Nobuyuki Yoshikawa

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa
  • Email: yoshikawa[at]merl[dot]com
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  • Biography

    Nobuyuki joined Mitsubishi Electric in 2018. He has been engaged in research and development of hybrid systems that combine control and optimization with AI technologies. His work has included scheduling optimization, multimodal sensing, and the development of AI-based control systems. Prior to joining MERL, he served as Deputy Senior Manager of the Optimization AI Technology Group in the AI Research and Development Department of Mitsubishi Electric.

  • MERL Publications

    •  Vinod, A.P., Safaoui, S., Summers, T., Yoshikawa, N., Di Cairano, S., "Decentralized, Safe, Multi-agent Motion Planning for Drones Under Uncertainty via Filtered Reinforcement Learning", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/​TCST.2024.3433229, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 2492-2499, January 2025.
      BibTeX TR2024-136 PDF
      • @article{Vinod2025jan,
      • author = {Vinod, Abraham P. and Safaoui, Sleiman and Summers, Tyler and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
      • title = {{Decentralized, Safe, Multi-agent Motion Planning for Drones Under Uncertainty via Filtered Reinforcement Learning}},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
      • year = 2025,
      • volume = 32,
      • number = 6,
      • pages = {2492--2499},
      • month = jan,
      • doi = {10.1109/TCST.2024.3433229},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-136}
      • }
    •  Safaoui, S., Vinod, A.P., Chakrabarty, A., Quirynen, R., Yoshikawa, N., Di Cairano, S., "Safe multi-agent motion planning under uncertainty for drones using filtered reinforcement learning", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, DOI: 10.1109/​TRO.2024.3387010, Vol. 40, pp. 2529-2542, July 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-048 PDF Video
      • @article{Safaoui2024jul,
      • author = {{{Safaoui, Sleiman and Vinod, Abraham P. and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Quirynen, Rien and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and Di Cairano, Stefano}}},
      • title = {{{Safe multi-agent motion planning under uncertainty for drones using filtered reinforcement learning}}},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
      • year = 2024,
      • volume = 40,
      • pages = {2529--2542},
      • month = jul,
      • doi = {10.1109/TRO.2024.3387010},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-048}
      • }
    •  Vinod, A.P., Yamazaki, S., Chakrabarty, A., Yoshikawa, N., Di Cairano, S., "Aircraft Approach Management using Reachability and Dynamic Programming", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC60939.2024.10644902, June 2024, pp. 318-324.
      BibTeX TR2024-079 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Vinod2024jun,
      • author = {{{Vinod, Abraham P. and Yamazaki, Sachiyo and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and Di Cairano, Stefano}}},
      • title = {{{Aircraft Approach Management using Reachability and Dynamic Programming}}},
      • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {318--324},
      • month = jun,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644902},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-079}
      • }
    •  Vinod, A.P., Safaoui, S., Chakrabarty, A., Quirynen, R., Yoshikawa, N., Di Cairano, S., "Safe multi-agent motion planning via filtered reinforcement learning", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA46639.2022.9812259, May 2022, pp. 7270-7276.
      BibTeX TR2022-053 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{Vinod2022may,
      • author = {{{Vinod, Abraham P. and Safaoui, Sleiman and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Quirynen, Rien and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and Di Cairano, Stefano}}},
      • title = {{{Safe multi-agent motion planning via filtered reinforcement learning}}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2022,
      • pages = {7270--7276},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9812259},
      • isbn = {978-1-7281-9681-7},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-053}
      • }

  • Other Publications

    •  Sleiman Safaoui, Abraham P Vinod, Ankush Chakrabarty, Rien Quirynen, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa and Stefano Di Cairano, "Safe multiagent motion planning under uncertainty for drones using filtered reinforcement learning", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 40, pp. 2529-2542, 2024.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{safaoui2024safe,
      • author = {Safaoui, Sleiman and Vinod, Abraham P and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Quirynen, Rien and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and Di Cairano, Stefano},
      • title = {Safe multiagent motion planning under uncertainty for drones using filtered reinforcement learning},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
      • year = 2024,
      • volume = 40,
      • pages = {2529--2542},
      • publisher = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Ryoichi Takase, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Toshisada Mariyama and Takeshi Tsuchiya, "Stability-certified reinforcement learning control via spectral normalization", Machine Learning with Applications, Vol. 10, pp. 100409, 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{takase2022stability,
      • author = {Takase, Ryoichi and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and Mariyama, Toshisada and Tsuchiya, Takeshi},
      • title = {Stability-certified reinforcement learning control via spectral normalization},
      • journal = {Machine Learning with Applications},
      • year = 2022,
      • volume = 10,
      • pages = 100409,
      • publisher = {Elsevier}
      • }
    •  Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Nacim Belkhir and Sinji Suzuki, "Recurrent neural network-based fault detector for aileron failures of aircraft", 2017 11th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), 2017, pp. 1476-1481.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{yoshikawa2017recurrent,
      • author = {Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and Belkhir, Nacim and Suzuki, Sinji},
      • title = {Recurrent neural network-based fault detector for aileron failures of aircraft},
      • booktitle = {2017 11th Asian Control Conference (ASCC)},
      • year = 2017,
      • pages = {1476--1481},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }

  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "Controller for Optimizing Motion Trajectory to Control Motion of One or More Devices"
      Inventors: Di Cairano, Stefano; Chakrabarty, Ankush; Quirynen, Rien; Srinivasan, Mohit; Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki; Mariyama, Toshisada
      Patent No.: 12,061,474
      Issue Date: Aug 13, 2024
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