Francisco Leiva

Engineering · Physical Sciences

6h-index199citations20works1.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Robot Manipulation and Learning(6), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms(5), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization(4), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics(4), Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond(4)

Publications20 total

Data-driven control of hydraulic impact hammers under strict operational and control constraints
ArXiv.org·2026Open Access
Data-driven control of hydraulic impact hammers under strict operational and control constraints
arXiv (Cornell University)·2026Open Access
Sistema de navegación de cobertura para vehículos no holonómicos en ambientes de exterior
ArXiv.org·2025Open Access
Sistema de navegación de cobertura para vehículos no holonómicos en ambientes de exterior
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Autonomous loading of ore piles with Load-Haul-Dump machines using deep reinforcement learning
Expert Systems with Applications·2024· 5 cited
Autonomous loading of ore piles with Load-Haul-Dump machines using Deep Reinforcement Learning
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Combining RL and IL using a dynamic, performance-based modulation over learning signals and its application to local planning
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Control of heap leach piles using deep reinforcement learning
Minerals Engineering·2024· 6 cited
Learning to Break Rocks With Deep Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters·2023· 12 cited
Automatic Determination of Rock-Breaking Target Poses for Impact Hammers
Energies·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Diálogos antropológicos para descifrar la crisis socioambiental en Chiloé
REVISTA CUHSO·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Learning to Play Soccer From Scratch: Sample-Efficient Emergent Coordination Through Curriculum-Learning and Competition
2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)·2021· 2 cited
Deep learning applied to humanoid soccer robotics: playing without using any color information
Autonomous Robots·2021· 3 cited
Robust RL-Based Map-Less Local Planning: Using 2D Point Clouds as Observations
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters·2020· 39 citedOpen Access
Diálogos antropológicos para descifrar la crisis socioambiental en Chiloé
Revista CUHSO·2019· 2 citedOpen Access
Diálogos antropológicos para descifrar la crisis socioambiental en Chiloé
Revista CUHSO·2019· 2 citedOpen Access
Collision Avoidance for Indoor Service Robots Through Multimodal Deep Reinforcement Learning
Lecture notes in computer science·2019· 11 cited
Playing Soccer Without Colors in the SPL: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach
Lecture notes in computer science·2019· 3 citedOpen Access
Visual Navigation for Biped Humanoid Robots Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters·2018· 100 cited
“Habitando la orilla”: la recolección de algas en el litoral central de Chile
2015· 3 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Javier Ruiz‐del‐Solar(14), Claudio Canales(3), Juan M. Saldívar(3), Alejandra Lazo(3), Francisco Ther-Ríos(3), Kenzo Lobos-Tsunekawa(2), Pavan Samtani(2), Rodrigo Salas(2), Nicolás Cruz(2), Michelle Valenzuela(2), Javier Ruiz-del-Solar(2), Michelle Valenzuela(2), Daniel Domingo Yanyachi Aco Cardenas(1), Isao Parra‐Tsunekawa(1), Simón Díaz-Quezada(1), Humberto Estay(1), Ignacio Bugueño-Córdova(1)