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Chemist Eye: A Visual Language Model-Powered System for Safety Monitoring and Robot Decision-Making in Self-Driving Laboratories (Preprint - 2025)
Deep Reinforcement Learning With Explicit Context Representation (Journal article - 2025)
Affordance-Based Human-Robot Interaction With Reinforcement Learning (Journal article - 2023)

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2026

RobInHood: a robotic chemist in a fume hood

Longley, L., Munguia-Galeano, F., Han, Y., Clowes, R., Vijayakrishnan, S., Edwards, A., . . . Cooper, A. (2026). RobInHood: a robotic chemist in a fume hood. DIGITAL DISCOVERY, 5(6), 11 pages. doi:10.1039/d6dd00007j

DOI: 10.1039/d6dd00007j
: Journal article

Chemist Eye: a visual language model-powered system for safety monitoring and robot decision-making in self-driving laboratories

Munguia-Galeano, F., Zhou, Z., Veeramani, S., Fakhruldeen, H., Longley, L., Clowes, R., & Cooper, A. I. (2026). Chemist Eye: a visual language model-powered system for safety monitoring and robot decision-making in self-driving laboratories. DIGITAL DISCOVERY, 5(5), 2209-2220. doi:10.1039/d6dd00062b

DOI: 10.1039/d6dd00062b
: Journal article

RobInHood: A Robotic Chemist in a Fume Hood

DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2026-s2619
: Preprint

An Open-Source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces

Munguia-Galeano, F., Longley, L., Veeramani, S., Zhou, Z., Clowes, R., Fakhruldeen, H., & Cooper, A. I. (2026). An Open-Source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces. In Unknown Book (Vol. 16045, pp. 461-474). doi:10.1007/978-3-032-01486-3_35

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01486-3_35
: Chapter

2025

Localization, inspection, and reasoning (LIRA) module for autonomous workflows in self-driving laboratories

Zhou, Z., Veeramani, S., Munguia-Galeano, F., Fakhruldeen, H., & Cooper, A. I. (2025). Localization, inspection, and reasoning (LIRA) module for autonomous workflows in self-driving laboratories. COMMUNICATIONS CHEMISTRY, 8(1), 12 pages. doi:10.1038/s42004-025-01770-1

DOI: 10.1038/s42004-025-01770-1
: Journal article

PREVENT: Proactive Risk Evaluation and Vigilant Execution of Tasks for Mobile Robotic Chemists using Multi-Modal Behavior Trees

: Preprint

Chemist Eye: A Visual Language Model-Powered System for Safety Monitoring and Robot Decision-Making in Self-Driving Laboratories

: Preprint

An Open-source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces

: Preprint

LIRA: Localization, Inspection, and Reasoning Module for Autonomous Workflows in Self-Driving Labs

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6148048/v1
: Preprint

Deep Reinforcement Learning With Explicit Context Representation

Munguia-Galeano, F., Tan, A. -H., & Ji, Z. (2025). Deep Reinforcement Learning With Explicit Context Representation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, 36(1), 419-432. doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3325633

DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3325633
: Journal article

2024

Learning to bag with a simulation‐free reinforcement learning framework for robots

Munguia‐Galeano, F., Zhu, J., Hernández, J. D., & Ji, Z. (2024). Learning to bag with a simulation‐free reinforcement learning framework for robots. IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics, 6(2). doi:10.1049/csy2.12113

DOI: 10.1049/csy2.12113
: Journal article

AR and HRC Integration for Enhanced Pragmatic Quality

Tong, Y., Zhang, Q., Galeano, F. M., & Ji, Z. (2024). AR and HRC Integration for Enhanced Pragmatic Quality. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology. doi:10.1109/ICIT58233.2024.10540971

DOI: 10.1109/ICIT58233.2024.10540971
: Conference Paper

2023

Affordance-Based Human-Robot Interaction With Reinforcement Learning

Munguia-Galeano, F., Veeramani, S., Hernandez, J. D., Wen, Q., & Ji, Z. (2023). Affordance-Based Human-Robot Interaction With Reinforcement Learning. IEEE ACCESS, 11, 31282-31292. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3262450

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3262450
: Journal article

Designing an AR Facial Expression System for Human-Robots Collaboration

Tong, Y., Zhang, Q., Galeano, F. M., & Ji, Z. (2023). Designing an AR Facial Expression System for Human-Robots Collaboration. In Icac 2023 28th International Conference on Automation and Computing. doi:10.1109/ICAC57885.2023.10275175

DOI: 10.1109/ICAC57885.2023.10275175
: Conference Paper

PnuTac: A vision-based pneumatic tactile sensor for slip detection and object classification

Rayamane, P., Herbert, P., Munguia-Galeano, F., & Ji, Z. (2023). PnuTac: A vision-based pneumatic tactile sensor for slip detection and object classification. In 2023 29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MECHATRONICS AND MACHINE VISION IN PRACTICE, M2VIP 2023 (pp. 6 pages). doi:10.1109/M2VIP58386.2023.10413420

DOI: 10.1109/M2VIP58386.2023.10413420
: Conference Paper

Towards Integrating 3D Printing and Automated Assembly

Munguia-Galeano, F., Ortega-Arroyo, L., Villarreal-Cervantes, M. G., & Ji, Z. (2023). Towards Integrating 3D Printing and Automated Assembly. In IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Vol. 2023-August. doi:10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260529

DOI: 10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260529
: Conference Paper

Towards Smooth Human-Robot Handover with a Vision-Based Tactile Sensor

Rayamane, P., Munguia-Galeano, F., Tafrishi, S. A., & Ji, Z. (2023). Towards Smooth Human-Robot Handover with a Vision-Based Tactile Sensor. In Unknown Book (Vol. 14136, pp. 431-442). doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43360-3_35

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43360-3_35
: Chapter

2022

Context-Sensitive Personalities and Behaviors for Robots

Munguia-Galeano, F., & Setchi, R. (2022). Context-Sensitive Personalities and Behaviors for Robots. Procedia Computer Science, 207, 2325-2334. doi:10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.291

DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.291
: Journal article