Nana Obayashi (大林菜々)

I am a PhD student at the CREATE Lab at EPFL, advised by Prof. Josie Hughes. My research is to design bio-inspired robots that intelligently uses its morphology (or its shape) in the fluid environment.

I completed my master's studies in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech with Prof. Lakshmi Sankar. I have experience as an aerodynamics and performance engineer in the aerospace and automotive industries.

Email: nana.obayashi at epfl.ch
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Selected works

Proprioceptive sensing of soft tentacles with model based reconstruction for controller optimization

Nana Obayashi*, Andrea Vicari*, Francesco Stella, Gaetan Raynaud, Karen Mulleners, Cosimo Della Santina, Josie Hughes
(* equal contribution)

RoboSoft 2023 [pdf]

Robotic automation and unsupervised cluster assisted modeling for solving the forward and reverse design problem of paper airplanes

Nana Obayashi, Kai Junge, Stefan Ilic, Josie Hughes

Nature Scientific Reports 2023 [pdf]

Control and morphology optimization of passive asymmetric structures for robotic swimming

Nana Obayashi*, Andrea Vicari*, Kai Junge, Kamran Shakir, Josie Hughes
(* equal contribution)

Robotics and Automation Letters 2023 [pdf]

Exploration of human-robot collaboration methods for iterative design optimization of paper airplanes

Nana Obayashi, Kai Junge, Josie Hughes

Human Friendly Robotics 2023 [Best Paper Award] [pdf]

Controlling maneuverability of a bio-inspired swimming robot through morphological transformation

Kai Junge*, Francesco Stella*, Nana Obayashi*,  Cosimo Della Santina, Josie Hughes
(* equal contribution)

Robotics & Automation Magazine 2022 [pdf]

Soft passive swimmer optimization: From simulation to reality using data-driven transformation

Nana Obayashi, Carlo Bosio, Josie Hughes

RoboSoft 2022 [Best Presentation Award] [pdf]

Other passions...

My dog, Savoia

Flying small airplanes

Traditional Japanese kimono dressing

Diving