Short Biography
Mostafa Ajallooeian (mȯstafä ajal-lü-iän, مصطفی اجل لوییان) got his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Kashan University, with the final project ‘Desing and Implemetation of a Recognition Engine for Farsi OCR’. He got his M.Sc. in Machine Intelligence and Robotics from University of Tehran (2009). His Masters project was ‘Design of a learner system based on attractors and babbling for imitation’, accomplished in Robolab, UT.
Mostafa joined BIOROB-EPFL for his Ph.D. in July 2010 and is currently working on AMARSi project. The goal of his PhD thesis is to participate to the design of movement controllers for rich motor skills based on systems of coupled nonlinear dynamical systems (e.g. oscillators), incorporate sensory feedback into them, and apply them to compliant quadruped and humanoid robots.
His recent reaseach focuses on the implementation of adaptive locomotion control for trotting over rough terrain. The proposed locomotion control architecture is modular, and consists of:
– Morphed oscillators: Oscillators capable of encoding arbitrary trajectories as globally assymptotically stable limit cycles. Used for encodng nominal locomotion profiles.
– Adaptive modules for virtual force/velocity control: Similar to the idea of virtual model control, but integrated into oscillator dynamics. Used for implementing posture control.
– Simple reflexes for fast adaptations: This implements the adaptive behaviors like stumbling correction, compensate for a missing contact, and lateral push recovery.
Publication
Journal Articles
On Designing an Active Tail for Legged Robots: Simplifying Control via Decoupling of Control Objectives
S. Heim; M. Ajalloeian; P. Eckert; M. Vespignani; A. Ijspeert
Industrial Robot: An International Journal. 2016. Vol. 43, num. 3, p. 338-346. DOI : 10.1108/IR-10-2015-0190. Kinematic primitives for walking and trotting gaits of a quadruped robot with compliant legs
A. Spröwitz; M. Ajallooeian; A. Tuleu; A. Ijspeert
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 2014. Vol. 8, num. 27, p. 1-13. DOI : 10.3389/fncom.2014.00027. Towards Dynamic Trot Gait Locomotion—Design, Control and Experiments with Cheetah-cub, a Compliant Quadruped Robot
A. Sproewitz; A. Tuleu; M. Vespignani; M. Ajallooeian; E. Badri et al.
International Journal of Robotics Research. 2013. Vol. 32, num. 8, p. 932-950. DOI : 10.1177/0278364913489205. Design, implementation and analysis of an alternation-based Central Pattern Generator for multidimensional trajectory generation
M. Ajallooeian; M. N. Ahmadabadi; B. N. Araabi; H. Moradi
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2012. Vol. 60, num. 2, p. 182-198. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2011.10.002. Hybrid Evolutionary-Neural Network Approach in Generation of Artificial Accelerograms Using Principal Component Analysis and Wavelet-Packet Transform
G. G. Amiri; A. Shahjouei; S. Saadat; M. Ajallooeian
Journal Of Earthquake Engineering. 2011. Vol. 15, p. 50-76. DOI : 10.1080/13632469.2010.517281. Conference Papers
On Designing An Active Tail For Body-Pitch Control In Legged Robots Via Decoupling Of Control Objectives
S. W. Heim; M. Ajallooeian; P. Eckert; M. Vespignani; A. Ijspeert
2016. 18th Climbing and Walking Robots Conference (CLAWAR), Hangzhou, PEOPLES R CHINA, SEP 06-09, 2015. p. 256-264. DOI : 10.1142/9789814725248_0033. Modular Control of Limit Cycle Locomotion over Unperceived Rough Terrain
M. Ajallooeian; S. Gay; A. Tuleu; A. Sprowitz; A. Ijspeert
2013. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-8, 2013. p. 3390-3397. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696839. Central Pattern Generators Augmented with Virtual Model Control for Quadruped Rough Terrain Locomotion
M. Ajallooeian; S. Pouya; A. Sproewitz; A. Ijspeert
2013. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6-10, 2013. p. 3321-3328. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631040. A Closed-Loop Optimal Control Approach for Online Control of A Planar Monopod Hopper
S. Pouya; M. Ajallooeian; A. Ijspeert
2012. 15th International Conference on Climbing and walking Robots (CLAWAR), Maryland, USA, July 23-26, 2012. Oncilla robot: a light-weight bio-inspired quadruped robot for fast locomotion in rough terrain
A. Spröwitz; L. Kuechler; A. Tuleu; M. Ajallooeian; M. D’Haene et al.
2011. 5th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Awaji, Japan, October 11-14, 2011. Fast Hand Gesture Recognition based on Saliency Maps: An Application to Interactive Robotic Marionette Playing
M. Ajallooeian; A. Borji; B. N. Araabi; M. N. Ahmadabadi; H. Moradi
2009. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Toyama, JAPAN, Sep 27-Oct 02, 2009. p. 681-687. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326240. An Imitation Model based on Central Pattern Generator with application in Robotic Marionette Behavior Learning
M. Ajallooeian; M. N. Ahmadabadi; B. N. Araabi; H. Moradi
2009. IEEE RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, MO, Oct 10-15, 2009. p. 4199-4205. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5353940. A dynamic fuzzy-based crossover method for genetic algorithms
S. A. Amraii; M. Ajallooeian; C. Lucas
2007. 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Patras, GREECE, Oct 29-31, 2007. p. 465-471. DOI : 10.1109/ICTAI.2007.134. Theses
Pattern Generation for Rough Terrain Locomotion with Quadrupedal Robots
M. Ajallooeian / A. Ijspeert (Dir.)
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. Posters
Data-driven extraction of drive functions for legged locomotion: A study on Cheetah-cub robot
M. Ajallooeian; A. Sproewitz; A. Tuleu; A. Ijspeert
6th International Conference on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, 2013, Darmstadt, Germany, March 11-14, 2013.