[New] 09/05/2025 - Our workshop on From Thought to Touch and Back: AI, Neural Interfaces, and Sensory Feedback in Prosthetics has been accepted at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)'2025. Follow the [website] for updates.
[New] 28/02/2025 - Our workshop on Certified Control Synthesis for Robotic Systems has been accepted at The European Control Conference (ECC)'2025. Follow the [website] for updates.
[New] 27/01/2025 - Our paper on Evaluating Human-Robot Skill Gaps in Electrical Circuit Inspection: A New Electronic Task Board for Benchmarking Manipulation has been accepted at IEEE-ICRA'2025.
[New] 27/01/2025 - Our paper on MeshDMP: Motion Planning on Discrete Manifolds using Dynamic Movement Primitives has been accepted at IEEE-ICRA'2025.
01/09/2024 - Joined New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) as Assistant Professor.
23/07/2024 - Our paper on Learning periodic skills for robotic manipulation: insights on orientation and impedance has been accepted by Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). [DOI]
21/07/2024 - Our paper on EEG Motor Imagery classification: Tangent Space with Gate-Generated Weight Classifier has been accepted by Biomimetics. [DOI]
30/06/2024 - Our paper on Interactive learning of physical object properties through robot manipulation and database of object measurements has been accepted by IEEE-IROS 2024. [DOI][arXiv]
19/06/2024 - Our 2nd workshop on Formal methods techniques in robotics systems: Design and control has been accepted at IEEE-IROS'2024. Follow the [website] for updates.
19/06/2024 - Our 5th workshop on Variable Impedance Learning and Control: Navigating Challenges, Exploring Opportunities, and Shaping the Future has been accepted at IEEE-IROS'2024. Follow the [website] for updates.
10/06/2024 - Our paper on A unified formulation of geometry-aware discrete dynamic movement primitives has been accepted by Neurocomputing. [DOI]
03/06/2024 - Our paper on Visual servoing based dynamic groove following with an industrial robot has been accepted at IEEE-CASE'2024. [DOI]
03/05/2024 - I become IEEE Senior Member.
02/04/2024 - I become a Member of the ELLIS Society e.V.
20/03/2024 - Our paper on Fusion dynamical systems with machine learning in imitation learning: A comprehensive overview has been accepted by Information Fusion. [DOI]
29/01/2024 - Our paper on Safe Execution of Learned Orientation Skills with Conic Control Barrier Functions has been accepted at IEEE-ICRA'2024. [DOI][arXiv]
29/01/2024 - Our paper on CITR: A Coordinate-Invariant Task Representation for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted at IEEE-ICRA'2024. [DOI][ResearchGate]
29/01/2024 - Our paper on 1 kHz Behavior Tree for Self-adaptable Tactile Insertion has been accepted at IEEE-ICRA'2024. [DOI][ResearchGate]
08/01/2024 - Our paper on Data-efficient Reinforcement Learning for Variable Impedance Control has been accepted for publication at IEEE Access. [DOI]
12/10/2023 - Our paper on Digital Robot Judge: Building a Task-centric Performance Database of Real-World Manipulation With Electronic Task Boards has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (IEEE-RAM). [DOI]
02/10/2023 - Our paper on Geometric Reinforcement Learning For Robotic Manipulation has been accepted for publication at IEEE-Access. [DOI]
18/09/2023 - Our paper on Model-based Variable Impedance Learning Control for Robotic Manipulation has been accepted by Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). [DOI]
01/09/2023 - Joined the Faculty of Engineering - Electronic and Informatic Department at Mondragon Unibertsitatea as Lecturer and Researcher.
14/08/2023 - Our paper on Dynamic Movement Primitives in Robotics: A Tutorial Survey has been accepted by the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). [DOI]
14/08/2023 - Our paper on Learning Stable Robotic Skills on Riemannian Manifolds has been accepted by Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). [DOI]
21/06/2023 - Our paper on Orientation Control with Variable Stiffness Dynamical Systems has been accepted at IROS'2023. [arXiv][DOI]
21/06/2023 - Our paper on QDP: Learning to Sequentially Optimise Quasi-Static and Dynamic Manipulation Primitives for Robotic Cloth Manipulation has been accepted at IROS'2023. [website][DOI]
21/06/2023 - Our paper on SPONGE: Sequence Planning with Deformable-ON-Rigid Contact Prediction from Geometric Features has been accepted at IROS'2023. [arXiv][DOI]
28/04/2023 - Our workshop on Formal methods techniques in robotics systems: Design and control has been accepted at IROS'2023. [website].
28/04/2023 - Our workshop on Robotics & AI in Future Factory has been accepted at IROS'2023. [website].
22/03/2023 - Our IV workshop on Variable Impedance Learning and Control: From the Foundations to the Future Perspectives has been accepted at R:SS'2023. [website].
01/12/2022 - Joined Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technische Universität München, as Senior Scientist and Leader for Robot Learning Group.
25/10/2022 - Our paper on Learning Deep Robotic Skills on Riemannian manifolds has been accepted for publication at IEEE-Access. [paper] [code]
02/09/2022 - Our paper on Addressing Sample Efficiency and Model-bias in Model-based Reinforcement Learning has been accepted for publication at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (IEEE ICMLA). [DOI]
30/06/2022 - Our paper on A Novel Simulation-Based Quality Metric for Evaluating Grasps on 3D Deformable Objects has been accepted for publication at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2022). [arXiv]
03/06/2022 - Our III workshop on Variable Impedance Robotic Skills: From the Foundations to the Current Challenges and Perspectives has been accepted at R:SS'2022. [website]
10/01/2022 - Our paper on Deformation-Aware Data-Driven Grasp Synthesis has been accepted for publication at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). [DOI]
24/12/2021 - Our paper on A Bidirectional Soft Biomimetic Hand Driven by Water Hydraulic for Dexterous Underwater Grasping has been accepted for publication at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). [DOI]
06/10/2021 - Our paper on Periodic DMP formulation for Quaternion Trajectories has been accepted at ICAR'2021. [arXiv,DOI]
02/05/2021 - Our workshop on Variable Impedance Robotics skills: Challenges and Opportunities has been accepted at IROS'2021. [webpage]
01/03/2021 - Our paper on A Probabilistic Framework for Learning Geometry-Based Robot Manipulation Skills has been accepted for publication at Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). [open access - sciencedirect]
15/02/2021 - Our paper on A Novel Soft Robotic Hand Design With Human-Inspired Soft Palm: Achieving a Great Diversity of Grasps has been accepted for publication at IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (IEEE-RAM). [open access - ieeexplore]
12/02/2021 - Our paper on Probabilistic Surface Friction Estimation Based on Visual and Haptic Measurements has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). [open access - ieeexplore]
22/01/2021 - Our paper on Imitation learning-based framework for learning 6-D linear compliant motions has been accepted for publication at Autonomous Robots (AURO). [open access - springer]
22/10/2020 - Our paper on Variable impedance control and learning -- A review has been accepted for publication at Frontiers in Robotics and AI. It is the first survey that focuses on control and learning approaches for variable impedance in robotic manipulators. [open access - frontiers]
12/7/2020 - Our paper on Towards Orientation Learning and Adaptation in Cartesian Space has been accepted for publication at the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
2/1/2020 - Our paper on Geometry-aware Dynamic Movement Primitives has been accepted for ICRA'20!
1/4/2019 - I joined the Intelligent Robotics Group as a research fellow.