Naoya Yamaguchi
特別研究員DC1 at 日本学術振興会
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNaoya Yamaguchi is a robotics researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience developing sensing and manipulation solutions for daily assistive robots at JSK Robotics Laboratory. Currently a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1) and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tokyo, he bridges academic rigor and practical implementation in robot perception and contact sensing. His open-source contributions include substantive enhancements to jsk_recognition—most notably improving octomap_server_contact to publish unknown space, integrate proximity sensor point clouds, and support frontier grid visualization—making contact sensing data more usable for downstream tasks. Based in Tokyo, he combines deep expertise in intelligent mechanical informatics with hands-on ROS backend development, enabling robots to better perceive and interact with cluttered, human environments.
9 years of coding experience
博士, 知能機械情報学, 博士, 知能機械情報学 at 東京大学
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
jsr10
point-cloud-library9
pcl9
computer-vision8
fest3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jsk-ros-pkg/jsk_recognition
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022
JSK perception ROS packages
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 97 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Naoya primarily contributed to the `octomap_server_contact` ROS package within the JSK recognition repository, enhancing its functionality. Their work involved adding features such as the ability to publish unknown space as a marker array and point cloud, as well as integrating a callback function to insert proximity sensor point clouds. Furthermore, the user introduced a rosparam to selectively use vertices in the `insertContactSensor()` function and enabled the publication of a frontier grid. These modifications appear to improve the ability of the package to model and visualize contact sensor data.
ros-packagesrosperception
708yamaguchi/octomap_mapping
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
ROS stack for mapping with OctoMap, contains octomap_server package
Contributions:1 PR, 202 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
octomapmappingobjectmapperros
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