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Renaud Ronsse Professor Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering Institute of Neuroscience Louvain Bionics Université catholique de Louvain Belgium |
Human-centered robotics
Research keywords
- Lower-limb prostheses, rehabilitation robotics, human-robot interactions, biomechanics of swimming and flying, humanoid robotics, locomotion, motor control.
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- 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
Current lab members
- 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
- 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
- Gennaro Vitucci (post-doc, 2018-2021): non-linear dynamics of flying birds / RevealFlight project - co-supervised with Philippe Chatelain
- Sophie Heins (PhD student, 2014-2021): Design and evaluation of bio-inspired control strategies for transfemoral prosthesis
- 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.
- January 2021: Minisymposium on “challenges for adaptive control and sensorimotor restoration in bionic prostheses”.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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