2026 Carme Torras: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	44	7548	7329	99	97	339	8542

Overview

Carme Torras is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research activity spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics, Control and Systems Engineering, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist has worked extensively on main topics including:

3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Robot Manipulation and Learning
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
AI in Service Interactions
Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Among recent papers, Carme Torras has contributed to:

"The ethical issues of social assistive robotics: A critical literature review," 2021, Technology in Society
"A Grasping-centered analysis for cloth manipulation," 2020, UPCommons (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
"Benchmarking Bimanual Cloth Manipulation," 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"Do I Have a Personality? Endowing Care Robots with Context-Dependent Personality Traits," 2020, International Journal of Social Robotics
"Cognitive System Framework for Brain-Training Exercise Based on Human-Robot Interaction," 2020, Cognitive Computation

The publication venues frequently associated with their work include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
UPCommons (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Applied Mathematical Modelling

Carme Torras has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors. Frequent co-authors include:

Guillem Alenyà
Adrià Colomé
Antonio Andriella
Júlia Borràs
Franco Coltraro

The scientist has also authored a book titled Personalising Human-Robot Interactions in Social Contexts, scheduled for publication by Springer Nature in 2025.

Best Publications

3D collision detection: a survey

Pablo Jiménez;Federico Thomas;Carme Torras

898
Citations
Lock-in Time-of-Flight (ToF) Cameras: A Survey

S. Foix;G. Alenya;C. Torras

835
Citations
Learning Physical Collaborative Robot Behaviors From Human Demonstrations

Leonel Rozo;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell;Pablo Jimenez

323
Citations
Learning collaborative impedance-based robot behaviors

Leonel Rozo;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin Caldwell;Pablo Jiménez

181
Citations
Single image 3D human pose estimation from noisy observations

E. Simo-Serra;A. Ramisa;G. Alenya;C. Torras

165
Citations
Using depth and appearance features for informed robot grasping of highly wrinkled clothes

Arnau Ramisa;Guillem Alenya;Francesc Moreno-Noguer;Carme Torras

158
Citations
A robot learning from demonstration framework to perform force-based manipulation tasks

Leonel Rozo;Pablo Jiménez;Carme Torras

157
Citations
A Joint Model for 2D and 3D Pose Estimation from a Single Image

Edgar Simo-Serra;Ariadna Quattoni;Carme Torras;Francesc Moreno-Noguer

154
Citations
Closed-Loop Inverse Kinematics for Redundant Robots: Comparative Assessment and Two Enhancements

Adrià Colomé;Carme Torras

150
Citations
3D modelling of leaves from color and ToF data for robotized plant measuring

G. Alenya;B. Dellen;C. Torras

133
Citations
Vision-based robot positioning using neural networks

Gordon Wells;Christophe Venaille;Carme Torras

123
Citations
Robot control

Carme Torras

120
Citations
Exploiting symmetries within constraint satisfaction search

Pedro Meseguer;Carme Torras

119
Citations
External force estimation during compliant robot manipulation

Adria Colome;Diego Pardo;Guillem Alenya;Carme Torras

116
Citations
A Reinforcement Connectionist Approach to Robot Path Finding in Non-Maze-Like Environments

José Del R. Millán;Carme Torras

102
Citations
Computer Vision: Theory and Industrial Applications

Carme Torras

98
Citations
Dynamic Cloth Manipulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Rishabh Jangir;Guillem Alenya;Carme Torras

98
Citations
A Grasping-Centered Analysis for Cloth Manipulation

Julia Borras;Guillem Alenya;Carme Torras

96
Citations
Relational Reinforcement Learning for Planning with Exogenous Effects

David Martínez Martínez;Guillem Alenyà;Tony Ribeiro;Katsumi Inoue

93
Citations
A group-theoretic approach to the computation of symbolic part relations

F. Thomas;C. Torras

92
Citations
Artificial Intelligence Research and Development

Teresa Alsinet;Josep Puyol-Gruart;Carme Torras

83
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesc Moreno-Noguer Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Florentin Wörgötter University of Göttingen

Juan Andrade-Cetto Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

José del R. Millán The University of Texas at Austin

Tamim Asfour Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Sylvain Calinon Idiap Research Institute

Justus Piater University of Innsbruck

Danica Kragic Royal Institute of Technology

Darwin G. Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology

Rüdiger Dillmann Center for Information Technology

External Links

Personal website of Carme Torras Google Scholar page

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