Short biography:

I studied Mechatronics at the CINVESTAV in Mexico, where I received my doctorate in 2006. In 2009 I performed a postdoctoral research project in the Robotics and Embedded System Department at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

My biggest passion is everything that involves robots. My research interests include robot modeling, low level control design/implementation, sensor fusion, human-robot interaction/collaboration and cognitive systems. Since 2013 I have a position as senior researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Systems at TUM.

 

Publications

2022

  • Natalia Paredes-Acuña; Nicolas Berberich; Emmanuel Dean-León; Gordon Cheng: Tactile-based Assistive Method to Support Physical Therapy Routines in a Lightweight Upper-Limb Exoskeleton. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Taisuke Kobayashi, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Julio Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Florian Bergner, Gordon Cheng: Whole‐Body Multicontact Haptic Human–Humanoid Interaction Based on Leader–Follower Switching: A Robot Dance of the “Box Step” Authors. Advanced Intelligent Systems 4 (2), 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2021

  • Natalia Paredes-Acuña, Nicolas Berberich, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Gordon Cheng: Using Robot Skin to Support Physical Therapy Routines with a Lightweight Upper-Limb Exoskeleton. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2021, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Simon Armleder, Dr. Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Florian Bergner, Prof. Gordon Cheng: Interactive Force Control Based on Multimodal Robot Skin for Physical Human−Robot Collaboration. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Taisuke Kobayashi, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Julio Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Florian Bergner, and Gordon Cheng: Whole-Body Multicontact Haptic Human–Humanoid Interaction Based on Leader–Follower Switching: A Robot Dance of the “Box Step”. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)

2020

  • Florian Bergner, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, and Gordon Cheng: Design and Realization of an Efficient Large-Area Event-Driven E-Skin. Sensors - Neuromorphic Computing for Event-Based Sensors and Actuators 20 (7), 2020 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Ana Elvira H. Martin, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: "TACTO-Selector: Enhanced Hierarchical Fusion of PBVS with Reactive Skin Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction,”. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, 9121-9127, more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Bernhard Specht; Zied Tayeb; Emannual Dean; Rahil Soroushmojdehi; Gordon Cheng: Real-Time Robot Reach-To-Grasp Movements Control Via EOG and EMG Signals Decoding. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • J. Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Emmanuel Dean, Florian Bergner, and Gordon Cheng: Plantar Tactile Feedback For Biped Balance and Locomotion on Unknown Terrain. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2020, 1950036-1-21 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2019

  • Cheng, Gordon; Dean-Leon, Emmanuel; Bergner, Florian; Olvera, Julio Rogelio Guadarrama; Leboutet, Quentin; Mittendorfer, Philipp: A Comprehensive Realization of Robot Skin: Sensors, Sensing, Control, and Applications. Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 107 (10), 2019, 2034 - 2051 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Constantin Uhde, Emmanuel Dean and Gordon Cheng: CHiMP: A Contact based Hilbert Map Planner. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019, 2019, 7 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Emmanuel Dean, J. Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Florian Bergner and Gordon Cheng: Whole-Body Active Compliance Control for Humanoid Robots with Robot Skin. 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019, 5404--5410 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Florian Bergner, Emmanuel Dean, J. Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera and Gordon Cheng: Evaluation of a Large Scale Event Driven Robot Skin. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4 (4), 2019, 4247 - 4254 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Itadera, Shunki, Dean-Leon, Emmanuel, Nakanishi, Jun, Hasegawa, Yasuhisa and Cheng, Gordon: Predictive Optimization of Assistive Force in Admittance Control-Based Physical Interaction for Robotic Gait Assistance. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4 (4), 2019, 3609-3616 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • J. Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Emmanuel Dean, Florian Bergner, and Gordon Cheng: Pressure-Driven Body Compliance Using Robot Skin. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019, 4418-4423 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Quentin Leboutet, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Florian Bergner and Gordon Cheng: Tactile-based Whole-body Compliance with Force Propagation for Mobile Manipulators. IEEE-TRO Transaction on Robotics, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Taisuke Kobayashi, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Julio Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Florian Bergner, and Gordon Cheng: Multi-Contacts Force-Reactive Walking Control duringPhysical Human-Humanoid Interaction. IEEE-RAS 19th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2019, 33-39 more… BibTeX
  • Taisuke Kobayashi, Takumi Aotani, Julio Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera,Emmanuel Dean-Leon, and Gordon Cheng: Reward-Punishment Actor-Critic Algorithm Applying to Robotic Non-grasping Manipulation. 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2019, 2161-9484 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2018

  • Dennis Ossadnik, J. Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Adaptive Friction Compensation for Humanoid Robots without Joint-Torque Sensors. IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2018, 980 - 985 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Emmanuel Dean, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Florian Bergner, Ilya Dianov, and Gordon Cheng: Integration of Advanced Robotic Technologies for Rapidly Deployable Industrial Robots. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (4), 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Florian Bergner, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Efficient Distributed Torque Computation for Large Scale Robot Skin. 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, 1593 - 1599 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • J. Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Florian Bergner, Emmanuel Dean and Gordon Cheng: Enhancing Biped Locomotion on Unknown Terrain Using Tactile Feedback. IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2018, 47 - 52 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Lutscher, Ewald; Dean-León, Emmanuel C; Cheng, Gordon: Hierarchical Force and Positioning Task Specification for Indirect Force Controlled Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics 34 (1), 2018, 280 - 286 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2017

  • Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Brennand Pierce, Florian Bergner, Philipp Mittendorfer, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Wolfgang Burger and Gordon Cheng: TOMM: Tactile Omnidirectional Mobile Manipulator. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017Singapore, May 29 - June 3, 2017, 2441-2447 more… BibTeX
  • Florian Bergner, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Efficient Event-Driven Reactive Control for Large Scale Robot Skin. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017, 394 - 400 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • J. Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Using Intentional Contact to Achieve Tasks in Tight Environments. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017, 1000 - 1005 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Pablo Lanillos, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Enactive Self: a study of engineering perspectives to obtain the sensorimotor self through enaction. IEEE International Conference on Developmental Learning and Epigenetic Robotics , 2017 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Wolfgang Burger, Erhard Wieser, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, and Gordon Cheng: A Scalable Method for Multi-Stage Developmental Learning for Reaching. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2017 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2016

  • Florian Bergner, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Event-based signaling for large-scale artificial robotic skin - Realization and performance evaluation. 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016, 4918 - 4924 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • E. Dean, K. Ramirez-Amaro, F. Bergner, I. Dianov, P. Lanillos, and G. Cheng: Robotic technologies for fast deployment of industrial robot systems. IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IEEE IECON2016), 2016 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Florian Bergner, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro and Gordon Cheng: From Multi-modal Tactile Signals to a Compliant Control. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2016, 2016 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Ilya Dianov, Florian Bergner and Gordon Cheng,: General Recognition Models Capable of Integrating Multiple Sensors for Different Domains. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2016, 2016 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Pablo Lanillos, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Yielding self-perception in robots through sensorimotor contingencies. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2016 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Pablo Lanillos, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Multisensory Object Discovery via Self-detection and Artificial Attention. IEEE International Conference on Developmental Learning and Epigenetic Robotics , 2016 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Quentin Leboutet, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Tactile-based Compliance with Hierarchical Force Propagation for Omnidirectional Mobile Manipulators. IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2016), 2016 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • llya Dianov, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Pablo Lanillos, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Florian Bergner and Gordon Cheng: Extracting general task structures to accelerate the learning of new tasks. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2016 , 2016 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2015

  • Florian Bergner, Philipp Mittendorfer, Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: Event-based signaling for reducing required data rates and processing power in a large-scale artificial robotic skin. 015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015, 2124 - 2129 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, and Gordon Cheng: Robust Semantic Representations for Inferring Human Co-manipulation Activities even with Different Demonstration Styles. 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2015 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Nicholas H. Kirk, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Matteo Saveriano and Gordon Cheng: Online Prediction of Activities with Structure: Exploiting Contextual Associations and Sequences. 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2015 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2014

  • E. Dean-León and G. Cheng,: A new method for solving 6D Image-Based Visual Servoing with virtual composite camera model. Humanoid Robots, 201414th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 519-525 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Emmanuel Dean-Leon and Gordon Cheng: A new method for solving 6D Image-Based Visual Servoing with Virtual Composite camera model. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2014 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Karinne Ramirez Amaro, Tetsunari Inamura, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Michael Beetz and Gordon Cheng: Bootstrapping Humanoid Robot Skills by Extracting Semantic Representations of Human-like Activities from Virtual Reality. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2014 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2013

  • Caixia Cai, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Dario Mendoza, Nikhil Somani and Alois Knoll: Uncalibrated 3D Stereo Image-based Dynamic Visual Servoing for Robot Manipulators. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , 2013 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Nikhil Somani, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Caixia Cai, Alois Knoll: Scene Perception and Recognition in industrial environments. 9th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'13), 2013 more… BibTeX
  • Nikhil Somani, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Caixia Cai, Alois Knoll: Scene Perception and Recognition for Human-Robot Co-Operation. The 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2013ICIAP'13 workshop: First International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Vincent T. van Hees, Lukas Gorzelniak, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, Martin Eder, Marcelo Pias, Salman Taherian, Ulf Ekelund, Frida Renstr: Separating movement and gravity components in an acceleration signal and implications for the assessment of human daily physical activity. Journal PLoS ONE, 2013 more… BibTeX