Rhoban Project
[ Research Track ]

LaBRI
CNRS - Bordeaux 1 University


This page describes the research side of Rhoban Project. The project deals with several aspects of
autonomous robotics
and also legged robots. In particular we have designed the Acroban humanoid robot in collaboration with INRIA Flowers team.

Contributors:

Olivier Ly
Hugo Gimbert
Philippe Narbel
Aymeric Vincent
Jérôme Leroux
 
The project is strongly linked with our friends of INRIA Flowers team, which deals with developmental and social robotics, and especially Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Jérôme Béchu, Paul Fudal and Matthieu Lapeyre.

Contact
Acroban Robot (photo P. Fudal)


News



Please look at our robot creatures


Publications

Exploring robust, intuitive and emergent physical human-robot interaction with the humanoid robot Acroban
with Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and Pierre Rouanet.
To appear in 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoid'2011) - 2011 (Bled)

Maturational constraints for motor learning in high-dimensions: the case of biped walking
with Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer.
To appear in 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoid'2011) - 2011 (Bled)

Bio-Inspired Vertebral Column, Compliance and Semi-Passive Dynamics in a Lightweight Humanoid Robot
with Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
To appear in proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2011) - 2011 (San Francisco)
(also selected for IROS'2011 Special Demonstration Symposium)

Modeling Maturational Constrains for Learning Biped Humanoid Locomotion
with Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
To appear in Proc of Int. Conf. on Development and Learning (ICDL) - Poster session - IEEE 2011 (Frankfurt)

Acroban the Humanoid: Compliance for Stabilization and Human Interaction.
O. Ly and P.-Y. Oudeyer.
In IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2010) – Video Session (Taipei 2010).


Acroban the Humanoid: Playful and Compliant Physical Child-Robot Interaction.

O. Ly and P.-Y. Oudeyer.
In ACM SIGGRAPH'2010 Emerging Technologies (Los Angeles 2010)

Look also to the press release.