Oscar E. Ramos Research Professor Department of Mechatronics Engineering Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología - UTEC Lima, Peru

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Current Projects

• Deep Generative Robot Manipulation (in collaboration with Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
• Haptic Remote Control of a Robotic System for Surgical Applications (Jan 2019 - Dec 2023). Funded by Cienciactiva, Peru

Past Projects

• Robotic Gold Mining. In collaboration with Oussama Khatib and Shameek Ganguly at Stanford University (2018-2020). Funded by Hochschild Mining plc.
• Development of a Robotic Systm for Efficient Quality Control of Industrial Plant Nurseries (Jan 2019 - Dec 2020). Funded by Cienciactiva, Peru.
• Development of a Mechatronic System for Water Sampling in Rivers. In collaboration with the Water Institute (CITA) at UTEC (2018)
• Omnidirectional Robot for the Exploration of Difficult Areas (2017). Funded by Seed-Funding at UTEC.
• Development of a Diagnosis System based on Thermography and Machine Learning for Monitoring and Prediction of Pressure Ulcers (2016-2017). Funded by Cienciactiva, Peru.

Projects with students

• Development and whole-body control of a Quadruped Robot.
• Trajectory Optimization with time and jerk constraints for the Sawyer Robot.
• Teleoperation of the NAO Robot
• Autonomous Exploration using Mobile Robots.

Prior to UTEC

• Generalizations of the Capture Point to Nonlinear Surfaces (at Duke University).
• Whole-Body Motion Generation for Humanoid Robots (HRP-2 and Romeo).
• Motion Generation for CHIMP, the CMU Highly-Intelligent Mobile Platform (at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, USA, for the Darpa Robotics Challenge).
• Dancing with Humanoid Robots (at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France): summary
• 3D Localization of an Underwater Robot using Range-only Sensors (at the University of Girona, Spain, for the Trident FP7 European Project).