Kei Ota

AI & Robotics Researcher

I am currently a Senior Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric. I completed my PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology Automation & Knoledge Laboratory under supervision of Prof. Asako Kanezaki. I received my M.S. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology Laboratory for Space Systems under supervision of Prof. Saburo Matsunaga.

News

Sep 19, 2024 Got my PhD at TokyoTech!
Sep 10, 2024 Serving as an Associate Editor for ICRA’25.
Jun 30, 2024 Our paper Autonomous Robotic Assembly: From Part Singulation to Precise Assembly was accepted as oral at IROS’24!
Apr 05, 2024 Our paper A Framework for Training Larger Networks for Deep Reinforcement Learning was accepted at Machine Learning Journal!
Jan 29, 2024 Two papers Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement and Robust In-Hand Manipulation with Extrinsic Contacts were accepted at ICRA’24!

Selected Publications

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    A Framework for Training Larger Networks for Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Kei OtaDevesh K. Jha, and Asako Kanezaki
    Machine Learning, Jun 2024
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    Autonomous Robotic Assembly: From Part Singulation to Precise Assembly
    Kei OtaDevesh K. JhaSiddarth Jain, Bill Yerazunis, and 4 more authors
    In IROS, Jun 2024
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    Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement
    In ICRA, Jun 2024
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    Tactile-Filter: Interactive Tactile Perception for Part Mating
    Kei Ota , Devesh K Jha, Hsiao-Yu Tung , and Joshua B Tenenbaum
    RSS, Jun 2023
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    Data-Efficient Learning for Complex and Real-Time Physical Problem Solving Using Augmented Simulation
    Kei OtaDevesh K. JhaDiego Romeres, Jeroen Baar, and 6 more authors
    RAL, Jun 2021