Renaud Ronsse Assistant Professor Center for Research in Mechatronics Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering Institute of Neuroscience Université catholique de Louvain Belgium

Human-centered robotics

• Lower-limb prostheses, rehabilitation robotics, human-robot interactions, humanoid robotics, locomotion, motor control.

January 2017: Kick-off of the EU-H2020 CYBERLEGs++ collaborative project. June 2016: Mini-symposium about “robotics and motor control”. April 2016: Interview in "Questions Clés" (La Première, RTBF radio) about the future of robotics. November 2015: participation to the TV program "Il était une foi" (CathoBel) about "robotics to serve humans". March 2015: our lower-limb prosthesis has been featured in "tout s'explique" (RTL-TVI). November 2014: Member of the "Louvain Bionics" consortium.

• 2011 - ... : Assistant Professor (chargé de cours) at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Center for Research in Mechatronics
• 2009 - 2010: Post-doctoral Fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), Biorobotics Laboratory
• 2007 - 2009: Post-doctoral Fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Motor Control Laboratory
  
• 2007: PhD at the Université de Liège (Belgium), Systems and Modeling. Thesis: Rhythmic Movements Control: Parallels between Human Behavior and Robotics

• Caroline Bernier (PhD student, 2015-...): dynamical robotic swimming - co-supervised with Philippe Chatelain
• François Heremans (FNRS PhD student, 2015-...): energy efficient lower-limb prosthesis
• Sophie Heins (PhD student, 2014-...): control and modeling of lower-limb prostheses
• Timothée Habra (PhD student, 2013-...): locomotion and simulation in humanoid robotics
• Nicolas Van der Noot (FNRS PhD student, 2013-...): locomotion and simulation in humanoid robotics - co-supervised with Auke Ijspeert (EPFL)
• Patricia Leconte (FRIA PhD student, 2012-...): design of new protocols in human-robot interaction for rehabilitation - co-supervised with Bruno Dehez
• Christophe Everarts (PhD student, 2011-...): control and design of lower-limb prostheses - co-supervised with Bruno Dehez

• Virginia Ruiz Garate (PhD student, 2012-2016): Bio-inspired motor primitives for controlling leg exoskeletons - co-supervised with Paul Fisette
• Alexandra Zobova (WBI post-doc, 2013-2014): locomotion in humanoid robotics
• Jean-François Collard (post-doc, 2011-2013): control and modeling of lower-limb rehabilitation robots

• March 2015: after the last review meeting, the CYBERLEGs project is now finished. We made quite a buzz in the media (see e.g. Le Soir and RTBF in Belgium, and also the international press cover).
• November 2013: Interviews in “Le Bar de l’Europe” (TV5) and  "La Libre Belgique" (1 and 2) to feature the WALK-MAN project. 
• September 2013: Kick-off of the EU collaborative project WALK-MAN.
• April 2013: Interview for La Libre Belgique about humanoid robotics.
• October 2012: Co-organizer of the 5th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (Brussels).
• October 2012: Co-organizer of a workshop on "Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics" at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2012).
• March 16th, 2012: Co-organizer of a symposium about Neuroscience and Rehabilitation in Brussels. Speakers: Alan McComas, Dick Stegeman, and Dirk Lefeber.
• February 2012: Kick-off of the EU collaborative project CYBERLEGs.
• December 19th, 2011: Visit of Dagmar Sternad (Northeastern University). Two talks: Rhythm 'n' Moves - a Window
  Into Brain and Behavior (11:15, Brussels) / Human Motor Performance: Exploiting Stability, Channeling Variability, and Optimizing Safety Margins (16:15, Louvain-la-Neuve)
• Co-organizer of a workshop about the "Physiological Principles of Locomotion required for Robot Design" at the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2011