Radu Corcodel

- Phone: 617-621-7578
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Research / Technical Staff
Principal Research Scientist -
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Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2017 -
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Radu's Quick Links
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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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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL Researchers Present Thirteen Papers at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Date: May 29, 2023 - June 2, 2023
Where: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
MERL Contacts: Anoop Cherian; Radu Corcodel; Siddarth Jain; Devesh K. Jha; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Tim K. Marks; Daniel N. Nikovski; Arvind Raghunathan; Diego Romeres
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Optimization, RoboticsBrief- MERL researchers will present thirteen papers, including eight main conference papers and five workshop papers, at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) to be held in London, UK from May 29 to June 2. ICRA is one of the largest and most prestigious conferences in the robotics community. The papers cover a broad set of topics in Robotics including estimation, manipulation, vision-based object recognition and segmentation, tactile estimation and tool manipulation, robotic food handling, robot skill learning, and model-based reinforcement learning.
In addition to the paper presentations, MERL robotics researchers will also host an exhibition booth and look forward to discussing our research with visitors.
- MERL researchers will present thirteen papers, including eight main conference papers and five workshop papers, at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) to be held in London, UK from May 29 to June 2. ICRA is one of the largest and most prestigious conferences in the robotics community. The papers cover a broad set of topics in Robotics including estimation, manipulation, vision-based object recognition and segmentation, tactile estimation and tool manipulation, robotic food handling, robot skill learning, and model-based reinforcement learning.
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NEWS Radu Corcodel to present invited seminar at NYU on Robot Vision Date: May 4, 2022
MERL Contact: Radu Corcodel
Research Areas: Computer Vision, RoboticsBrief- Radu Corcodel, a Principal Research Scientist in MERL's Computer Vision Group, will present an overview of the Robot Perception research published by MERL for advanced manipulation. The talk will mainly cover topics pertaining to robotic manipulation in unstructured environments such as machine vision, tactile sensing and autonomous grasping. The seminar will also cover specific perception problems in non-prehensile interactions such as Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization and Tactile Classification, and is intended for a broader audience.
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Internships with Radu
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OR2116: Collaborative robotic manipulation
MERL is offering a new research internship opportunity in the field of robotic manipulation. The position requires a robotics background, excellent programming skills and experience with Deep RL 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.
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MERL Publications
- "Constrained Dynamic Movement Primitives for Collision Avoidance in Novel Environments", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2023.BibTeX TR2023-121 PDF Video
- @inproceedings{Shaw2023sep,
- 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 Collision Avoidance in Novel Environments},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2023,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-121}
- }
, - "Style-transfer based Speech and Audio-visual Scene understanding for Robot Action Sequence Acquisition from Videos", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1983, August 2023, pp. 4663-4667.BibTeX TR2023-104 PDF
- @inproceedings{Hori2023aug,
- author = {Hori, Chiori and Peng, Puyuang and Harwath, David and Liu, Xinyu and Ota, Kei and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Style-transfer based Speech and Audio-visual Scene understanding for Robot Action Sequence Acquisition from Videos},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2023,
- pages = {4663--4667},
- month = aug,
- doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1983},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-104}
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, - "Vision Guided Food Assembly by Robot Teaching from Target Composition", ICRA 2023 Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping IV (TIG-IV): From Farm to Fork, May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-067 PDF
- @inproceedings{Jain2023may,
- author = {Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {Vision Guided Food Assembly by Robot Teaching from Target Composition},
- booktitle = {ICRA 2023 Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping IV (TIG-IV): From Farm to Fork},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-067}
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, - "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}
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, - "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}
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- "Constrained Dynamic Movement Primitives for Collision Avoidance in Novel Environments", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2023.
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Software & Data Downloads
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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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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Title: "Interactive Tactile Perception Method for Classification and Recognition of Object Instances"