Intelligent Assistive Robotics
Alain Herzog
The Center of Intelligent Systems at EPFL (CIS) launched a research pillar on “Intelligent distributed robotic systems”. The second CIS Collaboration Grant supports a collaborative research project in assistive distributed robotics to create smart assistive environments for persons with limited mobility.
« Our grand vision is to develop new distributed robotic systems at the intersection between smart homes, neuroprosthetics, and rehabilitation robotics. Rather than a multi-purpose robot helper, this robotic system will be modular and distributed, serving as an active interface, infrastructure, and actor to assist persons with limited mobility in their daily living. » say Prof. Ijspeert and Prof. Paik, the two professors federating the involvement of 14 laboratories from different schools based on several campuses of EPFL. This CIS research pillar on “Intelligent Systems for distributed robotic systems” pulls together amongst others researchers from robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision and neuroprosthetics.
Project lead
Dr. Anastasia Bolotnikova is now working at EPFL on the CIS collaboration grant on Assistive Distributed Robotics.
Anastasia received her M.Sc diploma in Computer Science from University of Tartu, Estonia, in 2017. She has graduated the Ph.D. program in Robotics from the University of Montpellier, France, in March of 2021. During her Ph.D studies she was working as a robotics researcher at SoftBank Robotics Europe (Paris). The focus of her doctoral research was on the use of humanoid robot technology for assistance to frail or elderly.
Her research interests are on robot control, motion planning, human-robot interaction and the application of robotics technologies in the context of assistance for people with special needs.
