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Kanta Ono

5 accepted papers

2026

SCU-Hand with Integrated Single-Sheet Valve: A Funnel-Shaped Robotic Hand for Milligram-Scale Powder Handling

Tomoya Takahashi, Yusaku Nakajima, Cristian Camilo Beltran-Hernandez, Yuki Kuroda, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Masashi Hamaya +2
ICRA 2026poster

Laboratory Automation (LA) has the potential to accelerate solid-state materials discovery by enabling continuous robotic operation without human intervention. While robotic systems have been developed for tasks such as powder grinding and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, fully automating powder ha…

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2025

Rethinking the role of frames for SE(3)-invariant crystal structure modeling

Yusei Ito, Tatsunori Taniai, Ryo Igarashi, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Kanta Ono
ICLR 2025poster

Crystal structure modeling with graph neural networks is essential for various applications in materials informatics, and capturing SE(3)-invariant geometric features is a fundamental requirement for these networks. A straightforward approach is to model with orientation-standardized structures thro…

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2024

Crystalformer: Infinitely Connected Attention for Periodic Structure Encoding

Tatsunori Taniai, Ryo Igarashi, Yuta Suzuki, Naoya Chiba, Kotaro Saito, Yoshitaka Ushiku +1
ICLR 2024poster

Predicting physical properties of materials from their crystal structures is a fundamental problem in materials science. In peripheral areas such as the prediction of molecular properties, fully connected attention networks have been shown to be successful. However, unlike these finite atom arrangem…

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2023

Robotic Powder Grinding with Audio-Visual Feedback for Laboratory Automation in Materials Science

Yusaku Nakajima, Masashi Hamaya, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Takafumi Hawai, Felix von Drigalski, Yasuo Takeichi +2
IROS 2023poster

This study focuses on the powder grinding process, which is a necessary step for material synthesis in materials science experiments. In material science, powder grinding is a time-consuming process that is typically executed by hand, as commercial grinding machines are unsuitable for samples of sma…

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2022

Robotic Powder Grinding with a Soft Jig for Laboratory Automation in Material Science

Yusaku Nakajima, Masashi Hamaya, Yuta Suzuki, Takafumi Hawai, Felix von Drigalski, Kazutoshi Tanaka +2
IROS 2022poster

Grinding materials into a fine powder is a time-consuming task in material science that is generally performed by hand, as current automated grinding machines might not be suitable for preparing small-sized samples. This study presents a robotic powder grinding system for laboratory automation in ma…

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