The Brain-inspired Integrated System Laboratory, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Yuichiro Tanaka Laboratory)
develops AI systems by integrating multiple functions for the emergence of intelligence toward the realization of robots living with humans.

Brain-inspired AI consisting of the hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex models
Current AI requires a large amount of training data and has difficulty to adapt personal situations based on a few experiences.
We aim to realize AI that can learn from a few experiences by mimicking brain functions related to episodic memory.

Enhancement of reservoir computing
We focus on reservoir computing, which requires low-training costs and is suitable for edge AI implementations.
We enhance the performance of reservoir computing by extending the structure and algorithm and utilize it for the prefrontal cortex model implementations.

Application for home service robots/edge AI
We apply the brain-inspired AI and the enhanced reservoir computing for edge AIs.
We utilize home service robots, HSR and Kachaka, as platforms for the experiments.

Detailed information is as follows:
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This laboratory collaborates with the following research groups:
- Tamukoh Laboratory, Kyutech
- Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyutech

PI: TANAKA, Yuichiro, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,
Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering,
Kyushu Institute of Technology,
and Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware,
Kyushu Institute of Technology

Education
2016 B.E. School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology
2018 M.E. Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology
2021 Ph.D. Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology

Employment
2019-2021 JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists
2021-2024 Assistant Professor, Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyushu Institute of Technology
2024- Current position

Membership
IEEE
IEICE (Secretary of Society for Smart Info-Media System, IEICE)
JNNS
RoboCup Japanese Regional Committee

Contact
2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, 808-0196, Japan
tanaka-yuichiro[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp

Members（Fiscal 2025）
M1
・Teruki Shimomura
・Taiki Watanabe
・Digisha

B4
・Tetsuya Hayashi
・Haruhiko Watanabe

Secretary
・Aki Fujita

We published ...
・FPGA implementation of amygdala-inspired AI model（IEEE Access）
・Reservoir computing model with multiple readouts（IEEE Access）
・Physical reservoir computing of nanomaterial（Advanced Materials）

The latest publications and funding are as follows,
- Faculty member, Kyutech
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- JSPS KAKENHI