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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Switzerland
2022

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
82
Citations
29361
World Ranking
452
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Auke Jan Ijspeert is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, specializing in engineering with a focus on biomedical engineering and robotics. Their research spans various subfields including aerospace engineering, cognitive neuroscience, rehabilitation, and mechanical engineering.

Their main areas of study encompass several specialized topics:

  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Ijspeert has contributed recurrently to research venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Robotics
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • PLoS Computational Biology

Some recent research outputs include:

  • Review of control strategies for lower-limb exoskeletons to assist gait, 2021, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
  • Wearable Sensor-Based Real-Time Gait Detection: A Systematic Review, 2021, Sensors
  • Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing, 2021, Science Robotics
  • Symbitron Exoskeleton: Design, Control, and Evaluation of a Modular Exoskeleton for Incomplete and Complete Spinal Cord Injured Individuals, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • CPG-RL: Learning Central Pattern Generators for Quadruped Locomotion, 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Guillaume Bellegarda
  • Mohamed Bouri
  • Milad Shafiee
  • Jonathan Arreguit
  • Grégoire Courtine

Best Publications

  • 2008 Special Issue: Central pattern generators for locomotion control in animals and robots: A review

    Auke Jan Ijspeert

  • Dynamical movement primitives: Learning attractor models for motor behaviors

    Auke Jan Ijspeert;Jun Nakanishi;Heiko Hoffmann;Peter Pastor

  • From swimming to walking with a salamander robot driven by a spinal cord model.

    Auke Jan Ijspeert;Alessandro Crespi;Dimitri Ryczko;Jean-Marie Cabelguen

  • Movement imitation with nonlinear dynamical systems in humanoid robots

    A.J. Ijspeert;J. Nakanishi;S. Schaal

  • Learning Attractor Landscapes for Learning Motor Primitives

    Auke J. Ijspeert;Jun Nakanishi;Stefan Schaal

  • Computational approaches to motor learning by imitation

    Stefan Schaal;Auke Ijspeert;Aude Billard;Aude Billard

  • Towards dynamic trot gait locomotion: Design, control, and experiments with Cheetah-cub, a compliant quadruped robot

    Alexander Spröwitz;Alexandre Tuleu;Massimo Vespignani;Mostafa Ajallooeian

  • A connectionist central pattern generator for the aquatic and terrestrial gaits of a simulated salamander.

    Auke Jan Ijspeert

  • Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion

    Auke J. Ijspeert

  • Learning Movement Primitives

    Stefan Schaal;Jan Peters;Jun Nakanishi;Auke Jan Ijspeert

  • Dynamic hebbian learning in adaptive frequency oscillators

    Ludovic Righetti;Jonas Buchli;Auke Jan Ijspeert

  • AmphiBot I: an amphibious snake-like robot

    Alessandro Crespi;André Badertscher;André Guignard;Auke Jan Ijspeert

  • Online Optimization of Swimming and Crawling in an Amphibious Snake Robot

    A. Crespi;A.J. Ijspeert

  • Programmable central pattern generators: an application to biped locomotion control

    L. Righetti;Auke Jan Ijspeert

  • Towards a theoretical foundation for morphological computation with compliant bodies

    Helmut Hauser;Auke J. Ijspeert;Rudolf M. Füchslin;Rolf Pfeifer

  • The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

    Jeffrey A. Delmerico;Stefano Mintchev;Alessandro Giusti;Boris Gromov

  • Dynamics systems vs. optimal control--a unifying view.

    Stefan Schaal;Peyman Mohajerian;Auke Ijspeert

  • iCub: the design and realization of an open humanoid platform for cognitive and neuroscience research

    Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis;Giorgio Metta;Giulio Sandini;David Vernon

  • Pattern generators with sensory feedback for the control of quadruped locomotion

    L. Righetti;A.J. Ijspeert

  • Review of control strategies for lower-limb exoskeletons to assist gait

    Romain Baud;Ali Reza Manzoori;Auke Ijspeert;Mohamed Bouri

  • 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

  • Salamandra Robotica II: An Amphibious Robot to Study Salamander-Like Swimming and Walking Gaits

    Alessandro Crespi;Konstantinos Karakasiliotis;Andre Guignard;Auke Jan Ijspeert

Frequent Co-Authors

Aude Billard
Aude Billard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ludovic Righetti
Ludovic Righetti New York University
Jonas Buchli
Jonas Buchli DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Stefan Schaal
Stefan Schaal Google (United States)
Alcherio Martinoli
Alcherio Martinoli École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Darwin G. Caldwell
Darwin G. Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology
José Santos-Victor
José Santos-Victor Instituto Superior Técnico
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Nikos G. Tsagarakis
Nikos G. Tsagarakis Italian Institute of Technology
Gordon Cheng
Gordon Cheng Technical University of Munich

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