Lab2022


coming soon all times are JST

2025-5-19~23 ICRA 2025
C. Tsuji will present her RA-L paper on "Adaptive contact-rich manipulation through few-shot imitation learning with tactile feedback and pre-trained object representations" during the main track and also at the workshop on "Beyond Pick and Place — Unifying Learning-Based and Model-Based Approaches for Contact-Rich Manipulation". Z. Sun will present her on-going work on "Dynamic Footprint Adjustment for Navigation in Human-Robot Side-by-Side Walking" at the workshop on "Advances in Social Robot Navigation: Planning, HRI, and Beyond" at ICRA 2025. @Atlanta, USA

2025-5-24~25 UTokyo festival
We will have activities, demos and games with robots at the Utokyo festival with our Interactive Robot Play Lab. Please come to visit us! @GVLab

2025-6-4~7 Robomech 2025
E. Uchiyama, Y. Yamabata and Y. Onishi will present their research respectively on ウェアラブルデバイスによる陣痛予測に関わる特徴量の探索, 人の関心に基づく個人距離を考慮した自律移動ロボットの経路計画 and 腱駆動型連続体ロボットのハードウェアについての考察と直感的な操作を可能にするユーザインタフェースの作成 at ROBOMECH 2025. @Yamagata, Japan

2025-6-11 Invited talk
GV will give a talk on "Robots of the Future and the Dreams of Science Fiction" at Imaginology & Multiversalisms. More details to come soon @Keio Univ., Japan

2025-6-21~22 Conference presentation
Y. Wang will present her work on "KKT-Based Inverse Optimal Control with Unknown Inequality Constraints and Cost Weights via Convex Hull Approximation" at the 8th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium. @Nagano, Japan

2025-6-21 Invited talk @RSS
GV will give a talk at the RSS workshop on on Reliable Robotics: Safety and Security in the Face of Generative AI.. @Los Angeles, USA

2025-6-21~25 RSS demo paper
Our demo paper with AIST on "Demonstrating a Control Framework for Physical Human-Robot Interaction Toward Industrial Applications" will be presented at RSS 2025. Come and test our super cool pHRI controller. @Los Angeles, USA

2025-7-17~19 ARSO 2025
Our group will present three papers at ARSO this year: M. Poirée's work on A Generative Model to Generate Robots Expressive Movements from Human Motions, M. Omoto's work on Expressive Robotics for Social Card Games: Designing and Evaluating a Controller for ”Old Maid” and H. Murayama's work on Comfortable Collision Avoidance Control for Pedestrians Based on Optimal Control and Inverse Optimal Control.@ Osaka, Japan

 

recent news

2025-4-1 New students
Welcoming 4 new master students, 4 undergraduate students, 3 internship students and 2 visiting students this month. Check our people page.

2025-3-24 and 25 Graduation ceremony
Congratulations to our undergraduate students our master for successfully finishing their research with us!


2025-2-27 New team members
We are happy to host a high school student for a 2-week internship with us! Welcome!

2025-2-1 New team members
We are happy to have one visiting student from MIT and one intern from UT. Welcome!

2025-2-3 News interview
An interview of GV in the French magazine "Le Point" (in French), talking about expressive robot, non verbal communication and living with robots.

2025-1-15 New member
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dominique Lestel, from ENS, France as a Tokyo College Professor for 6 months. Welcome back!.

2025-1-1 Best wishes for the new year!

newly published

Robotics and Automation Letters
K. Mori, K. Ayusawa & G. Venture,Safe Data Acquisition for Inertial Parameter Identification by Expanding the Motion Space, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 6344-6351, 2025. 10.1109/LRA.2025.3566621

Solaris
V. Bontems, A. Carabédian, C. Collomb, C. Ecken, F. Ferro, F. Khelil, R. Lehoucq, D. Lestel, H. Osawa, M. Seto, G. Venture, J. Wacquez, Manifeste du Multiversalisme No 236, pp. 29-32. Read here

Paris-Saclay Summit

Smart Health
K. Kamikokuryo, G. Venture, V. Hernandez, Latent Space Representation of Adversarial AutoEncoder for Human Activity Recognition: application to a low-cost commercial force plate and inertial measurement units, 100537, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smhl.2024.100537

Robotics and Automation Letters
C. Tsuji, E. Coronado, P. Osorio, G. Venture, Adaptive contact-rich manipulation through few-shot imitation learning with tactile feedback and pre-trained object representations, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 240-247, 2025. 10.1109/LRA.2024.3497713

Sensors
T. Rousseau, G. Venture and V. Hernandez, Latent Space Representation of Human Movement: Assessing the Effects of Fatigue, 24(23), 7775, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24237775 open access

Machines
G. Hanks, G. Venture, Y. Hu, Comparing Skill Transfer Between Full Demonstrations and Segmented Sub-Tasks for Neural Dynamic Motion Primitives, Machines, 12(12), 872, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12120872 open access

In Orange Prof. Venture's schedule, in Yellow Prof. Uchiyama's schedule, in Green lab related events, in Blue TUAT related events, in Pink conference related important dates.

 

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