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Robot Manipulation

• Contact-rich manipulation tasks
• Assembly Automation
• Task and Motion Planning

Robot Learning

• Reinforcement Learning
• Multimodal Learning
• Force/Tactile feedback control

PhD in Engineering

• Learning force control for contact-rich manipulations with position controlled robots.
• Industrial assembly automation with ROS and MoveIt.

MEng in Intelligent Systems

• Learning robot manipulation via Reinforcement Learning.
• Learning force control for contact-rich manipulations with position controlled robots.

BSc in Computer Science

• Thesis topic: Development of a fuzzy Logic-based system to monitor and control an algae bio-reactor on a PLC.

Senior Researcher

• Leading research on robot learning of contact-rich manipulation for automation of industrial assembly task and every day tasks.

Research Engineer

• Leading research on robot learning of contact-rich manipulation from cooking robots to assembly automation.

Visiting Researcher

• Research on contact-rich robot manipulation for a cooking robot: Learning to slice food

Participant

• Worked with the open-source organization MoveIt to develop a Simultaneous Trajectory Execution module for the popular motion planner MoveIt.

Research Intern

• Part-time October 2021 - September 2022
  • Research on robot manipulation for a cooking robot.
• Full-time March - September 2021
  • Implementation of a ROS-based autonomous robotic system for industrial assembly. Additionally, developing motion controllers on top of the motion planner framework MoveIt. Results: Our system was showcased at the World Robot Summit (WRS2020) on the Industrial Robot Category - Assembly Challenge. We obtained 3rd place and a special award from the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence JSAI.

Ph.D. Student Researcher

• Working with Prof Kensuke Harada and Fujifilm R&D to create motion planning solutions for industrial assembly tasks based on Reinforcement Learning techniques.

Software Developer

• Design and development of an administrative web application. Backend based on Java 8 using Spring framework and its modules Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Cloud and Spring Rest. Database Microsoft SQL Server. Frontend based on JavaScript ES6, React JS, Redux and Material Design. Communication based on Restful Webservices.

Software Engineer

• Software design and implementation aimed at supply chain, mainly warehouse management systems (WMS RedPrairie / JDA). Responsible for design, implementation and integration of new modules and customizations on a multi-language environment: Java, C#, C, Groovy, SQL Server, Oracle SQL and PL SQL. Meanwhile, providing consulting services during phases of design, configuration, implementation, and go-live of warehouse management systems (RedPraire /JDA) with several national and international clients.

• KAKENHI Scientific Research (A), Co-Investigator

• Awarded Ph.D. scholarship by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

• Awarded M.Sc. scholarship by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

• 3rd Place at World Robot Summit 2020 Industrial Assembly Challenge
• Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Award at World Robot Summit 2020 Industrial Assembly Challenge

• Best Oral Presentation (優秀講演賞) 第20回計測自動制御学会システムインテグレーション部門講演会 (SI2019)
• Best Paper Award Finalist at 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integrations (SII)

• Finalist of International Session Best Paper Award at The 26th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)

Conference Reviewer

• ICRA, IROS, CASE, ETCM, ANDESCON

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Technical Program Committee

• IEEE ANDESCON 2020, Ecuador

Program committee

• IEEE ICRA 2022 Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation Workshop