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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
56
Citations
13915
World Ranking
2048
National Ranking
46

Computer Science

D-Index
56
Citations
13951
World Ranking
4035
National Ranking
90

Sylvain Calinon 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 Sylvain Calinon sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 187 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sylvain Calinon 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 Sylvain Calinon sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sylvain Calinon is affiliated with the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with a focus on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biomedical Engineering, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics of Sylvain Calinon's work include:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Teleoperation and Haptic Systems

Their recent papers cover a range of subjects in robotics and automation. Selected works include:

  • "Robot Cooking With Stir-Fry: Bimanual Non-Prehensile Manipulation of Semi-Fluid Objects," 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Motion Mappings for Continuous Bilateral Teleoperation," 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Learning Optimal Impedance Control During Complex 3D Arm Movements," 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Ergodic Exploration Using Tensor Train: Applications in Insertion Tasks," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • "Active Learning of Bayesian Probabilistic Movement Primitives," 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Sylvain Calinon frequently publishes in the following venues:

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

Collaborations feature several frequent coauthors including Amirreza Razmjoo, Tobias Löw, Teng Xue, Teguh Santoso Lembono, and Hakan Girgin.

In addition to journal articles, Sylvain Calinon has contributed to book publications. One notable book is "Robot Programming by Demonstration: A Probabilistic Approach" published by the Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Robot Programming by Demonstration

    Sylvain Calinon

  • 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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  • 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 tutorial on task-parameterized movement learning and retrieval

    Sylvain Calinon

  • Robot motor skill coordination with EM-based Reinforcement Learning

    Petar Kormushev;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Imitation Learning of Positional and Force Skills Demonstrated via Kinesthetic Teaching and Haptic Input

    Petar Kormushev;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Learning Physical Collaborative Robot Behaviors From Human Demonstrations

    Leonel Rozo;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell;Pablo Jimenez

  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: Applications and Real-World Challenges

    Petar Kormushev;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations

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

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

    Aude G. Billard;Sylvain Calinon;Florent Guenter

  • Discovering optimal imitation strategies

    Aude Billard;Aude Billard;Yann Epars;Sylvain Calinon;Stefan Schaal

  • Robot Programming by Demonstration: A Probabilistic Approach

    Sylvain Calinon

  • Reinforcement Learning for Imitating Constrained Reaching Movements

    Florent Guenter;Micha Hersch;Sylvain Calinon;Aude Billard

  • Learning-based control strategy for safe human-robot interaction exploiting task and robot redundancies

    Sylvain Calinon;Irene Sardellitti;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Learning From Humans

    Aude Gemma Billard;Sylvain Calinon;Rüdiger Dillmann

  • Statistical dynamical systems for skills acquisition in humanoids

    Sylvain Calinon;Zhibin Li;Tohid Alizadeh;Nikos G. Tsagarakis

  • Learning collaborative impedance-based robot behaviors

    Leonel Rozo;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin Caldwell;Pablo Jiménez

  • A task-parameterized probabilistic model with minimal intervention control

    Sylvain Calinon;Danilo Bruno;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Stochastic gesture production and recognition model for a humanoid robot

    S. Calinon;A. Billard

  • Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot

    Sylvain Calinon;Aude Billard

Frequent Co-Authors

Darwin G. Caldwell
Darwin G. Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology
Aude Billard
Aude Billard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Andreas Birk
Andreas Birk Jacobs University
Gianluca Antonelli
Gianluca Antonelli University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Carme Torras
Carme Torras Spanish National Research Council
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Mansard
Nicolas Mansard Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Nikos G. Tsagarakis
Nikos G. Tsagarakis Italian Institute of Technology
Rolf Johansson
Rolf Johansson Lund University
Abderrahmane Kheddar
Abderrahmane Kheddar Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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