News and Updates

[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!

[June 2023] Our paper “QDP: Learning to Sequentially Optimise Quasi-Static and Dynamic Manipulation Primitives for Robotic Cloth Manipulation” has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS 2023), October 1-5 2023, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

[March 2023] New preprint “QDP: Learning to Sequentially Optimise Quasi-Static and Dynamic Manipulation Primitives for Robotic Cloth Manipulation” released!

[February 2023] Our paper “Differential Dynamic Programming with Nonlinear Safety Constraints Under System Uncertainties” has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), May 29 – June 2, 2023, ExCeL London, UK.

[January 2023] New preprint “Trajectory Optimization on Matrix Lie Groups with Differential Dynamic Programming and Nonlinear Constraints ” released!

[July 2022] Our paper “Learning Visual Feedback Control for Dynamic Cloth Folding” has been selected as a possible finalist of IROS Best Student Paper Award and IROS Best RoboCup Paper Award.

[July 2022] Our paper “Simultaneous and independent micromanipulation of two identical particles with robotic electromagnetic needles” won the Best Robotics Paper award at International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales MARSS 2022!

[July 2022] New preprint “Learning Based High-Level Decision Making for Abortable Overtaking in Autonomous Vehicles” released!

[June 2022] Our paper “Learning Visual Feedback Control for Dynamic Cloth Folding” has been accepted for publication at the 35th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)!