We have been selected for the National Institute of Informatics Second Call for Collaborative Research. This grant supports collaborative research between our laboratory and Assistant Professor Taisuke Kobayashi of the National Institute of Informatics.

Through this funding, we plan to explore the theoretical aspects of distributional reinforcement learning over the coming year, with a view to developing the collaboration into a larger-scale research project that can ultimately be applied to mobility and the control of real robots.

Research title: A Proposal for Distributional Reinforcement Learning Considering Decision-Making by Autonomous Mobile Robots
Funding programme: FY2026 National Institute of Informatics Second Call for Collaborative Research (Open Proposal Category)
Grant amount: ¥488,000

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