OHNO Kazunori

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Affiliation

Robotics Research Unit for Disaster Response in Narrow Space （Robotics）

Position
Deputy Unit Leader
Final Education
Completed the Doctoral Program in Intelligent and Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Degree(s)
Ph.D. in Engineering
Research Keywords
Probabilistic Robotics, Disaster Response Robotics, Field Robotics, Data Engineering Robotics, Cyber-enhanced Rescue Canine
Research Area
Mechanical Dynamics and Mechatronics, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Robotics, Perceptual Information Processing
External Link
KAKEN researchmap

Academic Affiliations

  • IEEE
  • The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
  • The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
  • Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE)
  • The Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ) 

Advisor/Committee Member for Local Governments

  • Japan Construction Machinery and Construction Association (JCMA), Tohoku Branch
  • President, Tohoku Branch, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
  • Senior Editor, Editorial Committee for the English Journal, The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) 

Peer-Reviewed Papers

  • Electrocardiogram Measurement and Emotion Estimation of Working Dogs, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7, 2, (2022), 4047-4054. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3145590. Kazunori Ohno, Kotaro SATOU, Ryunosuke HAMADA, Takatomi KUBO, Kazushi IKEDA, Miho NAGASAWA, Takefumi KIKUSUI, Sandeep Kumar NAYAK, Shotaro KOJIMA, Satoshi TADOKORO
  • Heterogeneous robots coordination for industrial plant inspection and evaluation at World Robot Summit 2020, Advanced Robotics, 36, 21, (2022), 1102-1119. DOI:10.1080/01691864.2022.2111230. Shotaro KOJIMA, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Ranulfo BEZERRA, Takaaki NARA, Masaki TAKAHASHI, Naoto SAIKI, Kenta GUNJI, Pongsakorn SONGSUROJ, Ryota SUZUKI, Kotaro SATO, Zitong HAN, Kagetora TAKAHASHI, Yoshito OKADA, Masahiro WATANABE, Kenjiro TADAKUMA, Kazunori OHNO, Satoshi TADOKORO
  • Validation of LLM-Generated Object Co-Occurrence Information for Understanding Three-Dimensional Scenes, in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 186573-186585, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3514473. K. Gunji, K. Ohno, S. Kurita, K. Sakurada, R. Bezerra, S. Kojima, Y. Okada, M. Konyo, S. Tadokoro 

Books

  • Sec. 6 "On-Rubble Robot System for the DDT Project" Rescue Robotics: DDT Project on Robots and Systems for Urban Search and Rescue (2009) F. Matsuno, T. Tsubouchi, S. Hirose, I. Akiyama, T. Inoh, M. Guarnieri, K. Kawashima, T. Sasaki, N. Shiroma, T. Kamegawa, K. Ohno, S. Tadokoro, N. Sato, Y. Inoue, T. Takeuchi, H. Tsukagoshi, M.Sasaki, A. Kitagawa, T. Tanaka, Y. Masutani, H. Soeda, K. Osuka, M. Kurisu, T. Doi, T. Kaneda, X. Zheng, H. Sugimoto, N. Matsuoka, T. Azuma, M. Hatsuda, Sec. 7 "Design Guidelines for Human Interface for Rescue Robots," Y. Yokokohji, T. Tsubouchi, A. Tanaka, T. Yoshida, E. Koyanagi, F. Matsuno, S. Hirose, H. Kuwahara, F. Takemura, T. Ino, K. Takita, N. Shiroma, T. Kamegawa, Y. Hada, X. Zheng, K. Osuka, T. Watasue, T. Kimura, H. Nakanishi, Y. Horiguchi, S. Tadokoro, and K. Ohno (Ed. Satoshi Tadokoro)
  • Cyber-Enhanced Rescue Canine, Disaster Robotics - Results from the ImPACT Tough Robotics Challenge, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 128, pp. 143-193, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05321-5_4 (2019) Kazunori Ohno, Ryunosuke Hamada, Tatsuya Hoshi, Hiroyuki Nishinoma, Shumpei Yamaguchi, Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Takafumi Kikusui, Satoko Matsubara, Mihi Nagasawa, Takatomi Kubo, Eri Nakahara, Yuki Maruno, Kazushi Ikeda, Toshitaka Yamakawa, Takeshi Tokuyama, Ayumi Shinohara, Ryo Yoshinaka, Diptarama Hendrian, Kaizaburo Chubachi, Satoshi Kobayashi, Katsuhito Nakashima, Hiroaki Naganuma, Ryu Wakimoto, Shu Ishikawa, Tatsuki Miura and Satoshi Tadokoro (Ed. Satoshi Tadokoro)
  • Chapter 3: What Is the Intelligence That Humans Perceive from Movement? — Reflections Based on Research on Robots and Canine — Understanding Humans, Tohoku University Institute for Excellence in Higher Education Series, University and Liberal Arts, Vol. 9 (2026) ,Tohoku University Press,  Kazunori Ohno, ISBN 978-4-86163-416-1 

Lectures / Oral Presentations, etc.

  • Kazunori Ohno, Cyber-enhanced Canine -Digitally strengthening the capability of dogs-, Symposium on Systems Science of Bio-Navigation, Japan, 5 Sept. (2018).　(Invited talk)
  • Kazunori Ohno, Robotics Technologies for Search & Rescue Operation, CORTESRO Symposium Consortium of Robotics Technology for Search and Rescue Operations, 10 April (2021). (Invited talk)
  • Kazunori Ohno, Tough Robot and AI Technology for Disaster Response & Infrastructure Inspection, 2024 Asia-Pacific-Euro Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2024) 1July (2024). (Invited talk) 

Awards

  • 2019, IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design)
  • 2023, JSME Medal for New Technology (FY2022)
  • 2023, Advanced Robotics Excellent Paper Award 
  • 2024, Excellence Award, 11th Robot Award (Social Infrastructure, Disaster Response, and Firefighting Category) 
  • 2026, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Research Category) 

Visiting Professor at Other Universities, etc.

  • Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University 

Classes at Other Universities/Graduate Schools

  • Tough Cyber-Physical AI, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
  • Robotics II, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
  • Advanced Robotic

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