Newsletter IRI, CSIC-UPC: APRIL 2024

Newsletter IRI, CSIC-UPC

APRIL 2024

👩‍💻 IRI PRODUCTION

📺 IRI IN THE MEDIA

🗓️ AGENDA

👤 NEW IRI MEMBERS

👩‍💻 IRI PRODUCTION

🏅 AWARDS

Ibrar Malik, student of the PhD program in Automatic Control, Robotics and Vision, has won the 3rd prize in the 2nd edition of the Micro-Stories 2024 contest of the UPC Doctoral School - 23/04/2024

Carme Torras won the Manel Xifra Boada award in the modality of scientific and technique transference - 18/04/2024

🎯 NEW PROJECTS

Highlighted project by UPC, LENA: Continuous learning to improve AI applied torobot navigation with human interactions - 4/04/2024

Franco Coltraro won the IEC Sant Jordi Award of the Sciences and Engineering Technology Section fot his PhD Thesis 'Robotic manipulation of cloth. Mechanical modeling and perception' - 23/04/2024

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Newsletter IRI, CSIC-UPC

APRIL 2024

👩‍💻 IRI PRODUCTION

📺 IRI IN THE MEDIA

🗓️ AGENDA

👤 NEW IRI MEMBERS

⏳ PAST EVENTS

👩🏼‍🎓 NEW DOCTORS

Ali Molavi - Control System Design and Implementation for PEMFC to Maximize the Efficiency and Minimize the Degradation in an Automotive Application - 17/04/2024

‘NET2 Workshop & Midterm Meeting’ of the MSCA TRAIL (TRAnsparent InterpretabLe robots) project - From 22 to 23/04/2024

Josep Martí Saumell - Agile aerial manipulation: an approach based on full-body dynamics and model predictive control - 30/04/2024

Seminar: Artificial movement: Should we learn or optimize? By Nicolas Mansard (LAAS-CNRS) - 29/04/2024

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Newsletter IRI, CSIC-UPC

APRIL 2024

👩‍💻 IRI PRODUCTION

📺 IRI IN THE MEDIA

🗓️ AGENDA

👤 NEW IRI MEMBERS

📺 IRI IN THE MEDIA

⏳ PAST EVENTS

Conference: “Quins nous reptes ètics i jurídics planteja la intel·ligència artificial?” By Júlia Pareto - 30/04/2024

• 18/04/2024 - Carme Torras, premi Manel Xifra a la transmissió de coneixement tècnic i tecnològic - L'econòmica, El Punt Avui

• 19/04/2024 - La sostenibilitat i la intel·ligència artificial protagonitzen els Premis Manel Xifra i Boada - Diari de Girona

• 19/04/2024 - Sant Jordi 2024: Escriptors i escriptores que uneixen la seva vocació científica i literària - Telenotícies TV3

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Newsletter IRI, CSIC-UPC

APRIL 2024

👩‍💻 IRI PRODUCTION

📺 IRI IN THE MEDIA

🗓️ AGENDA

👤 NEW IRI MEMBERS

📢 OPEN CALLS

🗓️ AGENDA

• Until 10/05/2024 - Summer School 2024: Robotics, Control Systems & AI - IRI (Barcelona)

🏢 VISITS

• 3/05/2024 - Open Doors Day: ESADE alumni and Eulàlia Bota School - IRI (Barcelona) - From 9:00 h to 12:00 h

• Until 20/05/2024 - JAE INTRO CSIC - 12 grants proposals JAE Intro CSIC for university students to carry out a 7-month research project

• 6/05/2024 - Institutional visit: Director of the CETYS Faculty of Engineering, Mexico - IRI (Barcelona) - From 11:00 to 13:00 h

• Until 31/05/2024 - PhD student: AI applied to hydrogen systems

👩‍🏫 PhD THESIS DEFENSE

• Until 1/06/2024 - 1st Open Call ALLIES - 17 postdocs (3 of them for IRI) to conduct interdisciplinary and intersectoral research in AI aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals

• 10/05/2024 - The Surface Defect Identification Problem in The Industry: A Novel Approach with Semantic Segmentation and Generative Adversarial Networks By Joan Orti Navarro - Sala Actes FME (Barcelona) - 11:00 h

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Newsletter IRI, CSIC-UPC

APRIL 2024

👩‍💻 IRI PRODUCTION

📺 IRI IN THE MEDIA

🗓️ AGENDA

👤 NEW IRI MEMBERS

🗣️ SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

• 13/05/2024 to 17/05/2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - Papers to be presented: Adrià Colomé, Irene García, Guillem Alenyà, Jianxiong Shen - PACIFICO Yokohama

• 8/05/2024 - Forum FME - Hall FME (Barcelona)

• 14/05/2024 to 16/05/2024 - Forum ETSEIB - ETSEIB (Barcelona)

• 30/05/2024 - Debate on military applications of research at IRI - Organised by Joan Vallvé and Adrià Colomé Figueras - Time and place to be confirmed

• 25/06/2024 to 28/06/2024 - European Control Conference (ECC 24) - Participant: Carlos A. Ocampo - Stockholm, Sweden

• 8/06/2024 to 9/06/2024 - Festa de la Ciència - El Born CCM (Barcelona)

• 30/06/2024 to 4/07/2024 - Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK) - Participant: Federico Thomas - Ljubljana, Slovenia

• 7-9, 21-23, 28-30/06/2024 - Robot Workshop & Experiment - by Anaís Garrell and Ana Puig-Pey - CosmoCaixa (Barcelona)

🤖 OUTREACH

• 3/05/2024 - Foro Transformaciones - Participant: Júlia Pareto - Casa de América (Madrid)

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Newsletter IRI, CSIC-UPC

JUNE 2024

👩‍💻 IRI PRODUCTION

📺 IRI IN THE MEDIA

🗓️ AGENDA

👤 NEW IRI MEMBERS

👤 NEW IRI MEMBERS

• Antonio Martínez Fernández - Master Student (JAEIntro ICU), Perception and Manipulation Group

• Leonardo Gómez Coronel - PhD Student, Automatic Control

• Mahmoud Aly - Master Student (JAE Intro ICU), Perception and Manipulation Group

• Carlos Arribalzaga Jové - TFG Student (JAE IntroICU), Perception and Manipulation Group

• Oriol Martinez Fité - Research Group Support, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems

• Guillem González Valdivia - Research Group Support, Perception and Manipulation

• Patricia Rodrigo Zamora - Transfer and Communication Department

• Lavinia Beatrice Hriscu Acsinte-Staut - Master Student, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems

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