Hakan Girgin

hakangirgin21@gmail.com

I am currently working at Swiss Cobotics Competence Center as Innovation Manager. I received my Ph.D. degree in robotics from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Idiap Research Institute supervised by Dr. Sylvain Calinon.I worked in EU-Horizon2020 projects CoLLaboratE and IMAGINE. My research focuses on optimization and active iterative refinement of feedback and feedforward control policies for acquiring robust and anticipatory robot skills from demonstration. You can download my CV here.

News

Our new paper "Demonstration-guided Optimal Control for Long-term Non-prehensile Planar Manipulation" has been accepted to ICRA2023!
I presented our new paper "Robust Anticipatory Robot Skills with Memory" in ISRR 2022.
New software for fast first-order constrained optimization based on spectral projected gradient descent method is online!

Optimization and control

Fast replanning and adaptation strategies in feedback control and path optimization.

Active learning

Iterative refinement of skills using information-density approaches in learning from demonstration.

Learning from demonstration

Teaching generalizable skills executed in combination with feedback controllers.