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Yoichi Masuda

4 accepted papers

2025

Reconfigurable Soft Pneumatic Actuators Using Multi-Material Self-Healing Polymers

Shota Kosaka, Kentaro Kimura, Seiichi Yamamoto, Hiroki Ishizuka, Yoichi Masuda, Parinya Punpongsanon +2
RA-L 2025

Self-healing polymers, which can autonomously repair damage or be repaired through simple treatments, have garnered attention due to their flexibility in addressing damage and enabling long-term use in soft robotics. Many studies on the application of self-healing polymers to soft robotics have focu

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2020

A Bio–inspired Quadruped Robot Exploiting Flexible Shoulder for Stable and Efficient Walking

Akira Fukuhara, Megu Gunji, Yoichi Masuda, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Akio Ishiguro
IROS 2020poster

While most modern-day quadruped robots crouch their limbs during the stance phase to stabilize the trunk, mammals exploit the inverted-pendulum motions of their limbs and realize both efficient and stable walking. Although the flexibility of the shoulder region of mammals is expected to contribute t…

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2020

Brainless Running: A Quasi-quadruped Robot with Decentralized Spinal Reflexes by Solely Mechanical Devices

Yoichi Masuda, Kazuhiro Miyashita, Kaisei Yamagishi, Masato Ishikawa, Koh Hosoda
IROS 2020poster

As a strategy to address the difficulties encountered when modeling and controlling a musculoskeletal system, we present a straightforward implementation of an autonomous decentralized motion control system in this paper; the system is inspired by the spinal reflex system of animals. We developed an…

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2020

Emergence of Swing-to-Stance Transition from Interlocking Mechanism in Horse Hindlimb

Kazuhiro Miyashita, Yoichi Masuda, Megu Gunji, Akira Fukuhara, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Masato Ishikawa
IROS 2020poster

The bodies of quadrupeds have very complex muscle-tendon structure. In particular, it is known that in the horse hindlimb, multiple joints in the leg are remarkably interlocked due to the muscle-tendon structure. Although the function of these interlocking mechanisms during standing has been investi…

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