Sergi Foix Salmerón

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Perception and Manipulation


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

Phone 93 4011901

Web https://sergifoix.github.io/scientific_website/

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.

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  • A. Olivares-Alarcos, S. Foix, J. Borràs, G. Canal and G. Alenyà. Ontological foundations for contrastive explanatory narration of robot plans. Information Sciences, 123280: 741, 2026.

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  • G. González, S. Foix and G. Alenyà. An improved YOLO11 model for accurate cotton growth-stage detection, 27th Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025, Valls, Vol 410 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 266-269, IOS Press.

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  • A. Martínez and S. Foix. Continuous object orientation estimation of cotton crops using deep convolutional neural networks, 27th Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025, Valls, Vol 410 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 270-274, IOS Press.

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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.

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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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