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Professor
Address Belgium:
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of
Applied Sciences
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Building Z
- Room ZW105b
Pleinlaan, 2
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
Mobile: +32 486 522 962
email: bram.vanderborght@vub.be
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Prof. dr. ir. Bram Vanderborght was born in Belgium in 1980. I received
the degree in the study of Mechanical Engineering at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel in 2003 with highest distinction. Since 2003 I was
researcher at the VUB, supported by the Fund for Scientific Research
Flanders (FWO).
In May 2007 I received my PhD in Applied Sciences. The focus of
my research was the use of adaptable compliance of pneumatic artificial
muscles in the dynamically balanced biped Lucy. In May-June 2006 I
performed research on the humanoids robot HRP-2 at the Joint Japanese/French Robotics
Laboratory (JRL) in AIST, Tsukuba (Japan) in
the research "Dynamically stepping over large obstacles by the humanoid
robot HRP-2". I received a 3-year post-doc grant with mobility grant
from the FWO. From October 2007-April 2010 I worked as post-doc
researcher at the Italian
Institute of Technology in Genova (Italy) on
the humanoid robot iCub and compliant actuation.
Since October 2009, I am appointed as professor at the VUB where I teach mechatronics and give
a robotics project. From October 2011-Sept 2016, I was research director at the
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Department of Clinical Psychology and
Psychotherapy with a project on robot assisted therapy with ASD
children and VUB-PI of the DREAM project. I received an ERC Starting Grant on Series-Parallel Elastic Actuation
for Robotics (SPEAR). I was a member of the Young Academy of the Flemish Academy
of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
Currently I coordinate EU FET SHERO SHERO project and Marie Curie ITN SMART project.
I am VUB-PI of EU project SOPHIA and EU project EURobin.
I was till 2020 the core lab manager of Flanders Make in Flexible Assembly,
now I am affiliated to the Interuniversity Microelectronics Institute (imec), Belgium, as scientific collaborator.
I am also member of Brubotics , the mulitdisciplinary research enter on Human robot interaction.
I also co-lead the Homo Roboticus project on how to keep the human values central in a robotised world.
I was till 2020 the Editor In Chief of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine,
from 2022 I will be Vice President - Media Services Board of IEEE-RAS.
My research interests include the use of soft and self healing actuators for cognitive and physical human robot interaction in applications in
health and manufacturing. Our work is on display in the AI Experience Center .
Publications
Dissertation available in STAR book
Bram Vanderborght
is author of the book Dynamic Stabilisation of the Biped Lucy
Powered by Actuators with Controllable Stiffness in the Springer
series "STAR-Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics". More info on the
Lucy project can be found on our Lucy site.
More info
ISBN: 978-3-642-13416-6
Price: 119,95 euro
2010. 307 p. 111
illus. in color. (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 63)
Hardcover
Editors: Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib, Frans Groen
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Author science popularizing book "Robots Binnenstebuiten" and "Kant en Klaar Plus - Robots"
HOMO ROBOTICUS
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