End-of-Year Party 2018 was held!

Open Campus (Takayama Science Town Festival) was held in NAIST on November 11(Sun.). We conducted following two demonstrations: ・ Robot Learned from Experiments ・ Motion Control of Two-wheeled Inverted Pendulum Robot Besides, the experience-based event entitled "Play with robots!" was conducted in Millennium Hall. In this event, we conducted "candy picking with double-arm robot" or "Air ho...

Assistant Professor Yunduan Cui et al. received the best paper award at the 28th Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS2018) which was held from October 24th to 27th at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) for their work published in Neural Networks: Yunduan Cui, Takamitsu Matsubara, Kenji Sugimoto “Kernel dynamic policy programming: Applicable reinforcem...

Tadenuma(M2) chosen as a finalist of the IFAC Young Author Award at the 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems(CHAOS2018). Congratulations! T. Tadenuma, M. Ogura, and K. Sugimoto, "Sampled-Data State Observation over Lossy Networks under Round-Robin Scheduling," Preprints, 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems, pp. 197--202, Eindhoven, The ...

Prof. Kenji Sugimoto has been selected as a SICE(The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers) fellow. We’d like to congratulate you on your awarding!

We presented at "SICE Annual Conference 2018" which held in Nara Kasugano International Forum. X. Han, W. Imahayashi, K. Sugimoto, “A Case Study of SISO Feedback Error Learning Control With/without a Strictly Positive Real Condition”, SICE Annual Conference 2018, pp. 17–22, Nara, 2018.9.11-14 (2017.9.12). W. Imahayashi, K. Sugimoto, “Feedback Error Learning Control against Temporal Se...

Yokogawa Electric Corporation and our lab announce that we have jointly developed a reinforcement learning algorithm that can be utilized for the automatic optimization of plant operations. Links to the articles： ・Yokogawa Electric Corporation ・NAIST ・Nikkei Asian Review

We held the farewell party for internship students, Mr. Dehon Lucien and Mr. Jonas Frey. Thank you for your working!

We went to Gifu prefecture as the lab trip from 8/8 to 8/9. We enjoyed Yoro Falls(養老の滝), Ukai(鵜飼, cormorant-fishing) and so on!

We held a summer seminar on Aug. 6th and 7th. The student learned the foundation of Consensus Control. Also, in practical training, the student implemented the algorithm and successfully built consensus in simulation! Thank you very much for your participation.

We held the welcome party for Mr. Jonas from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Welcome to our laboratory!

We held the birthday party for Prof. Sugimoto. Happy birthday to a great boss!

We presented at Robomech 2018 in Kitakyushu which held in Kitakyushu International Conference Center.

Open Campus for Prospective Students was held on Saturday, May 19. Many students visited our laboratory and some of them consulted us about entrance exam or campus life. Thank you for visiting our laboratory!

We held welcome parties for new students assigned to our laboratory and the internship student from France on April 27! In addition, we also held a farewell party for Assistant Professor Kobayashi who is going to the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany from May until next March!