Bram Vanderborght

Daniel Villegas, Michaël Van Damme, Bram Vanderborght, Pieter Beyl, Dirk Lefeber: Third-Generation Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Robotic Applications: Development and Comparison with McKibben Muscle. Advanced Robotics 26(11-12): 1205-1227 (2012)

Ramona Simut, Cristina Pop, Jelle Saldien, Alina Rusu, Sebastian Pintea, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Daniel David, Bram Vanderborght: Is the social robot probo an added value for social story intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders? HRI 2012: 235-236

Zhibin Li, Bram Vanderborght, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Luca Colasanto, Darwin G. Caldwell: Stabilization for the compliant humanoid robot COMAN exploiting intrinsic and controlled compliance. ICRA 2012: 2000-2006

Bram Vanderborght, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Antonio Bicchi, Etienne Burdet, Darwin G. Caldwell, Raffaella Carloni, Manuel G. Catalano, Ganesh Gowrishankar, Manolo Garabini, Markus Grebenstein, Giorgio Grioli, Sami Haddadin, Amir Jafari, Matteo Laffranchi, Dirk Lefeber, Florian Petit, Stefano Stramigioli, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Michaël Van Damme, R. Van Ham, Ludo C. Visser, Sebastian Wolf: Variable impedance actuators: Moving the robots of tomorrow. IROS 2012: 5454-5455

Pieter Beyl, K. Knaepen, S. Duerinck, Michaël Van Damme, Bram Vanderborght, R. Meeusen, Dirk Lefeber: Safe and Compliant Guidance by a Powered Knee Exoskeleton for Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation of Gait. Advanced Robotics 25(5): 513-535 (2011)

Bram Vanderborght, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Ronald Van Ham, Ivar Thorson, Darwin G. Caldwell: MACCEPA 2.0: compliant actuator used for energy efficient hopping robot Chobino1D. Auton. Robots 31(1): 55-65 (2011)

Kristof Goris, Jelle Saldien, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber: Mechanical Design of the huggable Robot Probo. I. J. Humanoid Robotics 8(3): 481-511 (2011)

Selma Yilmazyildiz, David Henderickx, Bram Vanderborght, Werner Verhelst, Eric Soetens, Dirk Lefeber: EMOGIB: Emotional Gibberish Speech Database for Affective Human-Robot Interaction. ACII (2) 2011: 163-172

Michaël Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Bram Vanderborght, Victor Grosu, Ronald Van Ham, Innes Vanderniepen, Arnout Matthys, Dirk Lefeber: Estimating robot end-effector force from noisy actuator torque measurements. ICRA 2011: 1108-1113

Bram Vanderborght: Dynamic Stabilisation of the Biped Lucy Powered by Actuators with Controllable Stiffness. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 63, Springer 2010, isbn 978-3-642-13416-6, pp. 1-221

Michaël Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Bram Vanderborght, Rino Versluys, Ronald Van Ham, Innes Vanderniepen, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber: The Safety of a Robot Actuated by Pneumatic Muscles - A Case Study. I. J. Social Robotics 2(3): 289-303 (2010)

Jelle Saldien, Kristof Goris, Bram Vanderborght, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Dirk Lefeber: Expressing Emotions with the Social Robot Probo. I. J. Social Robotics 2(4): 377-389 (2010)

Rosemarijn Looije, Jeroen Arendsen, Jelle Saldien, Bram Vanderborght, Joost Broekens, Mark A. Neerincx: Robots that care. ECCE 2010: 301-302

Jelle Saldien, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber: The social Robotplatform Probo. ECCE 2010: 363-364

Zhibin Li, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Darwin G. Caldwell, Bram Vanderborght: Trajectory generation of straightened knee walking for humanoid robot iCub. ICARCV 2010: 2355-2360

Michele Focchi, Emanuele Guglielmino, Claudio Semini, Alberto Parmiggiani, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Bram Vanderborght, Darwin G. Caldwell: Water/air performance analysis of a fluidic muscle. IROS 2010: 2194-2199

Amir Jafari, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Bram Vanderborght, Darwin G. Caldwell: A novel actuator with adjustable stiffness (AwAS). IROS 2010: 4201-4206

Zhibin Li, Bram Vanderborght, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Darwin G. Caldwell: Fast bipedal walk using large strides by modulating hip posture and toe-heel motion. ROBIO 2010: 13-18

Bram Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Dirk Lefeber, Thomas Sugar, Kevin W. Hollander: Comparison of Mechanical Design and Energy Consumption of Adaptable, Passive-compliant Actuators. I. J. Robotic Res. 28(1): 90-103 (2009)

Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber: Editorial: Special Issue on the Ninth International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2006). I. J. Robotic Res. 28(2): 243-244 (2009)

Michaël Van Damme, Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber: Proxy-based Sliding Mode Control of a Planar Pneumatic Manipulator. I. J. Robotic Res. 28(2): 266-284 (2009)

Olivier Stasse, Björn Verrelst, Bram Vanderborght, Kazuhito Yokoi: Strategies for Humanoid Robots to Dynamically Walk Over Large Obstacles. IEEE Transactions on Robotics 25(4): 960-967 (2009)

Bram Vanderborght, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Claudio Semini, Ronald Van Ham, Darwin G. Caldwell: MACCEPA 2.0: Adjustable compliant actuator with stiffening characteristic for energy efficient hopping. ICRA 2009: 544-549

Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Matteo Laffranchi, Bram Vanderborght, Darwin G. Caldwell: A compact soft actuator unit for small scale human friendly robots. ICRA 2009: 4356-4362

Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Bram Vanderborght, Matteo Laffranchi, Darwin G. Caldwell: The mechanical design of the new lower body for the child humanoid robot 'iCub'. IROS 2009: 4962-4968

Olivier Stasse, Björn Verrelst, Pierre-Brice Wieber, Bram Vanderborght, Paul Evrard, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Kazuhito Yokoi: Modular Architecture for Humanoid Walking Pattern Prototyping and Experiments. Advanced Robotics 22(6-7): 589-611 (2008)

Bram Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Björn Verrelst, Michaël Van Damme, Dirk Lefeber: Overview of the Lucy Project: Dynamic Stabilization of a Biped Powered by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. Advanced Robotics 22(10): 1027-1051 (2008)

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Michaël Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Dirk Lefeber: Development of a compliance controller to reduce energy consumption for bipedal robots. Auton. Robots 24(4): 419-434 (2008)

Olivier Stasse, François Saïdi, Kazuhito Yokoi, Björn Verrelst, Bram Vanderborght, Andrew J. Davison, Nicolas Mansard, Claudia Esteves: Integrating Walking and Vision to Increase Humanoid Autonomy. I. J. Humanoid Robotics 5(2): 287-310 (2008)

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Michaël Van Damme, Dirk Lefeber: Objective locomotion parameters based inverted pendulum trajectory generator. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56(9): 738-750 (2008)

Pieter Beyl, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Rino Versluys, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber: An exoskeleton for gait rehabilitation: Prototype design and control principle. ICRA 2008: 2037-2042

Michaël Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Bram Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Innes Vanderniepen, Rino Versluys, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber: Modeling Hysteresis in Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. RAM 2008: 471-476

Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Michaël Van Damme, Björn Verrelst, Dirk Lefeber: MACCEPA, the mechanically adjustable compliance and controllable equilibrium position actuator: Design and implementation in a biped robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 55(10): 761-768 (2007)

Bram Vanderborght, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Pieter Beyl, Dirk Lefeber: A strategy to combine active trajectory control with the exploitation of the natural dynamics to reduce energy consumption for bipedal robots. Humanoids 2007: 7-12

Olivier Stasse, Björn Verrelst, Andrew J. Davison, Nicolas Mansard, Bram Vanderborght, Claudia Esteves, François Saïdi, Kazuhito Yokoi: Integrating Walking and Vision to Increase Humanoid Robot Autonomy. ICRA 2007: 2772-2773

Michaël Van Damme, Bram Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Björn Verrelst, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber: Proxy-Based Sliding Mode Control of a Manipulator Actuated by Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. ICRA 2007: 4355-4360

Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber, Frank Daerden, Michaël Van Damme: Second generation pleated pneumatic artificial muscle and its robotic applications. Advanced Robotics 20(7): 783-805 (2006)

Björn Verrelst, Jimmy Vermeulen, Bram Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Joris Naudet, Dirk Lefeber, Frank Daerden, Michaël Van Damme: Motion Generation and Control for the Pneumatic Biped "Lucy". I. J. Humanoid Robotics 3(1): 67-103 (2006)

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Michaël Van Damme, Dirk Lefeber, Bruno Meira Y. Duran, Pieter Beyl: Exploiting Natural Dynamics to Reduce Energy Consumption by Controlling the Compliance of Soft Actuators. I. J. Robotic Res. 25(4): 343-358 (2006)

Jimmy Vermeulen, Björn Verrelst, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber, P. Guillaume: Trajectory Planning for the Walking Biped "Lucy". I. J. Robotic Res. 25(9): 867-887 (2006)

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Dirk Lefeber: Controlling a bipedal walking robot actuated by pleated pneumatic artificial muscles. Robotica 24(4): 401-410 (2006)

Björn Verrelst, Olivier Stasse, Kazuhito Yokoi, Bram Vanderborght: Dynamically Stepping Over Obstacles by the Humanoid Robot HRP-2. Humanoids 2006: 117-123

Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Michaël Van Damme, Dirk Lefeber: Controlled Passive Walker Veronica Powered by Actuators with Independent Control of Equilibrium Position and Compliance. Humanoids 2006: 234-239

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Pieter Beyl, Dirk Lefeber: Locomotion Control Architecture for the Pneumatic Biped Lucy consisting of a Trajectory Generator and Joint Trajectory Tracking Controller. Humanoids 2006: 240-245

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Michaël Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Dirk Lefeber: Torque and Compliance Control of the Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in the Biped "Lucy". ICRA 2006: 842-847

Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Michaël Van Damme, Björn Verrelst, Dirk Lefeber: MACCEPA: the Mechanically Adjustable Compliance and Controllable Equilibrium Position Actuator for 'Controlled Passive Walking'. ICRA 2006: 2195-2200

Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber, Jimmy Vermeulen: The Pneumatic Biped "Lucy" Actuated with Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. Auton. Robots 18(2): 201-213 (2005)

Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Jimmy Vermeulen, Dirk Lefeber, Frank Daerden: Exploiting adaptable passive behaviour to influence natural dynamics applied to legged robots. Robotica 23(2): 149-158 (2005)

Jimmy Vermeulen, Björn Verrelst, Dirk Lefeber, Patrick Kool, Bram Vanderborght: A real-time joint trajectory planner for dynamic walking bipeds in the sagittal plane. Robotica 23(6): 669-680 (2005)

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Michaël Van Damme, Dirk Lefeber: Experimental Walking Results of LUCY, a Biped with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. CLAWAR 2005: 189-196

Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber: Design of a "Soft" 2-DOF Planar Pneumatic Manipulator. CLAWAR 2005: 559-566

Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Michaël Van Damme, Björn Verrelst, Dirk Lefeber: MACCEPA: the Actuator with Adaptable Compliance for Dynamic Walking Bipeds. CLAWAR 2005: 759-766

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Michaël Van Damme, Dirk Lefeber: A pneumatic biped: experimental walking results and compliance adaptation experiments. Humanoids 2005: 44-49

Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Jimmy Vermeulen, Dirk Lefeber: Dynamic Control of a Bipedal Walking Robot actuated with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. ICRA 2005: 1-6