Carme Torras

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
248 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Carme Torras is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Carme Torras has authored 248 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 84 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 83 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Carme Torras's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (78 papers), Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (35 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (33 papers). Carme Torras is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (78 papers), Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (35 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (33 papers). Carme Torras collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and Italy. Carme Torras's co-authors include Guillem Alenyà, Pablo Jiménez, Federico Thomas, Sergi Foix, Adrià Colomé, Leonel Rozo, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Babette Dellen, Sylvain Calinon and Darwin G. Caldwell and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Automatica and Pattern Recognition.

In The Last Decade

Carme Torras

232 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Lock-in Time-of-Flight (ToF) Cameras: A Survey 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Lock-in Time-of-Flight (ToF) Cameras: A Survey
    2011 443 citations Sergi Foix, Guillem Alenyà et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Carme Torras Spain 32 1.9k 1.6k 916 868 555 248 4.5k
Marcelo H. Ang Singapore 36 1.6k 0.9× 2.0k 1.2× 886 1.0× 505 0.6× 1.1k 1.9× 301 5.6k
Sven Behnke Germany 37 1.3k 0.7× 2.7k 1.7× 913 1.0× 742 0.9× 1.9k 3.5× 283 5.2k
Guillem Alenyà Spain 27 845 0.4× 987 0.6× 462 0.5× 467 0.5× 293 0.5× 115 2.6k
Jorge Dias Portugal 33 1.4k 0.7× 1.9k 1.2× 1.0k 1.1× 662 0.8× 1.5k 2.7× 312 4.8k
Markus Vincze Austria 30 936 0.5× 2.2k 1.4× 365 0.4× 560 0.6× 1.6k 2.9× 266 3.9k
B. Benhabib Canada 31 1.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 571 0.6× 224 0.3× 752 1.4× 236 3.6k
Ashutosh Saxena United States 42 3.0k 1.6× 4.7k 2.9× 1.6k 1.7× 2.2k 2.5× 1.5k 2.6× 136 8.3k
Weihua Sheng United States 35 759 0.4× 1.6k 1.0× 568 0.6× 592 0.7× 531 1.0× 249 4.4k
Dirk Wollherr Germany 33 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 324 0.4× 682 0.8× 684 1.2× 183 3.4k
Maren Bennewitz Germany 30 1.5k 0.8× 3.7k 2.3× 954 1.0× 896 1.0× 2.6k 4.8× 142 5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Carme Torras

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carme Torras

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carme Torras

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carme Torras. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carme Torras based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Carme Torras. Carme Torras is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Amorós, Jaume, et al.. (2025). Topological reconstruction of sampled surfaces via Morse theory. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 473. 116872–116872.
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Colomé, Adrià, et al.. (2025). Linear quadratic control of nonlinear systems with Koopman operator learning and the Nyström method. Automatica. 177. 112302–112302. 1 indexed citations
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Amorós, Jaume, et al.. (2024). A novel collision model for inextensible textiles and its experimental validation. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 128. 287–308. 3 indexed citations
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Colomé, Adrià, et al.. (2024). Benchmarking the Sim-to-Real Gap in Cloth Manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(3). 2981–2988. 9 indexed citations
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Parent, David, et al.. (2024). Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Cloth Manipulation: Parameter Learning and Experimental Validation. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 32(4). 1254–1270. 4 indexed citations
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Colomé, Adrià, et al.. (2024). Deformable surface reconstruction via Riemannian metric preservation. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 249. 104155–104155.
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Colomé, Adrià, et al.. (2023). Controlled Gaussian process dynamical models with application to robotic cloth manipulation. International Journal of Dynamics and Control. 11(6). 3209–3219. 5 indexed citations
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Colomé, Adrià, et al.. (2022). Perturbation-Based Stiffness Inference in Variable Impedance Control. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(4). 8823–8830. 13 indexed citations
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Amorós, Jaume, et al.. (2021). An inextensible model for the robotic manipulation of textiles. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 101. 832–858. 11 indexed citations
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Colomé, Adrià & Carme Torras. (2021). A topological extension of movement primitives for curvature modulation and sampling of robot motion. Autonomous Robots. 45(5). 725–735. 1 indexed citations
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Torras, Carme, et al.. (2021). Topological representation of cloth state for robot manipulation. Autonomous Robots. 45(5). 737–754. 6 indexed citations
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Torras, Carme, et al.. (2021). The ethical issues of social assistive robotics: A critical literature review. Technology in Society. 67. 101726–101726. 87 indexed citations
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Borràs, Júlia, et al.. (2020). A Versatile Gripper for Cloth Manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(4). 6520–6527. 27 indexed citations
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Torras, Carme, et al.. (2020). STRIPS action discovery. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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Colomé, Adrià, et al.. (2019). Exploiting Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning of Bimanual Robotic Tasks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(2). 1838–1845. 11 indexed citations
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Colomé, Adrià & Carme Torras. (2018). Dimensionality Reduction in Learning Gaussian Mixture Models of Movement Primitives for Contextualized Action Selection and Adaptation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4). 3922–3929. 5 indexed citations
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Colomé, Adrià & Carme Torras. (2018). Dimensionality Reduction for Dynamic Movement Primitives and Application to Bimanual Manipulation of Clothes. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 34(3). 602–615. 39 indexed citations
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Alenyà, Guillem, et al.. (2015). Relational reinforcement learning with guided demonstrations. Artificial Intelligence. 247. 295–312. 28 indexed citations
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Alenyà, Guillem, Sergi Foix, & Carme Torras. (2014). ToF cameras for active vision in robotics. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 218. 10–22. 29 indexed citations
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Celaya, Enric & Carme Torras. (1990). Finding object configurations that satisfy spatial relationships. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 141–146. 5 indexed citations

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