Francesco Mondada

Francesco Mondada (born 17 March 1967) is a Swiss professor^[1] in artificial intelligence and robotics. He got a Master's degree in Microengineering at the EPFL in 1991 and a PhD degree in 1997. He is one of the creators of the Khepera and directed the design of the S-bot, the e-puck, the marXbot and the Thymio mobile robots. Together, these robots are mentioned in more than 9000 research articles.^[2] In particular the Khepera robot^[3] is a milestone in the field of bio-inspired and evolutionary robotics.

Francesco Mondada
Born	Locarno, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Citizenship	Switzerland
Alma mater	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Known for	Khepera mobile robot, E-puck mobile robot, Thymio
Awards	Latsis Foundation University Prize, Credit Suisse Best Teaching Award
Scientific career
Fields	Robotics, Computer Science
Institutions	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

He was one of the founders and director of K-team SA from its creation 1995 to 2000,^[4] and one of the founders of Calerga Sarl in 2001^[5] and Mobsya in 2010.^[6]

His recent work concerns collective robotics and education.

Awards and honours

• University Latsis^[7]
• Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching.^[8]
• 2012 Polysphère, award for the best professor from the School of Engineering at EPFL given by the students.^[9]
• Member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW)^[10]
• Several best poster/paper/demo awards, for instance the Best Paper Award Design at the HRI 2017 conference.

Selected publications

• F. Mondada, M. Bonani, F. Riedo, M. Briod, L. Pereyre, P. Retornaz, S. Magnenat. Bringing Robotics to Formal Education: The Thymio Open-Source Hardware Robot. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 77–85, March 2017.
• J. Halloy, G. Sempo, G. Caprari, C. Rivault, M. Asadpour, F. Tache, I. Said, V. Durier, S. Canonge, J. Ame, C. Detrain, N. Correll, A. Martinoli, F. Mondada, R. Siegwart, and J.-L. Deneubourg. Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices. Science, 318(5853):1155-1158, 2007.

• F. Mondada, G. C. Pettinaro, A. Guignard, I. Kwee, D. Floreano, J.-L. Deneubourg, S. Nolfi, L. Gambardella, and M. Dorigo. SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept. Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, 17(2-3):193-221, 2004. September - November 2004 Sponsor: swarm-bots, OFES 01-0012-1.
• D. Floreano and F. Mondada. Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics, 26(3):396-407, 1996.
• F. Mondada, E. Franzi, P. Ienne, T. Yoshikawa, and F. Miyazaki. Mobile Robot Miniaturization: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms. In Experimental Robotics III, volume 200 of Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pages 501-13. Springer, London, 1994.

References

1. Press Release of the ETH Board, about the nomination of professors on May 24, 2013^{[permanent dead link]}
2. List of scientific papers mentioning the Khepera, the S-bot, the e-puck, the marXbot or the Thymio robots.
3. Main paper describing the Khepera robot and the approach of robot miniaturization for research
4. Official Trade and Companies Register of Canton de Vaud, data about K-Team SA, see cancellations for the history
5. Official Trade and Companies Register of Canton de Vaud, data about Calerga SàrL
6. Official Trade and Companies Register of Canton de Vaud, data about Mobsya Association, see cancellations for the history
7. List of Latsis prizes given to the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Archived 2013-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
8. "List of Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching laureates at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne". Archived from the original on 2014-06-17. Retrieved 2013-08-04.
9. List of the professors who received the EPFL Polysphère award
10. List of members of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW)

External links

• Professional homepage with a list of publications (Google scholar)
• Mobots group homepage of the research group of F. Mondada
• Personal homepage