Alberto Sanfeliu Cortés
Professor Emèrit
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Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems
sanfeliu (at) iri.upc.edu
93 4015782
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.
As leader
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SOCIAL PIA: Cooperative Social PIA model for Cybernetics Avatars (Moonshot Research and Development Program)
UPC Project
Start Date: 01/04/2023
As contributor
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TRIFFID: auTonomous Robotic aId For increasing FIrst responDers efficiency
European Project
Start Date: 01/10/2024
Publications
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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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Y. Nakano, T. Kanda, J. Even, A. Sanfeliu, A. Garrell Zulueta, M. Kukita, S. Tsugita, F. Shimpo and H. Yuasa. Cybernetic avatars and society. In Cybernetic Avatar, 313-355. Springer, 2025.
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A. Santamaria-Navarro, S. Hernández, F. Herrero, A. López, I. del Pino, N.A. Rodríguez, C. Fernandez, A. Baldó, C. Lemardelé, A. Garrell Zulueta, J. Vallvé, H. Taher, A.M. Puig-Pey, L. Pagès and A. Sanfeliu. Towards the deployment of an autonomous last-mile delivery robot in urban areas. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 32(3): 26-39, 2025.
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P. Falqueto, A. Sanfeliu, L. Palopoli and D. Fontanelli. Learning priors of human motion with vision transformers, 48th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications , 2024, Osaka, Japan, pp. 382-389.
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J. Palmieri, P. Di Lillo, A. Sanfeliu and A. Marino. Perception-driven shared control architecture for agricultural robots performing harvesting tasks, 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE, pp. 9328-9334.
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PhD Theses as supervisor
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Cooperative Planning and Negotiation in Human-Robot Teams
Student:
Marc Dalmasso Blanch
Started:
01/06/2018
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Human-Aware navigation tasks based on deep learning techniques
Student:
Oscar Gil Viyuela
Started:
01/12/2018
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Large language models to enhance the interaction between humans and robots
Student:
Lavinia Beatrice Hriscu Acsinte-Staut
Started:
16/12/2024
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Human Intention Learning with Large Concept and Vision Models: A Multimodal Framework for Collaborative Robotics
Student:
Edison Jair Bejarano Sepulveda
Started:
01/01/2025
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