Profile

Full Name

Kenta Tanaka

Affiliation

Ph.D Student of Mechanical Dynamics (Ishikawa Lab.), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Grad. Sch. of Engineering, The Univ. of Osaka

Birth

11 February 1999

Month	Biography
April 2014	Enrolled in Higashi Katsushika Senior High School
March 2017	Graduated from Higashi Katsushika Senior High School
April 2017	Enrolled in Division of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Science, School of Engineering, Osaka University
March 2021	Graduated from Division of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Science, School of Engineering, Osaka University
April 2021	Enrolled in the Master's Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Osaka
March 2023	Graduated from the Master's Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Osaka
April 2023	Enrolled in the Doctoral Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Osaka

Publications

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Journal Papers

Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: Improving Efficiency of Reinforcement Learning by Information Alteration: A Case Study of Stabilizing Inverted Pendulum; Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Vol. 37, No. 8, pp. 234–236 (2024/08) (in Japanese)
Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: NQLib: A Python Library for Noise-Shaping Quantizer Synthesis; SoftwareX, Vol. 27, 101792 (2024/06)
Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: Operability improvement of Human-machine Systems by Altering Visual Information: A Case-study of the Inverted Pendulum; IEEE Access, Vol. 13, pp. 93566–93573 (2025/05)

Domestic Conference (Japan)

Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: Development of Python Library NQLib for Design of Noise Shaping Quantizers; The 63rd Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, pp. 474–477 (2020) (in Japanese)
Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: Alteration of Visual Information for Control Performance Improvement of Man-Machine Systems; The 65th Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, pp. 824–827 (2022) (in Japanese)
Yuki Minami, Kenta Tanaka, Yugo Ogio: Control System Design with Python: What? Can we do this?; The 11th SICE Multi-Symposium on Control Systems, 3A7–2 (2024) (in Japanese)
Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: Visual Information Alteration for Manual Control of Dynamic Systems with Unstable Zero; The 12th SICE Multi-Symposium on Control Systems, 1PS2–17 (2025) (in Japanese)

International Conference

Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: NQLib: Python Library for the Practical Design of Noise Shaping Quantizers; in 2021 SICE Annual Conference, pp. 814–816 (2021)
Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: Improving Controllability of Manual Control Systems by Altering Visual Information; in 29th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, pp. 356–359 (2024)
Kenta Tanaka, Yuki Minami, Masato Ishikawa: Reinforcement Learning-Based Analysis of the Effect of Presenting Predicted State on Operability of 2nd-Order LTI Systems in Human-Machine Systems; in 2025 SICE Festival with Annual Conference, ThAT11.18 (2025)

Awards

Outstanding Student Award for Students from The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan (FY2020)
Superior Student Award from The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (FY2022)
Poster Presentation Award of Multi-Symposium on Control Systems (2025)

Others

Finalist in MathWorks Minidrone Competition Japan 2021
The Next Generation Researcher Development Project (April 2023 – March 2026)
Research Grant (C) from Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation (April 2024 – March 2026)

Products

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NQLib

Python library to design noise shaping quantizer for discrete-valued input control.

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The Inverted Pendulum Game

A game to control an inverted pendulum. You can experience the effect of information alteration.

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iscie.bst

Unofficial BibTeX style file for ISCIE.

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Snippet Utilities

VS Code extension to easily register code snippets.

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Custom Japanese Proofreading

VS Code extension to customize Japanese proofreading. You can add your own rules and dictionaries.

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Contact

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Ishikawa Lab.

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Address

#505 M4 2-1 Yamadaoka,
Suita, Osaka 565-0871 Japan

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kenta.tanaka+at+eom.mech.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

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Phone

+81-6-6879-7267

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