David Álvarez Sánchez presented in November, 2nd, 2016 his PhD Thesis. Its title is Planning and estimation algorithms for human-like grasping. The advisors of the thesis were Luis Moreno and Santiago Garrido.
The examining committee was formed by Raul Suarez, Pedro Lima and Carlos Balaguer. He obtained the Cum Laude degree.
Alejandro Lumbier presented in October, 28th, 2016 his PhD Thesis. Its title is Métodos de visión artificial para la extracción de la pose de la mano humana y su representación virtual. The advisor of the thesis was Luis Moreno.
The examining committee was formed by Dolores Blanco, Fabio Bonsignorio and Antonio Giménez. He obtained the Cum Laude degree.
Avinash Ranganath presented in October, 27th, 2016 his PhD Thesis. Its title is Locomotion through morphology, evolution and learning for legged and limbless robots. The advisor of the thesis was Luis Moreno.
The examining committee was formed by Antonio Barrientos, Giuseppe Carbone and Santiago Garrido. He obtained the Cum Laude degree.
Our colleague Santigo Morante presented his PhD Thesis on 4th March, 2016. The Thesis is entitled “Continuous Goal-Directed Actions: Advances in Robot Learning" and deals with a new paradigm of robot imitation where the continuous state of the environment is affected by an action is modeled. Each feature recorded is a dimension in a space, being actions represented by a robot´s trajectory in this space.
Javier González-Quijano presented in January, 25th, 2016 his PhD Thesis. Its title is Model-based motor control learning in robotics. The advisor of the thesis were Veronique Perdereau and Mohamed Abderrahim.
The examining committee was formed by Antonio Barrientos, Fares Jawad Moh D Abu-Dakka and Claudio Rossi. He obtained the Cum Laude degree.
Víctor González Pacheco presented in November, 27th, 2015 his PhD Thesis. Its title is Interactive and Active Learning in Social Robots. The advisors of the thesis were Miguel Ángel Salichs and María Malfaz.
Arnaud Ramey presented in July, 7th, 2015 his PhD Thesis. Its title is Local user mapping via multi-modal fusion for social robots. The directors of the thesis were Miguel Ángel Salichs and María Malfaz.
Juan Carlos González Víctores presented in July, 15, 2014 his PhD Thesis. Its title is Robot Imagination System. The directors of the thesis were Alberto Jardón and Carlos Balaguer. The examing board was formed by Vicente Matellán, Santiago Garrido and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. He obtained the Cum Laude degree.
