João Silvério

Postdoctoral Researcher @ Italian Institute of Technology
Advanced Robotics Dept., Robot Learning and Interaction Group

Since June 2017, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Robot Learning and Interaction Group at IIT, under the mentoring of Dr. Leonel Rozo. Between January 2014 and April 2017 I was a PhD student with the same group, under the supervision of Dr. Sylvain Calinon and Prof. Darwin Caldwell.

My research focuses on bimanual skill transfer, in particular the extraction of coordination patterns and priority constraints from demonstrations. I am also interested in physical human-robot interaction.

News

19/12/2017: New pre-print available: "A Learning from Demonstration Approach fusing Torque Controllers" (under review at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters).
29/8/2017: New co-authored arXiv pre-print "Kernelized Movement Primitives" available in Publications.
21/7/2017: New pre-print "Learning Competing Constraints and Task Priorities from Demonstrations of Bimanual Skills" (under review at IEEE Transactions on Robotics) available.
6/7/2017: The co-authored arXiv pre-print "Generalized Task-Parameterized Movement Primitives" (currently under review for publication at ICRA'18) is now available in Publications.
19/4/2017: I successfully defended my PhD Thesis at IIT! Sincere thanks to everyone who made it possible, especially to Sylvain Calinon, Leonel Rozo and Darwin Caldwell.
3/1/2017: The paper "An approach for imitation learning on Riemmanian Manifolds", which I co-author, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Details in Publications section.