Simon Hauser

Research Assistant – PhD student, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL

Short Bio

Simon Hauser received his BSc/MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) where his studies were built around bio-inspired robotics.

He joined the Biorobotics Laboratory at EPFL in December 2014. There he mainly focuses on modular robotics and is part of the Roombots project. His further interests also include evolutionary robotics and soft robotics.

Publications

Journal Articles

Reality-assisted evolution of soft robots through large-scale physical experimentation: a review

T. Howison; S. Hauser; J. Hughes; F. Iida 

Artificial Life. 2021. Vol. 26, num. 4, p. 484–506. DOI : 10.1162/artl_a_00330.

Kubits: Solid-State Self-Reconfiguration With Programmable Magnets

S. Hauser; M. Mutlu; A. J. Ijspeert 

Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2020-10-01. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 6443-6450. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.3013884.

A Neuro-Inspired Computational Model for a Visually Guided Robotic Lamprey Using Frame and Event Based Cameras

I. Youssef; M. Mutlu; B. Bayat; A. Crespi; S. Hauser et al. 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020-02-10. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 2395-2402. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2972839.

An Optimal Planning Framework to Deploy Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots

H. Khodr; M. Mutlu; S. Hauser; A. Bernardino; A. Ijspeert 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019-07-25. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 4278-4285. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2931216.

Conference Papers

Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Scrambled Eggs with a Salinity-based ‘Taste’Sensor

G. Sochacki; J. Hughes; S. Hauser; F. Iida 

2021. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), ELECTR NETWORK, SEP 27-OCT 01, 2021. p. 594–600. DOI : 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636750.

Coupling-dependent convergence behavior of phase oscillators with tegotae-control

S. Hauser; M. Dujany; J. Arreguit; A. Ijspeert; F. Iida 

2021-01-01. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), ELECTR NETWORK, Sep 27-Oct 01, 2021. p. 923-929. DOI : 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636646.

Emergent adaptive gait generation through Hebbian sensor-motor maps by morphological probing

M. Dujany; S. Hauser; M. Mutlu; M. van der Sar; J. Arreguit et al. 

2020-01-01. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), ELECTR NETWORK, Oct 24-Jan 24, 2020-2021. p. 7866-7873. DOI : 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341211.

Learning to walk in arbitrary legged morphologies

S. Hauser; M. Dujany; M. van der Sar; M. Mutlu; A. J. Ijspeert 

2019. 9ᵗʰ International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM 2019), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 20th–23rd, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-BIOROB-AMAM2019-74.

Cooperative bridge building by self-reconfigurable modular robotsbased on ants’ stigmergic behaviour

J. Nguyen-Duc; M. Mutlu; S. Hauser; A. Barnerdino; A. Ijspeert 

2019. 9ᵗʰ International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM 2019), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 20th–23rd, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-BIOROB-AMAM2019-71.

Theses

Compliance, locomotion and local computation in (self-) reconfigurable modular robots

S. L. Hauser / A. Ijspeert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.