CLOTH manIpulation Learning from DEmonstrations

Mobile Manipulation Hackathon: Moving into Real World Applications

Author(s): Maximo A. Roa; Mehmet R. Dogar; Jordi Pages; Carlos Vivas; Antonio Morales; Nikolaus Correll; Michael Görner; Jan Rosell; Sergi Foix; Raphael Memmesheimer; Francesco Ferro
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2021, Page(s) 112-124, ISSN 1070-9932
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/mra.2021.3061951

Topological representation of cloth state for robot manipulation: deriving the configuration space of a rectangular cloth

Author(s): Strazzeri, Fabio; Torras, Carme
Published in: Autonomous Robots, Issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 737-754, ISSN 0929-5593
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-021-09968-7

A Physically Assistive Robotics User Study

Author(s): Gerard Canal; Carme Torras; Guillem Alenyà
Published in: ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021, ISSN 2573-9522
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3472208

Introducing CARESSER: A framework for in situ learning robot social assistance from expert knowledge and demonstrations

Author(s): Antonio Andriella; Carme Torras; Carla Abdelnour; Guillem Alenyà
Published in: User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2022, ISSN 0924-1868
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-021-09316-5

Household cloth object set: Fostering benchmarking in deformable object manipulation

Author(s): Irene Garcia-Camacho, Júlia Borràs, Berk Calli, Adam Norton, Guillem Alenyà
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2022.3158428

The importance of interaction style on users’ acceptance in an entertainment scenario

Author(s): Antonio Andriella; Ruben Huertas-Garcia; Santiago Forgas-Coll; Carme Torras; Guillem Alenyà
Published in: Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 2022, Page(s) 21-57, ISSN 1572-0373
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/is.21019.and

Perturbation-based stiffness inference in variable impedance control

Author(s): Edoardo Caldarelli, Adrià Colomé, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022, Page(s) 8823-8830, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2022.3187866

Gaussian-process-based learning from demonstration

Author(s): Arduengo García, Miguel; Colomé Figueras, Adrià; Lobo Prat, Joan; Sentis, Luis; Torras Genís, Carme
Published in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2023, ISSN 1868-5137
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-023-04551-7

Ethics of Social Robotics: Individual and Societal Concerns and Opportunities

Author(s): Carme Torras
Published in: Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2024, ISSN 2573-5144
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-control-062023-082238

Does the Personality of Consumers Influence the Assessment of the Experience of Interaction with Social Robots?

Author(s): Santiago Forgas-Coll; Ruben Huertas-Garcia; Antonio Andriella; Guillem Alenyà
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, 2023, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-022-00935-5

Do I Have a Personality? Endowing Care Robots with Context-Dependent Personality Traits

Author(s): Antonio Andriella, Henrique Siqueira, Di Fu, Sven Magg, Pablo Barros, Stefan Wermter, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, 2021, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-020-00690-5

An inextensible model for the robotic manipulation of textiles

Author(s): Franco Coltraro; Jaume Amorós; Maria Alberich-Carramiñana; Maria Alberich-Carramiñana; Carme Torras
Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 0307-904X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2021.09.013

The ethical issues of social assistive robotics: A critical literature review

Author(s): Júlia Pareto, Begoña Roman, Carme Torras
Published in: Technology in Society, 2021, Page(s) 101726, ISSN 0160-791X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101726

El aprendizaje en sistemas autónomos e inteligentes: visión general y sesgos de fuentes de datos

Author(s): Pablo Jiménez-Schlegl
Published in: Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 0210-1963
Publisher: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
DOI: 10.3989/arbor.2021.802005

Task-Adaptive Robot Learning From Demonstration With Gaussian Process Models Under Replication

Author(s): Miguel Arduengo, Adria Colome, Julia Borras, Luis Sentis, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 6/2, 2021, Page(s) 966-973, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2021.3056367

A topological extension of movement primitives for curvature modulation and sampling of robot motion

Author(s): Adrià Colomé; Carme Torras
Published in: Autonomous Robots, Issue 6, 2021, Page(s) 725-735, ISSN 0929-5593
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-021-09976-7

Benchmarking the Sim-to-Real Gap in Cloth Manipulation

Author(s): Blanco-Mulero, David; Barbany, Oriol; Alcan, Gokhan; Colomé, Adrià; Torras, Carme; Kyrki, Ville
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2377-3774
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.09543

How do consumers' gender and rational thinking affect the acceptance of entertainment social robots?

Author(s): Santiago Forgas-Coll, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022, Page(s) 973–994, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-021-00845-y

Controlled Gaussian process dynamical models with application to robotic cloth manipulation

Author(s): Fabio Amadio; Juan Antonio Delgado-Guerrero; Adriá Colomé; Carme Torras
Published in: International Journal of Dynamics and Control, 2023, Page(s) 3209-3219, ISSN 2195-2698
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s40435-023-01205-6

A novel collision model for inextensible textiles and its experimental validation

Author(s): Coltraro, Franco; Amorós, Jaume; Alberich-Carramiñana, Maria; Torras, Carme
Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2024, Page(s) 287-308, ISSN 0307-904X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2024.01.030

The effects of gender and personality of robot assistants on customers’ acceptance of their service

Author(s): Santiago Forgas-Coll, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà
Published in: Service Bussiness, 2022, Page(s) 359–389, ISSN 1862-8516
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-022-00492-x

Dimensionality Reduction in Learning Gaussian Mixture Models of Movement Primitives for Contextualized Action Selection and Adaptation

Author(s): Adria Colome, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 3/4, 2018, Page(s) 3922-3929, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2857921

Dimensionality Reduction for Dynamic Movement Primitives and Application to Bimanual Manipulation of Clothes

Author(s): Adria Colome, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Issue 34/3, 2018, Page(s) 602-615, ISSN 1552-3098
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2018.2808924

Xarxes socials icompanyia robòtica: tecnologia, ètica, iciència-ficció

Author(s): Carme Torras
Published in: Mètode Revista de difusió de la investigació, Issue 9, 2018, Page(s) 47-53, ISSN 2174-9221
Publisher: Universitat de Valencia
DOI: 10.7203/metode.9.12479

Exploiting Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning of Bimanual Robotic Tasks

Author(s): Fabio Amadio, Adria Colome, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 4/2, 2019, Page(s) 1838-1845, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2019.2898330

Assistive robotics: Research challenges and ethics education initiatives

Author(s): Carme Torras
Published in: DILEMATA: International Journal of Applied Ethics, Issue 30, 2019, Page(s) 63-77, ISSN 1989-7022
Publisher: Dilemata

Benchmarking Bimanual Cloth Manipulation

Author(s): Irene Garcia-Camacho, Martina Lippi, Michael C. Welle, Hang Yin, Rika Antonova, Anastasiia Varava, Julia Borras, Carme Torras, Alessandro Marino, Guillem Alenya, Danica Kragic
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 5/2, 2020, Page(s) 1111-1118, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2965891

A Grasping-Centered Analysis for Cloth Manipulation

Author(s): Julia Borras, Guillem Alenya, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Issue 36/3, 2020, Page(s) 924-936, ISSN 1552-3098
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tro.2020.2986921

A Versatile Gripper for Cloth Manipulation

Author(s): Sonia Donaire, Julia Borras, Guillem Alenya, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 5/4, 2020, Page(s) 6520-6527, ISSN 2377-3766
Publisher: IEEE Press
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2020.3015172

Perception of cloth in assistive robotic manipulation tasks

Author(s): Pablo Jiménez, Carme Torras
Published in: Natural Computing, Issue 19/2, 2020, Page(s) 409-431, ISSN 1567-7818
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11047-020-09784-5

"Science-fiction: A mirror for the future of humankind. Special issue on ""Artificial Intelligence"""

Author(s): Carme Torras
Published in: IDEES, Issue https://revistaidees.cat/en/science-fiction-favors-engaging-debate-on-artificial-intelligence-and-ethics/, 2020, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 1575-0914
Publisher: R. López de Mántaras, C. Sierra and P. Almeda

Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Cloth Manipulation: Parameter Learning and Experimental Validation

Author(s): Luque, Adrià; Parent, David; Colomé, Adrià; Ocampo-Martinez, Carlos; Torras, Carme
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2024, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1063-6536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tcst.2024.3362514

Special issue editorial: Interconnectats: Màquines i humans davant del segle 10101

Author(s): Carme Torras, Ramón López de Mántaras
Published in: Mètode Science Studies Journal, 2018, Page(s) 99:2-3, ISSN 2174-3487
Publisher: Universitat de València

Generating predicate suggestions based on the space of plans: an example of planning with preferences

Author(s): Gerard Canal, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà
Published in: User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2022, ISSN 0924-1868
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-022-09327-w

A Representation of Cloth States based on a Derivative of the Gauss Linking Integral

Author(s): Franco Coltraro; Josep Fontana; Jaume Amorós; Maria Alberich-Carramiñana; Júlia Borràs; Carme Torras
Published in: Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2023, Page(s) 128165, ISSN 0096-3003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2023.128165

Gendered human–robot interactions in services

Author(s): Forgas Coll, Santiago; Huertas García, Rubén; Andriella, Antonio; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, Issue 11, 2023, Page(s) 1791-1807, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-023-01035-8

Social robot-delivered customer-facing services: an assessment of the experience

Author(s): Santiago Forgas-Coll; Ruben Huertas-Garcia; Antonio Andriella; Guillem Alenyà
Published in: The Service Industries Journal, 2023, Page(s) 154-184, ISSN 1743-9507
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2022.2163995

Identificació d'orientació de roba per a la detecció de peces de dins cap a fora per manipulació amb robots

Author(s): Pau Solsona, Attila Husar, Pablo Jiménez
Published in: UPC Bachelor Thesis, 2022
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Mà robòtica multifuncional per a tasques domèstiques

Author(s): Sònia Donaire, Júlia Borràs
Published in: UPC Bachelor Thesis, 2019
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Using Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning of Bimanual Robotic Tasks

Author(s): Fabio Amadio, Adrià Colomé, Maria Serra
Published in: UPC Master Thesis, 2018
Publisher: Universitat Politènica de Catalunya

Reconstrucció de superfícies amb vora a partir de núvol de punts

Author(s): Miquel Verdaguer López, Jaume Amorós
Published in: UPC Bachelor Thesis, 2021
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Personalising robot assistance for cognitive training therapy

Author(s): Antonio Andriella
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2022
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Manipulación robòtica de tela: percepció i ajust de model

Author(s): Julen Antonio Echevarria, Franco Coltraro, Jaume Amorós
Published in: UPC Bachelor Thesis, 2020
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Development of a learning from demonstration environment using ZED 2i and HTC Vive Pro

Author(s): Arnau Boix, Sergi Foix, Arnau Dòria
Published in: UPC Bachelor Thesis, 2022
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Object manipulation with high-resolution and highly deformable tactile sensors

Author(s): Mireia Planas, Carme Torras
Published in: UPC Bachelor Thesis, 2022
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Robotic Cloth Manipulation: Real Implementation using Model Predictive Control and Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Adrià Luque, Adrià Colomé, Carlos Ocampo
Published in: UPC Master Thesis, 2021
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Ètica de les tecnologies: Coordenades teòrico-pràctiques per a la robòtica social

Author(s): Júlia Pareto
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2024
Publisher: Universitat de Barcelona

Robot Learning from Demonstration with Gaussian Processes

Author(s): Miguel Arduengo, Adrià Colomé, Carlos Ocampo, Carme Torras
Published in: UPC Master Thesis, 2021
Publisher: Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya

Primeros pasos en el control de la tela por simulación isométrica

Author(s): José María Julià Morell, Franco Coltraro, Jaume Amorós
Published in: UPC Master Thesis, 2022
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Validación del modelo de tela del proyecto Clothilde mediante la simulación y el cálculo numérico

Author(s): Roman Arañó, Franco Coltraro, Jaume Amorós
Published in: UPC Bachelor Thesis, 2020
Publisher: UPC

Gaussian Process applied to modeling the dynamics of a deformable material

Author(s): Ce Xu Zheng, Adrià Colomé, Carme Torras, Luís Sentís
Published in: UPC Bachelor Thesis, 2021
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Adapting robot behavior to user preferences in assistive scenarios

Author(s): Canal Camprodon, Gerard
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2020
Publisher: UPC

Robotic manipulation skills for picking and unfolding garments

Author(s): Irene García, Júlia Borràs, Guillem Alenyà
Published in: UPC Master Thesis, 2019
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Robotic manipulation of cloth: mechanical modeling and perception

Author(s): Franco Coltraro
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2023
Publisher: Universitat Politènica de Catalunya

Development and Pilot Evaluation of the ArmTracker: A Wearable System to Monitor Arm Kinematics During Daily Life

Author(s): Victor A. Carmona-Ortiz, Joan Lobo-Prat, Jeremy Van Ruysevelt, Carme Torras, Josep M. Font-Llagunes
Published in: 2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2020, Page(s) 759-764, ISBN 978-1-7281-5907-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/biorob49111.2020.9224302

Reconstruction of sampled surfaces with boundary via Morse theory

Author(s): Coltraro, Franco; Amorós, Jaume; Alberich Carramiñana, Maria; Torras Genís, Carme
Published in: Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica (CEIG), 2023, Page(s) 21-24, ISBN 978-3-03868-230-1
Publisher: European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics)
DOI: 10.2312/ceig.20231146

Semantic state prediction in robotic cloth manipulation

Author(s): Tzelepis, Georgios; Borràs Sol, Júlia; Eren Erdal, Aksoy; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem
Published in: Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys), 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47718-8_15

Human to Robot Whole-Body Motion Transfer

Author(s): Miguel Arduengo; Ana Arduengo; Adrià Colomé; Joan Lobo-Prat; Carme Torras
Published in: HUMANOIDS, Issue 12, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/humanoids47582.2021.9555769

Heteroscedastic Gaussian processes and random features: scalable motion primitives with guarantees

Author(s): Caldarelli, Edoardo; Chatalic, Antoine; Colomé Figueras, Adrià; Rosasco, Lorenzo; Torras Genís, Carme
Published in: Conference on Robot Learning, 2023, Page(s) 3010-3029, ISSN 2640-3498
Publisher: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)

Automatic Learning of Cognitive Exercises for Socially Assistive Robotics

Author(s): Alejandro Suárez-Hernández; Antonio Andriella; Aleksandar Taranovic; Javier Segovia-Aguas; Carme Torras; Guillem Alenyà
Published in: IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2022, Page(s) 139-146, ISBN 978-1-6654-4637-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man50785.2021.9515433

Discovering SOCIABLE: Using a Conceptual Model to Evaluate the Legibility and Effectiveness of Backchannel Cues in an Entertainment Scenario

Author(s): Antonio Andriella, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Santiago Forgas-Coll, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenya
Published in: 2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2020, Page(s) 752-759, ISBN 978-1-7281-6075-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man47096.2020.9223450

Proactive learning of cognitive exercises with a social robot

Author(s): Suárez Hernández, Alejandro; Andriella, Antonio; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Torras, Carme
Published in: ICRA Workshop on Prediction and Anticipation Reasoning in Human Robot Interaction (PAR-HRI), 2022, Page(s) 1-4
Publisher: IEEE

An inextensible model for the robotic manipulation of textiles

Author(s): Franco Coltraro, Jaume Amorós, Maria Alberich, Carme Torras
Published in: Congreso de ecuaciones diferenciales y aplicaciones XXVII (CEDYA XXVII), 2022, Page(s) 87
Publisher: Universidad de Zaragoza

Interaction identification through tactile sensing during cloth manipulation using a 3-axis touch sensor

Author(s): Idril-Tadzio Geer, Marc Maceira, Júlia Borràs, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà
Published in: IROS Workshop on Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects (ROMADO), 2020
Publisher: IEEE

Fitting Parameters of Linear Dynamical Systems to Regularize Forcing Terms in Dynamical Movement Primitives

Author(s): F. Stulp; A. Colomé; C. Torras
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE

Developable surfaces with prescribed boundary

Author(s): Maria Alberich, Jaume Amorós, Franco Coltraro
Published in: Trobada GEOMVAP - Geometria de Varietats i Aplicacions (GEOMVAP), 2021, Page(s) 127-132
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84800-2_21

Mixtures of controlled Gaussian processes for dynamical modeling of deformable objects

Author(s): Ce Xu Zheng, Adrià Colomé, Luis Sentis, Carme Torras
Published in: Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC), 2022
Publisher: PLMR

Ethics for social robotics: A critical analysis

Author(s): Júlia Pareto, Begoña Roman, Carme Torras
Published in: The Road to a Successful HRI: AI, Trust and ethicS Workshop, in the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022) (TRAITS-HRI), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2207.12555

Ordinal Inverse Reinforcement Learning Applied to Robot Learning with Small Data

Author(s): Adrià Colomé; Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022, Page(s) 2490-2496, ISBN 978-1-6654-7927-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981731

Morse cell decomposition and parametrization of surfaces from point clouds

Author(s): Maria Alberich, Jaume Amorós, Franco Coltraro, Carme Torras, Miquel Verdaguer
Published in: Encuentros de Álgebra Computacional y Aplicaciones (EACA), 2022
Publisher: Universitat Jaume I

Social assistive robotics: An ethical approach through the concept of freedom

Author(s): Pareto Boada, Júlia
Published in: Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations (PHTR), 2022, Page(s) 53
Publisher: Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations

Implications of Robot Backchannelling in Cognitive Therapy

Author(s): Antonio Andriella; Carme Torras; Guillem Alenyà
Published in: Social Robotics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2023, Page(s) 546–557, ISBN 978-3-031-24666-1
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_48

Anticipatory science fiction to foster ethical debates on AI and robotics

Author(s): Torras, Carme
Published in: International Symposium on Anticipation and Anticipatory Systems: Humans Meet AI (ANTICIPATION), 2019
Publisher: Örebro University

Semantic State Estimation in Cloth Manipulation Tasks

Author(s): Tzelepis, Georgios; Borràs Sol, Júlia; Eren Erdal, Aksoy; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem
Published in: International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2024
Publisher: ScitePress

Configuration space of a textile rectangle

Author(s): Fabio Strazzeri, Carme Torras
Published in: Geometry of Varieties and Applications - Research Perspectives CRM Barcelona, Spring 2019, Trends in Mathematics, vol. 10, in press., 2021, Page(s) 133-137
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84800-2_22

The KIT Swiss Knife Gripper for Disassembly Tasks: A Multi-Functional Gripper for Bimanual Manipulation with a Single Arm

Author(s): Julia Borras, Raphael Heudorfer, Samuel Rader, Peter Kaiser, Tamim Asfour
Published in: 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, Page(s) 4590-4597, ISBN 978-1-5386-8094-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593567

Probabilistic Planning for Robotics with ROSPlan

Author(s): Gerard Canal, Michael Cashmore, Senka Krivić, Guillem Alenyà, Daniele Magazzeni, Carme Torras
Published in: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 20th Annual Conference, TAROS 2019, London, UK, July 3–5, 2019, Proceedings, Part I, Issue 11649, 2019, Page(s) 236-250, ISBN 978-3-030-23806-3
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23807-0_20

Variable impedance control in Cartesian latent space while avoiding obstacles in null space

Author(s): David Parent, Adria Colome, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020, Page(s) 9888-9894
Publisher: IEEE

Sample-efficient robot motion learning using Gaussian process latent variable models

Author(s): Juan Antonio Delgado-Guerrero, Adria Colome, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020, Page(s) pp. 314-320
Publisher: IEEE

Dynamic cloth manipulation with deep reinforcement learning

Author(s): Rishab Jangir, Guillem Alenya, Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020, Page(s) 4630-4636
Publisher: IEEE

Contextual Policy Search for Micro-Data Robot Motion Learning through Covariate Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models

Author(s): Juan Antonio Delgado-Guerrero, Adria Colome, Carme Torras
Published in: 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020, Page(s) Accepted
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros45743.2020.9340709

Knowledge representation to enable high-level planning in cloth manipulation tasks

Author(s): Irene García-Camacho, Júlia Borràs, Guillem Alenyà
Published in: ICAPS Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS), 2022, Page(s) 9
Publisher: ICAPS

Self-supervised policy adaptation during deployment

Author(s): Nicklas Hansen, Rishabh Jangir, Yu Sun, Guillem Alenyà, Pieter Abbeel, Alexei Efros A, Lerrel Pinto, Xiaolong Wang
Published in: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021
Publisher: ICLR2021

Garment Manipulation Dataset for Robot Learning by Demonstration Through a Virtual Reality Framework

Author(s): Arnau Boix-Granell; Sergi Foix; Carme Torras
Published in: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 199-208
Publisher: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/faia220338

Quadratic dynamic matrix control for fast cloth manipulation

Author(s): Caldarelli, Edoardo; Colomé Figueras, Adrià; Ocampo Martínez, Carlos A.; Torras Genís, Carme
Published in: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023, ISBN 978-1-6654-9190-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros55552.2023.10341850

User interactions and negative examples to improve the learning of semantic rules in a cognitive exercise scenario

Author(s): Suárez Hernández, Alejandro; Andriella, Antonio; Torras Genís, Carme; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem
Published in: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023, ISBN 978-1-6654-9190-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros55552.2023.10341942

Evaluating the Effect of Theory of Mind on People’s Trust in a Faulty Robot

Author(s): Alessandra Rossi; Antonio Andriella; Silvia Rossi; Carme Torras; Guillem Alenya
Published in: 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Issue 32, 2022, Page(s) 477-482
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man53752.2022.9900695

A Virtual Reality Framework For Fast Dataset Creation Applied to Cloth Manipulation with Automatic Semantic Labelling

Author(s): Júlia Borràs; Arnau Boix-Granell; Sergi Foix; Carme Torras
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023, Page(s) 11605-11611
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icra48891.2023.10161122

ProcSim: Proxy-based Confidence for Robust Similarity Learning

Author(s): Barbany, Oriol; Lin, Xiaofan; Bastan, Muhammet; Dhua, Arnab
Published in: Arxiv, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.00668

Deformable Surface Reconstruction via Riemannian Metric Preservation

Author(s): Barbany, Oriol; Colomé, Adrià; Torras, Carme
Published in: Arxiv, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.11596

Blanco y frío como el Polo Norte y el Polo Sur: Seres humanos y robots

Author(s): Carme Torras, Lydia Delicado
Published in: Sociology and Technoscience, 2022, ISSN 1989-8487
Publisher: Universidad de Valladolid

Encoding cloth manipulations using a graph of states and transitions

Author(s): Júlia Borràs, Guillem Alenyà, Carme Torras
Published in: Arxiv, 2020, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.14681

La ciencia ficción como estímulo del debate ético en robótica

Author(s): Torras, Carme
Published in: Robótica, ética y política. El impacto de la superinteligencia en el mundo de las personas, 2022, Page(s) 139-167
Publisher: Icaria Editorial

Desplegament ètic de la robòtica assistencial per a un envelliment saludable i sostenible

Author(s): Carme Torras
Published in: La medicina al segle xxi, avenços i límits, 2023
Publisher: Universitat d'Estiu i Tardor d'Andorra, Govern d'Andorra

Robotics and artificial intelligence meet the humanities: some initiatives for ethics education and dissemination

Author(s): Torras, Carme
Published in: Humanities and Higher Education: Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities, Issue 6, 2019, Page(s) 267-273, ISBN 978-84-09-14675-8
Publisher: Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi)

Robótica asistencial: retos éticos en la ayuda y acompañamiento a cuidadores y pacientes

Author(s): Torras, Carme
Published in: Soledad no deseada en la era digital, Fundació Víctor Grífols i Lucas, 2023, Page(s) 38-46, ISBN 9788409478477
Publisher: Fundació Víctor Grífols i Lucas

Writing Science Fiction as an Inspiration for AI Research and Ethics Dissemination

Author(s): Carme Torras; Luís Gustavo Ludescher
Published in: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, 2023, Page(s) 322-344, ISBN 978-3-031-24348-6
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24349-3_17

User preferences for enhanced robot adaptation in assistive dressing

Author(s): G. Canal, G. Alenyà and C. Torras
Published in: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 2024
Publisher: Springer

Robótica assistencial: una aposta per l'envelliment saludable i sostenible

Author(s): Carme Torras
Published in: Bioética: una mirada cap al futur, 2023, Page(s) 216-225
Publisher: Fundació Víctor Grífols i Lucas

Experimental validation of an inextensible cloth model

Author(s): Franco Coltraro
Published in: IRI Technical Reports, 2020
Publisher: IRI

Learning cloth manipulation with demonstrations

Author(s): Rishabh Jangir, Guillem Alenya, Carme Torras
Published in: IRI Technical Reports, 2019
Publisher: IRI

Inside-out states of garments

Author(s): Jiménez Schlegl, Pablo
Published in: IRI Technical Reports, 2024
Publisher: IRI

The Vestigial Heart. A Novel of the Robot Age

Author(s): Carme Torras
Published in: 2018, ISBN 9780-262037778
Publisher: MIT Press

Aprenentatge Automàtic en Xarxes i Robots: Reptes Tecnocientífics i Implicacions Ètiques

Author(s): Carme Torras
Published in: 2018, ISBN 978-84-9965-439-3
Publisher: Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Secció de Ciències i Tecnologia

Reinforcement Learning of Bimanual Robot Skills

Author(s): Adria Colome, Carme Torras
Published in: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-26326-3
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26326-3

Presente y futuro de los robots asistenciales: Desafíos tecnocientíficos y éticos

Author(s): Torras Genís, Carme
Published in: Discursos de Ingreso en la Real Academia de Ingeniería, 2024, ISBN 978-84-95662-95-8
Publisher: Real Academia de Ingeniería

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