Carme Torras Genís
Profesora de Investigación
Subline:
Perception and Manipulation
torras (at) iri.upc.edu
93 4015790
http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/torras
Carme Torras is Research Professor at the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC). She received M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Universitat de Barcelona and the University of Massachusetts, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). She is IEEE Fellow, EurAI Fellow, and she was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2016 and the Spanish National Research Award in Mathematics and Information Technologies in 2020.
As leader
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ALLIES: Artificial inteLLigence In sustainable dEvelopment goalS
European Project
Start Date: 01/01/2024
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MOMENTUM: Virtual prototyping for robotic manipulation of garments: enhancing the capabilities of the CLOTHILDE cloth simulator
National Project
Start Date: 20/12/2024
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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
As contributor
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FlexCycle: Flexible robotic solutions for the recycling of soft materials
European Project
Start Date: 01/09/2025
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DROVIC: Data-driven Robot Variable Impedance Control with Context Awareness
National Project
Start Date: 01/09/2025
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ARISE: Advanced AI and RobotIcS for autonomous task pErformance
European Project
Start Date: 01/01/2024
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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
Publications
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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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A. Andriella, C. Torras and G. Alenyà. Personalising human-robot interactions in social contexts. Volume 159 of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Springer, 2025.
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D. Blanco-Mulero, J. Borràs and C. Torras. Evaluating the pre-dressing step: Unfolding medical garments via imitation learning, 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025, Hanzghou, China, pp. 17791-17796.
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O. Barbany, A. Colomé and C. Torras. Beyond static perception: Integrating temporal context into VLMs for cloth folding, 2025 ICRA Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, 2025, , pp. 1-4.
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O. Barbany, A. Colomé and C. Torras. BiFold: Bimanual cloth folding with language guidance, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025, Atlanta (GA, USA), pp. 5652-5659.
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E. Caldarelli, A. Chatalic, A. Colomé, C. Molinari, C. Ocampo-Martínez, C. Torras and L. Rosasco. Linear quadratic control of nonlinear systems with Koopman operator learning and the Nyström method. Automatica, 177: 112302, 2025.
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P. Jiménez and C. Torras. Robots. Una immersió rápida. Volume 26 of Una immersió rápida. Tibidabo Edicions, SA, 2025.
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A. Favata, R. Gallart, L. van Noort, J. Exposito, J. Medina-Cantillo, C. Torras, D. Natera-de Benito, J.M. Font and R. Pàmies-Vilà. Imu-based kinematic analysis to enhance upper limb motor function assessment in neuromuscular diseases. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 22(63), 2025.
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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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PhD Theses as supervisor
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Feedback models for real-time robotic cloth manipulation
Student:
Oriol Barbany Mayor
Started:
19/07/2021
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Action detection of upper limb motion in children with neuromuscular diseases
Student:
Roger Gallart Agut
Started:
20/10/2022
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A framework for the understanding of the C-space of cloth and how to navigate it through grasping and manipulation primitives
Student:
Jay Prabodh Kamat
Started:
01/10/2024
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Efficient Learning and Real-Time Control for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
Student:
Harsha Vardhan Guda
Started:
01/10/2024
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