News !

  • [November, 2019] Amazing news! We received two awards for our papers in CoRL 2019!
    • "Bayesian Optimization Meets Riemannian Manifolds in Robot Learning" by N. Jaquier got the best paper presentation award!
    • "PyRoboLearn: A Python Framework for Robot Learning Practitioners" by B. Delhaisse got the best system paper runner-up award!
  • [October, 2019] New internship position in our research team! We want to push the limits of learning methods in challenging robotic manipulation tasks! If you are interested, drop me a message! Also check the details of the open position here.
  • [September, 2019] Super good news! We got two papers accepted in CoRL 2019 (pre-prints available here!):
    • "Bayesian Optimization Meets Riemannian Manifolds in Robot Learning" by N. Jaquier (work done during her PhD sabbatical at BCAI)
    • "PyRoboLearn: A Python Framework for Robot Learning Practitioners" by B. Delhaisse
  • [June, 2019] Great news! Three papers have been accepted in IROS 2019 (details here):
    • "Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Concurrent Discovery of Compound and Composable Policies" by D. Esteban
    • "Uncertainty-Aware Imitation Learning using Kernelized Movement Primitives" by J. Silverio and colleagues.
    • "Interactive Trajectory Adaptation through Force-guided Bayesian Optimization" by myself ;)
  • [June, 2019] I will be giving two talks in a couple of R:SS workshops in Freiburg, Germany. I will present some of the initial work we have done in BCAI about learning for robotic manipulation. Do not miss the talks happening on:
  • [March, 2019] Great news! We have a couple of really interesting papers regarding a new type of robot motion primitives (Kernelized Movement Primitives), which show nice adaptation capabilities. Well done Dr. Yanlong Huang! For more details, check our ICRA 2019 and IJRR pre-prints here!
  • I recently joined BCAI (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence) as a research scientist! So excited about the new challenges coming and looking forward to working in an amazing research center with so creative minds!
  • [September, 2018] New paper accepted to Transactions on Robotics: "Learning Task Priorities from Demonstrations". Amazing work carried out by Dr. Silvério. Check it out here!
  • [September, 2018] Great news! Three papers have been accepted in Humanoids 2018 (details here): 
    • "Learning Deep Robot Controllers by Exploiting Successful and Failed Executions" by D. Esteban
    • "Bimanual Skill Learning with Pose and Joint Space Constraints" by J. Silvério
    • "Force-Based Learning of Variable Impedance Skills for Robotic Manipulation" by F. Abu-Dakka
  • [September, 2018] An ICARCV paper and an IROS-workshop contribution were recently accepted. These two works present a bi-manual teleoperation system controlled by a human through 3D skeleton extraction using an RGB-D range sensor. Great collaboration with several amazing IIT colleagues! Check them out here!
  • [August, 2018] New paper accepted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems: "Force-based Variable Impedance Learning for Robotic Manipulation". Great work by Dr. Fares Abu-Dakka! Check it out here!
  • [July, 2018] Two new pre-prints of our accepted IROS 2018 papers on "Probabilistic Learning of Torque Controllers from Kinematic and Force Constraints" and "An Uncertainty-Aware Minimal Intervention Control Strategy Learned from Demonstrations". Amazing works carried out by Dr. Joao Silvério! Check them out here!
  • [April, 2018] The papers of our AURO special issue on "Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration" are already online! Have a look at the great contributions we gathered in this special issue.
  • [April, 2018] Great news! Our paper "Geometry-aware Tracking of Manipulability Ellipsoids" has been accepted to appear in R:SS 2018! Amazing collaboration with N. Jaquier from Idiap research institute. Check Publications section for more details. 
  • [February, 2018] Two new pre-prints of our accepted ICRA 2018 papers on "Hybrid Probabilistic Trajectory Optimization Using Null-Space Exploration" and "Generalized Task-Parameterized Skill Learning". Check them out here!  
  • [December, 2017] New pre-print of our work on "A Learning from Demonstration Approach fusing Torque Controllers" is now available! Check it out here!
  • [December, 2017] Good news! I am co-organizing with Anais Garrell, Michael Villamizar, Rachid Alami and Alberto Sanfeliu, the workshop on "Human-Robot Interaction with UAVs: Challenges and Frontiers" to be held in Brisbane, Australia during the next ICRA 2018! 
  • [November, 2017] Our paper "Learning Controllers for Reactive and Proactive Behaviors in Human-Robot Collaboration" is the 2nd most viewed in the Robotic Control Systems topic of Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 
  • [July, 2017] New pre-print of our work on "Learning Competing Constraints and Task Priorities from Demonstrations of Bimanual Skills" is now available! Check it out here!
  • [July, 2017] New pre-print of our work on "Generalized Task-Parametrized Movements Primitives" is now available! Check it out here!
  • [June, 2017] My paper "Learning Manipulability Ellipsoids for Task Compatibility in Robot Manipulation " has been accepted for publication in IROS 2017! Check Publications section for more details.
  • [February, 2017] Our paper on "Transfer Learning of Shared Latent Spaces between Robots with Similar Kinematics Structure" has been accepted for publication in IJCNN 2017! Great work carried out by B. Delhaisse and D. Esteban! Check Publications section for more details.
  • [January, 2017] New paper accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L): "A Method for Derivation of Robot Task-Frame Control Authority from Repeated Sensory Observations". Great collaboration with Dr. Luka Peternel and Dr. Arash Ajoudani! Check it out here!
  • [November, 2016] I was nominated to IJCAI 2017 Senior Program Committee. So excited about collaborating in this top-tier AI conference. 
  • [September, 2016] I will be serving as associate editor (AE) for ICRA 2017. Looking forward to reading nice contributions to this amazing conference!
  • [July, 2016] Good news! Our paper "Learning Physical Collaborative Robot Behaviors from Human Demonstrations" is in the top 3 of the most frequently downloaded publications of IEEE Transactions on Robotics for the month of June 2016.
  • [July, 2016] New code released! Check simple examples for trajectory generation and control of a collaborative robot manipulator, which are built on an adaptive duration hidden semi-Markov model (ADHSMM). For more details about this code, check our paper: "Learning Controllers for Reactive and Proactive Behaviors in Human-Robot Collaboration".  
  • [July, 2016] I am presenting my work on "Exploiting Interaction Dynamics for Learning Robot Collaborative Behaviors" in the Interactive Machine Learning workshop at IJCAI 2016. 
  • [June, 2016]  Call for papers of our AURO Special Issue on "Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration"
  • [June, 2016] Call for papers of our IROS 2016 workshop on "Human-Robot Collaboration: Towards Co-Adaptive Learning Through Semi-Autonomy and Shared Control"
  • [June, 2016] New open postdoc position in our lab! We are currently looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on robot learning for dexterous manipulation. Check the details of this job post here.  
  • [June, 2016] New paper accepted to Frontiers in Robotics and AI: "Learning Controllers for Reactive and Proactive Behaviors in Human-Robot Collaboration". Check it out here!  
  • [May, 2016] New code released! Check a simple example of a collaborative task carried out in a planar workspace. The code shows the concepts and algorithms introduced in the T-RO paper: "Learning Physical Collaborative Robot Behaviors from Human Demonstrations".  
  • [March, 2016] New paper accepted to Transactions on Robotics: "Learning Physical Collaborative Robot Behaviors from Human Demonstrations". Check it out here! 
  • [January, 2016] My colleague Dr. Arash Ajoudani and I are giving a series of lectures in the new course "Physical Human-Robot Interaction" at Università di Pisa next April.  
  • [November, 2015] I was nominated to IJCAI 2016 Program Committee. So excited about collaborating in this top-tier AI conference. 
  • [July, 2015] We have 5 really interesting papers and amazing talks given by our invited speakers! Check the program of our workshop on "Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration" to be held in Kobe, Japan during the next RO-MAN 2015!
  • [June, 2015] My paper "Learning Optimal Controllers in Human-Robot Cooperative Transportation Tasks with Position and Force Constraints" has been accepted for publication in IROS 2015! 
  • [June, 2015] Our paper "Learning Bimanual End-effector Poses from Demonstrations using Task-Parameterized Dynamical Systems" has been accepted for publication in IROS 2015! Great collaboration with João Silvério! 
  • [March, 2015] I am co-organizing with Sylvain Calinon the workshop on "Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration" to be held in Kobe, Japan during the next RO-MAN 2015!