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2026

UPF4ROS2 for Integrating Planner Independent Task Planning into ROS 2

Irene González-Fernández, Miguel Á. González-Santamarta, Francisco Martín, Marco Roveri, Vicente Matellán-Olivera, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Lera

Scientific Reports

Deterministic Control and Confined LLM Reasoning in Task-Oriented Dialogue for Service Robots

Álvaro Quintana Camacho, Juan Diego Peña, José Miguel Guerrero Hernández, Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez, Francisco Martín Rico

Proceedings of the XXVI International Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF)

An Autonomous Attention System for Social Robots Based on Multimodal Reasoning and Behavior Trees

Sergio Cobos Blanco, Juan Diego Peña, José Miguel Guerrero Hernández, Francisco Martín Rico, Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez

Proceedings of the XXVI International Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF)

A Local Language-Model-Assisted Replanning Module for Plansys2

Álvaro Valencia Maiquez, Francisco Martín Rico, Francisco Miguel Moreno

Proceedings of the XXVI International Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF)

A Green Computing Approach for Sustainable Robotic Task Planning Using Knowledge Graphs

Miguel Á. Gonzalez-Santamarta, Alejandro González-Cantón, Irene González-Fernández, Francisco Martín-Rico, Francisco J. Rodriguez-Lera

Bioinspired Intelligent Systems: From Robotics and Computer Vision to Trustworthy Applications (LNCS), 141-150 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-27317-8_14

Head-Level Structural Collapse for Scalable Preferred Semantics in Norm-Based Robotic Reasoning

Francisco J. Rodriguez Lera, Irene González-Fernández, Miguel Ángel González-Santamarta, Francisco Martín Rico, Pere Pardo Ventura

Bioinspired Intelligent Systems: From Robotics and Computer Vision to Trustworthy Applications (LNCS), 151-160 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-27317-8_15

Mobile Robot Localization and SLAM: A Critical Review of Sensors, Multi-Sensor Fusion, and Neural Representations

José Miguel Guerrero Hernández, Rodrigo Pérez‐Rodríguez, Juan S. Cely, Esther Aguado, Francisco Martí­n

Robotics, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 142 · DOI: 10.3390/robotics15080142

SELF-AIR: Supporting Extensive Livestock Farming with the Use of Autonomous Intelligent Robots

Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, Lídia Sánchez-González, Ángel Manuel Guerrero‐Higueras, Manuel Castejón‐Limas, Vicente Matellán Olivera, Laura Fernández-Robles, Camino Fernandez Llamas, Francisco Martí­n, José Miguel Guerrero Hernández, Ádám Miklósi, Bence Ferdinandy

Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, pp. 265-268 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-16581-7_61

2025

Towards a robotic intrusion prevention system: Combining security and safety in cognitive social robots

Francisco Martín, Enrique Soriano-Salvador, José Miguel Guerrero, Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz, Juan Carlos Manzanares, Francisco J. Rodríguez

Robotics and Autonomous Systems 190, 104959 · DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2025.104959

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Francisco Martín Rico, Francisco Miguel Moreno Olivo, Juan Carlos Manzanares Serrano, José Miguel Guerrero Hernández, Juan Sebastián Cely Gutiérrez, Esther Aguado, Francisco José Romero Ramírez

Proceedings of the XXV International Workshop on Physical Agents, 27-43 · DOI: 10.31428/10317/21021

On-Edge Task Planning with Large Language Models for Service Robotics

Alejandro González-Cantón, Miguel A. González-Santamarta, Francisco J. Rodriguez Lera, Ángel M. Guerrero-Higueras, Irene González-Fernández, Francisco Martín-Rico

Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (LNCS), 354-365 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-08462-0_28

A Historical View of Active Assisted Living

Sara Colantonio, Slaviša Aleksić, Jean Calleja‐Agius, Kenneth P. Camilleri, Anto Čartolovni, Pau Climent-Pérez, Stefania Cristina, Vladimir Despotović, Hazım Kemal Ekenel, Mustafa Ekrem Erakın, Francisco Flórez‐Revuelta, Danila Germanese, Nicole Grech, Murat Emirzeoğlu, Ivo Tsvetanov Iliev, Anna Sigríður Íslind, Mladjan Jovanovic, Martin Kampel, William D. Kearns, Andrzej Klimczuk, Lambros Lambrinos, Jennifer Lumetzberger, Wiktor Mucha, Sophie Noiret, Zada Pajalić, Rodrigo Pérez‐Rodríguez, Galidiya I. Petrova, Sintija Petroviča-Kļaviņa, Peter Počta, Angelica Poli, Mara Romanovska, Albert Ali Salah, María José Santofimia, Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir, Susanna Spinsante, Lăcrămioara Stoicu-Tivadar, Hilda Tellioğlu, Andrej Žgank

Intelligent systems reference library, pp. 3-44 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-84158-3_1

Environmental Sound Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robots

Irene González Fernández, David Sobrín-Hidalgo, Juan Diego Peña‐Narvaez, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, Camino Fernández, Francisco Martí­n

Lecture notes in computer science, pp. 15-26 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-08465-1_2

LiDAR as a Geometric Prior: Enhancing Camera Pose Tracking Through High-Fidelity View Synthesis

Rafael Muñoz‐Salinas, Jianheng Liu, Francisco J. Romero-Ramírez, Manuel Jesús Marín-Jiménez, Fu Zhang

Applied Sciences, vol. 15, no. 15, pp. 8743 · DOI: 10.3390/app15158743

Parallelized SLAM: Enhancing Mapping and Localization Through Concurrent Processing

Francisco J. Romero-Ramírez, Miguel Cazorla, Manuel Jesús Marín-Jiménez, R. Medina-Carnicer, Rafael Muñoz‐Salinas

Sensors, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 365 · DOI: 10.3390/s25020365

Sparse Indoor Camera Positioning with Fiducial Markers

Pablo García-Ruíz, Francisco J. Romero-Ramírez, Rafael Muñoz‐Salinas, Manuel Jesús Marín-Jiménez, R. Medina-Carnicer

Applied Sciences, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 1855 · DOI: 10.3390/app15041855

2024

Effects of Monitoring Frailty Through a Mobile/Web-Based Application and a Sensor Kit to Prevent Functional Decline in Frail and Prefrail Older Adults: FACET (Frailty Care and Well Function) Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Myriam Valdes Aragonés; Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez; Jose Antonio Carnicero; Pedro A. Moreno-Sanchez; Myriam Oviedo Briones ; Elena Villalba-Mora; Pedro Abizanda Soler; Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26:e58312 · DOI: 10.2196/58312

Implementing a Robot Intrusion Prevention System (RIPS) for ROS 2

F Martín-Rico, GG Múzquiz, E Soriano-Salvador

arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.19272

Cascade LifeCycle: A Convenient Building Block for Efficient Robot Software Architectures

Francisco Martín Rico, Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez, Juan Diego Peña-Narvaez, Francisco J. Rodríguez, José Miguel Guerrero Hernández

2024 7th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), 1-7 · DOI: 10.1109/robot61475.2024.10796947

ROS as Framework for the Management of Large Neuromechanics Facilities

Javier Castilla, Alberto Cantón, Francesca Lunardini, Alejandro Mayorga, Rodrigo Pérez, Francisco Martín, Jesús Tornero

International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation, 443-447 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-77588-8_88

Impact of Real time on Active Perception Systems applied to Social Robotics

JDP Narváez, RP Rodríguez, JMG Hernández, FM Rico, AAGG Jacinto

Proceedings of the XXIV Workshop of Physical Agents: September 5-6, 2024 …

Formalizing Robotics Competitions: A practical case for RoboCup@Home Challenge

Irene González-Fernández, Miguel Á. González-Santamarta, Claudia Álvarez-Aparicio, Juan Diego Peña‐Narvaez, Francisco Martí­n, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Lera

IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, vol. 25, pp. 60-65 · DOI: 10.1109/icarsc61747.2024.10535938

Local Gaussian Modifiers (LGMs): UAV Dynamic Trajectory Generation for Onboard Computation

Miguel Fernández-Cortizas, David Pérez-Saura, Rafael Pérez-Seguí, Javier Rodríguez-Vázquez, Juan S. Cely, Pascual Campoy

International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 1101-1108 · DOI: 10.1109/icuas60882.2024.10556985

2023

An autonomous ground robot to support firefighters’ interventions in indoor emergencies

N. Fernández Talavera, Juan Jesús Roldán-Gómez, Francisco Martín, M. C. Rodriguez-Sanchez

Journal on Field Robotics, 40, 614–625 · DOI: 10.1002/rob.22150

Frailty detection in older adults via fractal analysis of acceleration signals from wrist-worn sensors

Antonio Cobo; Angel Rodriguez-Laso; Elena Villalba-Mora; Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez; Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

Health Information Science and Systems, 11(1), 29 · DOI: 10.1007/s13755-023-00229-8

Integrated health system to assess and manage frailty in community dwelling: Co-design and usability evaluation

Cristian Moral; Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez; Elena Villalba-Mora; Barrio-Cortes Jaime; Xavier Ferre; Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

Digital Health, 9, 20552076231181229 · DOI: 10.1177/20552076231181229

ADELA: a conversational virtual assistant to prevent delirium in hospitalized older persons

Javier Alonso-Mencía; Marta Castro-Rodríguez; Beatriz Herrero-Pinilla; Juan M. Alonso-Weber; Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas; Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez

Journal of Supercomputing, 79(15), 17670-17690 · DOI: 10.1007/s11227-023-05352-7

Industrial, collaborative and mobile robotics in Latin America: Review of mechatronic technologies for advanced automation

Jose Cornejo, S. Barrera, C. A. Herrera Ruiz, F. Gutierrez, M. O. Casasnovas, Leonardo Kot, M. A. Solis, R. Larenas, F. Castro-Nieny, M. R. Arbulú Saavedra, R. Rodríguez Serrezuela, Y. Muñoz Londoño, Alejandro Serna, D. Ortega-Aranda, S. Aranda-Miramontes, I. Chang, M. Cardona, A. Carrasquilla-Batista, R. Palomares, R. Rodriguez, Ruben Parisuaña, Miguel Bórquez, Oscar Navarro, Fernando Sanchez, I. A. Bonev, Jonathan Coulombe, F. Martín Rico, B. L. Treviño-Elizondo, H. García-Reyes, A. Sollazzo, A. Dubor, A. Markopoulou, C. De Marinis, Marco Chacin, Andres Mora, M. Pérez-Ruiz, A. Ribeiro, E. A. L’Huillier

Emerging Science Journal 7 (4), 1430-1458 · DOI: 10.28991/esj-2023-07-04-025

Exploring the Evolution of Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance through Hands-On Demonstrations

Rodrigo Encinar Martín, Ángel Madridano, Miguel Ángel de Miguel, Martín Palos, Fernando García, John F. B. Bolte

Applied Sciences, vol. 13, no. 23, pp. 12822 · DOI: 10.3390/app132312822

2022

Towards explainability in robotics: A performance analysis of a cloud accountability system

Francisco Javier Rodríguez‐Lera, Miguel Ángel González‐Santamarta, Ángel Manuel Guerrero‐Higueras, Francisco Martín‐Rico, Vicente Matellán‐Olivera

Expert Systems, 39:e13004 · DOI: 10.1111/exsy.13004

Impact of decision-making system in social navigation

Jonatan Gines Clavero, Francisco Martín Rico, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Lera, José Miguel Guerrero Hernandéz and Vicente Matellán Olivera

Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 81, pages 3459–3481, (2022) · DOI: 10.1007/s11042-021-11454-2

Kant: A tool for grounding and knowledge management

FJ Rodríguez-Lera, F Martín, C Fernández, MÁ González-Santamarta

International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and …

Mocap4ros2: An open source framework for motion capture systems in robotics

Francisco Martin, Jose Miguel Guerrero, A. Alberto Garcia, Francisco Rodriguez, Vicente Matellan

Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, 1-3 · DOI: 10.1145/3555051.3555076

2021

Client-Server Approach for Managing Visual Attention, Integrated in a Cognitive Architecture for a Social Robot

Francisco Martín, Jonatan Ginés, Francisco J Rodríguez-Lera, Angel M Guerrero-Higueras, Vicente Matellán Olivera

Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Volume 15 · DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2021.630386

Measuring students acceptance and usability of a cloud virtual desktop solution for a programming course

Francisco J Rodríguez Lera, David Fernández González, Francisco Martín Rico, Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras, Miguel Ángel Conde

Applied Sciences, 11(15), 7157 · DOI: 10.3390/app11157157

The role of cybersecurity and HPC in the explainability of autonomous robots behavior

Vicente Matellan, Francisco-J. Rodriguez-Lera, Angel-M. Guerrero-Higueras, Francisco-Martin Rico, Jonatan Gines

2021 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social … · DOI: 10.1109/arso51874.2021.9542829

Using HPC as a Competitive Advantage in an International Robotics Challenge

Claudia Álvarez Aparicio, Jonatan Ginés, Miguel A. Santamarta, Francisco Martín Rico, Ángel M. Guerrero Higueras, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, Vicente Matellán Olivera

High Performance Computing: 7th Latin American Conference, CARLA 2020 … · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68035-0_8

2020

Semantic visual recognition in a cognitive architecture for social robots

Francisco Martín Rico; Francisco Gómez Donoso; Félix Escalona; José García Rodríguez; Miguel Cazorla Quevedo

Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 301-316, 2020 · DOI: 10.3233/ICA-200624

COMBAHO: A deep learning system for integrating brain injury patients in society

Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, Francisco Gomez-Donoso, Sergiu Oprea, Alberto Garcia-Garcia, Miguel Cazorla, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Zuria Bauer, John Castro-Vargas, Felix Escalona, David Ivorra-Piqueres, Pablo Martinez-Gonzalez, Eugenio Aguirre, Miguel Garcia-Silviente, Marcelo Garcia-Perez, Jose M. Cañas, Francisco Martin-Rico, Jonathan Gines, Francisco Rivas-Montero

Pattern Recognition Letters 137, 80-90 · DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2019.02.013

2019

Tracking people in a mobile robot from 2d lidar scans using full convolutional neural networks for security in cluttered environments

Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras, Claudia Álvarez-Aparicio, Maria Carmen Calvo Olivera, Francisco J Rodríguez-Lera, Camino Fernández-Llamas, Francisco Martín Rico, Vicente Matellán

Frontiers in neurorobotics, Volume 7 · DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2018.00085

A Context-Awareness Model for Activity Recognition in robot-assisted scenarios

Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera; Francisco Martín Rico; Ángel Manuel Guerrero Higueras; Vicente Matellán Olivera

Journal on Expert Systems, 37:e12481 · DOI: 10.1111/exsy.12481

LIDAR-based people detection and tracking for@ home Competitions

Claudia Alvarez-Aparicio, Angel M. Guerrero-Higueras, Francisco J. Rodriguez-Lera, M. Carmen Calvo Olivera, Vicente Matellan Olivera, Jonatan Gines Clavero, Francisco Martin Rico

2019 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and … · DOI: 10.1109/icarsc.2019.8733624

Traceability and accountability in autonomous agents

Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Lera, Miguel Ángel González Santamarta, Ángel Manuel Guerrero, Francisco Martí­n, Vicente Matellán

Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems Conference … · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57805-3_28

Adapting ros logs to facilitate transparency and accountability in service robotics

Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Lera, Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras, Francisco Martín-Rico, Jonathan Gines, Juan Felipe García Sierra, Vicente Matellán-Olivera

Iberian Robotics Conference, 587-598 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36150-1_48

Using probabilistic context awareness in a deliberative planner system

Jonatan Gines Clavero, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Francisco Martín Rico, Angel Manuel Guerrero, Vicente Matellán

International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and … · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19651-6_16

2018

HiMoP: a three-component architecture to create more human-acceptable social-assistive robots: motivational architecture for assistive robots

Francisco J Rodríguez-Lera, Vicente Matellán-Olivera, Miguel Á Conde-González, Francisco Martín-Rico

Cognitive processing, Volume 19, pages 233–244 · DOI: 10.1007/s10339-017-0850-5

Benchmark dataset for evaluation of range-based people tracker classifiers in mobile robots

Claudia Álvarez-Aparicio, Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras, Maria Carmen Calvo Olivera, Francisco J Rodríguez-Lera, Francisco Martín, Vicente Matellán

Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Volume 11 · DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2017.00072

Neural Networks for Recognizing Human Activities in Home-like Environments

Francisco J Rodríguez Lera; Francisco Martín Rico; Vicente Matellán Olivera

Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 37-47 · DOI: 10.3233/ICA-180587

Generating symbolic representation from sensor data: inferring knowledge in robotics competitions

Francisco J. Rodriguez-Lera, Francisco Martin-Rico, Vicente Matelian-Olivera

2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and … · DOI: 10.1109/icarsc.2018.8374193

2017

Context awareness in shared human-robot environments: Benefits of environment acoustic recognition for user activity classification

F.J. Rodriguez Lera, F. Martin Rico, V. Matellan

8th International Conference of Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS 2017), 24 · DOI: 10.1049/cp.2017.0153

2016

A motivational architecture to create more human-acceptable assistive robots for robotics competitions

Francisco J. Rodriguez, Vicente Matellan, Miguel A. Conde, Francisco Martin Rico

2016 International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions … · DOI: 10.1109/icarsc.2016.19

Multi-thread impact on the performance of Monte Carlo based algorithms for self-localization of robots using RGB-D sensors

F Martín, V Matellán, FJ Lera

Workshop on Physical Agents