News and Updates

[September 2024] New preprint “Data-driven Diffusion Models for Enhancing Safety in Autonomous Vehicle Traffic Simulations” released!

[July 2024] We presented our work “Trajectory Optimization on Matrix Lie Groups with Differential Dynamic Programming and Nonlinear Constraints” at RSS 2024 Workshop!

[April 2024] David Blanco Mulero successfully defended his PhD thesis “Towards Efficient Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects by Learning Dynamics Models and Adaptive Policies“.

[April 2024] New media released! “Aalto Open Science Award Third Place Awardee 2023 – Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project“

[March 2024] New preprint “Automated Feature Selection for Inverse Reinforcement Learning ” released!

[February 2024] I start my new role as an Assistant Professor of Robotics and Machine Learning in the Automation Technology and Mechanical Engineering Unit at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Finland.

[January 2024] Our paper “Benchmarking the Sim-to-Real Gap in Cloth Manipulation ” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!

[January 2024] Our research studies on Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects were awarded third place for Aalto University’s Open Science Award 2023!

[December 2023] Our two papers “The Role of Higher-Order Cognitive Models in Active Learning” and “Challenges of Data-Driven Simulation of Diverse and Consistent Human Driving Behaviors” have been accepted for presentation at the AAAI 2024 Workshop in Collaborative AI and Modeling of Humans (CAIHu), Vancouver, Canada, February 21, 2024.

[October 2023] New media released! “Invisible powers are driving cars and cranes, but what goes on behind the scenes to get these machines moving? Gokhan Alcan, Risto Ojala, Jesse Pirhonen, Jari Juhanko“

[October 2023] New preprint “Benchmarking the Sim-to-Real Gap in Cloth Manipulation ” released!

[August 2023] New preprint “Integrating Expert Guidance for Efficient Learning of Safe Overtaking in Autonomous Driving Using Deep Reinforcement Learning ” released!