2026 Aude Billard: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	80	1088	1053	27	27	459	24079
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	77	608	583	17	17	410	23186

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

1390
Citations
Robot Programming by Demonstration

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979
Citations
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

903
Citations
Learning Stable Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Gaussian Mixture Models

S. M. Khansari-Zadeh;A. Billard

887
Citations
Trends and challenges in robot manipulation

Aude Billard;Danica Kragic

838
Citations
Computational approaches to motor learning by imitation

Stefan Schaal;Auke Ijspeert;Aude Billard;Aude Billard

791
Citations
Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration

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

691
Citations
Learning and Reproduction of Gestures by Imitation

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

546
Citations
Incremental learning of gestures by imitation in a humanoid robot

Sylvain Calinon;Aude Billard

455
Citations
A survey of Tactile Human-Robot Interactions

Brenna D. Argall;Aude G. Billard

422
Citations
Synthetic brain imaging: grasping, mirror neurons and imitation

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

331
Citations
From Animals to Animats

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

323
Citations
Safety issues in human-robot interactions

Milos Vasic;Aude Billard

320
Citations
Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations

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

306
Citations
Learning human arm movements by imitation:: Evaluation of a biologically inspired connectionist architecture

Aude Billard;Maja J. Matarić

302
Citations
A dynamical system approach to realtime obstacle avoidance

Seyed Mohammad Khansari-Zadeh;Aude Billard

294
Citations
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

290
Citations
Stability Considerations for Variable Impedance Control

Klas Kronander;Aude Billard

262
Citations
Effects of repeated exposure to a humanoid robot on children with autism

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

259
Citations
Discriminative and adaptive imitation in uni-manual and bi-manual tasks

Aude G. Billard;Sylvain Calinon;Florent Guenter

254
Citations
Robot learning from demonstration

Aude Billard;Roland Siegwart

117
Citations
Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot

Sylvain Calinon;Aude Billard

107
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Auke Jan Ijspeert École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Sethu Vijayakumar University of Edinburgh

Sylvain Calinon Idiap Research Institute

Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Waterloo

Silvestro Micera Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

Stefan Schaal Google (United States)

José Santos-Victor Instituto Superior Técnico

Benoît G. Bardy University of Montpellier

Ben Robins University of Hertfordshire

Jacqueline Nadel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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