Ángel Pasqual del Pobil Ferré
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e-Mail: pobil AT uji.es Office: TI-2111-DD, Robotic Intelligence Laboratory, Universitat Jaume I Address: Avda. Vicente Sos Baynat s/n, E-12071, Castelló, Spain Tel: +34 964 728 293 Fax: +34 964 728 486 Personal Web Page: http://www3.uji.es/~pobil/
Angel Pasqual del Pobil is Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Jaume I University (Spain), and founder director of the Robotic Intelligence Laboratory. He holds a B.S. in Physics (Electronics, 1986) and a Ph.D. in Engineering (Robotics, 1991), both from the University of Navarra. In the period 1986-1991 he also did research at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at the C.E.I.T. (Center for Technical Research and Studies) in San Sebastian (Spain) and at A.M.A.I.A. (Architectures, Methodes et Applications en Informatique Avancee) in Bayonne (France). His Ph.D. Thesis was the winner of the 1992 National Award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors. He has been Co-Chair of the Robot Motion & Path Planning Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (1997-2004), AdCom member of EURON (European Robotics Network of Excellence, 2001-), EURON Co-Chair for Research Key Area (2004-), and Vice President of the International Society of Applied Intelligence (Texas, 1996-1999).
He has over 150 publications, including nine books: Spatial Representation and Motion Planning, Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Methodology and Tools in Knowledge-Based Systems with Springer; Practical Motion Planning in Robotics (Wiley), and the Acta Press Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing series. Prof. del Pobil was co-organizer of several workshops and tutorials (ICRA'96, ICRA'00, IROS'00, ECAI'04, IROS'04, ICAR'05, IROS'05, IROS'06, IROS'07), he was Program Co-Chair of the 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and General Chair of the last five editions of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (2004-2008).
He has served on the program committees of 72 international conferences, such as IJCAI, ICPR, IEEE ICRA, IROS, EUROS, IAS, ICAR, CIRA, IEA/AIE, IWANN, IWINAC, etc. He has been involved in robotics research for over twenty years, his past and present research interests include: humanoid robots, service robotics, internet robots, motion planning, visually-guided grasping, robot perception, multimodal sensorimotor transformations, visual servoing, learning for sensor-based manipulation, and the interplay between neurobiology and robotics. Professor del Pobil has been invited speaker of 40 tutorials, plenary talks, and seminars. He serves as associate or guest editor for seven journals, including the new Springer journal Intelligent Service Robotics, and as expert for research evaluation at the European Commission and the National Science Foundation. He has supervised 11 Ph.D. Thesis and has been Principal Investigator of 23 research projects.
On-going projects at the Robotic Intelligence Lab include three projects funded by the European Commission: FP6 GUARDIANS (Group of Unmanned Assistant Robots Deployed In Aggregative Navigation supported by Scent detection), FP7 EYESHOTS (Heterogeneous 3-D Perception Across Visual Fragments) and FP7 GRASP (Emergence of Cognitive Grasping through Emulation, Introspection, and Surprise).
