I am a robotics researcher. My research interests are in the robotics in the harsh environment such as space and unstructured terrain. Feel free to download my CV (Contact info. is in it.).
Some projects are supported by JKA and its promotion funds from KEIRIN RACE.
Kentaro Uno All Rights Reserved.
Kentaro Uno*, Elian Neppel*, Gustavo H. Diaz*, Ashutosh Mishra*, Shamistan Karimov*, A. Sejal Jain, Ayesha Habib, Pascal Pama, Hazal Gozbasi, Shreya Santra, Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
MoonBot: Modular and On-Demand Reconfigurable Robot Toward Moon Base Construction
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (IEEE T-FR), vol. 2, pp. 847–874, 2025.
Keisuke Takehana, Grace Kenny, Kenta Sawa, James Hurrell, Kentaro Uno, Shreya Santra, Kazuya Yoshida,
Grouser Wheel High-Speed Traction Performance: DEM Simulation and Experimental Result
Journal of Terramechanics, vol. 120, p. 101084, 2025.
Taku Okawara, Kenji Koide, Aoki Takanose, Shuji Oishi, Masashi Yokozuka, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE RA-L), vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 7947–7954, 2025.
James Hurrell, Keisuke Takehana, Tomomi Tanaka, Kentaro Uno, Amna Khalifa Busoud, Kazuya Yoshida,
Traction Performance Evaluation for a Rashid-1 Rover Wheel
Space Science Review, vol. 221, no. 3, pp. 1–16, 2025.
Taku Okawara, Kenji Koide, Shuji Oishi, Masashi Yokozuka, Atsuhiko Banno, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, volume 187, no. 0921-8890, p. 104929, 2025.
Keisuke Takehana, Vinicius Emanoel Ares, Shreya Santra, Kentaro Uno, Eric Rohmer, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Aerospace, vol. 12, no. 1, 71, 2025.
Keisuke Takehana, Shino Kizaki, Tomomi Tanaka, Kentaro Uno, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Comparison of Lunar Rover Wheel Performance in Soils with Different Cohesive Properties
Journal of Terramechanics, vol. 117, p. 101011, 2025.
Taku Okawara, Kenji Koide, Shuji Oishi, Masashi Yokozuka, Atsuhiko Banno, Kentaro Uno, and Kazuya Yoshida,
IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 134728–134738, 2024.
David Rodr´ıguez-Mart´ınez*, Kentaro Uno*, Kenta Sawa, Masahiro Uda, Gen Kudo, Gustavo Hernen Diaz, Ayumi Umemura, Shreya Santra, and Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
Enabling Faster Locomotion of Planetary Rovers with a Mechanically-Hybrid Suspension
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE RA-L), vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 619–626, 2023. (Presented at IEEE ICRA 2024 @Yokohama)
Masahiro Uda, Kenta Sawa, Kentaro Uno, Li Zheng Travis Lim, Kazuya Yoshida,
Development and Grasping Performance Evaluation of a Wheel-Gripper Transformable Mechanism
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan (JRSJ),vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 580–583, 2023. (in Japanese)
Kentaro Uno, Warley F. R. Ribeiro,Yusuke Koizumi, Kenji Nagaoka, Kazuya Yoshida,
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan (JRSJ),vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 295–298, 2023. (in Japanese)
Takuya Kato, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
A Gripper with Pin-Array Structure for Convex and Concave Terrain Shapes
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan (JRSJ),vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 177–180, 2023. (in Japanese)
Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Kentaro Uno, Kenji Nagaoka, Kazuya Yoshida,
Transactions of The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aerospace Technology Japan (Trans. JSASS), vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 794–801, 2021.
Kentaro Uno, Louis-Jerome Burtz, Marc Hulcelle, Kazuya Yoshida,
Transactions of The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aerospace Technology Japan (Trans. JSASS), vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 619–627, 2018.
Takuto Oikawa, Toshiki Tanaka, Yuto Suebe, Kentaro Uno, Hugo Zuliani, Louis-Jerome Burtz, Kazuya Yoshida,
Preliminary Radiation Test Result for Space-Ready Qualification of Lunar Micro Rover”,
Transactions of The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aerospace Technology Japan (Trans. JSASS), vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 613–618, 2018.
Kentaro Uno*, Masazumi Imai*, Kazuki Takada, Teruhiro Kataonami, Yudai Matsuura, Antonin Ringeval-Meusnier, Keita Nagaoka, Mikio Eguchi, Ryo Nishibe, Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
LIMBERO: A Limbed Climbing Exploration Robot Toward Traveling on Rocky Cliffs
Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.
Keita Nagaoka*, Kentaro Uno*, Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
A Pin-Array Structured Climbing Robot for Stable Locomotion on Steep Rocky Terrain
Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.
Jakob Marian Kern, James Michael Hurrell, Shreya Santra, Keisuke Takehana, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Data-Driven Terramechanics Approach Towards a Realistic Real-Time Simulator for Lunar Rovers
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 662–668, 2025.
Ashutosh Mishra, Shreya Santra, Elian Neppel, Edoardo Marsigli Rossi Lombardi, Shamistan Karimov, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Multi-Modal Decentralized Reinforcement Learning for Modular Reconfigurable Lunar Robots
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp, 329–335, 2025. (Best Papers Award)#85ceff
Gustavo Hernan Diaz Huenupan, A. Sejal Jain, Matteo Brugnera, Elian Neppel, Shreya Santra, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Design and Development of Moonbots Modular Limbs for Reconfigurable Robots on the Moon
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 85–90, 2025.
Shamistan Karimov, Elian Neppel, Shreya Santra, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
An Agnostic End-Effector Alignment Controller for Robust Assembly of Modular Space Robots
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 511–516, 2025.
Akiyoshi Uchida, Antoine Richard, Kentaro Uno, Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez, Kazuya Yoshida, Online Inertia Parameter Estimation for Unknown Objects Grasped by a Manipulator Towards Space Applications
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 14–21, 2025.
Simon Giel, James Michael Hurrell, Shreya Santra, Ashutosh Mishra, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Design and Development of a Modular Bucket Drum Excavator for Lunar ISRU
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 505–510, 2025.
Kenta Iizuka, Akiyoshi Uchida, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Optimal Trajectory Planning for Orbital Robot Rendezvous and Docking
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 610–617, 2025.
Elian Neppel, Shamistan Karimov, Ashutosh Mishra, Gustavo Hernan Diaz Huenupan, Hazal Gozbasi, Kentaro Uno, Shreya Santra, Kazuya Yoshida,
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 79–84, 2025.
Taku Okawara, Ryo Nishibe, Mao Kasano, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 677–683, 2025.
Elian Neppel, Ashutosh Mishra, Shamistan Karimov, Kentaro Uno, Shreya Santra, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3767–3772, 2025.
Ashutosh Mishra, Shreya Santra, Hazal Gozbasi, Kentaro Uno, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Enhancing Autonomous Manipulator Control with Human-in-loop for Uncertain Assembly Environments
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 527–532, 2025.
Keigo Torii, Kentaro Uno, Shreya Santra, and Kazuya Yoshida,
A Sequential Hermaphrodite Coupling Mechanism for Lattice-Based Modular Robots
Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM’25), pp. 1–6, 2025.
Riku Suzuki, Ayumi Umemura, Shreya Santra, Kentaro Uno, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Discrete Fourier Transform-based Point Cloud Compression for Efficient SLAM in Featureless Terrain
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Applications (ICARA), pp. 214–218, 2025.
Seiko Piotr Yamaguchi*, Kentaro Uno*, Yasumaru Fujii, Masazumi Imai, Kazuki Takada, Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
Proceedings of the IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), pp. 1095–1101, 2025.
Luca Nunziante, Kentaro Uno, Gustavo H. Diaz, Shreya Santra, Alessandro De Luca, Kazuya Yoshida,
Assembling Solar Panels by Dual Robot Arms Towards Full Autonomous Lunar Base Construction
Proceedings of the IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), pp. 1497–1502, 2025.
Junnosuke Kamohara*, Vinicius Ares*, James Hurrell, Keisuke Takehana, Antoine Richard, Shreya Santra, Kentaro Uno, Eric Rohmer, Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
Modeling of Terrain Deformation by a Grouser Wheel for Lunar Rover Simulation
Proceedings of the 21st International and 12th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS), pp. 283–289, 2024.
Tomomi Tanaka*, Keisuke Takehana*, James Hurrell, Kentaro Uno, and Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
Proceedings of the 21st International and 12th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS), pp. 129–136, 2024.
Keisuke Takehana, Kenta Sawa, Kentaro Uno, Shreya Santra, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Evaluation of Grouser Wheel Traction Performance in High-Speed by Single-Wheel Test
Proceedings of the 21st International and 12th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS), pp. 9–18, 2024.
Masazumi Imai, Kentaro Uno, and 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.
Kentaro Uno*, Takehiro Matsuoka*, Akiyoshi Uchida, and Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
Structure from Motion-based Motion Estimation and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Shaped Space Debris
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 1283–1288, 2024.
Shreya Santra*, Kentaro Uno*, Gen Kudo* Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 42–47, 2024.
Akiyoshi Uchida, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Space Debris Reliable Capturing by a Dual-Arm Orbital Robot: Detumbling and Caging
Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. 194–201, 2024. (Best Papers Award)
Antoine Richard*, Junnosuke Kamohara*, Kentaro Uno, Shreya Santra, Dave van der Meer, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, and Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
OmniLRS: A Photorealistic Simulator for Lunar Robotics
Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 16901–16907, 2024.
Gustavo H. Diaz, Tharit Sinsunthorn, Shreya Santra, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Toward Autonomous Assembly of Modular Robots and Structures using Real-time Object Detection and Imitation Learning for Lunar Missions
Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 29th 2024), pp. 1389–1393, 2024.
Kentaro Uno, Kazuki Takada, Keita Nagaoka, Takuya Kato, Arthur Candalot, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Lower Gravity Demonstratable Testbed for Space Mobile Robot Experiments
Proceedings of the IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), pp. 1183–1184, 2024.
Camille Boucher, Gustavo H. A. Diaz, Shreya Santra, Kentaro Uno, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Proceedings of the IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), pp. 484–489, 2024.
Kazuki Takada, Kentaro Uno, and Kazuya Yoshida,
Graph-Based Path/Foothold Planning and Quantitative Map Evaluation for Multi-Limbed Climbing Robots
Proceedings of the 2023 8th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE 2023), pp. 1–6, 2023. (Best Presentation Achievement in the Session)
Keisuke Takehana, Shino Kizaki, Kentaro Uno, Tomomi Tanaka, Gentaro Suda and Kazuya Yoshida,
Proceedings of the 16th European-African Regional Conference of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS), pp. TBD, 2023. (Best Papers Award)
James Hurrell, Keisuke Takehana, Gentaro Suda, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Lunar Rover Discrete Element Method Study and Calibration
Proceedings of the 16th European-African Regional Conference of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS), pp. TBD, 2023.
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 2023), pp. 11845–11851, 2023. (ICRA 2023 Outstanding Locomotion Paper Finalist) (IEEE RAS Japan Joint Chapter Young Award (ICRA2023))
Andrew Price, Kentaro Uno, Swapnil Parekh, Til Reichelt, Kazuya Yoshida,
Render-to-Real Image Dataset and CNN Pose Estimation for Down-Link Restricted Spacecraft Missions
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1–11, 2023.
Takuya Kato, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
A Pin-Array Structure for Gripping and Shape Recognition of Convex and Concave Terrain Profile
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2022), pp. 1365–1370, 2022.
Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Low-Reaction Trajectory Generation for a Legged Robot in Microgravity
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), pp. 505–510, 2022.
Kentaro Uno*, Giorgio Valsecchi*, Marco Hutter, Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
Simulation-Based Climbing Capability Analysis for Quadrupedal Robots
Robotics for Sustainable Future: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR) 2021, pp. 179–191, 2021.
Kentaro Uno*, Warley F. R. Ribeiro*, Yusuke Koizumi, Keigo Haji, Koki Kurihara, William Jones, Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
ClimbLab: MATLAB Simulation Platform for Legged Climbing Robotics
Robotics for Sustainable Future: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR) 2021, pp. 229–241, 2021. (Highly Commended Paper)
Kentaro Uno, Naomasa Takada, Taku Okawara, Keigo Haji, Arthur Candalot, Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Kenji Nagaoka, Kazuya Yoshida,
HubRobo: A Lightweight Multi-Limbed Climbing Robot for Exploration in Challenging Terrain
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 209–215, 2021.
Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Kentaro Uno, Kenji Nagaoka, Kazuya Yoshida,
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR), pp. 297–304, 2020. (Conference Awards a Third Prize)
Kentaro Uno, Warley F. R. Ribeiro, William Jones, Yuki Shirai, Hayato Minote, Kenji Nagaoka, Kazuya Yoshida,
Gait Planning for a Free-Climbing Robot based on Tumble Stability
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, pp. 289-294, 2019.
Hazal Gozbasi, Elian Neppel, Shreya Santra, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Vision-based Multi-Camera Mapping for Lunar Construction Environments
late-breaking results short paper for the Workshop in 2024 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), 2025.
Gustavo H. Diaz*, Kentaro Uno*, Shreya Santra, Kazuya Yoshida (*These authors contributed equally.),
Towards Self-Assembling of Modular Robots for the Human Outpost Construction on the Moon
late-breaking results short paper for the Workshop on Exploring the Lunar Frontier Leveraging Robotic Missions in 2024 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), pp. TBD, 2024.
Ayumi Umemura, Kentaro Uno, Shreya Santra, Miguel Angel Olivares Mendez, Kazuya Yoshida,
Refining of Localization and Mapping by Multiple Rovers for Planetary Exploration
Contributed paper of the ICRA2023 workshop: Heterogeneous Multi-robot Cooperation for Exploration and Science in Extreme Environments (HERMES), 2023.
(link of the workshop presentation material)
Keigo Haji, Kentaro Uno, Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Kazuya Yoshida,
Path and Gait Planning of Limbed Climbing Robots for Planetary Cliff Exploration
Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Space Technology Science (ISTS), #2022-k-11, 2022.
Taku Okawara, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida,
Lunar Skylight Exploration by a Limbed Climbing Robot Using a Hand-Eye System
Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Space Technology Science (ISTS), #2022-k-09, 2022.
Kentaro Uno, Yusuke Koizumi, Keigo Haji, Maximilian Keiff, Simon Harms, Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Kenji Nagaoka, Kazuya Yoshida,
Non-Periodic Gait Planning Based on Salient Region Detection for a Planetary Cave Exploration Robot
Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), #5027, 2020.
Kentaro Uno, Louis-Jerome Burtz, Masafumi Endo, Kenji Nagaoka, Kazuya Yoshida,
Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), #10a-2, 2018.
Kentaro Uno, Louis-Jerome Burtz, Marc Hulcelle, Kazuya Yoshida,
Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Space Technology Science (ISTS), #2017-k-37, 2017.
Takuto Oikawa, Toshiki Tanaka, John Walker, Kentaro Uno, Paulo Costa, Nathan Britton, Kazuya Yoshida,
Preliminary Radiation Test Result for Space-Ready Qualification of Lunar Micro Rover
Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Space Technology Science (ISTS), #2017-i-10, 2017.
Takuto Oikawa, Toshiki Tanaka, John Walker, Kentaro Uno, Paulo Costa, Nathan Britton, Kazuya Yoshida,
Thermal Design Analysis of Conceptual Flight Model for a Lunar Exploration Rover
Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), 2016.