Juan Esteban Rodriguez (D3), as a representative of doctoral course graduates, made an address in reply to the principal's address at graduation ceremony on March 22.

Graduation ceremony was held on March 22, 2019. M2 and D3 students from our laboratory leave from this laboratory. Congratulations!! We expect to be active in the new place.

Spring seminar 2019 was held from February 25 to February 27 at NAIST. The theme of our laboratory is "Let's find important web pages using random walk". Eight outstanding students participated. Everybody was working on the PC in good earnest.

On February 23, 2019, we held the open campus for students. There were a lot of students who came to visit, and it was a great success. We hope that you take our university exam and come to our laboratory.

As of January 1, 2019, Associate Professor Matsubara transfers to the Robot Learning Laboratory. All members are very sad, but we hope he will be active in the new laboratory.

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.