• School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University

    B4 7ET Birmingham

    United Kingdom

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I am interested in supervising PhD students in the fields of social and assistive robotics, ambient intelligence, robotic cognitive architectures, human-robot interaction, and deep geometric learning.

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  • 2024

    Predictive World Models for Social Navigation

    Oguzie, G., Ekárt, A. & Manso, L. J., 1 Feb 2024, Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems, Contributions Presented at the 22nd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence. Naik, N., Jenkins, P., Grace, P., Yang, L. & Prajapat, S. (eds.). Springer, p. 53–64 13 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC)).

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  • Synthesizing Traffic Datasets using Graph Neural Networks

    Rodriguez-Criado, D., Chli, M., Manso, L. J. & Vogiatzis, G., 13 Feb 2024, Proceedings of IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITSC. IEEE, p. 3361-3368 8 p.

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  • 2023

    Dyna-DM: Dynamic Object-aware Self-supervised Monocular Depth Maps

    Saunders, K., Vogiatzis, G. & Manso, L. J., 25 May 2023, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC). Lopes, A. C., Pires, G., Pinto, V. H., Lima, J. L. & Fonseca, P. (eds.). IEEE, p. 10-16 7 p. (Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)).

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  • Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation: Let’s Talk About the Weather

    Saunders, K., Vogiatzis, G. & Manso, L. J., 6 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Computer Vision. IEEE, p. 8907-8917 11 p.

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  • SocNavGym: A Reinforcement Learning Gym for Social Navigation

    Kapoor, A., Swamy, S., Bachiller-Burgos, P. & Manso, L. J., 13 Nov 2023, 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). IEEE, 8 p. (IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)).

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  • 2021

    Generation of human-aware navigation maps using graph neural networks

    Rodriguez-Criado, D., Bachiller-Burgos, P. & Manso, L. J., 6 Dec 2021, Artificial Intelligence XXXVIII - 41st SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2021, Proceedings. Bramer, M. & Ellis, R. (eds.). Springer, p. 19-32 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13101 LNAI).

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  • Towards efficient human-robot cooperation for socially-aware robot navigation in human-populated environments: the SNAPE framework

    Vega-Magro, A., Gondkar, R., Manso, L. J. & Núñez, P., 18 Oct 2021, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, p. 3169-3174 6 p. 9561448

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  • 2020

    A Toolkit to Generate Social Navigation Datasets

    Baghel, R., Kapoor, A., Bachiller, P., Jorvekar, R. R., Rodriguez-Criado, D. & Manso, L. J., 3 Nov 2020, Advances in Physical Agents II - Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop of Physical Agents WAF 2020. Bergasa, L. M., Ocaña, M., Barea, R., López-Guillén, E. & Revenga, P. (eds.). Springer, p. 180-193 14 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 1285).

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  • Graph Neural Networks for Human-aware Social Navigation

    Manso, L. J., Jorvekar, R. R., Faria, D., Bustos, P. & Bachiller, P., 3 Nov 2020, Advances in Physical Agents II - Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop of Physical Agents WAF 2020. Bergasa, L. M., Ocaña, M., Barea, R., López-Guillén, E. & Revenga, P. (eds.). Springer, p. 167-179 13 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 1285).

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  • Multi-camera Torso Pose Estimation using Graph Neural Networks

    Rodriguez-Criado, D., Bachiller, P., Bustos, P., Vogiatzis, G. & Manso, L. J., 14 Oct 2020, 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020. IEEE, p. 827-832 6 p. 9223542. (29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020).

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  • Socially-accepted Path Planning for Robot Navigation based on Social Interaction Spaces

    Vega, A., Cintas, R., Manso, L. J., Bustos, P. & Núñez, P., 2020, Robot 2019: 4th Iberian Robotics Conference - Advances in Robotics. Silva, M. F., Luís Lima, J., Reis, L. P., Sanfeliu, A. & Tardioli, D. (eds.). 2019 ed. Springer, Vol. 1093. p. 644-655 12 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 1093 AISC).

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  • 2019

    A Study on Mental State Classification using EEG-based Brain-Machine Interface

    Bird, J., Manso, L. J., Ribeiro, E. P., Ekárt, A. & Faria, D., 8 May 2019, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems 2018: Theory, Research and Innovation in Applications, IS 2018 - Proceedings. Martins, J., Jotsov, V., Bierwolf, R., Mendonca, J. P., Jardim-Goncalves, R. & Marques, M. (eds.). IEEE, p. 795-800 6 p. 8710576. (2018 International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS)).

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  • CORTEX+: the mind of a robot-integrated smart environment for elderly care

    Vega, A., Manso, L. J., Calderita, L. V. & Nunez, P., 9 Jul 2019, WMSCI 2019 - 23rd World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings. Callaos, N. C., Hashimoto, S., Peoples, B. E., Sanchez, B. & Savoie, M. (eds.). Vol. 4. p. 27-32 6 p. (WMSCI 2019 - 23rd World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings; vol. 4).

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  • Human-robot dialogue and Collaboration for social navigation in crowded environments

    Lobato, C., Vega-Magro, A., Núñez, P. & Manso, L. J., 10 Jun 2019, 19th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, ICARSC 2019. Almeida, L., Reis, L. P. & Moreira, A. P. (eds.). IEEE, 6 p. 8733641

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  • 2018

    A Flexible and Adaptive Spatial Density Model for Context-Aware Social Mapping: Towards a More Realistic Social Navigation

    Vega, A., Manso, L. J., Bustos, P. & Nunez, P., 20 Dec 2018, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision. IEEE, p. 1727-1732 6 p.

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  • Emotion Recognition using Spatiotemporal Features from Facial Expression Landmarks

    Golzadeh, H., Faria, D., Manso, L. J., Ekárt, A. & Buckingham, C. D., 26 Sept 2018, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems . 6 p.

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  • Planning Human-Robot Interaction for Social Navigation in Crowded Environments

    Vega, A., Manso, L. J., Cintas, R. & Nunez, P., 22 Nov 2018, Advances in Physical Agents: Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop of Physical Agents. Fuentetaja, R. (ed.). Switzerland: Springer, Vol. 855. p. 195-208 15. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 855).

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  • Planning object informed search for robots in household environments

    Gutierrez, M. A., Manso, L. J., Nunez, P. & Bustos, P., 7 Jun 2018, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC). IEEE, p. 205-210

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  • 2017

    CLARC: A Cognitive Robot for Helping Geriatric Doctors in Real Scenarios

    Voilmy, D., Suárez, C., Romero-Garcés, A., Reuther, C., Pulido, J. C., Marfil, R., Manso, L. J., Ting, K. L. H., Iglesias, A., González, J. C., García, J., García-Olaya, A., Fuentetaja, R., Fernández, F., Dueñas, A., Calderita, L. V., Bustos, P., Barile, T., Bandera, J. P. & Bandera, A., 12 Nov 2017, ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2017. Springer, p. 403-414 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 693).

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  • Socially acceptable robot navigation over groups of people

    Vega-Magro, A., Manso, L., Bustos, P., Nunez, P. & Macharet, D. G., 14 Dec 2017, 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). IEEE, p. 1182-1187 (2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)).

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  • 2016

    Deep Representations for Collaborative Robotics

    Manso, L. J., Bustos, P., Bandera, J. P., Romero-Garcés, A., Calderita, L. V., Marfil, R. & Bandera, A., 11 Dec 2016, Brain-Inspired Computing. BrainComp 2015. Amunts, K., Grandinetti , L., Lippert, T. & Petkov, N. (eds.). p. 179-193 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10087).

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  • 2015

    A Navigation Agent for Mobile Manipulators

    Haut, M., Manso, L., Gallego, D., Paoletti, M., Bustos, P., Bandera, A. & Romero-Garcés, A., 28 Nov 2015, Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference. Reis, L., Moreira, A., Lima, P., Montano, L. & Muñoz-Martinez, V. (eds.). Springer, p. 745-756

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  • A Novel Multimodal Emotion Recognition Approach for Affective Human Robot Interaction

    Burgos, F. C., Manso, L. J. & Nunez, P., Jun 2015, Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal and Semantics for Robotics Systems. CEUR-WS.org, 9 p.

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  • A Unified Internal Representation of the Outer World for Social Robotics

    Bustos, P., Manso, L. J., Bandera, J. P., Romero-Garcés, A., Calderita, L. V., Marfil, R. & Bandera, A., 28 Nov 2015, Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference. Reis, L., Moreira, A., Lima, P., Montano, L. & Muñoz-Martinez, V. (eds.). Springer, p. 733-744

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  • Planning Human-Robot Interaction Tasks using Graph Models

    Manso, L. J., Bustos, P., Alami, R. & Milliezf, G., 28 Oct 2015, International Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding. p. 195-208

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  • RGBD Data analysis for Real-Time Emotion Recognition from Upper Body Movements

    Burgos, F. C., Mogena, E., Manso, L. J. & Nunez, P., 2015, Proceedings of International Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding.

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  • Testing a Fully Autonomous Robotic Salesman in Real Scenarios

    Romero-Garces, A., Calderita, L. V., Martinez-Gomez, J., Bandera, J. P., Marfil, R., Manso, L. J., Bandera, A. & Bustos, P., 7 May 2015, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions. IEEE

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  • 2014

    A General-Purpose Architecture to Control Mobile Robots

    Manso, L. J., Calderita, L. V., Bustos, P., Garcia, J., Fernandez, F., Romero-Garces, A. & Bandera, A. J., 2014, Proceedings of Workshop of Physical Agents. p. 105-116

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  • A Multi-layer Description of the Environment using Curvature Information for Robot Navigation

    Almeida, J., Manso, L. J., Bandera, A. J. & Nunez, P., 2014, Proceedings of Workshop of Physical Agents. p. 135-144

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  • Improving change detection using Vertical Surface Normal Histograms and Gaussian Mixture Models in structured environments

    Drews, P., Manso, L. J., Filho, S. C. D. S. & Nunez, P., 13 Mar 2014, 2013 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR). IEEE, 7 p.

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  • Toward Social Cognition in Robotics: Extracting and Internalizing Meaning from Perception

    Martinez-Gomez, J., Marfil, R., Calderita, L. V., Bandera, J. P., Manso, L. J., Bandera, A. J. & Bustos, P., 2014, Proceedings of Workshop of Physical Agents. p. 93-104

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  • 2013

    Multimodal interaction with Loki

    Bustos, P., Martinez-Gomez, J., Garcia-Varea, I., Bachiller, P., Calderita, L. V., Manso, L. J., Sanchez, A. & Balderas, A., 2013, Proceedings of Workshop of Physical Agents . p. 53-60

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  • Ursus: A Robotic Assistant for Training of Children with Motor Impairments

    Mejías, C. S., Echevarría, C., Nuñez, P., Manso, L., Bustos, P., Leal, S. & Parra, C., 2013, Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation Biosystems & Biorobotics. Springer, Vol. 1. p. 249-253 (Biosystems & Biorobotics; vol. 1).

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  • 2012

    Experiments in self-calibration of an autonomous mobile manipulator

    Sanchez, A., Nunez, P., Manso, L. J. & Bustos, P., Sept 2012, Proc. of Workshop of Physical Agents. p. 183-190 7 p.

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  • Graph Grammars for Active Perception

    Manso, L. J., Bustos, P., Bachiller, P. & Gutierrez, M. A., Apr 2012, Proc. of 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions. p. 63-68 6 p.

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  • 2011

    An incremental hybrid approach to indoor modeling

    Bachiller, P., Gutierrez, M. A., Manso, L. J., Bustos, P. & Nunez, P., Sept 2011, Proceedings of European Conference on Mobile Robots. p. 219-226

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  • A real-time synchronization algorithm between Text-To-Speech (TTS) system and Robot Mouth for Social Robotic Applications

    Cid, F., Cintas, R., Manso, L. J., Calderita, L. V., Sanchez, A. & Nunez, P., 2011, Proc. of Workshop of Physical Agents. p. 81-86

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  • Improving the life cycle of robotics components using Domain Specific Languages

    Romero-Garces, A., Manso, L. J., Gutierrez, M. A., Cintas, R. & Bustos, P., Sept 2011, International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and models for ROBotic systems. 9 p.

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  • 2010

    Improving a Robotics Framework with Real-Time and High-Performance Features

    Martínez, J., Romero-Garcés, A., Manso, L. & Bustos, P., Oct 2010, Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots. : SIMPAR 2010.. Springer, p. 263-274 22. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6472).

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  • RobEx: an Open-hardware Robotics Platform

    Mateos, J., Sanchez, A., Manso, L. J., Bachiller, P. & Bustos, P., Jan 2010, Workshop of Physical Agents. p. 17-24

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  • RoboComp: A Tool-Based Robotics Framework

    Manso, L., Bachiller, P., Bustos, P., Núñez, P., Cintas, R. & Calderita, L., 2010, International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots. Ando, N., Balakirsky, S., Hemker, T., Reggiani, M. & von Stryk, O. (eds.). Springer, p. 251-262 (Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence).

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  • Un Framework de Desarrollo para Robótica

    Translated title of the contribution: A Framework for Robot DevelopmentManso, L. J., Bustos, P., Bachiller, P., Nunez, P., Cintas, R. & Calderita, L. V., Apr 2010, Proc. of I Jornadas Jóvenes Investigadores. p. 33-28

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  • Visually-guided Object Manipulation by a Mobile Robot

    Manso, L. J., 10 Sept 2010, Proc. of Workshop of Physical Agents. p. 145-152 8 p.

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  • 2009

    Obstacle Detection on Heterogeneous Surfaces Using Color and Geometric Cues

    Manso, L. J., Bustos, P., Bachiller, P. & Moreno-delPozo, J., 11 Sept 2009, Proceedings of Workshop of Physical Agents. Spain, p. 95-101

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