Felipe TommaselliI am a second-year PhD student at the University of São Paulo (USP), advised by Prof. Marcelo Becker and co-advised by Dr. Ricardo V. Godoy. I believe intelligence has natural frequencies in the physical world that we can tune into with the right tools. My research currently focuses on RL for dynamical systems. I earned a BSc in Electrical Engineering at USP, with a minor in Computer Science, under the supervision of Prof. Robson Cordeiro. Previously, I was a visiting researcher at UIUC with Prof. Girish Chowdhary and worked on AI infrastructure as a software engineer at CloudWalk. |
f.tommaselli@usp.br
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Research
My very recent work includes:
- whole-body policy learning for locomanipulation with BDs' Spot;
- contact-rich manipulation benchmarks with the Franka Research 3 [1];
- understanding on-policy representations and their effect on deployment [2].
Publications
* denotes equal contribution.
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Felipe Tommaselli, R. V. Godoy, T. Segreto, J. Negri, M. Becker
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026 project page / paper / video (code coming soon) |
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Towards Capability-Aware Traversability Navigation for Unstructured Environments
G. Capezzuto, Felipe Tommaselli, M. P. Angarola, R. V. Godoy, M. Becker IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026 project page / paper / video |
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LeCropFollow: Latent Space Planning for Navigation in Unstructured Crop Fields
Felipe Tommaselli, F. Affonso, A. Rocha, G. Capezzuto, A. N. Sivakumar, G. Chowdhary, M. Becker IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 11, no. 9, 2026 project page / paper / video / code |
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Learning to Walk with Less: A Dyna-Style Approach to Quadrupedal Locomotion
F. Affonso, Felipe Tommaselli, J. H. Aléssio, V. S. Medeiros, M. V. Gasparino, G. Chowdhary, M. Becker IEEE Access, vol. 14, 2026 paper |
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VLN on the Fly: An Onboard Vision-Language Navigation Stack for Aerial Robots
M. S. Tayar*, Felipe Tommaselli*, G. Capezutto*, P. A. R. Saraiva*, P. H. V. de Freitas, L. Kido, G. Sonego, R. V. Godoy, M. Becker International Micro Air Vehicle Conference (IMAV), 2026 project page / paper / code |
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CROW: A Self-Supervised Crop Row Navigation Algorithm for Agricultural Fields
F. Affonso*, Felipe Tommaselli*, G. Capezzuto, M. V. Gasparino, G. Chowdhary, M. Becker Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 111, no. 1, article 28, 2025 paper / code |
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Autonomous UAV Flight Navigation in Confined Spaces: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
M. S. Tayar, L. K. de Oliveira, Felipe Tommaselli, J. D. Negri, T. H. Segreto, R. V. Godoy, M. Becker Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS), 2025 paper |
Selected Projects
Beyond open-sourcing research material, I also advocate for open hardware and software, including tools, frameworks, and benchmarks. I’m looking forward to contributing more actively to these efforts in this next research cycle.
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HiveBoard
An open, modular, fully 3D-printed benchmark of 13 industrial mechanisms, validated across Spot, ANYmal, a tabletop arm, and a prosthetic hand. Best Poster Presentation Award IROS'26 Workshop project / code / video |
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Swarm in Blocks
A block-based platform for programming and monitoring multi-UAV swarms, developed with SEMEAR-USP. CopterHack, 1st place, 2022 code / video |
Reach out
If you'd like to discuss research ideas or build something together, send me an email. Or find me inperson at:
Conferences: IMAV'26, Strasbourg, Fr · CoRL'26, Austin, US