D.E. Koditschek

  • Swing and locomotion control for a two-link brachiation robot

    F. Saito;T. Fukuda;F. Arai

  • An exoskeletal robot for human shoulder joint motion assist

    K. Kiguchi;K. Iwami;M. Yasuda;K. Watanabe

  • Structure decision method for self organising robots based on cell structures-CEBOT

    T. Fukuda;S. Nakagawa;Y. Kawauchi;M. Buss

  • Approach to the dynamically reconfigurable robotic system

    Toshio Fukuda;Seiya Nakagawa

  • A pso-based mobile robot for odor source localization in dynamic advection-diffusion with obstacles environment: theory, simulation and measurement

    W. Jatmiko;K. Sekiyama;T. Fukuda

  • Human-Walking-Intention-Based Motion Control of an Omnidirectional-Type Cane Robot

    K. Wakita;Jian Huang;Pei Di;K. Sekiyama

  • Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

    Hajime Asama;Toshio Fukuda;Tamio Arai;Isao Endo

Frequent Co-Authors

Fumihito Arai
Fumihito Arai University of Tokyo
Yasuhisa Hasegawa
Yasuhisa Hasegawa Nagoya University
Qiang Huang
Qiang Huang Beijing Institute of Technology
Kazuhiro Kosuge
Kazuhiro Kosuge University of Hong Kong
Michio Homma
Michio Homma Nagoya University
Lixin Dong
Lixin Dong City University of Hong Kong
Takanori Shibata
Takanori Shibata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Kazuo Kiguchi
Kazuo Kiguchi Kyushu University
Xinkai Chen
Xinkai Chen Shibaura Institute of Technology
Shuxiang Guo
Shuxiang Guo Southern University of Science and Technology

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