Prof. Dr. Sarah Dégallier Rochat

My research focuses on collaborative robotics and on the development of intuitive human-machine interfaces for the control of cobots in industrial environments. I am also interested in the social implications of automatization

S. Dégallier Rochat, L. Righetti, S. Gay and A. Ijspeert. Towards simple control for complex, autonomous robotic applications: Combining discrete and rhythmic motor primitives, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 31, num. 2, p. 155-181, 201

S. Dégallier and A. Ijspeert. Modeling Discrete and Rhythmic Movements through Motor Primitives: A Review, in Biological Cybernetics, vol. 103, num. 4, p. 319-338, 2010.

S. Dégallier Rochat, A. J. Ijspeert (Dir.). Discrete and Rhythmic Motor Primitives for the Control of Humanoid Robots. EPFL, Lausanne, 2010

N. Beuchat, R. Chavarriaga, S. Degallier and J. d. R. Millán. Offline Decoding of Upper Limb Muscle Synergies from EEG Slow Cortical Potentials. The 35th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Osaka, Japan, 2013.

S. Dégallier Rochat, L. Righetti, S. Gay and A. Ijspeert. Towards simple control for complex, autonomous robotic applications: Combining discrete and rhythmic motor primitives, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 31, num. 2, p. 155-181, 2011.

S. Gay, S. Dégallier Rochat, A. Ijspeert and J. Santos-Victor. Integration of vision and central pattern generator based locomotion for path planning of a non-holonomic crawling humanoid robot. 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.

A. Gams, S. Degallier, A. Ijspeert and J. Lenarcic. Dynamical system for learning the waveform and frequency of periodic signals - application to drumming. 15th International Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD), 2008.

S. Degallier, L. Righetti, L. Natale, F. Nori and G. Metta et al. A modular bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub. 2nd IEEE RAS / EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Scottsdale, AZ, 2008.

P.-A. Mudry, S. Degallier and A. Billard. On the influence of symbols and myths in the responsibility ascription problem in roboethics - A roboticist’s perspective. RO-MAN, Münich, 2008.

S. Degallier, L. Righetti and A. Ijspeert. Hand placement during quadruped locomotion in a humanoid robot: A dynamical system approach. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS07), San Diego, 2007.

S. Degallier, C. Santos, L. Righetti and A. Ijspeert. Movement generation using dynamical systems: a humanoid robot performing a drumming task. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS06), Genova, 2006.

S. Degallier and A. J. Ijspeert. A bio-inspired architechture for movement generation based on discrete and rythmic movement primitives modeled by dynamical systems, International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM), Cleveland, 2008.