Riku Funada

Junior Researcher
Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering,
Waseda University.

Latest News:

  • 2019/07/22: A paper is accepted as a regular paper in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
  • 2019/07/19: A paper is accepted in SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration.

Visual Coverage with Quadcopters

How to cooperatively monitor a wide important area by quadcopters equipped with cameras?
Approach: Coverage Control and Control Barrier Function

Visual Surveillance with PTZ Camera

How to cooperatively monitor dynamic targets, such as pedestrians, by cameras with controllable orientation?
Approach: Optimization on Manifolds and Density Estimation

3-D Visual Human Localization

How to localize a pedestrian with cameras under the existence of obstacles which may cause occlusions?
Approach: Passivity based Distributed Optimization and Loop Shaping

Publications

Journal Paper

  1. T. Hatanaka, R. Funada and M. Fujita
    "Visual Surveillance of Human Activities via Gradient-based Coverage Control on Matrix Manifolds"
    IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, accepted, 2019.
  2. A.W. Farras, T. Hatanaka, T.W. Nguyen, R. Funada, J. Yamauchi and M. Fujita
    "Distributed Dynamic Reference Governor for Constrained Semi-Autonomous Robotic Swarms with Communication Delays and Experimental Verification"
    SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, accepted, 2019.
  3. R. Funada, S. Yamashita, T. Hatanaka and M. Fujita
    "Passivity-Based Distributed 3-D Visual Human Localization Algorithm"
    Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 547-556, 2018. (in Japanese)
    (DOI: 10.1115/1.2017-Jun-6)
  4. T. Hatanaka, Y. Wasa, R. Funada, A.G. Charalambides and M. Fujita
    "A Payoff-based Learning Approach to Cooperative Environmental Monitoring for PTZ Visual Sensor Networks"
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 709-724, 2016.
    (DOI:10.1109/TAC.2015.2450611, Downloadable at arXiv:1302.2017)
  5. R. Funada, T. Hatanaka and M. Fujita
    "Cooperative Visual Environmental Monitoring: A Gradient Descent Approach on SO(3)"
    Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 139-147, Mar 21, 2015. (in Japanese)
    (DOI:10.9746/sicetr.51.139)

Conference Paper

  1. R. Funada, M. Santos, J. Yamauchi, T. Hatanaka, M. Fujita and M. Egerstedt
    "Visual Coverage Control for Teams of Quadcopters via Control Barrier Functions"
    Proc. of 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3010-3016, 2019.
  2. M.W.S. Atman, K. Noda, R. Funada, J. Yamauchi, T. Hatanaka and M. Fujita
    "On Passivity-Shortage of Human Operators for A Class of Semi-autonomous Robotic Swarms"
    Proc. of 2nd IFAC Conference on Cyber-Physical & Human Systems, pp. 21-27, 2018. (DOI:10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.01.008)
  3. T. Hatanaka, R. Funada, G. Gezer and M. Fujita
    "Distributed Visual 3-D Localization of A Human Using Pedestrian Detection Algorithm: A Passivity-Based Approach"
    Proc. of 6th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys),
    IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 49, No. 22, pp. 210-215, 2016. (DOI:10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.398)
  4. M. Forstenhaeusler, R. Funada, T. Hatanaka and M. Fujita
    "Experimental Study of Gradient-Based Visual Coverage Control on SO(3) Toward Moving Object/Human Monitoring"
    Proc. of 2015 American Control Conference, pp. 2125-2130, 2015. (DOI:10.1109/ACC.2015.7171047)
  5. T. Hatanaka, R. Funada and M. Fujita
    "3-D Visual Coverage Based on Gradient Descent Algorithm on Matrix Manifolds and Its Application to Moving Objects Monitoring"
    Proc. of 2014 American Control Conference, pp. 2125-2130, 2015. (DOI:10.1109/ACC.2014.6858663)

Scholarships & Awards

  1. Travel expenses support from Mitutoyo Association for Science and Technology
    (for ICRA 2019 held in May 2019)
  2. Research Fellowships of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists (JSPS DC1)
    (April 2016 - March 2019)
  3. Travel expenses support from International Cooperation Office in Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (for Research Activity in Professor Magnus Egerstedt's Group in Georgia Institute of Technology, June 2018 - November 2018)
  4. Scholarship from Japan Student Services Organization (Exemption from refund)
    (April 2014 - March 2016)
  5. Miura Award from The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
    (March 2016)
  6. 130 Anniversary Encouragement Scholarship for Proceeding to Doctoral Course from Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (October 2015)
  7. Student Poster Session Award in MSCS 2015 held by SICE
    (March 2015)

Overseas Research

  1. Professor Magnus Egerstedt's Group in Georgia Institute of Technology, June 2018 - November 2018.
    Research Result is published in ICRA 2019.
    Blog: Georgia Tech 滞在記 (in Japanese).

Bio

Education

  • Ph.D. in Engineering from School of Department of Systems and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2019.
    Supervised by Professor Masayuki Fujita and Associate Professor Hatanaka Takeshi.
  • M.Eng. from Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2016.
    Supervised by Professor Masayuki Fujita and Associate Professor Hatanaka Takeshi.
  • B.Eng. from Department of Control and Systems Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2014.
    Supervised by Professor Masayuki Fujita.

Teaching Assistant

  • Robust Control (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014)
  • Feedback Control (2016, 2015, 2014)
  • MATLAB TA (2015, Elected through screening process and interview)
  • Analysis and Design of Linear Control Systems (2015)
  • Training in Laboratories on Systems and Control Engineering (2017, 2016, 2014)

    • Contact

    • Address

      #904B (55-S Bldg.), 3-4-1
      Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555
      Japan

    • Email

      funada _at_ aoni.waseda.jp

    • Phone

      +81-3-5286-3140