Renaud Ronsse Professor Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering Institute of Neuroscience Louvain Bionics Université catholique de Louvain Belgium

Human-centered robotics

• Lower-limb prostheses, rehabilitation robotics, human-robot interactions, biomechanics of swimming and flying, humanoid robotics, locomotion, motor control.

January 2021: Minisymposium on “challenges for adaptive control and sensorimotor restoration in bionic prostheses”. November 2020: Our ELSA prosthesis is featured in the press: watch RTLplay or B SMART, and read Le Soir, Matière Grise, or Le Journal du Médecin. November 2020: Second edition of the postuniversity certificate in "Clinical, regulatory and quality affairs for medical devices and in-vitro diagnosis". Starting in January 2021 - Website. September 2017: Kick-off of the collaborative project "RevealFlight - The reverse-engineering of flight". January 2017: Kick-off of the EU-H2020 CYBERLEGs++ collaborative project.

• 2011 - ... : Assistant Professor (2011-1018), then Professor (2018-...) at Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering and Louvain Bionics.
  
• 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

• Jeanne Evrard (PhD student, 2020-...): control and validation of efficient lower-limb prosthesis
  
• François Heremans (FNRS PhD student, 2015-2019; post-doc, 2020-...): energy efficient lower-limb prosthesis
  
• Virginie Otlet (PhD student, 2019-...): walking assistance of patients with Parkinson's disease
  
• Ali Al-Dabbagh (PhD student, 2019-...): prosthesis with vision
  
• Henri Lolayaux (PhD student, 2018-...): walking assistance with adaptive primitives
  
• Gianmarco Ducci (PhD student, 2018-...): non-linear dynamics of flying birds / RevealFlight project - co-supervised with Philippe Chatelain
• Gennaro Vitucci (post-doc, 2018-...): non-linear dynamics of flying birds / RevealFlight project - co-supervised with Philippe Chatelain
• Victor Collognesi (FRIA PhD student, 2017-...): non-linear dynamics of flying birds / RevealFlight project - co-supervised with Philippe Chatelain
  
• Caroline Bernier (PhD student, 2015-...): dynamical robotic swimming - co-supervised with Philippe Chatelain
• Sophie Heins (PhD student, 2014-...): control and modeling of lower-limb prostheses

• Hamed Rahimi Nohooji (post-doc, 2018-2019): dynamic motor primitives for locomotion
• Timothée Habra (PhD student, 2013-2017): Gaze stabilization of humanoid robots based on internal model
• Nicolas Van der Noot (FNRS PhD student, 2013-2017): Rich and robust bio-inspired locomotion control for humanoid robots - co-supervised with Auke Ijspeert (EPFL)
• Patricia Leconte (FRIA PhD student, 2012-2017): Robotic assessment and rehabilitation of rhythmic upper-limb movement primitives after stroke - co-supervised with Bruno Dehez
• Christophe Everarts (PhD student, 2011-2017): Design and study of a new continuously variable transmission with potential application to lower limb prosthesis - 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
• Interns hosted in the lab: Rachel Dias Carlson (MIT) - summer 2012; Vicky Biron (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal) - summer 2013; Deron Browne (MIT) - summer 2015;  Guilia Bernadette Creed (University of Surrey) - summer 2017; Gabrielle K. Enns (MIT) - summer 2018; Wendy Wang (MIT) - summer 2019; Carlos Salazar Briceño (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) - 01-07/2020; Rémi Schuller (Polytech Sorbonne - Sorbonne Université) - summer 2020.
  

• October 2017: Mini-symposium about “technology and neurorehabilitation”.
• August 2017: Mini-symposium about “bio-inspired robotics”.
• June 2017: Co-organizer of a workshop about "Human-robot synchronization for assistive technologies" at the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2017.
• 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).
• 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 2014: Member of the "Louvain Bionics" consortium.
• 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