
Hatanaka Lab
Cyber-Physical Systems Field
Department of Systems and Control Engineering
School of Engineering
Institute of Science Tokyo
Research Interest
Our group is working on cyber-physical-social/human systems, interconnected systems of mutually interacting cyber, physical and human components, for a variety of large-scale systems. In particular, we study in an effort to work out fundamental principles to coordinate human/society and highly-networked control systems to ensure optimality and robustness via distributed decision-makings. The main target application fields include smart agriculture, smart sky/ocean, and energy management. Beyond theory-oriented work, we are also addressing social implementation of networked robotics and human-robot collaborations, and plant phenotyping and control in plant factories through interdisciplinary collaborative research projects.

Cyber-Physical-Social Systems

Cyber-Physical-Human Systems

Networked Robotics

PV for Robot Zoo Aqua

PV for Robot Zoo Sky

Multi-drone persistent coverage control over a farm

first experiment of coverage control over a vineyard
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News

03/2025
Y. Okada completed WISE-SSS Program

03/2025
1 PhD and 3 master students completed their degrees

03/2025
T. Oshima won JSME Miura Award

03/2025
M. Suenaga won JSME Miura Award
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03/2025
Commemorative Lecture for SICE Control Division Pioneer Technology Award

03/2025
E. Abe won SICE MSCS Outstanding Poster Award

12/2024
Y. Takizawa won Outstanding Presentation Award at 67th JJACC

12/2024
15th TFST Conference has been finished with success

12/2024
Y. Toyomoto won Best Seed Award at SSS Matching Workshop

09/2024
1 PhD, 1 master and 3 bachelor students completed their degrees

09/2024
M. Suenaga won Dept. SCE Outstanding Presentation Award
2024 Oct. Institute of Science Tokyo
2024 Oct. Our work was highlighted in Science News
2024 Nov. 67th JJACC
2024 Dec. SSS Matching Workshop
2024 Dec. Y. Toyomoto won Best Seed Award at SSS Matching Workshop
2024 Dec. Y. Takizawa won Outstanding Presentation Award at 67th JJACC
2024 Dec. 15th Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology Conference
2024 Dec. 5th IFAC CPHS
2024 Dec. 63rd IEEE CDC
2025 Jan. Deputy EiC of Annual Reviews in Control
2025 Mar. SICE MSCS
2025 Mar. E. Abe won SICE MSCS Outstanding Poster Award
2025 Mar. Commemorative Lecture for SICE Pioneer Technology Award
2025 Mar. Two ECC papers have been accepted for presentation
2025 Mar. M. Suenaga won JSME Miura Award
2025 Mar. T. Oshima won JSME Miura Award
2025 Mar. Y. Okada completed WISE-SSS program
2025 May IEEE ICRA 3rd Workshop on Human-Centric Multilateral Teleoperation

S. Otsuki, N. Hatta, M. Hanif, R. Funada, K. Nakashima, and T. Hatanaka
Hierarchical Vessel Safe Operation in A Port through CBF, MPC and RRT-like Spatiotemporal Path Planning
Nonlinear and Constrained Control - Applications, Synergies, Challenges and Opportunities
E. Garone, I.V. Kolmanovsky, and T.W. Nguyen (eds)
Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer Nature, to be published, 2025

T. Hatanaka, J. Yamauchi, M. Fujita, and H. Handa
Contemporary Issues and Advances in Human-Robot Collaborations
Cyber-Physical-Human Systems: Fundamentals and Applications
A. Annaswamy, P. P. Khargonekar, F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue and S. K. Spurgeon (eds.)
Wiley-IEEE Press, pp. 365-400, July, 2023

T. Hatanaka, Y. Wasa and K. Uchida (eds.)
Economically-enabled Energy Management: Interplay between Control Engineering and Economics
Springer Nature, Apr., 2020
(ISBN: 978-981-15-3575-8)

T. Hatanaka, N. Chopra, M. Fujita and M. W. Spong
Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics
Communications and Control Engineering Series, Springer-Verlag, May, 2015
(Book Announcement in CSM, Book Review in Automatica)

T. Hatanaka, N. Chopra, J. Yamauchi and M. Fujita
A Passivity-Based Approach to Human-Swarm Collaborations and Passivity Analysis of Human Operators
Trends in Control and Decision-Making for Human-Robot Collaboration Systems
Y. Wang and F. Zhang (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 325-355, Feb., 2017

T. Ibuki, J. Ymauchi, T. Hatanaka, and M. Seto,
Basic Functional Analysis for Machine Learning
Uchida Rokakuho Publishing Co. Ltd., 2023 (in Japanese)

M. Seto, T. Ibuki, and T. Hatanaka
Basic Functional Analysis for Machine Learning
Uchida Rokakuho Publishing Co. Ltd., 2021 (in Japanese)

Y. Nakamura (eds.), H. Chiba, J. Satsuma, N. Yamashita, T. Hatanaka, H. Shimotaira, and K. Takeyasu
The World of Applied Mathematics & Physicss
Nippon Hyoron sha Co., LTD, 2019 (in Japanese)

S. Azuma, M. Nagahara, H. Ishii, N. Hayashi, K. Sakurama and T. Hatanaka
Control of Multi-agent Systems
Systems Control Engineering Series Vol. 22,
Corona Publishing Co., LTD, 2015 (in Japanese)
Books/Book Chapters
M. Li, K. Laib, T. Hatanaka, and I. Lestas
Convergence Rate Bounds for the Mirror Descent Method: IQCs, the Popov Criterion and Bregman Divergence
Automatica, vol. 171, 111973, 2025.
(10.1016/j.automatica.2024.111973)

A.D. Carenero, T. Tanaka, M. Li, T. Hatanaka, Y. Wasa, K. Hirata,Y. Ushifusa, and T. Ida
ZEH-oriented Linear Programming for the Sizing Problem of Photovoltaic Panels and Batteries
IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 80429-80441, 2024.
(10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3410369)

T. Hatanaka, T. Mochizuki, T. Sumino, J.M. Maestre, and N. Chopra
Human Modeling and Passivity Analysis for Semi-autonomous Multi-robot Navigation in Three Dimensions
IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, Special section on Modeling, Control, and Learning Approaches for Human-Robot Interaction Systems, vol. 3, pp. 45-57, 2024.
(10.1109/OJCSYS.2023.3343598)

J. G. Martin, M. Hanif, T. Hatanaka, J.M. Maestre, and E.F. Camacho
Predictive Receding-Horizon Multi-Robot Task Allocation Applied to the Mapping of Direct Normal Irradiance in a Thermosolar Power Plant
Solar Energy, vol. 263, 111911, 2023
(10.1016/j.solener.2023.111911)

S. Yamashita, K. Irifune, T. Hatanaka, Y. Wasa, K. Hirata, and K. Uchida
Passivity-based Analysis and Design for Population Dynamics with Conformity Biases
Automatica, vol. 158, 111300, 2023
(10.1016/j.automatica.2023.111300)

P. Chanfreut, J.M. Maestre, T. Hatanaka, and E.F. Camacho
Fast Clustering for Multi-agent Model Predictive Control
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1544-1555, 2022
(10.1109/TCNS.2022.3158745)
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T. Shimizu, S. Yamashita, T. Hatanaka, K. Uto, M. Mammarella, and F. Dabbene
Angle-aware Coverage Control for 3D Map Reconstruction with Drone Networks
IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1831-1836, 2022
(10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3135466)

M. Li, S. Yamashita, T. Hatanaka, and G. Chesi
Smooth Dynamics for Distributed Constrained Optimization with Heterogeneous Delays
IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 626-631, 2020
(DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2989372)

T. Miyano, S. Yamashita, T. Hatanaka, K. Shibata, T. Jimbo and M. Fujita
Continuous-time Optimization Dynamics Mirroring ADMM Architecture and Passivity-Based Robustification against Delays
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1296-1307, 2020
(DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2020.2972590)

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, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 2220-2234, 2020
(DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2019.2935063)

T. Hatanaka, T. Ikawa and N. Li
A Passivity-Based Design of Cyber-Physical Building HVAC Energy Management Systems Integrating Optimization and Physical Dynamics
Economically-enabled Energy Management: Interplay between Control Engineering and Economics, T. Hatanaka, Y. Wasa and K. Uchida(eds.), Springer Nature, pp. 309-341, 2020
(DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3576-5_12)

S. Yamashita, T. Hatanaka, J. Yamauchi and M. Fujita
Passivity-Based Generalization of Primal-Dual Dynamics for Non-Strictly Convex Cost Functions
Automatica, vol. 112, no. 2, 108712, 2020
(DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2019.108712)

K. Yoshida, M. Inoue, and T. Hatanaka
Instant MPC for Linear Systems and Dissipativity-Based Stability Analysis
IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 811-816, 2019
(DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2019.2918095)

T. Hatanaka, N. Chopra, T. Ishizaki and N. Li
Passivity-Based Distributed Optimization with Communication Delays Using PI Consensus Algorithm
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 63, No. 12, pp. 4421-4428, 2018
(DOI:10.1109/TAC.2018.2823264)

T. Hatanaka, N. Chopra, J. Yamauchi, M. Doi, Y. Kawai and M. Fujita
A Passivity-Based System Design of Semi-autonomous Cooperative Robotic Swarm
ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, also in Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 139, No. 6, pp. 14-18, 2017 (DOI:10.1115/1.2017-Jun-6)
