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Selman Sakar

selman.sakar@epfl.ch +41 21 693 10 95

EPFL STI IGM MICROBS
MED 3 2916 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
1015 Lausanne

EPFL STI IBI-GE
MED 3 2916 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

robotics, mechanobiology, microtechnology, smart materials, biomedical devices

Awards

Big on Small Award

Steering Committee on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales

2023

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Sourabh Monnappa Kuppanda Jafri, Lorenzo Francesco John Noseda, Nikita Norkin, Elif Ezgi Inan, Houman Javaheri, Mehdi Ali Gadiri, Julian Leon Raub, Junsun Hwang

Past EPFL PhD Students

Erik Mailand, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira, Murat Kaynak, Lucio Pancaldi-Giubbini, Fazil Emre Uslu, Matthias Rüegg, Ece Özelçi, Emilie Vuille-Dit-Bille

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Laura Joan Hermans

Courses

Dynamical systems

ME-221

Provides the students with basic notions and tools for the analysis of dynamic systems. Shows them how to develop mathematical models of dynamic systems and perform analysis in time and frequency domains.

Micro/Nano robotics

ME-436

The objective of this course is to expose students to the fundamentals of robotics at small scale. This includes a focus on physical laws that predominate at the nano and microscale, technologies for fabricating small devices, bioinspired design and control paradigms, and applications of the field.

Robotics practicals

MICRO-453

The goal of this lab series is to practice the various theoretical frameworks acquired in the courses on a variety of robots, ranging from industrial robots to autonomous mobile robots, to robotic devices, all the way to interactive robots.

Topics in Autonomous Robotics

ENG-615

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