Auke Ijspeert

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Professor
Auke Jan Ijspeert
Auke Ijspeert in 2020
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Geneva, Switzerland
NationalitySwitzerland
Netherlands
Academic background
EducationPhysics
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
University of Edinburgh
ThesisDesign of artificial neural oscillatory circuits for the control of lamprey- and salamander-like locomotion using evolutionary algorithms (1999)
Doctoral advisorJohn Hallam
David Willshaw
Other advisorsMichael A. Arbib
Stefan Schaal
Jean-Daniel Nicoud
Luca Maria Gambardella
Academic work
DisciplineNeuroscience
Sub-disciplineRobotics
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsBiorobotics
Computational neuroscience
Locomotion
Central pattern generators
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/

Auke Jan Ijspeert (born 1971 in Geneva) is a Swiss-Dutch roboticist and neuroscientist. He is a professor of biorobotics in the Institute of Bioengineering at EPFL, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and the head of the Biorobotics Laboratory at the School of Engineering.[1][2]

Career

He has studied physics at EPFL and a degree of an "Ingénieur physicien" (equivalent to Master's degree) in 1995.[3][4] He joined John Hallam and David Willshaw at the University of Edinburgh as a doctoral student, and in 1999 graduated with a PhD in artificial intelligence on the "Design of artificial neural oscillatory circuits for the control of lamprey- and salamander-like locomotion using evolutionary algorithms".[5][6] He worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Michael A. Arbib and Stefan Schaal at University of Southern California (USC),[7][8] and then at EPFL with Jean-Daniel Nicoud and with Luca Maria Gambardella (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research - IDSIA).[9]

In 2001, he became a research assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Southern California, and an external collaborator at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research institute) in Japan.[10] From 2003 to 2017, he was an adjunct faculty Department of Computer Science of the University of Southern California. In 2002, he received Swiss National Science Foundation assistant professorship at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences of EPFL. In 2009, he was named associate professor at EPFL's School of Engineering, and in 2016 he was promoted as full professor.[2] He leads the Biorobotics Laboratory at the School of Engineering.[1]

Research

The Ijspeert group's

nonlinear dynamical systems, and applied machine learning.[11] Employing numerical simulations and robots, they aim at a better understanding of animal locomotion and movement control, and by taking inspiration in nature, they design new types of robots and locomotion controllers.[12][13] Their research was featured in public presentations at TED Global and World.minds conferences.[14][15]

Their research is focused on computational aspects of locomotion control, sensorimotor coordination, and learning in animals and in robots. Furthermore, their research focuses also on rehabilitation robotics, such as exoskeletons, and in locomotion restoration. Their interests extent to research projects in areas such as neuromechanical simulations of locomotion and movement control;[10] systems of coupled nonlinear oscillators for locomotion control;[16][17] design and control of amphibious,[18] legged,[19] and reconfigurable robots;[20] and, control of humanoid robots,[21] and of exoskeletons.[22][23][24][25]

The research of Ijspeert's group has been featured in news outlets such as

SwissInfo,[34] The Washington Post,[35] Cosmos,[36] CNN,[37] SRF,[38] Tages-Anzeiger,[39] The Mirror,[40] and Der Standard.[41]

Distinctions

Ijspeert is an

IEEE Transactions
on Robotics (2009-2013) and a guest editor for the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and Biological Cybernetics.

He is a recipient of the Young Professorship Award (2002), the Young Researcher Scholarship (1999), and the Young Researcher Scholarship (1995) all awarded from the Swiss National Science Foundation .[47] He also received the Marie Curie Scholarship from the European Commission (1997).[48]

Public involvements

Ijspeert is also involved in his local church, the parish of Ecublens-St-Sulpice that is part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud, and he is member of its parish council since 2019.[49][50]

Selected works

References

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  2. ^ a b "21 professors appointed at ETH Zurich and EPFL | ETH-Board". www.ethrat.ch. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
  3. ^ "Getting into Robotics: Auke Ijspeert – NCCR Robotics". Retrieved 2020-12-03.
  4. ^ Ijspeert, Auke. "Auke Ijspeert | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
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  15. ^ "Auke Ijspeert: Animal Locomotion – Learning from Robots (WORLD.MINDS MOBILITY 2018)". Youtube. Archived from the original on 2020-06-11.
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  18. ^ "Amphibious Robotics". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  19. ^ "Quadruped Robotics". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  20. ^ "Modular Robotics". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  21. ^ "Humanoid Robotics". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
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  27. ^ "Full Page Reload". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  28. ^ Charles, Krista. "Living robots made from frog skin cells can sense their environment". New Scientist. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  29. ^ Barras, Colin. "Shape-shifting robot compensates for damaged limb". New Scientist. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  30. ^ "The Envirobot robo-eel slithers along the shore for science". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
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  34. ^ swissinfo.ch/cl (29 July 2017). "A swimming robot to sniff out water pollution". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
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  36. ^ "Salamanders inspire new breed of robot". Cosmos Magazine. 2016-02-07. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  37. ^ Meera Senthilingam (24 July 2014). "Robot furniture that builds itself". CNN. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  38. ^ "Technik - Arsen im See? Ein Schlangenroboter soll es finden". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
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  40. ^ McCrum, Kirstie (2016-06-30). "Creepy robot that walks and SWIMS like a salamander could teach us about humans". mirror. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  41. ^ "Bionik: Roboter bewegt sich nach Art eines Salamanders". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  42. ^ "2020 IEEE RAS Fellow Class Announced - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society". www.ieee-ras.org. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  43. ^ "Editors and Advisory Boards". Science | AAAS. 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
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  48. ^ "Curriculum Vitae Auke Jan Ijspeert" (PDF). EPFL. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-09-24.
  49. ^ "Nouveau Conseil paroissial". Paroisse d'Ecublens - Saint-Sulpice (in French). 2019-05-19. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  50. ^ "Accueil". Paroisse d'Ecublens - Saint-Sulpice (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-16.

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