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2025

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
77
Citations
23186
World Ranking
608
National Ranking
17

Computer Science

D-Index
80
Citations
24079
World Ranking
1088
National Ranking
27

Aude Billard publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aude Billard sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 410 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Aude Billard D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aude Billard sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Aude Billard is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields within engineering and computer science, focusing predominantly on robotics and related disciplines.

The main fields of study associated with their work are:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

Billard's research further specializes in several subfields, including:

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The scientist's body of work covers a range of topics. Prominent among these are:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies

Billard has published frequently in several venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • The International Journal of Robotics Research

Their recent scholarly publications include:

  • Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas, 2021, International Journal of Social Robotics
  • Customizing skills for assistive robotic manipulators, an inverse reinforcement learning approach with error-related potentials, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Intent Prediction Based on Biomechanical Coordination of EMG and Vision-Filtered Gaze for End-Point Control of an Arm Prosthesis, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • Avoiding Dense and Dynamic Obstacles in Enclosed Spaces: Application to Moving in Crowds, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Neural Joint Space Implicit Signed Distance Functions for Reactive Robot Manipulator Control, 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Among their frequent coauthors are Kunpeng Yao, Diego Páez-Granados, Lukas Huber, Jean-Jacques Slotine, and Farshad Khadivar.

Billard has contributed to book publications as well, including a text titled Robotics Research, published in 2023 by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • On Learning, Representing, and Generalizing a Task in a Humanoid Robot

    S. Calinon;F. Guenter;A. Billard

  • Robot Programming by Demonstration

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  • Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?

    B. Robins;K. Dautenhahn;Te Boekhorst;A. Billard

  • Learning Stable Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Gaussian Mixture Models

    S. M. Khansari-Zadeh;A. Billard

  • Trends and challenges in robot manipulation

    Aude Billard;Danica Kragic

  • Computational approaches to motor learning by imitation

    Stefan Schaal;Auke Ijspeert;Aude Billard;Aude Billard

  • Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration

    Harish Ravichandar;Athanasios S. Polydoros;Sonia Chernova;Aude Billard

  • Learning and Reproduction of Gestures by Imitation

    Sylvain Calinon;Florent D'halluin;Eric L Sauser;Darwin G Caldwell

  • Incremental learning of gestures by imitation in a humanoid robot

    Sylvain Calinon;Aude Billard

  • A survey of Tactile Human-Robot Interactions

    Brenna D. Argall;Aude G. Billard

  • Synthetic brain imaging: grasping, mirror neurons and imitation

    M. A. Arbib;A. Billard;M. Iacoboni;E. Oztop

  • From Animals to Animats

    S. Schaal;A.J. Ijspeert;A Billard;S. Vijayakumar

  • Safety issues in human-robot interactions

    Milos Vasic;Aude Billard

  • Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations

    M. Hersch;F. Guenter;S. Calinon;A. Billard

  • Learning human arm movements by imitation:: Evaluation of a biologically inspired connectionist architecture

    Aude Billard;Maja J. Matarić

  • A dynamical system approach to realtime obstacle avoidance

    Seyed Mohammad Khansari-Zadeh;Aude Billard

  • Collaboration Through the Exploitation of Local Interactions in Autonomous Collective Robotics: The Stick Pulling Experiment

    Auke Jan Ijspeert;Alcherio Martinoli;Aude Billard;Luca Maria Gambardella

  • Stability Considerations for Variable Impedance Control

    Klas Kronander;Aude Billard

  • Effects of repeated exposure to a humanoid robot on children with autism

    B. Robins;K. Dautenhahn;R. te Boekhorst;A. Billard

  • Discriminative and adaptive imitation in uni-manual and bi-manual tasks

    Aude G. Billard;Sylvain Calinon;Florent Guenter

  • Robot learning from demonstration

    Aude Billard;Roland Siegwart

  • Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot

    Sylvain Calinon;Aude Billard

Frequent Co-Authors

Auke Jan Ijspeert
Auke Jan Ijspeert École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Sethu Vijayakumar
Sethu Vijayakumar University of Edinburgh
Sylvain Calinon
Sylvain Calinon Idiap Research Institute
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Waterloo
Silvestro Micera
Silvestro Micera Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Stefan Schaal
Stefan Schaal Google (United States)
José Santos-Victor
José Santos-Victor Instituto Superior Técnico
Benoît G. Bardy
Benoît G. Bardy University of Montpellier
Ben Robins
Ben Robins University of Hertfordshire
Jacqueline Nadel
Jacqueline Nadel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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