Aran Sena

Research Associate

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Imperial College London
White CIty Campus
W12 0BZ London, UK
Office: 416 UREN - Sir Michael Uren Building
Email: a.sena@imperial.ac.uk

PhD in Robotics, Kings College London
MSc in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Trinity College Dublin
BA BAI in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Trinity College Dublin

Research Interests

  • Imitation learning/learning from demonstration/etc.
  • Machine learning applications in robotics.
  • Robotic rehabilitation and assessment.

Selected Publications

A. Sena, M. Howard, Quantifying Teaching Behaviour in Robot Learning from Demonstration, , International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2020. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0278364919884623

A. Sena, B. Michael, M. Howard, Improving Task-Parameterised Movement Learning Generalisation with Frame-Weighted Trajectory Generation, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8967688 

Y. Zhao, A. Sena, F. Wu, M. Howard, A Framework for Teaching Impedance Behaviours by Combining Human and Robot ‘Best Practice’, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8593502

A. Sena, Y. Zhao, M. Howard, Teaching Human Teachers to Teach Robot Learners, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8461194/

C. McGinn, A. Sena, K. Kelly, Controlling robots in the home: A study on factors that affect the performance of novice robot operators,  Applied Ergonomics, 2017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28802443