My name is Ixchel Ramirez-Alpizar.
I am a senior researcher with the Automation Research Team at the Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center (ICPS) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) at Tokyo Waterfront Center. From 2016 to 2019, I was an Assistant Professor at Professor’s Kensuke Harada Laboratory of the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, where I am currently a guest Associate Professor.
I got my Ph.D. in Robotics from Osaka University, working on the manipulation of deformable objects.
I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Manipulation Group of AIST, where I worked on motion and assembly planning of deformable objects.
I was a visiting post-doctoral researcher at the Gepetto Team of the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS) in France for almost one year, where I worked on pulling a fire hose with the HRP-2 humanoid robot.
Currently, I am working on how to efficiently make robots learn different kinds of assembly tasks and starting to work on human-robot collaboration and remote control of robots in manufacturing scenarios.