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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
2025-6-22 TV broadcast
GV interviews' on Yokobo and our work in general will be broadcast on French TV France2 during the program "13h15 Le Dimanche". @13h15 Paris time
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
2025-6-27 GVLab Seminar
Dr. Irene Frizza from The University of Tokyo, Japan, will be visiting us and give a talk on "Soft Robotics for Humanoids: Adaptive Feet and Joints for Agile Walking". @16:00～17:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room TBD more details
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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
2025-8-25～29 RoMAN 2025
Y. Yamabata will present his work on "User Perception of Socially-Aware Robot Navigation with Engagement-Based Proxemics" at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. @Eindhoven, The Netherlands
recent news
2025-6-19 New members
Welcoming 1 JSPS Summer Program student, 3 ESEP exchange students, and 1internship student. Check our people page.
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.