Franco Coltraro


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Perception and Manipulation


E-mail fcoltraro (at) iri.upc.edu

Phone 93 4054490

Web https://fcoltraro.github.io/

Mr. Coltraro received his BSc degree in Pure Mathematics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 2016. In 2017, he received a MSc degree on Applied Mathematics from Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). After a brief experience as a Data Scientist in the private sector, he joined IRI, where he completed his PhD degree in 2023. His main interests are the application of topological, geometrical and differential methods to real world problems.

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  • F. Coltraro, J. Amorós, M. Alberich-Carramiñana and C. Torras. Topological reconstruction of sampled surfaces via Morse theory. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 473: 116872, 2026.

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  • F. Coltraro, J. Borràs, M. Alberich-Carramiñana and C. Torras. Tracking cloth deformation: a novel dataset for closing the sim-to-real gap for robotic cloth manipulation learning. International Journal of Robotics Research , 44(9): 1431-1442, 2025.

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  • F. Coltraro, J. Amorós, C. Torras and M. Alberich-Carramiñana. A practical aerodynamic model for dynamic textile manipulation in robotics. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 209(105993), 2025.

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  • F. Coltraro, J. Amorós, M. Alberich-Carramiñana and C. Torras. A novel collision model for inextensible textiles and its experimental validation. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 128: 287-308, 2024.

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  • F. Coltraro, J. Amorós, M. Alberich-Carramiñana and C. Torras. Reconstruction of sampled surfaces with boundary via Morse theory, 2023 Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica, 2023, Mallorca, pp. 21-24.

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  • F. Coltraro, J. Fontana, J. Amorós, M. Alberich-Carramiñana, J. Borràs and C. Torras. A representation of cloth states based on a derivative of the Gauss Linking Integral. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 457: 128165, 2023.

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  • F. Coltraro, J. Amorós, M. Alberich-Carramiñana and C. Torras. An inextensible model for the robotic manipulation of textiles, 2022 Congreso de ecuaciones diferenciales y aplicaciones XXVII, 2022, Zaragoza, Spain, pp. 87-87.

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  • M. Alberich-Carramiñana, J. Amorós, F. Coltraro, C. Torras and M. Verdaguer. Morse cell decomposition and parametrization of surfaces from point clouds, 2022 Encuentros de Álgebra Computacional y Aplicaciones, 2022, Castellón, Spain, pp. 33-36.

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  • F. Coltraro, J. Amorós, M. Alberich-Carramiñana and C. Torras. An inextensible model for the robotic manipulation of textiles. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 101: 832-858, 2022.

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  • F. Coltraro. Experimental validation of an inextensible cloth model. Technical Report IRI-TR-20-04, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, 2020.

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