Aude Billard
Full Professor
Leads the LASA laboratory, working on robot learning from demonstration, dynamical-systems control and dexterous manipulation.
Aude Billard's lab at EPFL works on manipulation & robot learning and planning, control & multi-robot systems. 68 papers since 2023, 26 at top venues, mostly RA-L and IROS. 6 PhD students. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 18/ year
- at T1 venues
- 38%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 30 papers2025 · T1 11
- 22 papers2024 · T1 7
- 16 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RA-L, IROS, T-RO, IJRR, Science
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems24 papers
- Manipulation & robot learning22 papers
- demonstration0 papers
- dexterous manipulation0 papers
- micro engineering0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202530 papers
- Science Robotics (T1)“Data will solve robotics and automation: True or false?”: A debate (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)A Roadmap for Ai in Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation MagazineA Two-Year Review of My Work as IEEE RAS President [President’s Message] (opens in a new tab)
- JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive TechnologiesChallenges and Opportunities of the Human-Centered Design Approach: Case Study Development of an Assistive Device for the Navigation of Persons With Visual Impairment (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LCuspidal Redundant Robots: Classification of Infinitely Many IKS of Special Classes of 7R Robots (opens in a new tab)
- Science (T1)Designing and using robots for environmental sustainability (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Efficient Hitting with different links of a Redundant Robotic Manipulator (opens in a new tab)
- EMBCFour-Handed Solo Laparoscopic Anastomosis with the Support of Supernumerary Robotic Arms (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Advanced RoboticsFrom Human to Height-Field: Predictive Shotcrete Simulation with a Physics-Informed Particle System (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Human-Inspired Planning and Control of Shotcrete Robots based on Dynamical Systems Mapping (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineHuman–Robot Interaction: Successes, Hurdles, and Remaining Challenges [Opinion] (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineIEEE Robotics and Automation Society Launches a Science and Technology Watch Board [President’s Message] (opens in a new tab)
202422 papers
- RA-LA Predictive Model for Tactile Force Estimation Using Audio-Tactile Data (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineA Warm Thanks to All of Those Who Contribute
- RA-LAction Contextualization: Adaptive Task Planning and Action Tuning Using Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Acta NeurochirurgicaAn objective skill assessment framework for microsurgical anastomosis based on ALI scores (opens in a new tab)
- Linguistics in OceaniaAnniversaries Are a Good Time to Reflect on the Past, Present, and Future of Robotics and Automation (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Avoidance of Concave Obstacles Through Rotation of Nonlinear Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- The Routledge International Handbook of Disability and Global HealthBarriers for adoption and innovation on rehabilitation technology in low- and middle-income countries: A case study in Colombia (opens in a new tab)
- ECCDynamical system approach to navigation around obstacles
- IEEE Robotics and Automation MagazineEnhancing Dexterity in Confined Spaces: Real-Time Motion Planning for Multifingered In-Hand Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Science (T1)In good hands: A case for improving robotic dexterity (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)ISR-LLM: Iterative Self-Refined Large Language Model for Long-Horizon Sequential Task Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning Barrier-Certified Polynomial Dynamical Systems for Obstacle Avoidance with Robots (opens in a new tab)
202316 papers
- IROS (T1)A Stable Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for Estimating Robot Manipulators Link Velocity and Acceleration (opens in a new tab)
- IJRR (T1)A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Adaptive Fingers Coordination for Robust Grasp and In-Hand Manipulation Under Disturbances and Unknown Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Agent Prioritization and Virtual Drag Minimization in Dynamical System Modulation For Obstacle Avoidance of Decentralized Swarms (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics and Autonomous SystemsBimanual dynamic grabbing and tossing of objects onto a moving target (opens in a new tab)
- IscienceEEG error-related potentials encode magnitude of errors and individual perceptual thresholds (opens in a new tab)
- IJRR (T1)Enabling four-arm laparoscopic surgery by controlling two robotic assistants via haptic foot interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Exploiting Kinematic Redundancy for Robotic Grasping of Multiple Objects (opens in a new tab)
- ISRRHybrid Quadratic Programming – Pullback Bundle Dynamical Systems Control (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Implicit Manifold Gaussian Process Regression
- Scientific ReportsInferring individual evaluation criteria for reaching trajectories with obstacle avoidance from EEG signals (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LInverse Reinforcement Learning of Pedestrian-Robot Coordination (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
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Apply to EPFLFall 2027
EDIC Computer and Communication Sciences PhD
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- Round 1
- Opens
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- optional
- English
- TOEFL 100 / IELTS 7.0
- Fee
- none
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