Address Belgium: Vrije Universiteit Brussel Faculty of
Applied Sciences Department of Mechanical Engineering Building Z
- Room ZW105b Pleinlaan, 2 B-1050 Brussels Belgium
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. 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. Since October 2011, I am also research director at the
Universitatea BabeÈ™-Bolyai, Department of Clinical Psychology and
Psychotherapy with a project on robot assisted therapy with ASD
children www.robotherapy.ro. I am member of the Young Academy of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. My research interests includes cognitive and physical human
robot interaction, robot assisted therapy, humanoids and rehabilitation
robotics with core technology of using variable impedance actuators (see here for overview).
Co-guest editor of a special issue on CLAWAR 2006 in International
Journal of Robotic Research.
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
Author science popularizing book "Robots Binnenstebuiten" and "Kant en Klaar Plus - Robots"
Bram Vanderborght is author of the science popularizing book "Robots
Binnenstebuiten" for children from 10 years. The book is written in
Dutch and will launched in September 2008. More info. There is also the free book Lego NXT Binnenstebuiten
I am author of the book Kant en Klaar Plus - Robots for highly gifted children made in collaboration with prof. Tessa Kieboom, director Centre for the Study of Giftedness.
Conferences
Organizer of New advances in Robot Assisted Therapy: a multidisciplinary approach, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 8-9th 2012-10-29
Best Paper Award Modeling Hysteresis in Pleated Pneumatic
Artificial Muscles Michael Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Bram
Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Innes Vanderniepen, Rino Versluys, Frank
Daerden, Dirk Lefeber IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics
& Intelligent Systems (CIS) and Robotics, Automation & Mechatronics
(RAM), September 21 - 24, 2008, Chengdu, China
Best Paper Award Efficient-walking with ankle actuation:
learning from biomechanics Rino Versluys, Bram Vanderborght, Ronald
Van Ham, Pieter Beyl, Pierre Cherelle, Dirk Lefeber CLAWAR 2008 -
11th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the
Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 8 - 10, 2008,
Coimbra, Portugal
Best Conference Paper Award Mobility of Humanoid Robots:
Stepping over Large Obstacles Dynamically Bjorn Verrelst, Kazuhito
Yokoi, Olivier Stasse, Hitoshi Arisumi, and Bram Vanderborght
International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA, LuoYang -
Henan, China, June 25-28, 2006, pp 1072-1079
Finalist for the Best Video Conference Award Integrating
vision and walking to increase humanoid autonomy Olivier Stasse,
Bjorn Verrelst, Andrew J Davison, Nicolas Mansard, Bram Vanderborght,
Claudia Esteves, Francois Saidi, Kazuhito Yokoi IEEE Int. Conf. on
Robotics and Automation, ICRA'07, Roma, Italia, April 2007, pages
2272-2273 (video session)
Finalist Altran Foundation Award 2005 "Overcoming social
exclusion through scientific and technological innovation" with our
project ALTACRO - Helping people walk again
Jury member Cansat. A CanSat is a type of miniaturized satellite and is a contest for youngsters.
Movies
Please go to my You Tube video page to watch my
videos. This site contains videos of my work (Lucy and HRP-2) as well as
a lot of videos of other famous robots.
