
Sergi Foix Salmerón
Científico Titular
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Perception and Manipulation
sfoix (at) iri.upc.edu
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Dr. Foix received M.Sc. degrees in Intelligent Systems and Automatic Control and Robotics from the University of Sunderland and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), respectively, and the PhD degree from UPC in 2016. He has been visitor at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen-Weßling) (2010). His fields of interest are NBV planning for active vision, deformable object pose estimation for robot manipulation, and human robot interaction for assistive robotics.
As leader
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CATCH: Computer-Assisted Technology for Cotton Crop Health
Technology Transfer Contract
Start Date: 01/03/2025
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ROGO: Assessorament per la utilització robot manipulador industrial
Technology Transfer Contract
Start Date: 01/10/2024
As contributor
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ARISE: Advanced AI and RobotIcS for autonomous task pErformance
European Project
Start Date: 01/01/2024
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ROMANDIC: RObot MANipulation of Deformables through dynamIC actions
European Project
Start Date: 01/10/2024
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CHLOE-Map: Geometric Coordinates to Navigate the Configuration Space of Cloth-Like Objects for Robotic Manipulation
National Project
Start Date: 01/09/2024
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SoftEnable: Towards Soft Fixture-Based Manipulation Primitives Enabling Safe Robotic Manipulation in Hazardous Healthcare and Food Handling Applications
European Project
Start Date: 01/10/2022
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DEMETER 5.0: Sistema digitalizado para la producción sostenible de algodón hidropónico en invernadero
National Project
Start Date: 01/11/2022
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CHLOE-GRAPH: ClotH-Like ObjEcts Grasping, Representation, and Action Planning
National Project
Start Date: 01/09/2021
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SGR RobIRI: Grup consolidat de Percepció i Manipulació Robotitzada de l'IRI
Regional Project
Start Date: 01/01/2022
Publications
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R. Kermenov, S. Foix, J. Borràs, V. Castorani, S. Longhi and A. Bonci. Automating the hand layup process: On the removal of protective films with collaborative robots. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 93: 102899, 2025, to appear.
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J.A. Delgado-Guerrero, A. Colomé, S. Foix and C. Torras. Safety methods for Cartesian control of redundant robotic arms, 7th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2024, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1-7.
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G. González, A. Martínez, V. Martínez, S. Foix and G. Alenyà. Fast ready-to-harvest cotton detection and classification with YOLOv8 in greenhouse crops, 7th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2024, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1-6.
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A. Olivares-Alarcos, S. Foix, J. Borràs, G. Canal and G. Alenyà. Ontological modeling and reasoning for comparison and contrastive narration of robot plans, 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2024, Auckland (New Zealand), pp. 2405-2407.
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R. Cupec, I. Vidovic, V. Simundic, P. Pejic, S. Foix and G. Alenyà. Teaching a robot where doors and drawers are and how to handle them, 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023, Busan, Korea, pp. 2288-2294.
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A. Olivares-Alarcos, S. Foix and G. Alenyà. Time to contact for robot safety stop in close collaborative tasks. In Human-robot collaboration: unlocking the potential for industrial applications, 87-104. Institution of Engineering Technology, 2023.
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A. Olivares-Alarcos, A. Andriella, S. Foix and G. Alenyà. Robot explanatory narratives of collaborative and adaptive experiences, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023, London (UK), pp. 11964-11971.
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J. Borràs, A. Boix, S. Foix and C. Torras. A virtual reality framework for fast dataset creation applied to cloth manipulation with automatic semantic labelling, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023, London (UK), pp. 11605-11611.
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A. Boix, S. Foix and C. Torras. Garment manipulation dataset for robot learning by demonstration through a virtual reality framework, 24th Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022, Sitges, in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Vol 356 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 199-208, IOS Press.
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A. Olivares-Alarcos, S. Foix, S. Borgo and G. Alenyà. OCRA – An ontology for collaborative robotics and adaptation. Computers in Industry, 132: 103627, 2022.
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Master theses as supervisor
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Next-Best-View motion planning applied to cotton boll harvesting
Student:
Antonio Martínez Fernández
Started:
11/02/2025
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