Dr. Enric Cervera

	Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universitat Jaume-I, Castelló, Spain.
	Email: ecervera at icc dot uji dot es Address: Jaume-I University, Campus Riu Sec, 12071 Castelló, Spain Phone: +34 964 728286 Fax: +34 964 728486 My CV: cv.pdf Some photos of my trips...

Academic background

• M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de València (1994), awarded with the 3rd Prize of the Spanish Ministry of Education.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universitat Jaume-I (1997). PhD thesis: Perception-based Learning for Fine Motion Planning in Robot Manipulation (PDF - 3.5 MB).

Professional background

In my computer beginnings, I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. After learning the magnificent Z80 assembly language, I programmed these games:

Teaching

• Aula Virtual
• Past course information (2004/05)
• Minirobotic competitions

Research interests

• Robotics:
  • Robots in hazardous environments
    • Guardians project
    • IARP/EURON Workshop on Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance
  • Force sensing
  • Visual servoing
    • International Online Course on Visual Servoing Techniques
    • IROS'04 Tutorial
    • IROS'02 Workshop
    • EURON'02 Summer School
  • Minirobotics
• Artificial Intelligence:
  • Neural nets
  • Reinforcement Learning

Publications

Information about the ranking of conferences in Robotics and AI

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• Cooperative robotics
  • J. Sales, R. Marín, E. Cervera, S. Rodríguez, and J. Pérez. Multi-Sensor Person Following in Low-Visibility Scenarios. Sensors, 10(12):10953–10966, 2010. ISSN 1424-8220. doi: 10.3390/s101210953.
  • E. Cervera, J. Sales, L. Nomdedeu, R. Marin, V. Gazi. Agents at play: Off-the-shelf software for practical multi-robot applications. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'08), pp. 2719-2720, 2008.
  • Patricio Nebot and Enric Cervera. An integrated agent-based software architecture for mobile and manipulator systems, Robotica, Volume 25, Issue 02, March 2007, pp 213-220.
  • Patricio Nebot, Enric Cervera. Agent-based Application Framework for Multiple Mobile Robots Cooperation. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'05), pp. 1521-1526, Barcelona (Spain), 2005.
  • Pierre Renaud, Enric Cervera, Philippe Martinet. Towards a reliable vision-based mobile robot formation control. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'04), pp. 3176-3181, Sendai (Japan), 2004.
  • S. Y Chiem, E. Cervera. Vision-based Robot Formations with Bézier Trajectories. In Intelligent Autonomous Systems 8, F. Groen et al. (Eds.), pp. 191-198, IOS Press, 2004.
  
  
• Visual servoing
  • C. Perez-Vidal, L. Gracia, N. Garcia, E. Cervera, J. M. Sabater. The On-line Teaching of Robot Visual Servoing, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, 2011.
  • C. Perez-Vidal, L. Gracia, N. Garcia, E. Cervera. Visual Control of Robots with Delayed Images, Advanced Robotics, Volume 23, 2009, pp 725-745.
  • A. Hafez, E. Cervera, C. V. Jawahar. Hybrid Visual Servoing by Boosting IBVS and PBVS. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies(ICTTA'08), pp. 1-6, Damascus (Syria), 2008.
  • E. Cervera, N. Garcia-Aracil, E. Martinez, L. Nomdedeu, A. P. del Pobil. Safety for a robot arm moving amidst humans by using panoramic vision. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'08), pp. 2183-2188, Roma (Italy), 2008.
  • A. Hafez, E. Cervera, C. V. Jawahar. Optimizing image and camera trajectories in robot vision control using on-line boosting. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07), pp. 352-357, San Diego (USA), 2007.
  • E. Cervera. A Cross-Platform Network-Ready Visual Servo Simulator. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'06), pp. 2314-2319, Beijing (China), 2006.
  • E. Cervera. Distributed Visual Servoing: A Cross-Platform Agent-based Implementation. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'05), pp. 3676-3681, Edmonton (Canada), 2005.
  • E. Cervera, A. P. del Pobil, F. Berry, P. Martinet. Improving Image-Based Visual Servoing with 3D Features. International Journal on Robotics Research, Special issue on Visual Servoing, edited by P. Corke, H. Christensen, vol. 22, No. 10-11, October-November, 2003, pp. 821-839, 2003.
  • E. Cervera, F. Berry, P. Martinet. Stereo Visual Servoing with Oriented Blobs. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'03), pp. 977-982 , Coimbra, Portugal.
  • P. Martinet, E. Cervera. Image-based Stereo Visual Servoing: 2D vs 3D features. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'02), pp. 1630-1635, Washington DC, USA.
  • E. Cervera, F. Berry, P. Martinet. Stereo Visual Servoing with a Single Point: a Comparative Study. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'01), pp. 213-218 , Budapest, Hungary.
  • P. Martinet, E. Cervera. Stacking Jacobians Properly in Stereo Visual Servoing. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01), pp. 717-722 , Seoul, Korea.
  • E. Cervera, P. Martinet. Combining Pixel and Depth Information in Image-Based Visual Servoing. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'99), pp. 445-450, Tokyo, Japan.
  • E. Cervera, P. Martinet. Visual Servoing with Indirect Image Control and a Predictable Camera Trajectory. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'99), pp. 381-386, Kyongju, Korea.
  
  
• Minirobotics
  • E. Cervera. Going Straight: a Lego-based Minirobotic Driving System. Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, edited by U. Rückert, J. Sitte and U. Witkowski. Heinz Nixdorf Institut, pp. 301-310, 2001, ISBN: 3-935433-06-9.
  • E. Cervera, P. J. Sanz. Experiences with Minirobot Platforms in Robotics and AI Laboratory. In Robotics Education and Training, edited by A. Casals, and A. Grau, Publicacions UPC, pp. 85-93, 2001, ISBN: 84-7653-781-6.
  
  
• Robotic manipulation
  • E. Chinellato, A. Morales, E. Cervera and A. P. del Pobil, Symbol grounding through robotic manipulation in cognitive systems, Robotics and Autonomous Systems,Volume 55, Issue 12, , Robotics and Autonomous Systems in the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence, Campus Multidisciplinary in Perception and Intelligence, 31 December 2007, Pages 851-859.
  • E. Cervera, A. P. del Pobil. Sensor-Based Learning for Practical Planning of Fine Motions in Robotics. International Journal of Information Sciences, 145, Special Issue on Intelligent Learning and Control of Robotics and Intelligent Machines in Unstructured Environments, pp. 147-168, 2002.
  • E. Cervera, A. P. del Pobil. A Qualitative-Connectionist Approach to Robotic Spatial Planning: The Peg-in-Hole Case Study. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 2(1):51-76, 2000.
  • E. Cervera, A. P. del Pobil. A SOM-based Approach to Robotic Manipulation Tasks. Kohonen Maps, edited by E. Oja and S. Kaski, Elsevier Science B.V., pp. 207-217, 1999, ISBN: 0 444 50270 X.
  • E. Cervera, A. P. del Pobil. Eliminating sensor ambiguities via recurrent neural networks in sensor-based learning. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'98), pp. 2174-2179, Leuven, Belgium.
  • E. Cervera, A. P. del Pobil. Multiple Self-Organizing Maps: a Hybrid Learning Scheme. Neurocomputing, 16:309-318, 1997.
  • E. Cervera, A. P. del Pobil. Integration of Self-Organizing Feature Maps and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics. Biological and Artificial Computation: from Neuroscience to Technology, edited by J. Mira, R. Moreno-Díaz and J. Cabestany, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1240, Springer, Berlin, pp. 1344-1354, 1997, ISBN: 3-540-63047-3.
  • E. Cervera, A. P. del Pobil, E. Marta, M.A. Serna. Perception-Based Learning for Motion in Contact in Task Planning. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 17(3):283-308, 1996.

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