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.

  • Recent News & Events

    •  EVENT    MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2025
      Date: Sunday, April 6, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025
      Location: Hyderabad, India
      MERL Contacts: Wael H. Ali; Petros T. Boufounos; Radu Corcodel; François Germain; Chiori Hori; Siddarth Jain; Devesh K. Jha; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Yoshiki Masuyama; Joshua Rapp; Diego Romeres; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Machine Learning, Robotics, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
      Brief
      • MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2025, which is being held in Hyderabad, India from April 6-11, 2025.

        Sponsorship

        MERL is proud to be a Silver Patron of the conference and will participate in the student job fair on Thursday, April 10. Please join this session to learn more about employment opportunities at MERL, including openings for research scientists, post-docs, and interns.

        MERL is pleased to be the sponsor of two IEEE Awards that will be presented at the conference. We congratulate Prof. Björn Erik Ottersten, the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, and Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan, the recipient of the 2025 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. Both awards will be presented in-person at ICASSP by Anthony Vetro, MERL President & CEO.

        Technical Program

        MERL is presenting 15 papers in the main conference on a wide range of topics including source separation, sound event detection, sound anomaly detection, speaker diarization, music generation, robot action generation from video, indoor airflow imaging, WiFi sensing, Doppler single-photon Lidar, optical coherence tomography, and radar imaging. Another paper on spatial audio will be presented at the Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA) Satellite Workshop.

        MERL Researchers Petros Boufounos and Hassan Mansour will present a Tutorial on “Computational Methods in Radar Imaging” in the afternoon of Monday, April 7.

        Petros Boufounos will also be giving an industry talk on Thursday April 10 at 12pm, on “A Physics-Informed Approach to Sensing".

        About ICASSP

        ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event has been attracting more than 4000 participants each year.
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    •  NEWS    MERL at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
      Date: May 13, 2024 - May 17, 2024
      Where: Yokohama, Japan
      MERL Contacts: Anoop Cherian; Radu Corcodel; Stefano Di Cairano; Chiori Hori; Siddarth Jain; Devesh K. Jha; Jonathan Le Roux; Diego Romeres; William S. Yerazunis
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Optimization, Robotics, Speech & Audio
      Brief
      • MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, which was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 13th to May 17th.

        MERL was a Bronze sponsor of the conference, and exhibited a live robotic demonstration, which attracted a large audience. The demonstration showcased an Autonomous Robotic Assembly technology executed on MELCO's Assista robot arm and was the collaborative effort of the Optimization and Robotics Team together with the Advanced Technology department at Mitsubishi Electric.

        MERL researchers from the Optimization and Robotics, Speech & Audio, and Control for Autonomy teams also presented 8 papers and 2 invited talks covering topics on robotic assembly, applications of LLMs to robotics, human robot interaction, safe and robust path planning for autonomous drones, transfer learning, perception and tactile sensing.
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  • Awards

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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

    •  Hori, C., Kambara, M., Sugiura, K., Ota, K., Khurana, S., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Interactive Robot Action Replanning using Multimodal LLM Trained from Human Demonstration Videos", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-034 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Hori2025mar,
      • author = {Hori, Chiori and Kambara, Motonari and Sugiura, Komei and Ota, Kei and Khurana, Sameer and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{Interactive Robot Action Replanning using Multimodal LLM Trained from Human Demonstration Videos}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = mar,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-034}
      • }
    •  Cherian, A., Corcodel, R., Jain, S., Romeres, D., "LLMPhy: Complex Physical Reasoning Using Large Language Models and World Models", arXiv, November 2024.
      BibTeX arXiv
      • @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 = {arXiv},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = nov,
      • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08027}
      • }
    •  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., DOI: 10.1109/​IROS58592.2024.10802423, October 2024, pp. 13525-13532.
      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,
      • pages = {13525--13532},
      • month = oct,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802423},
      • issn = {2153-0866},
      • 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}
      • }
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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • 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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