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Scientist Defitech Foundation Chair in Non-invasive Brain-machine Interface

Sarah Dégallier Rochat Defitech Foundation Chair in Non-invasive Brain-machine Interface Research Associate nationality: Swiss web site: http://cnbi.epfl.ch office(s): ELB116 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 36989 MISSION I am interested in the modeling of human motor control and its application to the development of robotic devices to help persons suffering from motor control impairment. I have previously worked on the RobotCub project, where we developed a controller for locomotion and reaching based on the concept of motor primitives. I am currently working on the development of a model for the control of upper limbs movements based on the concept of muscle synergies. The long-term goal of this project is to develop upper limb protheses that can be intuitively controlled by the user through a BCI. Education PhD , Robotics, Prof. Auke Ijspeert, Lausanne, EPFL, 2006-2010 MEng , Mathematics, EPFL, Lausanne, 2000-2005 MAIN PUBLICATIONS Sarah Dégallier Rochat, Ludovic Righetti, Sébastien Gay, and Auke Ijspeert. Towards simple control for complex, autonomous robotic applications: Combining discrete and rhythmic motor primitives. In Autonomous Robots, volume 31, number 2, pages 155-181, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] Sébastien Gay, Sarah Dégallier Rochat, Auke Ijspeert, and José Santos-Victor. Integration of vision and central pattern generator based locomotion for path planning of a non-holonomic crawling humanoid robot. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 183 - 189, Taipei, Taiwan, 18-22 Oct. 2010 , 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] Sarah Dégallier Rochat and Auke Jan Ijspeert. Discrete and Rhythmic Motor Primitives for the Control of Humanoid Robots. Ph.D. Thesis, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] Sarah Dégallier and Auke Ijspeert. Modeling Discrete and Rhythmic Movements through Motor Primitives: A Review. In Biological Cybernetics, volume 103, number 4, pages 319-338, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] S. Degallier and A. J. Ijspeert. A bio-inspired architechture for movement generation based on discrete and rythmic movement primitives modeled by dynamical systems. In AMAM 2008 abstracts, pages 88-89, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] Andrej Gams, Sarah Degallier, Auke Ijspeert, and Jadran Lenarcic. Dynamical system for learning the waveform and frequency of periodic signals - application to drumming. In , , 2008, 2008. To appear. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] Sarah Degallier, Ludovic Righetti, Lorenzo Natale, Francesco Nori, Giorgio Metta, and Auke Ijspeert. A modular bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE RAS / EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Scottsdale, AZ, 2008. To appear. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] Pierre-André Mudry, Sarah Degallier, and Aude Billard. On the influence of symbols and myths in the responsibility ascription problem in roboethics - A roboticist’s perspective. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'08), pages 563--568, Münich, August 2008, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] Sarah Degallier, Ludovic Righetti, and Auke Ijspeert. Hand placement during quadruped locomotion in a humanoid robot: A dynamical system approach. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS07), San Diego, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text] Sarah Degallier, Cristina Santos, Ludovic Righetti, and Auke Ijspeert. Movement generation using dynamical systems: a humanoid robot performing a drumming task. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS06), Genova, December, 2006, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] [full text]