Radu Corcodel

Radu Corcodel
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  • Biography

    Radu's PhD focused on workspace analysis and motion synthesis for arbitrary kinematic chains, with particular emphasis on robotic 3D printing and Fusion Deposition Modeling. Between 2007-2011, Radu worked for Siemens VDO (currently Continental, AG) as a Design Architect, where he contributed to the development and production of high-power DC/DC inverters for hybrid vehicles and digital tachographs for commercial vehicles. Currently his research focuses on motion planning and workspace analysis for over-actuated kinematic linkages and collaborative robots.

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  • Internships with Radu

    • OR0108: Internship - Loco-manipulation for legged robots

      MERL is offering a research internship opportunity in the field of loco-manipulation using legged robots. The position requires a robotics background, excellent programming skills and experience with Deep RL, locomotion and robotic manipulation and Computer Vision. The position is open to graduate students on a PhD track only, and the length of the internship is three months with the possibility of extending if required. The intern is expected to disseminate this research in top tier scientific conferences such as RSS, IROS, ICRA etc., and if applicable, help with filing associated patents. Start and end dates are flexible.

      Required Specific Experience

      • Experience in at least one programming language, preferably C++ or Python
      • Experience in at least one physics simulator
      • Familiarity with topics in robotic manipulation
      • Familiarity with legged robots, preferably Unitree Go2
      • Experience in Deep RL and corresponding training in simulation (Isaac Gym, Mujoco, etc)

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  • MERL Publications

    •  Cherian, A., Corcodel, R., Jain, S., Romeres, D., "LLMPhy: Complex Physical Reasoning Using Large Language Models and World Models", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), October 2024.
      BibTeX
      • @article{Cherian2024oct,
      • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Corcodel, Radu and Jain, Siddarth and Romeres, Diego}},
      • title = {LLMPhy: Complex Physical Reasoning Using Large Language Models and World Models},
      • journal = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = oct
      • }
    •  Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Jain, S., Yerazunis, W.S., Corcodel, R., Shukla, Y., Bronars, A., Romeres, D., "Autonomous Robotic Assembly: From Part Singulation to Precise Assembly", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems., October 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-133 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Ota2024oct,
      • author = {Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Jain, Siddarth and Yerazunis, William S. and Corcodel, Radu and Shukla, Yash and Bronars, Antonia and Romeres, Diego}},
      • title = {Autonomous Robotic Assembly: From Part Singulation to Precise Assembly},
      • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = oct,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-133}
      • }
    •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Corcodel, R., "Graph-Based Analog Joint Source Channel Coding for 3D Haptic Communication", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), DOI: 10.1109/​ICC51166.2024.10622893, June 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-070 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Fujihashi2024jun,
      • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Corcodel, Radu}},
      • title = {Graph-Based Analog Joint Source Channel Coding for 3D Haptic Communication},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = jun,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10622893},
      • issn = {1938-1883},
      • isbn = {978-1-7281-9054-9},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-070}
      • }
    •  Kambara, M., Hori, C., Sugiura, K., Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Khurana, S., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Human Action Understanding-based Robot Planning using Multimodal LLM", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-066 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Kambara2024jun,
      • author = {Kambara, Motonari and Hori, Chiori and Sugiura, Komei and Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Khurana, Sameer and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Romeres, Diego and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
      • title = {Human Action Understanding-based Robot Planning using Multimodal LLM},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = jun,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-066}
      • }
    •  Lin, H., Corcodel, R., Zhao, D., "Generalize by Touching: Tactile Ensemble Skill Transfer for Robotic Furniture Assembly", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-051 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Lin2024may2,
      • author = {Lin, Haohong and Corcodel, Radu and Zhao, Ding}},
      • title = {Generalize by Touching: Tactile Ensemble Skill Transfer for Robotic Furniture Assembly},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-051}
      • }
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    • Title: "Simulation-in-the-loop Tuning of Robot Parameters for System Modeling and Control"
      Inventors: Jain, Siddarth; Van Baar, Jeroen; Corcodel, Radu Ioan; Sullivan, Alan; Benosman, Mouhacine
      Patent No.: 11,975,451
      Issue Date: May 7, 2024
    • Title: "Interactive Tactile Perception Method for Classification and Recognition of Object Instances"
      Inventors: Corcodel, Radu Ioan; Jain, Siddarth; van Baar, Jeroen
      Patent No.: 11,794,350
      Issue Date: Oct 24, 2023
    • Title: "Apparatus and Method for Planning Contact-Interaction Trajectories"
      Inventors: Onol, Aykut; Corcodel, Radu Ioan
      Patent No.: 11,548,150
      Issue Date: Jan 10, 2023
    • Title: "Detection, Tracking and 3D Modeling of Objects with Sparse RGB-D SLAM and Interactive Perception"
      Inventors: Marcal de Almeida, Diogo Rodrigues; Corcodel, Radu Ioan
      Patent No.: 10,977,480
      Issue Date: Apr 13, 2021
    • Title: "System for Training Descriptor with Active Sample Selection"
      Inventors: Kocanaogullari, Aziz; Cansizoglu, Esra; Corcodel, Radu Ioan
      Patent No.: 10,810,468
      Issue Date: Oct 20, 2020
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