PhD (Information Science), Nagoya University (Japan)

BSc, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

Intelligent robotics, Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent robotics, Artificial Intelligence

2021
Project Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University

2019 - 2021
Project Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University

2017 - 2019
Project Assistant Professor

2015 - 2017
Researcher (Shinshu University, Department of Engineering)

2013 - 2015
JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)

2007, Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities, Cognitive Artificial Intelligence

2010, Utrecht University, Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Cognitive Artificial Intelligence

2015, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Information Science, Complex Systems Science

2024
The 2024 Conference on Artificial Life, Best Paper Runner-Up
Breaching the Bottleneck: Evolutionary Transition from Reward-Driven Learning to Reward-Agnostic Domain-Adapted Learning in Neuromodulated Neural Nets, International academic award
Solvi Arnold;Reiji Suzuki;Takaya Arita;Kimitoshi Yamazaki

2023
The Robotics Society of Japan, Best Paper
Online State Estimation Using Optical Flow for Passing an Arm Through a Shirt Sleeve, International academic award
Takahiro Yamazaki;Solvi Arnold;Kimitoshi Yamazaki

2022
The 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Outstanding Reviewer Award
International academic award
Solvi Arnold

Wiring connector-terminated cables based on manipulation planning with collision-free EMD net
Kimitoshi Yamazaki; Kyoto Nozaki; Yuichiro Matsuura; Solvi Arnold
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 175, 104673-104673, May 2024, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Online motion planning based on swept volume search with replanning using sequential quadratic programming
Takuya Iwasaki; Yutaka Takase; Solvi Arnold; Keisuke Takeshita; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
Advanced Robotics, 37(12), 737-750, May 2023, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Recognising Affordances in Predicted Futures to Plan With Consideration of Non-Canonical Affordance Effects
Solvi Arnold; Mami Kuroishi; Rin Karashima; Tadashi Adachi; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(3), 1455-1462, Mar. 2023, Refereed
Lead, Corresponding

Cloth manipulation planning on basis of mesh representations with incomplete domain knowledge and voxel-to-mesh estimation
Solvi Arnold; Daisuke Tanaka; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 16, Jan. 2023, Refereed
Lead, Corresponding

Visual Servoing in Virtualized Environments Based on Optical Flow Learning and Constrained Optimization
Takuya Iwasaki; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
International Journal of Robotics and Automation, 38(10), 2023, Refereed
Lead

Development of a continuum robot enhanced with distributed sensors for search and rescue
Yu Yamauchi; Yuichi Ambe; Hikaru Nagano; Masashi Konyo; Yoshiaki Bando; Eisuke Ito; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki; Katsutoshi Itoyama; Takayuki Okatani; Hiroshi G. Okuno; Satoshi Tadokoro
ROBOMECH Journal, 9(1), Dec. 2022, Refereed
Lead

Online State Estimation Using Optical Flow for Passing an Arm Through a Shirt Sleeve
Takahiro Yamazaki; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 40(9), 817-826, Nov. 2022, Refereed
Lead

ニューラルネットワークを用いたモデル予測制御に基づく人との協調着衣
山崎隆広; 高瀬裕; アーノード・ソービ; 山崎公俊
第40回日本ロボット学会学術講演会(RSJ2022), Sep. 2022
Lead

Cloth Manipulation with Estimation of Material Properties
Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
第40回日本ロボット学会学術講演会(RSJ2022), Sep. 2022
Lead

布のオンライン状態推定に基づく袖通し作業の実現
山崎隆広; Solvi ARNOLD; 山崎公俊
計測自動制御学会中部支部シンポジウム2021, Oct. 2021
Lead

Disruption-Resistant Deformable Object Manipulation on Basis of Online Shape Estimation and Prediction-Driven Trajectory Correction
Daisuke Tanaka; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2), 3809-3816, Apr. 2021, Refereed
Lead

柔軟物形状のオンライン推定および予測に基づく操作行動生成
山崎公俊; 田中大輔; アーノード・ソービ
第26回ロボティクスシンポジア, 92-94, Mar. 2021, Refereed
Lead

Visual Servoing Using Virtual Space for Both Learning and Task Execution
Tomoki Kawagoshi; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), Jan. 2021, Refereed
Lead

Picking of One Sheet of Cotton Cloth by Rolling up Using Cylindrical Brushes
Yuichi Kawasaki; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), Jan. 2021, Refereed
Lead

Active Learning of the Cutting of Cooking Ingredients using Simulation with Object Splitting
Nahomi Ikegami; Solvi Arnold; Kotaro Nagahama; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), Jan. 2020, Refereed
Lead

Fast and Flexible Multi-Step Cloth Manipulation Planning using an Encode-Manipulate-Decode NetworkNetwork (EM*D Net)
Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
Frontiers Neurorobotics, 13, May 2019, Refereed
Lead

An image recognition system aimed at search activities using cyber search and rescue dogs
Solvi Arnold; Kazunori Ohno; Ryunosuke Hamada; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
Journal of Field Robotics, 36(4), 677-695, Dec. 2018, Refereed
Lead

EM*D-net による動作生成と形状予測に基づく布製品の操作
田中大輔; アーノード・ソービ; 山崎公俊
日本機械学会論文集, 84(864), Aug. 2018, Refereed
Lead

二次学習の進化による心的表象の創発
有田隆也; Arnold Solvi; 鈴木麗璽
人工知能学会誌, 33(4), 476-483, Jul. 2018, Refereed
Lead

遠隔移動体を用いた災害時捜索活動のための画像認識システム
山崎公俊; Solvi Arnold
画像ラボ, 29(2), 7-14, Feb. 2018
Lead

The emergence of executive functions by the evolution of second-order learning
Keisuke Daimon; Solvi Arnold; Reiji Suzuki; Takaya Arita
Artificial Life and Robotics, 22(4), 483–489, Dec. 2017, Refereed
Lead

Unfolding of a rectangular cloth from unarranged starting shapes by a Dual-Armed robot with a mechanism for managing recognition error and uncertainty
Hiroyuki Yuba; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
Advanced Robotics, Vol.31, Issue 10, pp. 544 – 556, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2017.1285722, 31(10), 544-556, Feb. 2017, Refereed
Lead

Selection for Representation in Higher-Order Adaptation
Solvi Arnold; Reiji Suzuki; Takaya Arita
Minds & Machines, 25, 73-95, Feb. 2015, Refereed
Lead

Why artificial intelligence cannot be creative without being Intelligent11
Solvi Arnold
Nagoya Journal of Philosophy, 11, 62-77, Mar. 2014, Refereed
Lead

Selection for Reinforcement-Free Learning Ability as an Organizing Factor in the Evolution of Cognition
Solvi Arnold; Reiji Suzuki; Takaya Arita
Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2013, Mar. 2013, Refereed
Lead

Development of a continuum robot enhanced with distributed sensors for search and rescue
Yu Yamauchi; Yuichi Ambe; Hikaru Nagano; Masashi Konyo; Yoshiaki Bando; Eisuke Ito; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki; Katsutoshi Itoyama; Takayuki Okatani; Hiroshi G. Okuno; Satoshi Tadokoro

Disaster Robotics -Results from the ImPACT Tough Robotics Challenge-Chapter: Cyber-Enhanced Rescue Canine
Kazunori Ohno, Ryunosuke Hamada, Tatsuya Hoshi, Hiroyuki Nishinoma, Shumpei Yamaguchi, Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Joint work
Springer, Jan. 2019
ISBN:9783030053215

Online Motion Modification for Mobile Manipulators Based on Sequential Quadratic Programming
Kimitoshi Yamazaki; Takuya Iwasaki; Yutaka Takase; Solvi Arnold; Keisuke Takeshita
2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2024), Aug. 2024, Not invited

Breaching the Bottleneck: Evolutionary Transition from Reward-Driven Learning to Reward-Agnostic Domain-Adapted Learning in Neuromodulated Neural Nets
Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
The 2024 Conference on Artificial Life, Jul. 2024, Not invited,

Flow-Lenia.png: Evolving Multi-Scale Complexity by Means of Compression
Tadashi Adachi; Solvi Arnold; Takafumi Mochizuki; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
The 2024 Conference on Artificial Life, Jul. 2024, Not invited

アフォーダンスに基づく行動計画システム運用のためのデータ拡張と仮想化学習
辛島凜; Solvi Arnold; 安達正; 応長健; 山崎公俊
第41回日本ロボット学会学術講演会 (RSJ2023), Sep. 2023, Not invited

Action Primitive Classification of Sewing Operations toward Training Unskilled Workers
Akihisa Ishikawa; Naoki Hiratsuka; Yutaka Takase; Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA2023), Aug. 2023

A Dual-Arm Manipulation System for Unfolding and Folding Rectangular Cloth
Yusuke Kuribayashi, Yuta Yoshioka, Keisuke Onda, Takahiro Yamazaki, Tiancheng Wu, Solvi Arnold, Yutaka Takase, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA2023), Aug. 2023

テキストによる目標設定が可能なロボット行動計画システム
黒石茉未; アーノード ソービ; 安達正; 山崎公俊
第37回人工知能学会全国大会, Jun. 2023, Not invited

Cloth Manipulation on basis of Online Material Property Estimation
Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
The 28th Robotics Symposia, Mar. 2023

掃引体積検索に基づく動作計画における逐次二次計画を用いた即応的経路変更
岩崎拓也; 高瀬 裕; アーノード・ソービ; 竹下佳佑; 山崎公俊
The 40st Annual Conference of the RSJ, Sep. 2022

Cloth Manipulation with Estimation of Material Properties
Solvi Arnold; Kimitoshi Yamazaki
The 40st Annual Conference of the RSJ, Sep. 2022

ニューラルネットワークを用いたモデル予測制御に基づく人との協調着衣
山崎隆広; 高瀬裕; アーノード・ソービ; 山崎公俊
The 40st Annual Conference of the RSJ, Sep. 2022

柔軟物形状のオンライイン推定および予測に基づく操作行動生成
山崎公俊,田中大輔,アーノードソービ
第26回ロボティクスシンポジア, Mar. 2021

Visual Servoing Using Virtual Space for Both Learning and Task Execution
Tomoki Kawagoshi , Solvi Arnold , Kimitoshi Yamazaki
The 2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, Jan. 2021, IEEE/SICE

Picking of One Sheet of Cotton Cloth by Rolling up Using Cylindrical Brushes
Yuichi Kawasaki, Solvi Arnold , Kimitoshi Yamazaki
The 2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, Jan. 2021, IEEE/SICE

Learning Latent Representations of Environments and Grasping Motions for Fast Database Retrieval of Environments and Grasping Motions for Fast Database Retrieval of Collision-Free Motions
Solvi Arnold, Keisuke Takeshita, Takashi Yamamoto, Rui Zhu, Kotaro Nagahama, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
第38回日本ロボット学会学術講演会 RSJ2020, Oct. 2020, 日本ロボット学会, Not invited

操作中の形状変化予測に基づく柔軟物操作のためのオンライン操作軌道探索
田中大輔, Solvi Arnold, 山崎公俊
第38回日本ロボット学会学術講演会 RSJ2020, Oct. 2020, 日本ロボット学会, Not invited

Cloth Manipulation Planning with Mesh Representations and Incomplete Domain Knowledge
Solvi Arnold, Daisuke Tanaka, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
第38回日本ロボット学会学術講演会 RSJ2020, Oct. 2020, 日本ロボット学会, Not invited

Active Learning of the Cutting of Cooking Ingredients using Simulation with Object Splitting
Nahomi Ikegami, Solvi Arnold, Kotaro Nagahama, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
The 2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, Jan. 2020, IEEE/SICE, Not invited

円筒ブラシを用いた綿布取り出し作業の自動化
川崎雄一,Solvi Arnold,山崎公俊
計測自動制御学会中部支部シンポジウム2019, Sep. 2019, 計測自動制御学会, Not invited

Neural Network Architectures for Estimating Mesh Representations of Cloth Objects
Solvi Arnold,Kimitoshi Yamazaki
第37回日本ロボット学会学術講演会, Sep. 2019, 日本ロボット学会, Not invited

An Object Recognition System for Disaster Robotics – UI Design and Platform Integration –
Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki:
第36回日本ロボット学会学術講演会 RSJ2018, Sep. 2018, 日本ロボット学会, Not invited

物理シミュレーターを用いた衣服移動を抑えた折り畳み軌道の獲得」
津田 翔, Solvi ARNOLD, 山崎公俊
SICE中部支部シンポジウ2018, Sep. 2018, Not invited

A Neural Network Approach for Fast and Flexible Multi-Step Cloth Manipulation Planning
Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
Third Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop at ICRA2018, May 2018, Not invited

Cloth Manipulation Planning by Back-propagation using a 3D Convolutional Auto-Encoder and aRecurrent Neural Network
Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
第35回日本ロボット学会学術講演会, Sep. 2017, 日本ロボット学会, Not invited

Hanging Work of T-Shirt in Consideration of Deformability and Stretchability
Yosuke Koishihara, Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Takamitsu Matsubara
IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, Jul. 2017, Not invited

Real-time scene parsing by means of a convolutional neural network for mobile robots in disaster scenarios
Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, Jul. 2017, Not invited

サイバー救助犬の屋外探索活動における環境認識補助視覚の適用
山崎公俊,松田耕太郎,Solvi Arnold,星達也,山口竣平,濱田龍之介,大野和則
ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会2017, May 2017, Not invited

Emergence of executive functions by evolved second-order learning
Keisuke Daimon, Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki and Takaya Arita
The 22nd International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB2017), Jan. 2017, Not invited

Implicit Policies for Deformable Object Manipulation with Arbitrary Start and End States: A Novel Evolutionary Approach
Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
2016 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Dec. 2016, Not invited

畳み込み自己符号化器を用いた対話的学習に基づく災害対応のための画像認識システム
Arnold Solvi, 山崎公俊
第22回ロボティクスシンポジア, Mar. 2016, Not invited

Unfolding of a Rectangular Cloth Based on Action Selection Depending on Recognition Uncertainty
Hiroyuki Yuba, Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki
IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, Dec. 2015, Not invited

Using Second Order Learning to Evolve Social Representation (Theory of Mind)
Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
The 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, Dec. 2014, Not invited

Evolution of Social Representation in Neural Networks
Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ECAL2013), Sep. 2013, MIT Press, Not invited

Evolution of Social Representation in Neural Networks
Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
第27回人工知能学会全国大会, Jun. 2013, 人工知能学会, Not invited

Second order learning and the evolution of mental representation
Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE2012), Jun. 2012, MIT Press, Not invited

Modelling Mental Representation as Evolved Second Order Learning
Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB2012), Jan. 2012, Not invited

Neuro-cognitive Organization as a Side-effect of the Evolution of Learning Ability
Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Apr. 2011, IEEE, Not invited

柔軟物表現の再編成に基づく精緻な柔軟物操作能力の獲得
科学研究費補助金, 基盤研究(A)
2023 - 2027

Baldwinian Evolution of Task-Specialised High-Efficiency Learning in Neural Networks
科学研究費補助金, 基盤研究(C)（一般）
2023 - 2025

操作方法生成システム, 7007664, 2017174241, Patent right
山崎　公俊, ソービ　アーノード

画像判別装置及び画像判別方法, 6842745, 2016148267, Patent right
山崎公俊、ソービ　アーノード