Masashi Hamaya
Scholar

Masashi Hamaya

Google Scholar ID: Khb7qw8AAAAJ
OMRON SINIC X Corp.
Robot LearningSoft RoboticsRobotics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
862
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
27
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
14
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Felix von Drigalski, Kazumi Kasaura, Cristian C Beltran-Hernandez, Masashi Hamaya, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Takamitsu Matsubara, 'Uncertainty-aware manipulation planning using gravity and environment geometry,' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 11942-11949, 2022
  • Reina Ishikawa, Masashi Hamaya, Felix von Dri galski, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Atsushi Hashimoto, 'Learning by breaking: food fracture anticipation for robotic food manipulation,' IEEE ACCESS, pp. 99321-99329, 2022
  • Robert Lee, Masashi Hamaya, Takayuki Murooka, Yoshihisa Ijiri, Peter Corke, 'Sample-Efficient Learning of Deformable Linear Object Manipulation in the Real World Through Self-Supervision,' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 573-580, 2021
  • Masashi Hamaya, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Yoshiya Shibata, Felix Wolf Hans Erich von Drigalski, Chisato Nakashima, Yoshihisa Ijiri, 'Robotic Learning From Advisory and Adversarial Interactions Using a Soft Wrist,' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 3878-3885, 2021 [Open Access]
  • Masashi Hamaya, Takamitsu Matsubara, Tatsuya Teramae, Tomoyuki Noda, and Jun Morimoto, 'Design of physical user–robot interactions for model identification of soft actuators on exoskeleton robots,' The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 397-410, 2021 [Open Access] [URL]
  • Masashi Hamaya, Takamitsu Matsubara, Tomoyuki Noda, Tatsuya Teramae, and Jun Morimoto, 'Learning Assistive Strategies for Exoskeleton Robots from User-Robot Physical Interaction,' Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 99, pp. 67-76, 2017 [Open Access] [URL]
  • Barkan Ugurlu, Corinne Doppmann, Masashi Hamaya, Paolo Forni, Tatsuya Teramae, Tomoyuki Noda, and Jun Morimoto, 'Variable Ankle Stiffness Improves Balance Control: Experiments on a Bipedal Exoskeleton,' Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE/ASME, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 79-87, 2016 [URL]
Research Experience
  • Apr 2024 - : Principal investigator, OMRON SINIC X Corporation
  • Apr 2019 - : Senior researcher, OMRON SINIC X Corporation
  • Sep 2019 - : Collaborative researcher, Dept. of Brain Robot Interface, ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs
  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017: Visiting scholar, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Apr 2017 - 2019: JSPS research fellow (DC2)
  • Apr 2014 - 2019: Internship, Dept. of Brain Robot Interface, ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs
  • Apr 2014 - 2019: Osaka University Humanware Innovation Program
Background
  • Currently a principal investigator at OMRON SINIC X Corporation. Research interests include Soft Robotics, Exoskeletons, Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, and Reinforcement Learning.