Biography:Auke Ijspeert

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Short description: Swiss-Dutch roboticist and neuroscientist


Professor

Auke Jan Ijspeert
EPFL 2020 Auke Ijspeert Portrait.jpg
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 academic 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 Switzerland -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 transdisciplinary research is situated at the intersection of robotics, computational neuroscience, 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 IEEE Spectrum,[26][27] New Scientist,[28][29] Tech Crunch,[30] Le Temps,[31][32] Nature,[33] 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 Fellow.[42] He is a member of the board of reviewing editors of Science Magazine,[43] and an associate editor of Soft Robotics,[44] IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics,[45] and for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.[46] He has been an associate editor for the 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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob)" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "21 professors appointed at ETH Zurich and EPFL | ETH-Board". https://www.ethrat.ch/en/medien-medienmitteilungen/21-professorinnen-und-professoren-den-beiden-eth-ernannt. 
  3. ↑ "Getting into Robotics: Auke Ijspeert – NCCR Robotics" (in en-US). https://nccr-robotics.ch/kids-teachers-parents/how-to-be-a-roboticist/how-our-professors-got-into-robotics/auke-ijspeert/. 
  4. ↑ Ijspeert, Auke. "Auke Ijspeert | Speaker | TED" (in en). https://www.ted.com/speakers/auke_ijspeert. 
  5. ↑ Ijspeert, Auke Jan (1999). Design of artificial neural oscillatory circuits for the control of lamprey- and salamander-like locomotion using evolutionary algorithms (Ph.D. thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/34726.
  6. ↑ Ijspeert, Auke Jan; Hallam, John; Willshaw, David (2016-07-25). "Evolving Swimming Controllers for a Simulated Lamprey with Inspiration from Neurobiology" (in en). Adaptive Behavior 7 (2): 151–172. doi:10.1177/105971239900700202. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/105971239900700202. 
  7. ↑ Ijspeert, Auke Jan; Arbib, Michael (2000), "Visual tracking in simulated salamander locomotion", From Animals to Animats 6 (The MIT Press): pp. 88–97, doi:10.7551/mitpress/3120.003.0011, ISBN 978-0-262-31607-1, http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3120.003.0011, retrieved 2020-12-03 
  8. ↑ Ijspeert, Auke Jan; Arbib, Michael A. (2000-10-16). "Locomotion and visually guided behavior in salamander: a neuromechanical study". Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems III (International Society for Optics and Photonics) 4196: 62–71. doi:10.1117/12.403749. Bibcode: 2000SPIE.4196...62I. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/4196/0000/Locomotion-and-visually-guided-behavior-in-salamander--a-neuromechanical/10.1117/12.403749.short. 
  9. ↑ Ijspeert, Auke Jan; Martinoli, Alcherio; Billard, Aude; Gambardella, Luca Maria (2001-09-01). "Collaboration Through the Exploitation of Local Interactions in Autonomous Collective Robotics: The Stick Pulling Experiment" (in en). Autonomous Robots 11 (2): 149–171. doi:10.1023/A:1011227210047. ISSN 1573-7527. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011227210047. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ijspeert, Auke Jan; Nakanishi, Jun; Hoffmann, Heiko; Pastor, Peter; Schaal, Stefan (February 2013). "Dynamical Movement Primitives: Learning Attractor Models for Motor Behaviors". Neural Computation 25 (2): 328–373. doi:10.1162/neco_a_00393. ISSN 0899-7667. PMID 23148415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_00393. 
  11. ↑ "Research" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/research/. 
  12. ↑ Ijspeert, A. J.; Crespi, A.; Ryczko, D.; Cabelguen, J.-M. (2007-03-09). "From Swimming to Walking with a Salamander Robot Driven by a Spinal Cord Model". Science 315 (5817): 1416–1420. doi:10.1126/science.1138353. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17347441. Bibcode: 2007Sci...315.1416I. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1138353. 
  13. ↑ Ijspeert, A. J. (2014-10-09). "Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion". Science 346 (6206): 196–203. doi:10.1126/science.1254486. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 25301621. Bibcode: 2014Sci...346..196I. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1254486. 
  14. ↑ Ijspeert, Auke (28 January 2016) (in en), A robot that runs and swims like a salamander, https://www.ted.com/talks/auke_ijspeert_a_robot_that_runs_and_swims_like_a_salamander, retrieved 2020-12-03 
  15. ↑ "Auke Ijspeert: Animal Locomotion – Learning from Robots (WORLD.MINDS MOBILITY 2018)". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbD5WmosseE. 
  16. ↑ Dzeladini, Florin; van den Kieboom, Jesse; Ijspeert, Auke (2014-06-26). "The contribution of a central pattern generator in a reflex-based neuromuscular model". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8: 371. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00371. ISSN 1662-5161. PMID 25018712. 
  17. ↑ Minassian, Karen; Hofstoetter, Ursula S.; Dzeladini, Florin; Guertin, Pierre A.; Ijspeert, Auke (2017-03-28). "The Human Central Pattern Generator for Locomotion: Does It Exist and Contribute to Walking?". The Neuroscientist 23 (6): 649–663. doi:10.1177/1073858417699790. ISSN 1073-8584. PMID 28351197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073858417699790. 
  18. ↑ "Amphibious Robotics" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/research/amphibious/. 
  19. ↑ "Quadruped Robotics" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/research/quadruped/. 
  20. ↑ "Modular Robotics" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/research/modular/. 
  21. ↑ "Humanoid Robotics" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/research/humanoid/. 
  22. ↑ Noot, N. Van der; Colasanto, L.; Barrea, A.; Kieboom, J. van den; Ronsse, R.; Ijspeert, A. J. (September 2015). "Experimental validation of a bio-inspired controller for dynamic walking with a humanoid robot". 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). pp. 393–400. doi:10.1109/IROS.2015.7353403. ISBN 978-1-4799-9994-1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7353403. 
  23. ↑ Wu, Amy R.; Dzeladini, Florin; Brug, Tycho J. H.; Tamburella, Federica; Tagliamonte, Nevio L.; van Asseldonk, Edwin; van der Kooij, Herman; Ijspeert, Auke J. (2017), González-Vargas, José; Ibáñez, Jaime; Contreras-Vidal, Jose L. et al., eds., "A Versatile Neuromuscular Exoskeleton Controller for Gait Assistance: A Preliminary Study on Spinal Cord Injury Patients" (in en), Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends, Biosystems & Biorobotics (Cham: Springer International Publishing) 16: pp. 163–167, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46532-6_27, ISBN 978-3-319-46531-9, http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-46532-6_27, retrieved 2020-12-07 
  24. ↑ Dzeladini, F.; Wu, A. R.; Renjewski, D.; Arami, A.; Burdet, E.; Asseldonk, E. van; Kooij, H. van der; Ijspeert, A. J. (June 2016). "Effects of a neuromuscular controller on a powered ankle exoskeleton during human walking". 2016 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob). pp. 617–622. doi:10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523694. ISBN 978-1-5090-3287-7. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7523694. 
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  38. ↑ "Technik - Arsen im See? Ein Schlangenroboter soll es finden" (in de). 2015-05-11. https://www.srf.ch/wissen/technik/arsen-im-see-ein-schlangenroboter-soll-es-finden. 
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  43. ↑ "Editors and Advisory Boards" (in en). 2018-01-31. https://www.sciencemag.org/about/editors-and-editorial-boards. 
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  47. ↑ "Auke Jan Ijspeert" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/people/ijspeert/. 
  48. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae Auke Jan Ijspeert". https://www.epfl.ch/labs/biorob/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CV_Ijspeert_SHORT_Dec_2016.pdf. 
  49. ↑ "Nouveau Conseil paroissial" (in fr-FR). 2019-05-19. https://ecublenssaintsulpice.eerv.ch/nouveau-conseil-paroissial/. 
  50. ↑ "Accueil" (in fr-FR). https://ecublenssaintsulpice.eerv.ch/. 

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