Radu Corcodel

Radu Corcodel
  • 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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  • MERL Publications

    •  Shaw, S., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Corcodel, R., Romeres, D., Konidaris, G., Nikovski, D., "Constrained Dynamic Movement Primitives for Safe Learning of Motor Skills", arXiv, September 2022.
      BibTeX arXiv
      • @article{Shaw2022sep,
      • author = {Shaw, Seiji and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Corcodel, Radu and Romeres, Diego and Konidaris, George and Nikovski, Daniel},
      • title = {Constrained Dynamic Movement Primitives for Safe Learning of Motor Skills},
      • journal = {arXiv},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14461}
      • }
    •  Russel, R.H., Benosman, M., van Baar, J., Corcodel, R., "Lyapunov Robust Constrained-MDPs for Sim2Real Transfer Learning" in Federated and Transfer Learning, August 2022.
      BibTeX TR2022-111 PDF
      • @incollection{Russel2022aug,
      • author = {Russel, Reazul Hasan and Benosman, Mouhacine and van Baar, Jeroen and Corcodel, Radu},
      • title = {Lyapunov Robust Constrained-MDPs for Sim2Real Transfer Learning},
      • booktitle = {Federated and Transfer Learning},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = aug,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-111}
      • }
    •  Jain, S., Corcodel, R., van Baar, J., "Visual 3D Perception for Interactive Robotic Tactile Data Acquisition", IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2021), August 2021.
      BibTeX TR2021-092 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Jain2021aug,
      • author = {Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and van Baar, Jeroen},
      • title = {Visual 3D Perception for Interactive Robotic Tactile Data Acquisition},
      • booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)},
      • year = 2021,
      • month = aug,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-092}
      • }
    •  Corcodel, R., Jain, S., van Baar, J., "Interactive Tactile Perception for Classification of Novel Object Instances", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/​IROS45743.2020.9341795, November 2020, pp. 9861-9868.
      BibTeX TR2020-143 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{Corcodel2020nov,
      • author = {Corcodel, Radu and Jain, Siddarth and van Baar, Jeroen},
      • title = {Interactive Tactile Perception for Classification of Novel Object Instances},
      • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {9861--9868},
      • month = nov,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341795},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-143}
      • }
    •  Onol, A.O., Corcodel, R., Long, P., Padir, T., "Tuning-Free Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA40945.2020.9196805, May 2020, pp. 1183-1189.
      BibTeX TR2020-065 PDF Video Software
      • @inproceedings{Onol2020may,
      • author = {Onol, Aykut O. and Corcodel, Radu and Long, Philip and Padir, Taskin},
      • title = {Tuning-Free Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {1183--1189},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196805},
      • issn = {2577-087X},
      • isbn = {978-1-7281-7395-5},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-065}
      • }
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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • 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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