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Gerard Canal

Dr Gerard Canal

Lecturer in Autonomous Systems

Research interests

  • Computer science

Contact details

Biography

Gerard is a Lecturer in Autonomous Systems in the Department of Informatics, King's College London. Prior to this, he was a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

In March 2020, Gerard completed his PhD in Robotics at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial under the supervision of Dr Guillem Alenyà and Professor Carme Torras.

In 2013, Gerard received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona, part of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Later, in 2015, he obtained a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

He has participated in different international and national projects such as I-DRESS and THuMP, and he is a Researcher Co-Investigator in the COHERENT project.

Research Interests

  • Assistive Robotics
  • Robot behavior personalization based on preferences
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Social Robotics
  • AI Planning applied to Robotics and HRI
  • Explainable Robot Behavior

More Information

The publication feed is not currently available.

Research

Robots in the Department of Informatics
Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub

The Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub develops the trustable autonomous systems of tomorrow.

hospital-news
Health Hub

The Health Hub centres on computational characterisation of medically relevant study cases and data.

ARTICLE Graph Equations
Reasoning and Planning

The group focuses on the fundamental AI challenge of creating, representing and reasoning.

News

King's roboticists win big at major European robotics competition

A team from the Department of Informatics won ‘Best Team’ at the European Robotics League’s Milton Keynes Smart City competition and appeared on BBC's One Show

780x440EngineeringRobotsNoStrikes

King's scientists explore the effects of AI on human life

Bringing the Human to the Artificial presents cutting-edge AI research at King’s.

Bringing the Human to the Artificial

Events

27May

Brewing the Future

Collaborate with TIAGo the Robot to make a cuppa.

Please note: this event has passed.

14Jun

Brewing the Future

Collaborate with TIAGo the Robot to make a cuppa.

Please note: this event has passed.

Features

Meet our new researchers from the Department of Informatics

We interview some of our academics who started September 2022.

informatics_feature

The publication feed is not currently available.

Research

Robots in the Department of Informatics
Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub

The Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub develops the trustable autonomous systems of tomorrow.

hospital-news
Health Hub

The Health Hub centres on computational characterisation of medically relevant study cases and data.

ARTICLE Graph Equations
Reasoning and Planning

The group focuses on the fundamental AI challenge of creating, representing and reasoning.

News

King's roboticists win big at major European robotics competition

A team from the Department of Informatics won ‘Best Team’ at the European Robotics League’s Milton Keynes Smart City competition and appeared on BBC's One Show

780x440EngineeringRobotsNoStrikes

King's scientists explore the effects of AI on human life

Bringing the Human to the Artificial presents cutting-edge AI research at King’s.

Bringing the Human to the Artificial

Events

27May

Brewing the Future

Collaborate with TIAGo the Robot to make a cuppa.

Please note: this event has passed.

14Jun

Brewing the Future

Collaborate with TIAGo the Robot to make a cuppa.

Please note: this event has passed.

Features

Meet our new researchers from the Department of Informatics

We interview some of our academics who started September 2022.

informatics_feature