The Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial was created in November 1995 as a Joint Research Institute of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

The Institute was created with three main objectives: a) to promote a multidisciplinary center where CSIC and UPC researchers from different fields can combine efforts to carry out research on robotics and applied informatics; b) to offer to the community an Institute for fundamental and pre‐industrial technological research, offering also scientific education through doctorate and postgraduate courses; and c) to promote a quality‐based center being competitive enough to join other partners to participate in local, national and European research programs.

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Recent Submissions

  • Fast ready-to-harvest cotton detection and classification with YOLOv8 in greenhouse crops 

    Gonzalez Salazar, Guillermo Jose; Martinez Fernandez, Antonio; Martinez Lopez, Vicente; Foix Salmerón, Sergi; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Autonomous robotic systems come as a new way of harvesting cotton, which is needed to preserve quality while reducing expenses, as opposed to traditional methods. New algorithmic solutions must be developed to detect cotton ...
  • 4DPV: 4D pet from videos by coarse-to-fine non-rigid radiance fields 

    Montoya De Paco, Sergio; Agudo Martínez, Antonio (Springer, 2024-12-08)
    Part of book or chapter of book / Conference report
    Open Access
    We present a coarse-to-fine neural deformation model to simultaneously recover the camera pose and the 4D reconstruction of an unknown object from multiple RGB sequences in the wild. To that end, our approach does not ...
  • VQ-HPS: Human pose and shape estimation in a vector-quantized latent space 

    Fiche, Guénolé; Leglaive, Simon; Alameda-Pineda, Xavier; Agudo Martínez, Antonio; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc (Springer, 2024-11-29)
    Part of book or chapter of book / Conference report
    Restricted access - publisher's policy
    Previous works on Human Pose and Shape Estimation (HPSE) from RGB images can be broadly categorized into two main groups: parametric and non-parametric approaches. Parametric techniques leverage a low-dimensional statistical ...
  • Dual-space augmented intrinsic-LoRA for wind turbine segmentation 

    Singhal, Shubh; Pérez i Gonzalo, Raül; Espersen, Andreas; Agudo Martínez, Antonio (2025)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Accurate segmentation of wind turbine blade (WTB) images is critical for effective assessments, as it directly influences the performance of automated damage detection systems. Despite advancements in large universal vision ...
  • Inside-out states of garments 

    Jiménez Schlegl, Pablo (2024-02-28)
    Research report
    Open Access
    Cloth items such as garments can be potentially in infinite different configurations, due to their deformability. For the practical purposes of manipulation, however, it is possible to discretize the space of deformations ...
  • On Lie group IMU and linear velocity preintegration for autonomous navigation considering the Earth rotation compensation 

    Vial Serrat, Pau; Solà Ortega, Joan; Palomeras Rovira, Narcís; Carreras Pérez, Marc (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-11-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    Robot localization is a fundamental task in achieving true autonomy. Recently, many graph-based navigators have been proposed that combine an inertial measurement unit (IMU) with an exteroceptive sensor applying IMU ...
  • Model predictive control for dynamic cloth manipulation: parameter learning and experimental validation 

    Luque Acera, Adrià; Parent Alonso, David; Colomé Figueras, Adrià; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; Torras, Carme (2024-07)
    Article
    Open Access
    Robotic cloth manipulation is a challenging problem for robotic systems. Textile items can adopt multiple configurations and shapes during their manipulation. Hence, robots should not only understand the current configuration ...
  • Robots as mediators to resolve multi-user preference conflicts 

    Civit Bertran, Aniol; Stower, Rebecca; Leite, Iolanda; Andriella, Antonio; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem (2024-08-26)
    Research report / Conference report
    Open Access
    In real-life scenarios, robots will have to make decisions that involve multiple users. The current literature does not consider scenarios where a robot interacts with users who have conflicting preferences. To address ...
  • Exploring the potential of a robot-assisted frailty assessment system for elderly care 

    Civit Bertran, Aniol; Andriella, Antonio; Antonio, Maite; Javierre Garcés, Casimiro; Boqué, Concepción; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Frailty assessment plays a pivotal role in providing older adults care. However, the current process is time- consuming and only measures patients’ completion time for each test. This paper introduces a set of algorithms ...
  • Uncalibrated and unsupervised photometric stereo with piecewise regularizer 

    Casanova Martin, Alejandro; Agudo Martínez, Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Photometric stereo is a technique for recovering a rigid object's 3D shape, reflectance properties, lighting conditions, and specular highlights from multiple images captured under varying lighting conditions. Variational, ...
  • Unsupervised trajectory segmentation and gesture recognition through curvature analysis and the levenshtein distance 

    Tapia Palacio, Guillem; Colomé Figueras, Adrià; Torras, Carme (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    This work discusses segmentation and gesture recognition in human-driven robotic trajectories, a technique with applications in several sectors such as in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) training. By ...
  • Probabilistic graph-based real-time ground segmentation for urban robotics 

    Pino Bastida, Iván del; Santamaria Navarro, Àngel; Garrell Zulueta, Anais; Torres Medina, Fernando; Andrade-Cetto, Juan (2024-04-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    Terrain analysis is of paramount importance for the safe navigation of autonomous robots. In this study, we introduce GATA, a probabilistic real-time graph-based method for segmentation and traversability analysis of point ...

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