Luis Figueredo
Assistant Professor
Welcome to my website!
Here, you will find a little about me, my research, publications, cool (and hopefully educative) robotic videos, some interesting resources, and the latest news about my lab and my research group. Feel free to explore the website and contact me.
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Well, let me start with a short bio about myself.
My work is currently focused on the many challenges involving human-centric robotics. Particularly, my goal is to build intelligent robots that help and assist humans in performing different tasks in a safe, efficient, natural, and comfortable manner. These constraints are recurrent in my research, which spams through multiple areas of knowledge, e.g., geometric methods for manipulation and control, manipulation of complex real-world objects, cooperative manipulation, safe physical human-robot interaction, implicit and explicit human-robot communication, biomechanics-aware assistive robotics, and core concepts of control theory and geometry algebra.
Finally, I am a strong believer that real-world robotics challenges can only be addressed through interdisciplinarity, collaborations, and lots of coffee.
Get the ball rolling:
Latest News and Updates
Happy to say we have 2 fresh papers accepted at ICRA-25! (i) manipulability transfer and tracking control: bridging domain adaptation with predictive feasibility and (ii) on the synthesis of reactive collision-free whole-body robot motions: a complementarity-based approaching. Kudos specially to Haowen Yao and Yuhe Gong, particulary Yuhe on her first (of many) ICRA/IROS Paper!
Very excited to be back to a UK Robot Manipulation Workshop and being able to give a Keynote Talk at Kings. It is exciting to meet old and new friends and discuss research in one of the best events about manipulation in the world!
Excited to announce our new IEEE-TRO Paper on Robot Safety: Safe Robot Reflexes: A Taxonomy- based Decision and Modulation Framework.
Reflexes and post-collision reactions are fundamental for safety, and this work comprehensively covers these aspects with the best robot safety team I could ask for!
Holiday Season Presents: 2 amazing WS accepted @ ICRA-25!
š¤ WS.1: How do Robots Care? Innovative Strategies and Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots in Healthcare;
š¤ WS.2: The Future of Intelligent Manufacturing: From innovation to implementation.
Following up our amazing collaboration, I was very happy to give an invited talk at the MathWorks Special Session at BioRob 2024 about our MathWorks Toolbox RHuMAN vs 2.0 currently underdevelop with the brilliant Junnan Li and Haowen Yao. Many thanks for Kathi Kugler for our ongoing collaboration.
Keep in touch!
MSc Projects and UG Projects @ Nottingham!
If you are an undergrad or MSc student at Nottingham, and you are hard-working and interested in robotics, please reach out.
We have a lovely and friend team who always welcome new members.