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Technical University of Munich

Dr. Pablo Lanillos

Research Interests

Short Bio

Dr. Pablo Lanillos is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Cognitive Systems (ICS) granted with a TUM University Foundation Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) in computer engineering, specialization robotics in July 2013 from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain. In 2006 he joined the Department of Computer Architecture and Automatic Control, UCM, and as a PhD candidate he has been a visiting researcher at the Aerospace Control Laboratory (ACL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; and the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), University of Sydney. He was member of the Spanish Government funded projects: “System for surveillance, search and rescue in the sea by means of collaboration of autonomous marine and air vehicles” and “Planning, simulation and control platform for multiple aerial and marine vehicles cooperation”. Prior to joining TUM, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR), University of Coimbra, within the scope of CASIR project: Coordinated Attention for Social Interaction with Robots.

Interests

I am interested in designing aware and socially-aware robots by means of embodied perception and action. My research is focused on mimicking some neurophysiology functionalities of the human brain to develop computational models that will enable artificial systems with new cognitive capabilities (e.g., integrating bottom-up and top-down modulation into multisensory robotic platforms). Furthermore, I am also fascinated by the idea of elaborating probabilistic reasoning models that could handle attention, awareness or even the intentional state of the machine and its interlocutors.

  • Human-robot interaction
  • Cognitive robotics
  • Neuro-inspired and embodied perception
  • Artificial attention
  • Probabilistic decision making and logical reasoning
  • Bayesian search
  • Autonomous robots coordination
  • Information fusion

More on his private website www.therobotdecision.com

Publications

2021

  • Pablo Lanillos, Sae Franklin, Antonella Maselli and David W. Franklin: Active Strategies for Multisensory Conflict Suppression in the Virtual Hand Illusion. Scientific Reports, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Guillermo Oliver; Pablo Lanillos; Gordon Cheng: An empirical study of active inference on a humanoid robot Publisher: IEEE. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2020

  • Pablo Lanillos, Daniel Oliva, Anja Philippsen, Yuichi Yamashita,Yukie Nagai, Gordon Cheng: A review on neural network models of schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. Neural Networks Vol 122, 2020, 338-363 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Pablo Lanillos, Jordi Pages, Gordon Cheng: Robot self/other distinction: active inference meets neural networks learning in a mirror. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), 2020 more… BibTeX

2019

  • Amir Rasouli Pablo Lanillos Gordon Cheng John K. Tsotsos: Attention-based active visual search for mobile robots. Autonomous Robots, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Jonas F. Braun, Germán Díez Valencia, Stefan K. Ehrlich, Pablo Lanillos, Gordon Cheng: A prototype of a P300 based brain-robot interface to enable multi-modal interaction for patients with limited mobility. IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems 2019 , 2019 more… BibTeX
  • Michael Deistler, Yagmur Yener, Florian Bergner, Pablo Lanillos, Gordon Cheng: Tactile Hallucinations on Artificial Skin Induced by Homeostasis in a Deep Boltzmann Machine. IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems 2019 , 2019 more… BibTeX
  • Zied Tayeb, Philipp Jakovleski, Zhong Chen, Jannick Lippert, Pablo Lanillos, Dongheui Lee, Gordon Cheng: Enabling the sense of touch in EMG-controlled hand prostheses using vibro-tactile stimulation. 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2018

  • German Diez-Valencia, Takuya Ohashi, Pablo Lanillos and Gordon Cheng: Sensorimotor learning for artificial body perception. International Workshop on Crossmodal Learning for Intelligent Robotics, IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Nina-Alisa Hinz, Pablo Lanillos, Hermann Mueller and Gordon Cheng: Drifting perceptual patterns suggest prediction errors fusion rather than hypothesis selection: replicating the rubber-hand illusion on a robot. IEEE international conference on development and learning and on epigenetic robotics (ICDL-Epirob), 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Pablo Lanillos and Gordon Cheng: Active Attention Applications in Robotics. International Workshop on Active vision, Attention, and Learning, IEEE Developmental Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob), 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Pablo Lanillos and Gordon Cheng: Active inference with function learning for robot body perception. International Workshop on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning, IEEE Developmental Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob), 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Pablo Lanillos and Gordon Cheng: Adaptive robot body learning and estimation through predictive coding. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018)I, 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Pablo Lanillos and Gordon Cheng: Active Attention Applications in Robotics. International Workshop Visual Search and Selective Attention (VSSA IV), 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Pablo Lanillos, Nina-Alisa Hinz, Hermann Mueller and Gordon Cheng: Replicating Body Illusions on a Robot with Predictive Coding Models. International Conference on The Open Self: Investigating the Boundaries of the Self: Bodily, Social and Technological 2018 more… BibTeX

2017

  • Mohsen Kaboli, Di Feng, Kunpeng Yao, Pablo Lanillos, Gordon Cheng: A Tactile-based Framework for Active Object Learning and Discrimination using Multi-modal Robotic Skin. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2 (4), 2017, 2143-2150 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)
  • Pablo Lanillos, João Filipe Ferreira and Jorge Dias: A Bayesian hierarchy for robust gaze estimation in human–robot interaction. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2017, 1-22 more… BibTeX

2016

  • 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)
  • Pablo Lanillos and Gordon Cheng: Robots with self-perception: objects discovery and scene disambiguation using visual, proprioceptive and tactile cues correlation during interaction. Robotics in the 21st century: Challenges and Promises International Workshop (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the HeKKSaGOn Network) 2016 more… BibTeX
  • 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)
  • 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)
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