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Auke Ijspeert

EPFL STI IBI-STI BIOROB
MED 1 1226 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
1015 Lausanne

EPFL STI IGM-GE
MED 1 1226 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
1015 Lausanne

Prix et distinctions

Marie Curie Scholarship

1997

SNSF professorship

Swiss National Science Foundation

2006

IEEE Fellow

IEEE

2020

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Most Influential Paper Award

IEEE

2024

Best conference paper award at SAB 2018

15th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

2018

Best paper award at IEEE RO-MAN 2014

23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

2014

Best paper award at Humanoids 2007

IEEE-RAS International conference on Humanoid Robots

2007

Overall Best Paper Award at ICRA 2002

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

2002

Best paper prize at CLAWAR 2019

he 22nd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots

2019

Main Publications

Reverse-engineering the locomotion of a stem amniote

J. A. NyakaturaK. MeloT. HorvatK. KarakasiliotisV. R. Allen  et al.

Nature. 2019-01-16. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-018-0851-2.

Oncilla Robot: A Versatile Open-Source Quadruped Research Robot With Compliant Pantograph Legs

A. SprowitzA. TuleuM. AjallooeianM. VespignaniR. Mockel  et al.

Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 2018. DOI : 10.3389/frobt.2018.00067.

From cineradiography to biorobots: an approach for designing robots to emulate and study animal locomotion

K. KarakasiliotisR. ThandiackalK. MeloT. HorvatN. K. Mahabadi  et al.

Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 2016. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2015.1089.

Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile animal locomotion

A. Ijspeert

Science magazine. 2014. DOI : 10.1126/science.1254486.

Roombots: A Hardware Perspective on 3D Self-Reconfiguration and Locomotion with a Homogeneous Modular Robot

A. SpröwitzR. MöckelM. VespignaniS. BonardiA. Ijspeert

Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2013.08.011.

From lamprey to salamander: an exploratory modeling study on the architecture of the spinal locomotor networks in the salamander

A. BicanskiD. RyczkoJ.-M. CabelguenA. J. Ijspeert

Biological Cybernetics. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-012-0538-y.

Adaptive Frequency Oscillators and Applications

L. RighettiJ. BuchliA. J. Ijspeert

The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal. 2009. DOI : 10.2174/1874110X00903020064.

Central pattern generators for locomotion control in animals and robots: a review

A. J. Ijspeert

Neural Networks. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2008.03.014.

From swimming to walking with a salamander robot driven by a spinal cord model

A. J. IjspeertA. CrespiD. RyczkoJ.-M. Cabelguen

Science. 2007. DOI : 10.1126/science.1138353.

Dynamical principles in neuronal systems and robotics

J. BuchliA. J. IjspeertM. RabinovichA. Selverston

Biological Cybernetics. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-006-0130-4.

Dynamic hebbian learning in adaptive frequency oscillators

L. RighettiJ. BuchliA. J. Ijspeert

Physica D. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.physd.2006.02.009.

A connectionist central pattern generator for the aquatic and terrestrial gaits of a simulated salamander

A. Ijspeert

Biological Cybernetics. 2001. DOI : 10.1007/s004220000211.

From swimming to walking with a salamander robot driven by a spinal cord model

A. J. IjspeertA. CrespiD. RyczkoJ.-M. Cabelguen

Science. 2007. DOI : 10.1126/science.1138353.

Dynamic hebbian learning in adaptive frequency oscillators

L. RighettiJ. BuchliA. J. Ijspeert

Physica D. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.physd.2006.02.009.

Learning Attractor Landscapes for Learning Motor Primitives

A. IjspeertJ. NakanishiS. Schaal

2002. p. 1547-1554.

A connectionist central pattern generator for the aquatic and terrestrial gaits of a simulated salamander

A. Ijspeert

Biological Cybernetics. 2001. DOI : 10.1007/s004220000211.

Enseignement et PhD

Current Phd

Zeynep Özge Orhan, Lixuan Tang, Louis Gevers, Chuanfang Ning, Alessandro Pazzaglia, Amirreza Razmjoo Fard, Astha Gupta, Javier Jia Jie Pey, Giulia Ramella, Alexandros Anastasiadis

Past Phd As Director

Alessandro Crespi, Jonas Buchli, Joël Rossier, Ludovic Righetti, Pierre-André Mudry, Sarah Dégallier Rochat, Alexander Spröwitz, Jérémie Knüsel, Soha Pouya, Konstantinos Karakasiliotis, Andrej Bicanski, Sébastien Gay, Jesse van den Kieboom, Stéphane Bonardi, Mostafa Ajallooeian, Massimo Vespignani, Alexandre Tuleu, Nicolas Van der Noot, Robin Thandiackal, Salman Faraji, Peter Eckert, Tomislav Horvat, Florin Dzeladini, Mehmet Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Jessica Lanini, Romain Baud, Miroslav Caban, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty, Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill, Laura Paez, Andrea Di Russo, Alice Julie Bruel, Milad Shafiee Ashtiani

Past Phd As Codirector

Ludovic Daler, Ali Reza Manzoori, Pembe Gizem Ozdil

Courses

Computational motor control

MICRO-436

Ce cours présente (1) une revue de differents types de modèles numeriques du contrôle du mouvement chez les animaux, allant du poisson jusqu'à l'humain, (2) différentes techniques de modélisation, et (3) une analyse de l'utilisation des ces modèles en robotique et neuroprothèses.

Legged robots

MICRO-507

Le cours présente le design, contrôle, et les applications reliés aux robots mobiles à pattes.

Topics in Autonomous Robotics

ENG-615

Students will be introduced to modern approaches in control and design of autonomous robots through lectures and exercises.