Publications

Masazumi Imai

Ph.D. student at Tohoku University. Interested in Multi-Limbed Articulated Robots.

Kentaro Uno*, Masazumi Imai*, Kazuki Takada, Teruhiro Kataonami, Yudai Matsuura, Antonin Ringeval-Meusnier, Keita Nagaoka, Mikio Eguchi, Ryo Nishibe, Kazuya Yoshida, “LIMBERO: A Limbed Climbing Exploration Robot Towards Traveling on Rocky Cliffs,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026. *These authors contributed equally.

Seiko Piotr Yamaguchi*, Kentaro Uno*, Yasumaru Fujii, Masazumi Imai, Kazuki Takada, Kazuya Yoshida, “Towards the Automation in the Space Station: Feasibility Study and Ground Tests of a Multi-Limbed Intra Vehicular Robot,” Proceedings of the IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), pp. 1095–1101, 2025. *These authors contributed equally.

Masazumi Imai, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida, “Admittance Control-based Floating Base Reaction Mitigation for Limbed Climbing Robots,” Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR) 2024, Vol. 1115, pp. 157–168, 2024.

Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Kentaro Uno, Masazumi Imai, Koki Murase, Barış Can Yalçın, Matteo El Hariry, Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez and Kazuya Yoshida, “Mobility Strategy of Multi-Limbed Climbing Robots for Asteroid Exploration,” Proceedings of the 24th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR) 2023, pp. 33–45, 2023. (Highly Commended Paper)
Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Kentaro Uno, Masazumi Imai, Koki Murase, Kazuya Yoshida, “RAMP: Reaction-Aware Motion Planning of Multi-Legged Robots for Locomotion in Microgravity,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 11845–11851, 2023. (ICRA 2023 Outstanding Locomotion Paper Finalist) (IEEE RAS Japan Joint Chapter Young Award (ICRA2023))
Diego Guerra, Ayberk Dulgeroglu, Yakov Bobrov, Elena Ancona, Adrian Fernandez Amil, Aida Silva, Anwar K Backer, Arun Jose K A, Claudia Medeiros, Dorottya Mil´ankovich, Jaime Silva, Kim Regnerij, Lauren Hanson, Marco Pascale, Masazumi Imai, Rachita Puri, Steven Armstrong, Thomas Hale, Tu˘g¸ca˘g Dumlupınar, Kirils Bistrovs, Carlos Eduardo de S´a Amaral Oliveira, Eric Dahlstrom, “International Approach to Space Situational Awareness and Collision Avoidance,” Proceedings of 74th International Astronautical Conference (IAF), # IAC-23,A6,8-E9.1,x77985, 2023.