UOH AI & Robotics GROUP

We are a group of researchers from the Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile, working on various aspects related to AI and Robotics, with interest and expertise on Machine Learning, Computer & Robot Vision, Neuroscience, Mechatronics, Autonomous Systems, Sensors and Soft Robotics. We develop both, basic and applied research, for a broad range of domains, from algorithm design and modeling, to applied areas such areas agriculture, manufacturing, mining and health, seeking to provide provide scientific, social and economic benefits through the development of this cutting-edge technology.

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Principal Researchers

Rodrigo Verschae

Associate Professor & Director, ICI-UOH

Computer & Robot Vision

Machine Learning

Event-based Vision

Field Robotics

Stefan EsCAIDA

Assistant Professor, ICI-UOH

Tactile Sensing

Proximity Sensing

Sensor Design

Soft Robotics

Daniel Casagrande

Assistant Professor, ICI-UOH

Mechatronics

Dynamic Systems

Active and passive Control

Digital Fabrication

MarÍa de los Angeles RodrÍguez

Assistant Professor, ICI-UOH

Interoception

Cognitive Neuroscience

                  Brain-Body Interaction

Perception

Alexander Baumgärtner

Assistant Professor, ICI-UOH

Machine Learning

Databases

Young Researchers

Christopher Flores

FONDECYT Postdoct, ICI-UOH

Natural language processing

Machine learning

Active and semi-supervised Learning

Biomedical informatics

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Robert Guaman-Rivera

Postdoc, ICI-UOH

Robotics in construction

Digital Signal Processing

MATLAB Simulation

Computer Vision

Mobile Manipulators

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Collaborators

Victor Bucarey

Assistant Professor, ICI-UOH

Operation Research

Optimization

Machine Learning

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Cristóbal Quiñinao

Associate Professor, ICI-UOH

Biological systems, Functional analysis

Stochastic processes,

PDEs and dynamical systems.

Neuroscience

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Gonzalo Muñoz

Assistant Professor, ICI-UOH

Operation Research

Optimization

Machine Learning

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Former MemberS

Ulises Pereira

Associate Researcher, ICI-UOH

Neuroscience

Machine Learning

Recent Publicaciotns

Gustavo Gil, Daniel Casagrande, Leonardo Pérez-Cortés, Rodrigo Verschae

Why the low adoption of robotics in the farms? Challenges for the establishment of commercial agricultural robots 

Smart Agricultural Technology

Volume 3, February 2023, 100069

Christopher Flores, Rodrigo Verschae

A Generic Semi-Supervised and Active Learning Framework for Biomedical Text Classification

International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) 

2022

Glasgow, UK

Jayanta Mandi, Vı́ctor Bucarey, Maxime Mulamba Ke Tchomba, Tias Guns

Decision-Focused Learning: Through the Lens of Learning to Rank

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 

2022


Rodrigo Verschae

Smart Technologies in Agriculture

In: Zhang, Q. (eds) Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies. Springer, Cham. 


Projects

"Tecnologías para la Gestión de Riesgo en el Proceso Productivo de la Cereza: hacia una agricultura de precisión para la Región de O’Higgins" 

PI: R. Verschae & C. Quiñinao

FondecYT

"A Sensorization Toolbox for the Realization of Soft Physical Twins: Applications to Phantoms of Human Organs"

PI: S. Escaida

ROOT Reconstruction

PI: D. Casagrande

OutReach

Ciencia Abierta: Inteligencia Artificial

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Robot EDUCATION at SCHOOLs

Collaboration with the Mustakis Foundation

ART

Mesa Publico-Privada de Robotica

LABs, infrastructure, Facilities & Equipment