David Blanco-Mulero

Postdoc @IRI,CSIC-UPC

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David Blanco-Mulero | Postdoc @IRI,CSIC-UPC

Journal papers

  1. Blanco-Mulero, D., Barbany, O., Alcan, G., Colomé, A., Torras, C., & Kyrki, V. (2024). Benchmarking the Sim-to-Real Gap in Cloth Manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 9(3), 2981–2988. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2024.3360814
  2. Bettahar, H., Blanco-Mulero, D., Kyrki, V., Linder, M. B., & Zhou, Q. (2024). Rapid Improvement of Fiber Tensile Properties via In Situ Biomimetic Robotic Pulling and Bayesian Optimization. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 6(4), 2300610. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202300610
  3. Tuomainen*, N., Blanco-Mulero*, D., & Kyrki, V. (2022). Manipulation of Granular Materials by Learning Particle Interactions. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 5663–5670. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3158382

Conference papers

  1. Blanco-Mulero, D., Alcan, G., Abu-Dakka, F. J., & Kyrki, V. (2023). QDP: Learning to Sequentially Optimise Quasi-Static and Dynamic Manipulation Primitives for Robotic Cloth Manipulation. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 984–991. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342002
  2. Rajani, C., Arndt, K., Blanco-Mulero, D., Luck, K. S., & Kyrki, V. (2023). Co-imitation: Learning Design and Behaviour by Imitation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(5), 6200–6208. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i5.25764
  3. Hietala, J., Blanco-Mulero, D., Alcan, G., & Kyrki, V. (2022). Learning Visual Feedback Control for Dynamic Cloth Folding. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
  4. Di Castro, M., Blanco-Mulero, D., Ferre, M., & Masi, A. (2017). A Real-Time Reconfigurable Collision Avoidance System for Robot Manipulation. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering, 6–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3068796.3068800
  5. Blanco-Mulero, D., Alonso, S., & Domínguez, M. (2016). Cascade Control of the PUMA 560 Motors using Simulink and Arduino. In R. E. Fernandez & H. Montes (Eds.), Robocity16 Open Conference on Future Trends in Robotics (Vol. 1, pp. 349–356).

Workshop papers

  1. Blanco-Mulero, D., Alcan, G., Abu-Dakka, F. J., & Kyrki, V. (2023). QDP: Learning to Sequentially Optimise Quasi-Static and Dynamic Manipulation Primitives for Robotic Cloth Manipulation. 3rd Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA.
  2. Rajani, C., Arndt, K., Blanco-Mulero, D., Luck, K. S., & Kyrki, V. (2022). Co-Imitation: Learning Design and Behaviour by Imitation. Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop NeurIPS 2022.
  3. Blanco-Mulero, D., Heinonen, M., & Kyrki, V. (2021). Evolving-Graph Gaussian Processes. Time Series Workshop at 34th International Conference on Machine Learning.

Preprints

  1. Longhini, A., Wang, Y., Garcia-Camacho, I., Blanco-Mulero, D., Moletta, M., Welle, M., Alenyà, G., Yin, H., Erickson, Z., Held, D., Borràs, J., & Kragic, D. (2024). Unfolding the Literature: A Review of Robotic Cloth Manipulation. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2407.01361. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01361
  2. Hannus, E., Le, T. N., Blanco-Mulero, D., & Kyrki, V. (2024). Dynamic Manipulation of Deformable Objects using Imitation Learning with Adaptation to Hardware Constraints. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2403.12685.

Patents

  1. Vihonen, J., Aref, M. M., Vladimı́r Petrı́k, Arndt, K., Mulero, D. B., Kyrki, V., Naskali, J., & Rasinen, M. (2022). Dynamic flex compensation, coordinated hoist control, and anti-sway control for load handling machines. Google Patents.

Doctoral Dissertation

  1. Blanco-Mulero, D. (2024). Towards Efficient Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects by Learning Dynamics Models and Adaptive Policies [Doctoral Dissertation]. Aalto University.