Tianhua Gao

Tianhua Gao テンカ コウ

(高 天華)

Ph.D. in Engineering

University of Tsukuba

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About Me

Tianhua Gao received the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan, in March 2026. He was awarded the University of Tsukuba Fellowship and the JST SPRING Scholarship. He was also a Research Assistant at the Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. His research interests focus on integrating control theory and neuroscience to advance the field of machine intelligence and control.

Academic Experience

Associated Researcher

University of Tokyo

2026-Present

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Tsukuba

2026-Present

PhD in Control Engineering (Machine Intelligence & Robotics)

University of Tsukuba

2023-2026

Research Assistant

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

2022-2026

Research Interests

Robotics Control Theory Machine Intelligence Neuroscience
Featured Publications
A Sliced Learning Framework for Online Disturbance Identification in Quadrotor SO(3) Attitude Control featured image

A Sliced Learning Framework for Online Disturbance Identification in Quadrotor SO(3) Attitude Control

To our knowledge, Sliced Learning is among the first frameworks to demonstrate lightweight online neural adaptation at 400 Hz on resource-constrained microcontroller units (MCUs), …

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Online Identification using Adaptive Laws and Neural Networks for Multi-Quadrotor Centralized Transportation System featured image

Online Identification using Adaptive Laws and Neural Networks for Multi-Quadrotor Centralized Transportation System

This paper introduces an adaptive-neuro identification method that enhances the robustness of a centralized multi-quadrotor transportation system.

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Robustness Enhancement for Multi-Quadrotor Centralized Transportation System via Online Tuning and Learning featured image

Robustness Enhancement for Multi-Quadrotor Centralized Transportation System via Online Tuning and Learning

This paper introduces an adaptive-neuro geometric control for a centralized multi-quadrotor cooperative transportation system, which enhances both adaptivity and disturbance …

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Numerical Simulation of a Novel Cargo Handling Strategy: Using a Centralized Cable-Linked Dual-Multirotor System featured image

Numerical Simulation of a Novel Cargo Handling Strategy: Using a Centralized Cable-Linked Dual-Multirotor System

The cable-suspended transportation using multiple UAVs has gradually gained attention in UAV logistics fields over the past decade, owing to their greater efficiency compared to a …

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Recent Publications
Recent & Upcoming Events
American Control Conference (ACC) 2025 featured image

American Control Conference (ACC) 2025

Participation in the American Control Conference 2025, with academic discussions in the RI Session.

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