Hikaru AKUTSU

Affiliation.

• Assistant Professor
• Faculty of Engineering
• Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Toyama Prefectural University
• e-mail : hikaru_akutsu at pu-toyama dot ac dot jp

Biography.

• Assistant Professor, Oct. 2023 - present
• Engineer, DAIHEN Corporation, Energy Management System Division, April 2020 - Sept. 2023
  Development of Decentralized Control System for Renewable Energy Sources
  
• Doctor of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, March, 2020
  Major: Information Science and Control Engineering
  Nano/Picometer Measurement and Control Laboratory
• Visiting Student (Host: Professor Kenji Hirata), University of Toyama, April, 2019 - March 2020
  Dynamical Systems and Robotics Laboratory
  Research Theme: Decentralized Control for Virtual Power Plant
  
• Visiting Student (Host: Professor João Hespanha), University of California, Santa Barbara, July - Dec. 2018
  Research Theme: Distributed Estimation for Electric Power System
  
• Student Internship and Research Collaborator, Inovati, July - Dec., 2018
  Task: Basic Construction for Next Generation Additive Manufacturing System
  
• Master of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, March, 2017
  Major: Mechanical Engineering
  Control Systems Laboratory
  
• Bachelor of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, March, 2015
  Major: Mechanical Engineering
  Control Systems Laboratory
  
• Student Internship, DAIHEN Corporation, Dispersed Power System Division, Oct. 2014 - Feb. 2015
  Task: Implementation and Experimental Verification of Decentralized Control System
  
• Graduated, National Institute of Technology, Gunma College, March, 2013
  Major: Mechanical Engineering
  Mechanical Dynamics Laboratory
  
• Born in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan

Research Interests.

• Decentralized Control for A Large-scale Systems consisting of Renewable Energy Sources based-on Optimization Problem
  Category : control application, industrial application
  Keywords in Control : decentralized control, optimization, real-time pricing, estimation
  Keywords in Power System : voltage regulation, supply and demand control, voltage profile, control system with electricity market
  

List of Publications.

• Paper/Short Paper - List (pdf file)
• International Conference - List (pdf file)
• Domestic Conference - List (pdf file)

Awards, Grants and Scholarships.

Awards
• 日本機械学会 三浦賞, March 15, 2017 (JSME)
• 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society Japan Joint Chapter Student Best Paper Award, January 10, 2017 (IEEE PES Japan Joint Chapter)
• 第 60 回システム制御情報学会研究発表講演会 SCI 学生発表賞, May 26, 2016 (SCI'16)

Grants for Attending International Conference
• 公益財団法人 中部電気利用基礎研究振興財団 平成 30 年度国際交流援助 (前期分)
  (助成対象 : 2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications) (REFEC)
• 公益財団法人 電気通信普及財団 海外渡航旅費援助 2017 年度 10 月期
  (助成対象 : 2017 Asian Control Conference) (TAF)
• 一般財団法人 丸文財団 国際交流助成 平成 29 年度
  (助成対象 : 2017 American Control Conference) (Marubun)

Scholarships
• 官民協働海外留学支援制度 (トビタテ！留学 JAPAN 日本代表プログラム) 第 8 期生, July 2018 - Dec. 2018
  留学テーマ: アメリカ合衆国における制御工学の学術的研究と産業的研究の比較
• 公益財団法人 日揮・実吉奨学会 給与奨学金, 2017

Others
• 特許出願支援対象者, 平成 24 年度パテントコンテスト, 2012 (INPIT - Patent Contest)
• バスケットボール競技 第 3 位, 第 45 回全国高専体育大会, 2010
• 高崎市優秀選手 (バスケットボール競技), 2006

Patents.

• 指標の算出方法 (特許6592381), 2016
• シートベルト用ブロック (特許5385474), 2013

Academic Organizations.

• IEEE - Control Systems Society (CSS) from 2016, Power and Energy Society (PES) from 2017
• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) from 2017
• The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE) from 2015
• The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) from 2015

Activity.

• Paper Reviewer of Technical Conference - 6 Papers (from 2016)

Interests.

• Machine Learning, Model Predictive Control, Adaptive Control
• MATLAB, Node-RED, FORTRAN 77, Python