Guillem Alenyà
Publications
Research publications and preprints spanning robot learning, human-robot interaction, assistive robotics and deformable object manipulation.
Journal articles, conference papers and preprints.
View Scholar citation profile2026
- T. Love, F. Gebellí, P. Pramanick, A. Andriella, G. Alenyà, A. Garrell, R. Ros, and S. Rossi, “HEXAR: a Hierarchical Explainability Architecture for Robots,” in 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, 2026.Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction, ICRA 2026
- T. Love, V. Bermejo, A. Olivares-Alarcos, A. Andriella, N. Vallès-Peris, C. Barrué, and G. Alenyà, “When to Explain: Field Study Insights on Robot Failure Explanations for Older Adults,” in Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026, pp. 584–588.
- A. Olivares-Alarcos, M. A. F. Shodiq, S. D. Sanjaya, H.-I. Lin, and G. Alenyà, “Blending ontologies and language models to generate sound and natural robot explanations,” in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2026, pp. 3301–3303.
2025
- A. Longhini, Y. Wang, I. Garcia-Camacho, D. Blanco-Mulero, M. Moletta, M. Welle, G. Alenyà, H. Yin, Z. Erickson, D. Held, J. Borràs, and D. Kragic, “Unfolding the Literature: A Review of Robotic Cloth Manipulation,” Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, vol. 8, 2025.
2024
- A. Olivares-Alarcos, S. Foix, J. Borràs, G. Canal, and G. Alenyà, “Ontological Modeling and Reasoning for Comparison and Contrastive Narration of Robot Plans,” in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2024, pp. 2405–2407.
2023
- R. Ren, M. Gurnani Rajesh, J. Sanchez-Riera, A. Lopez-Rodriguez, F. Zhang, Y. Tian, G. Alenya, A. Agudo, Y. Demiris, K. Mikolajczyk, and F. Moreno-Noguer, “Grasp-Oriented Fine-Grained Cloth Segmentation without Real Supervision,” in Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications, 2023, pp. 147–153.
2022
- B. M. Lopes, R. Marques, T. Santos, J. Sousa, and G. Alenyà, “Relevant Parameters Identification in Traditional & Stretch and Blow Thermoplastics Injection Molding,” in IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications, 2022.
2021
- A. San-Miguel, V. Puig, and G. Alenyà, “Disturbance observer-based LPV feedback control of a N-DoF robotic manipulator including compliance through gain shifting,” Control Engineering Practice, vol. 115, p. 104887, 2021.
- A. Carfì, T. Patten, Y. Kuang, A. Hammoud, M. Alameh, E. Maiettini, A. I. Weinberg, D. Faria, F. Mastrogiovanni, G. Alenyà, L. Natale, V. Perdereau, M. Vincze, and A. Billard, “Hand-Object Interaction: From Human Demonstrations to Robot Manipulation,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 8, p. 316, 2021.
- N. Hansen, R. Jangir, Y. Sun, G. Alenyà, P. Abbeel, A. A. Efros, L. Pinto, and X. Wang, “Self-Supervised Policy Adaptation during Deployment,” in International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021.
2020
- J. Borràs, G. Alenyà, and C. Torras, “A grasping-centered analysis for cloth manipulation,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 924–936, 2020.
- S. Donaire, J. Borràs, G. Alenyà, and C. Torras, “A Versatile Gripper for Cloth Manipulation,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 6520–6527, 2020.
- A. Suarez, T. Gaury, J. Segovia, A. Bernardin, C. T. M. Marchal, and G. Alenyà, “Leveraging multiple environments for learning and decision making: a dismantling use case,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020, pp. 6902–6908.
- A. Andriella, R. Huertas, S. Forgas, C.Torras, and G. Alenyà, “Discovering SOCIABLE: Using a Conceptual Model to Evaluate the Legibility and Effectiveness of Backchannel Cues in an Entertainment Scenario,” in IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2020, pp. 752–759.
2019
- A. Olivares-Alarcos, D. Beßler, A. Khamis, P. Goncalves, M. K. Habib, J. Bermejo-Alonso, M. Barreto, M. Diab, J. Rosell, J. Quintas, J. Olszewska, H. Nakawala, E. Pignaton, A. Gyrard, S. Borgo, G. Alenyà, M. Beetz, and H. Li, “A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy,” The Knowledge Engineering Review, vol. 34, p. e29, 2019.
2018
- T. R. Savarimuthu, A. G. Buch, C. Schlette, N. Wantia, J. Rossmann, D. Martinez, G. Alenyà, C. Torras, A. Ude, B. Nemec, A. Kramberger, F. Worgotter, E. Aksoy, J. Papon, S. Haller, J. Piater, and N. Kruger, “Teaching a Robot the Semantics of Assembly Tasks,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 670–692, 2018.
2017
- N. Covallero, D. Martínez, G. Alenyà, and C. Torras, “Planning Clearing Actions in Cluttered Scenes by Phasing in Geometrical Constraints,” in Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 300, I. Aguiló, R. Alquézar, C. Angulo, A. Ortiz, and J. Torrens, Eds. IOS Press, 2017, pp. 233–238.
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- F. Rigual, A. Ramisa, G. Alenyà, and C. Torras, “Object detection methods for robot grasping: Experimental assessment and tuning,” in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 248, IOS Press, 2012, pp. 123–132.
2011
- A. Ramisa, G. Alenyà, F. Moreno-Noguer, and C. Torras, “Determining Where to Grasp Cloth Using Depth Information,” in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 232, C. Fernández, H. Geffner, and F. Manyà, Eds. IOS Press, 2011.
- S. Foix, G. Alenyà, and C. Torras, “Towards plant monitoring through Next Best View,” in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 232, C. Fernández, H. Geffner, and F. Manyà, Eds. IOS Press, 2011, pp. 101–109.
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- G. Alenyà and C. Torras, “Monocular object pose computation with the foveal-peripheral camera of the humanoid robot Armar-III,” in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 184, T. Alsinet, J. Puyol-Gruart, and C. Torras, Eds. IOS Press, 2008, pp. 355–362.