picture Doctoral researcher
Mechanical Engineering Department
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Contact

Mailing address
Mechanical Engineering Department - PMA Division
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 300B
postbusnr.: 2420
B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

Contact info
enrico_dot_dilello_at_mech_dot_kuleuven_dot_be
Phone: ++32 16 32 80 58
Office: 01.053

Research

  • What?

  • Probabilistic Graphical Models for multi-dimensional time-series recognition, applied to human motion estimation and classification and robotic assembly process monitoring and learning.

    The main challenge of this research is to apply Probabilistic Graphical Models ( Dynamic Bayesian Network as a first approach) to classification of time series. In particular, my research will focus on the recognition of two categories of input:

    - Human motion data

    In collaboration with the Department of Revalidation Sciences (FaBeR), I plan to apply both static and dynamic Bayesian Networks for the classification of 3D gait analysis data acquired via a Vicon system. The goal is to support doctor in the identification of clynically relevant motion patterns in the gait of children affected by cerebral palsy.

    The proposed approach is to develop a DBN that can be trained with data labelled from experts, and then classify the data acquired by the motion capture system to one of the expert defined categories, providing also confidence values. I am currently investigating the use of Hidden Markov Models, from the standard version to the more complex Hierarchycal and Layered-HMM ones, for the motion analysis. A more general DBN, although, will be needed to embed the a-priori knowledge provided by expert and obtain classification performances comparable with the ones obtained by doctors and by current state-of-the-art approaches.

    Another application i am currently interested in is human motion capturing with the Kinect sensor. In particular, I am exploring how the on-line classification of human motions can be used to improve the markerless estimation of the current human pose. Recently, prof. De Schutter proposed a representation of rigid body 6 DOF motion that is invariant with respect to the observation point. I am working in combining this representation with standard DBN approaches for motion classification for robotics application.

    - Force sensor output

    The output of 6D force sensor can be interpreted to perform "smart monitoring" of an assembly task. In industrial robotics application, a manipulation or assembly task is usually encoded in a FSM, which transitions are usually triggered by time-based "event". By learning probabilistic models of this "events" from temporal patterns in the force sensor output we aim at improving robustness, failure recovery ability and speed.

  • Where?

  • The research is promoted by Prof. H. Bruyninckx at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with both the Department of Mechanical Engineering (PMA) and the Department of Revalidation Sciences (FaBeR).

  • Past Research

    • Multi Target Tracking and Vision Systems for Swarm Robotics applications (Roma Tre University)
    • Multi Target Tracking Techniques for GMTI radars (Roma Tre University)

Publications

Journals

Conferences

  • Recognition of 6 DOF Rigid Body Motion Trajectories using a Coordinate-Free Representation; Joris De Schutter, Enrico Di Lello, Jochem F.M. De Schutter, Roel Matthysen, Tuut Benoit and Tinne De Laet; 2011 IEEE Internation Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011) Shanghai, China May 9th-13th, 2011 (Accepted)
  • The PEIS Table: An Autonomous Robotic Table for Domestic Environments; Enrico Di Lello, Alessandro Saffiotti; 4th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2009) Mlini/Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 22th, 2009

Workshops

  • Robotic Furniture in a Smart Environment: The PEIS Table; Enrico Di Lello, Amy Loutfi, Federico Pecora, Alessandro Saffiotti; 1th International Workshop on Mobile Robots in Automated Buildings (MRABS 2009) Barcelona, Spain, July 19th, 2009

Software

  • Work in progress.. Stay Tuned!


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Projects

  • EU FP7 Project ROSETTA : RObot control for Skilled ExecuTion of Tasks in natural interaction with humans; based on Autonomy, Cumulative Knowledge and Learning