Publications by Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

Trajectory Planning of a Bio-inspired Walker in 3D Cluttered Environments using Internal Models

Auke Ijspeert, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

Navigation of humanoids in cluttered environments is a complex task which requires sensorimotor coordination while maintaining the balance of the walker. Typically, robots rely on greedy computation of slow, inefficient and unnatural gaits. This contrasts ...

IEEE2020

Neuromuscular model achieving speed control and steering with a 3D bipedal walker

Auke Ijspeert, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

Nowadays, very few humanoid robots manage to travel in our daily environments. This is mainly due to their limited locomotion capabilities, far from the human ones. Recently, we developed a bio-inspired torque-based controller recruiting virtual muscles dr ...

SPRINGER2019

Bio-inspired controller achieving forward speed modulation with a 3D bipedal walker

Auke Ijspeert, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

2018

Rich and Robust Bio-Inspired Locomotion Control for Humanoid Robots

Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

Bipedal locomotion is a challenging task in the sense that it requires to maintain dynamic balance while steering the gait in potentially complex environments. Yet, humans usually manage to move without any apparent difficulty, even on rough terrains. This ...

EPFL2017

Multi-physics modelling of a compliant humanoid robot

Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

We present a multibody simulator being used for compliant humanoid robot modelling and report our reasoning for choosing the settings of the simulator's key features. First, we provide a study on how the numerical integration speed and accuracy depend on t ...

Springer2017

Bio-inspired balance controller for a humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot, François André Heremans

Humanoid robots are gaining much interest nowadays. This is partly motivated by the ability of such robots to replace humans in dangerous environments being specifically designed for humans, such as man-made or natural disaster scenarios. However, existing ...

Ieee2016

Experimental validation of a bio-inspired controller for dynamic walking with a humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert, Jesse van den Kieboom, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot, Luca Colasanto, Allan Barrea

Bipedal walking with humanoid robots requires efficient real-time control. Nowadays, most bipedal robots require to ensure local stability at every instant in time, preventing them from achieving the impressive human walking skills. At the same time, bio-i ...

IEEE2015

Bio-inspired walking for humanoid robots using feet with human-like compliance and neuromuscular control

Auke Ijspeert, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot, Luca Colasanto

The human foot plays a key role in human walking providing, among others, body support and propulsion, stability of the movement and impact absorption. These fundamental functionalities are accomplished by an extraordinarily rich bio-mechanical design. Non ...

IEEE2015