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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
70
Citations
21855
World Ranking
381
National Ranking
5

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
70
Citations
22238
World Ranking
907
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to robotics

Overview

Yoshihiko Nakamura is affiliated with Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with specific attention to biomedical engineering, control and systems engineering, and computer vision and pattern recognition. Other areas of involvement include mechanical engineering and civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
  • Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Video Analysis and Summarization

Yoshihiko Nakamura has published research in various venues, often contributing to:

  • The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec)
  • Advanced Robotics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Image and Vision Computing
  • The American Journal of Sports Medicine

Recent publications include:

  • "Synergetic reconstruction from 2D pose and 3D motion for wide-space multi-person video motion capture in the wild," 2020, Image and Vision Computing
  • "Kinematic Differences Between the Dominant and Nondominant Legs During a Single-Leg Drop Vertical Jump in Female Soccer Players," 2022, The American Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "Sex-Based Differences in the Drop Vertical Jump as Revealed by Video Motion Capture Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence," 2021, Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "Whole-Body Compliant Motion by Sensor Integration of an EHA-Driven Humanoid Hydra," 2021, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
  • "Development of 3-DOF wrist mechanism for electro-hydrostatically driven robot arm," 2020, Advanced Robotics

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ko Yamamoto
  • Yosuke Ikegami
  • Mitsuo Komagata
  • Emiko Uchiyama
  • Tianyi Ko

Among their recognitions, Yoshihiko Nakamura was named an IEEE Fellow in 2011 for contributions to robotics.

Best Publications

  • Advanced Robotics: Redundancy and Optimization

    Yoshihiko Nakamura

  • Inverse kinematic solutions with singularity robustness for robot manipulator control

    Yoshihiko Nakamura;Hideo Hanafusa

  • Real-time humanoid motion generation through ZMP manipulation based on inverted pendulum control

    T. Sugihara;Y. Nakamura;H. Inoue

  • Nonholonomic path planning of space robots via a bidirectional approach

    Y. Nakamura;R. Mukherjee

  • Control of mechanical systems with second-order nonholonomic constraints: underactuated manipulators

    G. Oriolo;Y. Nakamura

  • Dynamics and stability in coordination of multiple robotic mechanisms

    Yoshihiko Nakamura;Kiyoshi Nagai;Tsuneo Yoshikawa

  • Embodied Symbol Emergence Based on Mimesis Theory

    Tetsunari Inamura;Iwaki Toshima;Hiroaki Tanie;Yoshihiko Nakamura

  • Dynamics computation of closed-link robot mechanisms with nonredundant and redundant actuators

    Y. Nakamura;M. Ghodoussi

  • Dynamics Filter - concept and implementation of online motion Generator for human figures

    K. Yamane;Y. Nakamura

  • Unified Impedance and Admittance Control

    Christian Ott;Ranjan Mukherjee;Yoshihiko Nakamura

  • Mechanics of Coordinative Manipulation by Multiple Robotic Mechanisms

    Yoshihiko Nakamura;Kiyoshi Nagai;Tsuneo Yoshikawa

  • Optimal redundancy control of robot manipulators

    Y. Nakamura;H. Hanafusa

  • Making feasible walking motion of humanoid robots from human motion capture data

    A. Dasgupta;Y. Nakamura

  • Mechanics of coordinative manipulation by multiple robotic mechanisms

    Y. Nakamura;K. Nagai;T. Yoshikawa

  • Heartbeat synchronization for robotic cardiac surgery

    Y. Nakamura;K. Kishi;H. Kawakami

  • Incremental learning of full body motion primitives and their sequencing through human motion observation

    Dana Kulić;Christian Ott;Dongheui Lee;Junichi Ishikawa

  • Analysis and Control of Articulated Robot Arms with Redundancy

    H. Hanafusa;T. Yoshikawa;Y. Nakamura

  • Incremental Learning, Clustering and Hierarchy Formation of Whole Body Motion Patterns using Adaptive Hidden Markov Chains

    Dana Kulić;Wataru Takano;Yoshihiko Nakamura

  • Natural motion animation through constraining and deconstraining at will

    K. Yamane;Y. Nakamura

  • Somatosensory computation for man-machine interface from motion-capture data and musculoskeletal human model

    Y. Nakamura;K. Yamane;Y. Fujita;I. Suzuki

  • Nonholonomic path planning of space robots via a bidirectional approach

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Frequent Co-Authors

Katsu Yamane
Katsu Yamane Robert Bosch (United States)
Dana Kulic
Dana Kulic Monash University
Dongheui Lee
Dongheui Lee Technical University of Munich
Tsuneo Yoshikawa
Tsuneo Yoshikawa Ritsumeikan University
Ranjan Mukherjee
Ranjan Mukherjee Michigan State University
Hirohisa Hirukawa
Hirohisa Hirukawa National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Sandra Hirche
Sandra Hirche Technical University of Munich
Fumio Kanehiro
Fumio Kanehiro National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Shuuji Kajita
Shuuji Kajita National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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