Francesco Mondada (born 17 March 1967) is a

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professor in

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and

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

. He got a

Master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in Microengineering at the EPFL in 1991 and a PhD degree in 1997. He is one of the creators of the

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and directed the design of the S-bot, the e-puck, the marXbot and the

Thymio Thymio II is an educational robot in the 100 Euros price range. The robot was developed at the EPFL in collaboration with ECAL, both in Lausanne, Switzerland. A purely-visual programming language was developed at ETH Zurich . All components, bo ...

mobile robots. Together, these robots are mentioned in more than 9000 research articles. In particular the Khepera robot is a milestone in the field of bio-inspired and evolutionary robotics. He was one of the founders and director o
K-team SA
from its creation 1995 to 2000, and one of the founders of Calerga Sarl in 2001 and Mobsya in 2010. His recent work concerns collective robotics and education.

Awards and honours

* University Latsis
Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching

award for the best professor from the School of Engineering a
EPFL
given by the students. * Member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences
SATW
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Best Paper Award Design
at th
HRI 2017
conference.

Selected publications

* F. Mondada, M. Bonanim, F. Riedo, M. Briod, L. Pereyre, P. Retornaz, Stephane Magnenat. Bringing Robotics to Formal Education: The Thymio Open-Source Hardware Robot. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 77–85, March 2017

* J. Halloy, G. Sempo, G. Caprari, C. Rivault, M. Asadpour, F. Tache, I. Said, V. Durier, S. Canonge, J. Ame, C. Detrain, N. Correll, A. Martinoli, F. Mondada, R. Siegwart, and J.-L. Deneubourg. Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices. Science, 318(5853):1155-1158, 2007

* F. Mondada, G. C. Pettinaro, A. Guignard, I. Kwee, D. Floreano, J.-L. Deneubourg, S. Nolfi, L. Gambardella, and M. Dorigo. SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept. Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, 17(2-3):193-221, 2004. September - November 2004 Sponsor: swarm-bots, OFES 01-0012-1

* D. Floreano and F. Mondada. Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics, 26(3):396-407, 1996

* F. Mondada, E. Franzi, P. Ienne, T. Yoshikawa, and F. Miyazaki. Mobile Robot Miniaturization: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms. In Experimental Robotics III, volume 200 of Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pages 501-13. Springer, London, 1994.

References

External links

Professional homepage
with a list of publications
Google scholar

Mobots group
homepage of the research group of F. Mondada
Personal homepage
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