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The Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob in short) is part of the Institute of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering at the EPFL. We work on the computational aspects of movement control, sensorimotor coordination, and learning in animals and in robots. We are interested in using robots and numerical simulation to study the neural mechanisms underlying movement control and learning in animals, and in return to take inspiration from animals to design new control methods for robotics as well as novel robots capable of agile locomotion in complex environments.
Our research interests are therefore at the intersection between robotics, computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems, and machine learning. We carry out research projects in the following areas: numerical simulations of locomotion and movement control, dynamic simulators of articulated rigid bodies, systems of coupled nonlinear oscillators for locomotion control, adaptive dynamical systems, design and control of amphibious articulated robots, control of humanoid robots, design and control of reconfigurable robots. See the Research pages for more details.
Our research is currently funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the European Commission (Information Society Technologies), the EPFL, and the Swiss SystemsX initiative in Systems Biology. Previous fundings came from the US National Science Foundation, the European Space Agency, the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI), the French Ministère de la Recherche et de la Technologie, and Microsoft Research Cambridge.
BioRob's Research Topics
| Dynamical Systems | Amphibious Robotics | Modular Robotics |
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| Rehabilitation Robotics | Humanoid Robotics | Quadruped Robotics |
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Collaborative projects
Biorobotics Laboratory participates to the following national or international projects:
- Symbitron (EU project, FP7)
- Walk-man (EU project, FP7)
- AMARSi (EU project, IP, FP7)
- Envirobot (Nano-Tera)
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Robotics
- RobotCub (EU project, IP, FP6)
- Lampetra (EU project, STREP, FP7)
- LOCOMORPH (EU project, STREP, FP7)
- ANGELS (EU project, STREP, FP7)
- EVRYON (EU project, STREP, FP7)
Contact
Prof. Auke Jan Ijspeert
EPFL STI IBI BIOROB
INN 237, Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 693 26 58
Fax: +41 21 693 37 05
e-Mail:
News
November 2015: Thanks to SwissNex San Francisco, Biorob's robots participated to several events at the 2015 Bay Area Science Festival in San Francisco, see Invasion of the Biorobots.
October 2015: Amy Wu joins Biorob as a postdoc to work on the Symbitron project.
September 2015: Susanne Lipfert joins Biorob as a postdoc with a fellowship from DFG.
September 2015: Steve Heim obtains a Highly commended paper award at CLAWAR 2015.
August 2015: Romain Baud joins Biorob as a PhD student co-supervised with Dr Mohamed Bouri from the LSRO laboratory.
July 2015: Auke Ijspeert joins the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science Magazine.
June 2015: Behzad Bayat joins Biorob as a postdoc to work on the Envirobot project.
May 2015: Auke Ijspeert presents the Envirobot project on SRF the Swiss German National Radio, and the Roombots project on RTS the Swiss French National Radio.
February 2015: Jessica Lanini joins Biorob as a PhD student to work on the new EU COGIMON project.
February 2015: New open postdoc position in the control of lower limb exoskeletons
January 2015: Howard Li joins Biorob as a visiting professor, Tadej Petric joins as a postdoc funded by the SCIEX program.
November 2014: Simon Hauser joins Biorob as a PhD student to work on the Roombots project.
October 2014: Review paper on biorobotics in Science
October 2014: Mehmet Mutlu joins Biorob with an IST-EPFL fellowship to work on the Roombots project.
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