Doctoral thesis of Asier Gonzalez Santocildes

The Technological Institute of the University of Deusto has recently accepted the defense of Asier González’s doctoral thesis, entitled “Reinforcement learning in collaborative robotics: a study on the influence of human parameters in the development of robotic skills”.🤖

✅The research addresses one of the main current challenges in human-robot interaction: the development of robotic systems that are not only efficient from a technical point of view, but also are safe and comfortable for the people they interact with.

✅In this context, the thesis proposes the integration of human variables – such as comfort – directly in the process of training robots through reinforcement learning techniques. For this, the work combines the use of simulation environments, the design of user-centered reward functions and their subsequent experimental validation with human participants. 🧑

The thesis has been directed by Andoni Eguiluz and Iñaki Vazquez, and constitutes a relevant contribution towards the development of collaborative robotics systems that are more adaptive and aligned with human needs.

This type of research reinforces the commitment of the University of Deusto to the advancement of innovative technologies centered on people, especially in areas such as collaborative robotics and artificial intelligence.

From the Technological Institute, we want to congratulate Asier for this excellent work and for his contribution to the progress of research in this field. 👏✨