Sylvain Calinon
Senior Researcher
ROBOT LEARNING AND INTERACTION
IDIAP Research Institute
Switzerland
Biography
I am a permanent researcher at the Idiap Research Institute since May 2014, with research interests covering robot learning and human-robot interaction. I am also a lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and an external collaborator at the Department of Advanced Robotics (ADVR), Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). From 2009 to 2014, I was a Team Leader at ADVR-IIT. From 2007 to 2009, I was a Postdoc at the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), EPFL. I hold a PhD from EPFL (2007), awarded by the Robotdalen Scientific Award, ABB Award and EPFL-Press Distinction. I co-authored about 90 publications in the field of robot learning, with recognition including Best Paper Awards in the journal of Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR, 2017) and at IEEE Ro-Man'2007, as well as Best Paper Award Finalist at IEEE-RAS Humanoids'2009, IEEE/RSJ IROS'2013, ICIRA'2015 and IEEE ICRA'2016. I currently serve as Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Intelligent Service Robotics (Springer), and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Collaborative projects I am or have been involved in include DexROV, I-DRESS, TACT-HAND, ROSALIS, PLATFORM-MMD, STIFF-FLOP, PANDORA, SMART-E, SAPHARI, AMARSI, ROBOT@CWE, FEELIX GROWING and COGNIRON, supported by the European Commission and by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Research Interest
Robotics
Publications
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Havoutis, I. and Calinon, S. (2017). Supervisory teleoperation with online learning and optimal control. In Proc. of the IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1534-1540.
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Rozo, L., Jaquier, N., Calinon, S. and Caldwell, D.G. (2017). Learning Manipulability Ellipsoids for Task Compatibility in Robot Manipulation. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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Jaquier, N. and Calinon, S. (2017). Gaussian Mixture Regression on Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices Manifolds: Application to Wrist Motion Estimation with sEMG. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
