Alberto Sanfeliu Cortés

Professor Emèrit


Subline:

Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems


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

Phone 93 4015782

Web http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/sanfeliu

Alberto Sanfeliu received the PhD degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. He is full professor of Computational Sciences and Artificial Intelligence. He is the Scientific Director of the Unit of Excellence Maria Maeztu of IRI, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial. He is coordinator of the Artificial Vision and Intelligent System Group (VIS), head of the research line Mobile Robotics, and former director of the IRI, and the UPC’s Automatic Control department.

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  • L.B. Hriscu, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Human perception in social tasks: a comparative evaluation of autonomous and teleoperated robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 11(1): 234-241, 2026.

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  • V. Bo, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. HINT-Bench: human intention recognition benchmark for social robotics, 2025 Iberian Robotics Conference, 2025, Porto, Portugal, Springer, to appear.

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  • L.B. Hriscu, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. From automation to telepresence: exploring voice preferences in humanoid robots, 2025 Iberian Robotics Conference, 2025, Porto, Portugal, Springer, to appear.

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  • G. Gomez, J. Laplaza, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Enhancing context-aware human motion prediction for efficient robot handovers, 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025, Hanzghou, China, pp. 16917-16922.

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  • M. Moutousi, A. El Saer, N. Nikolaou, A. Sanfeliu, A. Garrell Zulueta, L. Bláha, M. Čech, E.K. Markakis, I. Kefaloukos, M. Lagomarsino, G. Margetis, E. Adamakis, A. Poulakidas, F. Lykokanellos, A. Stefanidou, J. Cani, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, M. Siganos, A. Ajoudani and G.T. Papadopoulos. TORNADO: Foundation models for robots that handle small, soft and deformable objects, 6th International Conference in Electronic Engineering and Information Technology, 2025, Chania (Greece), pp. 1--13.

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  • L. Fuster, M. Dalmasso, A. Aubach, S. Izquierdo, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Negotiation of assignation plans in human-robot team task scheduling, 34th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands, pp. 1222-1228.

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  • A.M. Puig-Pey, B. Amante, Y. Bolea and A. Sanfeliu. A methodological proposal for the integration of robotic services in the urban public space of cities. ACE | Architecture, City and Environment, 20(58): 12591, 2025.

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  • L.B. Hriscu, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. AI or Human? Understanding perceptions of embodied robots with LLMs, 34th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands, pp. 917-923.

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  • A. Garrell Zulueta, I. del Pino, A. Santamaria-Navarro and A. Sanfeliu. Collaborative Transport Robots (CTRs) applicable in the proximal urban environment: A review. ACE | Architecture, City and Environment, 20(58): 12627, 2025.

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  • F. Gebelli, L.B. Hriscu, R. Ros, S. Lemaignan, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Personalised explainable robots using LLMs, 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1304-1308.

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