PhD, Space Robotics Lab, Tohoku University · Japanese Government MEXT Scholar · IAF Emerging Space Leader 2025
I build legged and modular robots that can work on the lunar surface,
and the learning-based control that lets them keep working when the terrain does not cooperate.
| Legged locomotion for space | Modular reconfigurable lunar robots | Learning and autonomy for field robots |
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| How does a legged robot keep walking on terrain that no one has surveyed, with no chance of rescue? | If you can only land a fixed mass on the Moon, should it be one specialised machine or a set of parts? | What has to be true for a learned policy to still work outside the simulator? |
| Reinforcement learning · Isaac Lab · sim-to-real | MoonBot · JST Moonshot Goal 3 | Decentralized RL · agentic planning |
Field record JAXA Space Exploration Test Field, Sagamihara (2025) · Abukuma Cave, Fukushima (2025)
| Now | Before |
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| Learning-based locomotion controllers for quadrupedal robots in space exploration, with Claudio Semini under the ALTEC project. Most of my time goes into GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning in Isaac Lab, and the sim-to-real pipelines that decide whether a policy survives contact with real hardware. | Doctorate at the Space Robotics Lab, Tohoku University, with Kazuya Yoshida, as a Japanese Government MEXT scholar. I worked on MoonBot, a modular, reconfigurable robot for lunar base construction under JST Moonshot Goal 3, field-tested at the JAXA Space Exploration Test Field and in the Abukuma Cave. |
| Languages | Reinforcement learning and AI |
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| Robotics and simulation | Hardware and field systems |
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| Year | Recognition |
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| 2025 | Emerging Space Leader, International Astronautical Federation (IAF), Sydney |
| 2025 | Invited panelist, IAF Next Generation Plenary, International Astronautical Congress, Sydney |
| 2025 | Best Research Paper Award, IEEE iSpaRo 2025, 2nd International Conference on Space Robotics, Sendai |
| 2024 | I-CON Award, Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), ISRO |
| 2023 to 2026 | MEXT Research Scholar, Government of Japan, Embassy Recommendation |
Full CV and publications at drmishra.space/cv