About
Research
Current Graduate Research:
I'm interested in developing core reinforcement learning (RL) methodologies for safety-critical applications in the real world, such as connected automated vehicles, smart cities, urban air mobility, and urban search-and-rescue missions.
Some topics on which I am working with Professor Huy Tran at Tran Research Goup are:
- Developed safe and verifiable AI and deep reinforcement learning framework using formal methods
- Designed a neural network from scratch, which infers robot behaviors in human-readable forms
- Applying the framework for motion planning of robots and autonomous vehicles (Sim2Real)
Previous Udergraduate Research:
I was widely interested in aerodynamics and collaborative unmanned vehicles in the context of integrated intelligent transportation where all the aerial, ground, and marine automated vehicles require optimizations of the design in terms of fluid dynamics and controls on the interactions of vehicles. This interest led me to work in two laboratories: one is computational fluid dynamics lab, and the other is connected automated vehicles and highway lab.
Some topics on which I have worked with Professor Jennifer Franck in the CFD lab are:
- Dynamic Mesh Morphing: developed and implemented a dynamic mesh generation library for harbor seal whiskers for a CFD solver (OpenFOAM).
- Flow Control: evaluated the parametric influences of harbor seal whiskers on hydrodynamics and frequency response.
- Comformal Mapping: developed a mesh-generation library using Schwartz-Christoffel conformal mapping for 2D geometries on MATLAB® .
Another set of topics I have worked with Professor Bin Ran in the CAVH lab are:
- Mixed Traffic: built simulation models to evaluate how platooned automated vehicles can improve the network capacity on highways between Madison, WI and Chicago O'Hare Airport.
- Car-following Model: investigated the way to dynamically assign costs for individual vehicles to join and leave platoons.
- Weather Condition: simulated how the network capacity of highway can change under the snow.
Publications
- Yuasa, M., Lyons, K., Franck, J. A. "Simulations of flow over a bio-inspired undulated cylinder with dynamically morphing topography," Journal of Fluids and Structures, 111 (0889-9746), 2022. [doi]
- Yuasa, M., Lyons, K., Franck, J. A. "Simulations of bio-inspired undulated cylinders through dynamic morphing of surface topography," 73rd Annual Meeting of American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, IL, United States, 2020. [Link]
- Yuasa, M., Lyons, K., Franck, J. A. "Flow simulations of bio-inspired undulated cylinders through dynamic morphing of surface topography," Computing in Engineering Forum 2020 of Grainger Institute for Engineering, Madison, WI, United States, 2020.
- Yuasa, M. "Save the world by discovering new asteroid," 20th Annual Undergraduate Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 2018.
- 2020 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship. $4,000
- 2020 Honorable Mention at Computing in Grainger Engineering Forum 2020. $30
- 2018-2019 Engineering Physics Department Scholarship. $1,000
- 2018 UW-Madison Undergraduate Scholarship for Summer Study. $1,500
- 2017-2021 Japan Student Services Organization Student Exchange Program (Undergraduate Scholarship for Degree Seeking Students). $174,000 [18,200,000 JPY]
Software
These links are for the software repositories of my past research and personal projects hosted on GitHub and Bitbucket. The codes for some on-going projects have restricted access for internal use.
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