Hafi Lotfi El

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Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University Research Organization

Degree: Doctor of Engineering (DrEng)(Sep, 2017, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST))
Research Internship(Sep, 2014, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST))
Training in International Business & Management EXPLORT(Mar, 2014, Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency (AWEX))
Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering (MScEng), Professional Focus in Mechatronics: Cum Laude(Jun, 2013, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain))
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BScEng), Focus in Mechanics and Electricity(Sep, 2011, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain))

Researcher number: 90821554
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9795-6153
J-GLOBAL ID: 201801002029735124
researchmap Member ID: B000302383

External link: https://lotfielhafi.com/

Research Interests

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Research History

Oct, 2019 - Present

(President and Founder), Coarobo GK
Oct, 2019 - Present

Assistant Professor (Research Assistant Professor), Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Ritsumeikan University
Apr, 2019 - Present

(Research Advisor for Robotics Competitions), Panasonic Robotics Hub, Panasonic Corporation
Apr, 2019 - Present

(Specially Appointed Researcher of HSR Community), Toyota HSR Community, Toyota Motor Corporation
Oct, 2017 - Sep, 2019

Researher Postdoc (Senior Researcher), Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Ritsumeikan University
Sep, 2013 - Mar, 2014

(Sales Engineer), Marketing & Sales Department (M&S), intoPIX SA
Sep, 2012 - Jun, 2013

(Research Intern), Research & Development Department (R&D), intoPIX SA

Education

Oct, 2014 - Sep, 2017

Robotics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
Apr, 2014 - Sep, 2014

Robotics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
Sep, 2013 - Mar, 2014

Commerce, Centre de Compétence Management & Commerce, Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency (AWEX)
Sep, 2011 - Jun, 2013

Mechatronics, École polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
Sep, 2007 - Sep, 2011

Mechanics, École polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Awards

Papers

Inferring Place-Object Relationships by Integrating Probabilistic Logic and Multimodal Spatial Concepts

Shoichi Hasegawa, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Lotfi El Hafi, Tadahiro Taniguchi

2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2023, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Team NAIST-RITS-Panasonic at the Future Convenience Store Challenge: Our Approach from 2018 to 2021

Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Lotfi El Hafi, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Masaki Yamamoto, Jun Takamatsu, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Tsukasa Ogasawara

Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), 61(6) 422-425, Jun 10, 2022
Software Development Environment for Collaborative Research Workflow in Robotic System Integration

Lotfi El Hafi, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Felix von Drigalski, Yuki Inoue, Masaki Yamamoto, Takashi Yamamoto

RSJ Advanced Robotics (AR), 36(11) 533-547, Jun 3, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Optical Laser Microphone for Human-Robot Interaction: Speech Recognition in Extremely Noisy Service Environments

Takahiro Fukumori, Chengkai Cai, Yutao Zhang, Lotfi El Hafi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Takanobu Nishiura, Tadahiro Taniguchi

RSJ Advanced Robotics (AR), 36(5-6) 304-317, Mar 19, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Map Completion from Partial Observation using the Global Structure of Multiple Environmental Maps

Yuki Katsumata, Akinori Kanechika, Akira Taniguchi, Lotfi El Hafi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi

RSJ Advanced Robotics (AR), 36(5-6) 279-290, Mar 19, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Neural Network-based Motion Feasibility Checker to Validate Instructions in Rearrangement Tasks before Execution by Robots

Pedro Miguel Uriguen Eljuri, Lotfi El Hafi, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Akira Taniguchi, Tadahiro Taniguchi

Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2022), 1058-1063, Jan 9, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Human Action Categorization System using Body Pose Estimation for Multimodal Observations from Single Camera

Aditya Singh Rathore, Lotfi El Hafi, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Tadahiro Taniguchi

Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2022), 914-920, Jan 9, 2022 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Extending HoloGAN by Embedding Image Content into Latent Vectors for Novel View Synthesis

Jing Wang, Lotfi El Hafi, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi

Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2022), 383-389, Jan 9, 2022 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
6D-Pose Estimation for Manipulation in Retail Robotics using the Inference-embedded OAK-D Camera

Tatsuhiro Wakayama, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Lotfi El Hafi, Jun Takamatsu

Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2022), 1046-1051, Jan 9, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Autonomous service robot for human-aware restock, straightening and disposal tasks in retail automation

Gustavo A. Garcia Ricardez, Pedro M. Uriguen Eljuri, Yuta Kamemura, Shiori Yokota, Noriyuki Kugou, Yoshitatsu Asama, Ziyu Wang, Hikaru Kumamoto, Kotaro Yoshimoto, Wai Y. Chan …

Advanced Robotics, 36(17-18) 936-950, 2022
Versatile cleaning service robot based on a mobile manipulator with tool switching for liquids and garbage removal in restrooms

Tatsuhiro Wakayama, Eri Fujiura, Mari Yamaguchi, Naoki Yoshida, Tomoaki Inoue, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Masaki Yamamoto, Lotfi El Hafi, Gustavo A. Garcia Ricardez, Jun Takamatsu …

Advanced Robotics, 36(17-18) 967-981, 2022
Multimodal Object Categorization with Reduced User Load through Human-Robot Interaction in Mixed Reality.

Hitoshi Nakamura, Lotfi El Hafi, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi

IROS, 2143-2150, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Neural Network Acceleration of Motion Feasibility for Object Arrangement Task

Pedro Miguel Uriguen Eljuri, Yuki Toramatsu, Lotfi El Hafi, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Akira Taniguchi, Tadahiro Taniguchi

Proceedings of 2021 SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2021), 3422-3425, Dec 15, 2021
場所概念獲得がLoop Closure性能に及ぼす影響評価

Takeshi Nakashima, Akira Taniguchi, Lotfi El Hafi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi

Proceedings of 2021 Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ 2021), RSJ2021AC1I4-06 1-3, Sep 8, 2021
自然な発話文教示に基づく弱教師あり物体領域分割の検証

Akinori Kanechika, Lotfi El Hafi, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi

Proceedings of 2021 Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ 2021), RSJ2021AC1I2-02 1-4, Sep 8, 2021
The Necessity of Semiotically Adaptive Cognition for Realizing Remotely-Operated Service Robots in the New Normal Society

Tadahiro Taniguchi, Lotfi El Hafi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Akira Taniguchi, Nobutaka Shimada, Takanobu Nishiura

Proceedings of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2021), 266-267, Jul 8, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Semiotically adaptive cognition: toward the realization of remotely-operated service robots for the new normal symbiotic society

Tadahiro Taniguchi, Lotfi El Hafi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Akira Taniguchi, Nobutaka Shimada, Takanobu Nishiura

Advanced Robotics, 1-11, May 24, 2021
Autonomous Planning Based on Spatial Concepts to Tidy Up Home Environments with Service Robots

Akira Taniguchi, Shota Isobe, Lotfi El Hafi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi

RSJ Advanced Robotics (AR), 35(8) 471-489, Apr 18, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Teaching System for Multimodal Object Categorization by Human-Robot Interaction in Mixed Reality

Lotfi El Hafi, Hitoshi Nakamura, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi

Proceedings of 2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2021), 320-324, Jan 11, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Bidirectional Generation of Object Images and Positions using Deep Generative Models for Service Robotics Applications

Kaede Hayashi, Wenru Zheng, Lotfi El Hafi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi

Proceedings of 2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2021), 325-329, Jan 11, 2021 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Understanding Language Instructions that Include the Vocabulary of Unobserved Objects by Integrating a Large Language Model and a Spatial Concept Model

HASEGAWA Shoichi, YAMAKI Ryosuke, TANIGUCHI Akira, HAGIWARA Yoshinobu, HAFI Lotfi El, TANIGUCHI Tadahiro

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, JSAI2023 1Q4OS7b03-1Q4OS7b03, 2023
Reducing the Cost of Learning Places via a Model that Integrates Probabilistic Logic and Spatial Concept

HASEGAWA Shoichi, HAGIWARA Yoshinobu, TANIGUCHI Akira, HAFI Lotfi El, TANIGUCHI Tadahiro

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, JSAI2022 1N5OS10b04-1N5OS10b04, Jun, 2022

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CREST AIP Challenge Program

Jun, 2018 - Mar, 2019
MEXT Scholarship Program

Apr, 2014 - Sep, 2017
EXPLORT Program

Sep, 2013 - Mar, 2014

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