Researcher

Takayuki Osa

Takayuki Osa develops algorithms that let robots learn behavior and adapt to changing tasks. His research combines reinforcement learning, imitation and motion planning. Osa, Naohiko Sugita and Mamoru Mitsuishi coauthored work on online trajectory planning in dynamic environments for surgical task automation. The work appeared at RSS 2014. Osa and five colleagues coauthored An Algorithmic Perspective on Imitation Learning. The work surveys methods for learning actions from demonstrations.

Now at
RIKEN
Works
73
Citations
2,008
h-index
20

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 2014

    Planning surgical robot motion

    Osa, Naohiko Sugita and Mamoru Mitsuishi coauthored work on online trajectory planning in dynamic environments for surgical task automation. The work appeared at RSS 2014.

  2. 2018

    A view of imitation learning

    Osa and five colleagues coauthored An Algorithmic Perspective on Imitation Learning. The work surveys methods for learning actions from demonstrations.

  3. 2022

    Learning a space of motion solutions

    Osa published work on motion planning by learning the solution manifold in trajectory optimization. This extends his earlier research on finding multiple trajectories for a task.

  4. 2024

    Multiple behaviors from one task

    With Tatsuya Harada, Osa coauthored an ICML paper on discovering multiple solutions from a single task in offline reinforcement learning. He directs RIKEN’s Robot Learning Team.

Sources and credits

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  1. Robot Learning Team | RIKEN riken.jp. Checked 13 October 2026.