Jesse van den Kieboom
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, École Normale Supérieure - PSL
Papers
13
Total Citations
418
H-Index
9
About
Jesse van den Kieboom is a robotics researcher whose work bridges human-robot interaction, modular robotics, and bio-inspired locomotion control. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to adaptive oscillator-based movement assistance, developing mathematical frameworks capable of extracting real-time features from periodic signals to enable flexible, responsive robotic support for human movement. His landmark 2010 paper on human-robot synchrony has accumulated over 150 citations, with companion work on rehabilitation applications adding a further 51, collectively establishing a compelling case for "assistance-as-needed" paradigms in therapeutic robotics. Van den Kieboom also made significant contributions to the Roombots project—an ambitious vision for self-reconfiguring modular robots capable of functioning as adaptive furniture—earning over 100 citations and sparking broad interest in reconfigurable robotic systems. His research extends into humanoid robotics, including real-time full-body motion imitation and bio-inspired bipedal walking controllers, as well as automatic gait generation for arbitrary modular robot morphologies. His co-evolutionary studies of robot morphology and control further demonstrate the breadth of his systems-level thinking. Across more than a decade of research, van den Kieboom has consistently advanced the frontier of adaptive, intelligent robotic systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Human–Robot Synchrony: Flexible Assistance Using Adaptive Oscillators153 citations · 2010
- 2Roombots: Reconfigurable Robots for Adaptive Furniture101 citations · 2010
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- 6Real-time full body motion imitation on the COMAN humanoid robot20 citations · 2014
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- 9Rich periodic motor skills on humanoid robots: Riding the pedal racer9 citations · 2014
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