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Basics

Work

  • 2023.05 - Present
    Research Associate
    Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield
    Project: OpenSwarm (Orchestration and Programming ENergy-aware and collaborative Swarms With AI-powered Reliable Methods). Funded by the Horizon Europe project.
    • Energy-aware robot swarms

Education

  • 2019.10 - 2024.03

    Sheffield, UK

    PhD
    The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
    Thesis: Multi-Operator Control of Connectivity-Preserving Robot Swarms
  • 2015.09 - 2019.07

    London, UK

    MSci Robotics and Intelligent Systems
    King's Collage London, London, UK
    Supervisor: Prof. Elizabth Sklar

Awards

  • 2021.07
    Winner of MRC 2021
    AMRC, The University of Sheffield
    Awarded to the group that outperformed the other teams to win the competition at the UK-RAS Manufacturing Robotics Challenge 2021.
  • 2020.04
    Best Paper Award
    UKRAS
    Best paper award at the 3rd UK-RAS Conference for the paper titled "A Study Assessing the Impact of Task Duration on Performance Metrics for Multi-robot Teams".
  • 2019
    Robotics Prize (Fourth Year)
    King's College London
    Awarded to the student who has obtained the best results during the fourth year of study on an Integrated Masters Robotics Programme.
  • 2018
    Peplow Prize
    King's College London
    Awarded to the student who has distinguished themselves in the third year project on an Undergraduate Robotics Programme.
  • 2018
    King's Experience Research Award
    King's College London
    Successfully completed the King's Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF). Also named as the prize-winner for the *Best Video* submission.
  • 2017
    Robotics Prize (Second Year)
    King's College London
    Awarded to the student who has obtained the best results during the second year of study on an Undergraduate Robotics Programme.
  • 2016
    Walter Smith Prize
    King's College London
    Awarded to the student who has most distinguished him or herself in the first year of an Undergraduate Robotics Programme.
  • 2015
    Sponsor Prize
    Revolut
    Developed an app to show how much a user would save money using Revolut, a rising fintech company. Won the sponsor prize at HackKing's (Student Hackathon).

Skills

Software
C/C++
Python
ROS
Git
Docker
Robotic Systems
ROS
TurtleBot 2/3/4
e-puck/Pi-puck
Kilobot

Languages

Japanese
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Projects

  • 2018.06 - 2018.07
    Robot Artist (Best Video Submission award)
    Part of the King's Undergraduate Research Fellow (KURF) programme. I developed a painting task to draw and paint on a slanted easel using a mobile robot equipped with a robotic arm and an RGB-D camera. Face detection and trajectory planning techniques were used to produce portraits of visitors during the university open days. Supervisor: Prof. Elizabeth Sklar, Dr. Chipp Jansen, Dr. Hongbin Liu
    • Facial Recongnition
    • Manipulation