Rodrigo Gutiérrez Moreno

Rodrigo Gutiérrez Moreno is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), affiliated with the Robesafe research group focused on Service Robotics and e-Safety Technologies. His work bridges robotics, autonomous systems, and AI applications in transportation and healthcare. He collaborates extensively with the CARLA simulator for autonomous driving research.

Research interests include autonomous vehicle decision-making, reinforcement learning integration with classical control, motion prediction, and human-robot interaction. His group explores hybrid control systems, V2X communication validation, and ethical considerations in autonomous systems. Recent projects address lane change maneuvers, urban scenario navigation, and driver behavior analysis using gaze tracking and vehicle data.

Publications span multimodal sensor fusion, graph-based prediction models, and modular autonomous driving architectures. His work emphasizes transitioning simulation-based algorithms to real-world implementations while maintaining safety and reliability standards. Active in open-source tools like ROS for robotic development, he also investigates healthcare robotics and biomedical engineering applications.