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Former PhD students


Joan Ilari Valentí: "Study of new heuristics to compute collision-free paths of rigid bodies in a 2D universe". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, April 1987.

Federico Thomas: "Planificación de tareas de ensamblado basada en análisis de restricciones". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, July 1988.

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz: "A reinforcement learning connectionist approach to robot path finding". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Oct. 1992.

Enric Celaya Llover: "Geometric reasoning for the determination of the position of objects linked by spatial relationships". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Oct. 1992.

Vicente Ruiz de Angulo García: "Interferencia catastrófica en redes neuronales: Soluciones y relación con otros problemas del conexionismo". Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Universidad del País Vasco, Jan. 1996.

Robert Griñó Cubero: "Contribución a la identificación de sistemas dinámicos mediante métodos conexionistas" (co-advised with Gabriela Cembrano). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Oct. 1997.

Pau Bofill Soliguer: "Xarxes neuronals per a la generació de dissenys en blocs". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Nov. 1997.

Pablo Jiménez Schlegl: "Evaluación de la interferencia estática y dinámica entre poliedros no convexos". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Sept. 1998.

Elisa Martínez Marroquín: "Recovery of 3D structure and motion from the deformation of an active contour in a sequence of monocular images". Universitat Ramon Llull, Oct. 2000.

Eduardo Todt: "Visual landmark detection for navigation in outdoor environments". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, July 2005.

Guillem Alenyà Ribas: "Localització de robots mitjançant contorns actius". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Oct. 2007.

Leonel Rozo: "Robot learning from demonstration of force-based manipulation tasks" (co-advised with PabLo Jiménez). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, June 2013.

Stefan Ulbrich: "Sensorimotor Learning for an Artificial Body Schema on Humanoid Robots" (co-advised with Ruediger Dillmann). University of Karlsruhe, February 2014.

Edgar Simo-Serra: "Understanding Human-Centric Images: From Geometry to Fashion" (co-advised with Francesc Moreno-Noguer). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, June 2015. Marc Esteva Vivanco Award to Best PhD Thesis given by the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA).

Sergi Foix Salmerón: "Task-oriented viewpoint planning for free-form objects" (co-advised with Guillem Alenyà). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, July 2016.

Syed Farzad Husain: "Perceiving Dynamic Environments: From Surface Geometry to Semantic Representation" (co-advised with Babette Dellen). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, October 2016.

David Martínez Martínez: "Learning Relational Models with Human Interaction for Planning in Robotics" (co-advised with Guillem Alenyà). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, February 2017.

Adrià Colomé Figueras: "Bimanual robot skills: MP encoding, dimensionality reduction and reinforcement learning". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, July 2017. Finalist George Giralt Award to Best European Thesis. GTRob Award to Best Spanish Thesis.

Gerard Canal Camprodon: "Adapting robot behavior to user preferences in assistive scenarios" (co-advised with Guillem Alenyà). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, March 2020. Marc Esteva Vivanco Award to Best PhD Thesis given by the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA).

Antonio Andriella: "Personalising robot assistance for cognitive training therapy" (co-advised with Guillem Alenyà). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, October 2022. Georges Giralt Award to best European PhD thesis, AIHUB.CSIC prize for the best AI PhD thesis from the Hub, and outstanding PhD thesis recognition from UPC.

Júlia Pareto Boada: "Ètica de les tecnologies: Coordenades teòrico-pràctiques per a la robòtica social." (co-advised with Begoña Román). Universitat de Barcelona, January 2024.

Alejandro Suárez Hernández: "New methods for bridging symbolic-geometric reasoning, addressing uncertainty and action learning in task planning for robotics" (co-advised with Guillem Alenyà). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, July 2024.


Current PhD students


Juan Antonio Delgado Guerrero: "Learning latent structure in robotic clothing assistance" (co-advised with Adrià Colomé). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Edoardo Caldarelli: "Learning cloth handling skills with Gaussian Processes and Model Predictive Control" (co-advised with Adrià Colomé). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Oriol Barbany Mayor: "Feedback models for real-time robotic cloth manipulation" (co-advised with Adrià Colomé). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.


Former MSc students


Marçal Garolera Huguet: "Study of the singularities of a family of parallel manipulators". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, June 2007.

Pol Monsó Purtí: "POMDP approach to robotic sorting and manipulation of deformable objects" (co-advised with Guillem Alenyà). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, September 2011.

Adrià Colomé Figueras: "Smooth Inverse Kinematic Algorithms for Redundant Robots". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, September 2011.

Alejandro Suárez Hernández: "Towards effective planning strategies for robots in recycling" (co-advised with Guillem Alenyà). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, June 2018.

Miguel Arduengo Garcia: "Robot Learning from Demonstration with Gaussian Processes" (co-advised with Adrià Colomé). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, July 2021. Best MSc Thesis Award from the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA).