Reymond ClavelReymond CLAVEL obtained his degree in mechanical engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 1973. After nine years of gathered experience in industrial plants at Hermes Precisa International (research and development), he was appointed professor at the EPFL, where he obtained his PhD degree in parallel robotics in 1991. He was then consecutively entrusted with the following positions: Head of the department, Director of the Section of micro engineering and, in 1993, Director of the Laboratory of robotics systems (LSRO). His present research topics are parallel robotics, high speed and high precision robotics, medical and surgical robotics applications, surgical instrumentation and precision mechanisms.
Reymond Clavels research successes in parallel and industrial robotics received worldwide special mentions.
Awards :
1989: Laureate of the JIRA AWARD (Japan Industrial Robot Association) for the DELTA parallel robot invented in 1985.
1996: Project winner of the Technologiestandort Schweiz competition and ABB Sonderpreis for the best robotics project.
1998: His laboratory is awarded the Grand Prix de lInnovation in Monaco for new robot technologies.
1999: Laureate of the Golden Robot Award for the DELTA Robot.
2003: Each of his three different submitted projects received the Swiss Technology Award.
2005: Project winner of the Swiss Technology Award competition with further the Sonderpreis 2005 from the Vontobel Foundation in the field of Inventing the future.
2006: Project winner of the Swiss Technology Award competition with Quantum leap into world of nano-EDM (a new high precision EDM machine based on the Delta kinematics).
2007: Two projects based on the LSROs researches are winner of the Swiss Technology Award competition: Cyberthosis for paraplegia rehabilitation (a collaboration with the company Swortec and the Fondation Suisse pour les Cyberthèses (FSC)) and the Microfactory realized in partnership with the CSEM .
Mohamed BouriDr. Mohamed Bouri is a group leader of Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics in LSRO and lecturer of Robotics and Industrial Robotics. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and obtained his PhD degree in 1997 in Industrial Automation at INSA LYON, France. Since 1997, he is at EPFL and is mainly active in the field of robot control, automation and robot design for medical and industrial applications. He is the head of Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics group since 2005 and has strong references with the development of robotic devices for lower limb rehabilitation : The MotionMaker and WalkTrainer commercialzed by the company Swortec. His ongoing research currently focuses on the development of exoskeletons and the associated control strategies. His main current projects are TWIICE, a lower limb exoskeleton for people with paraplegia, AUTONOMYO, a walk assistance exoskeleton for people with muscle weakness, and the HiBSO, a hip orthosis for elderly.
Pierre-André FarinePierre-André Farine received the Doctoral and Engineering Degrees in Microtechnology from University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, respectively in 1984 and 1978, and the Engineering in Microtechnology from ETS Le Locle in 1974.
He was working 17 years for the Swiss watch industries (Swatch Group), including developments for high-tech products, such as pager watches, watches including integrated sensors such as pressure, compass, altimeter and temperature sensors for Tissot. He was also involved in prototypes developments for watches including GPS and cellular GSM phones.
Since 8 years, he is Professor in Electronics and Signal Processing at the Institute of Microtechnology IMT, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Full professor at EPFL since January 1st, 2009, he works in the field of low-power integrated products for portable devices, including microelectronics for wireless telecommunications, UWB and GNSS systems. He is Head of the Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory ESPLAB of the EPFL IMT-NE. His laboratory works also for video and audio compression algorithms and their implementation in low power integrated circuits.
Luca OrtelliLUCA ORTELLI
Né à Sorengo (Cantone Ticino) le 8 février 1956
Diplômé en Architecture de la Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Milano en 1983
Positions académiques
1983 à 1986 Assistant à l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich
1985 à 1989 Professeur de Projet et Théorie du projet à la Scuola Tecnica Superiore de Lugano
1986 Visiting critic à la University of Miami (USA)
1989 à 1991 Chargé de cours à l'École dArchitecture de l'Université de Genève (EAUG)
1992 à 1997 Professeur ordinaire à l'École d'Architecture de l'Université de Genève (EAUG)
1994 à 1996 Professeur invité à South California Institute of Architecture à Vico Morcote
de 1997 Professeur ordinaire à lInstitut dArchitecture et de la ville, Faculté ENAC, EPFL
Positions administratives
1999 à 2001 Président de la Commission d'enseignement du Département d'Architecture EPFL
2002 à 2008 Directeur de la Section Architecture de la Faculté ENAC
de 2006 Membre de la Direction de la Faculté ENAC
de 2007 Membre de la Commission de recherche EPFL
de 2008 Membre du Comité de Direction Programme doctoral Architecture et sciences de la ville
Positions éditoriales
1980 à 1990 Rédacteur de la revue darchitecture Lotus international de
1988 à 1993 Codirecteur des guides d'architecture Stella polare, Edizioni Città Studi, Milano
de 2007 Codirecteur collection Architecture, Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes
Pratique professionnelle
Participation à nombreux concours nationaux et internationaux
Activité indépendante en Suisse de 1990 et réalisation des Archives du Canton Tessin (1993-1998)
