Cornell University, Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering (2004-2006)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Supervisors: Ephrahim Garcia Hod Lipson
University of Zurich, Artificial Intelligence Lab, (1998-2004)
Ph.D. in
Computer Science, in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
Thesis topic: "Biped Robots"
Advisor: Rolf Pfeifer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Lab (1996-1998)
M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
Thesis:
"Visually Guided Reaching for an Autonomous Mars Rover"
Advisor: Rodney Brooks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992-1996)
B.S in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, B.S. in Brain and Cognitive
Science.
My main interests are the investigation of the principles of biological
intelligence and motor control,
with a focus on Morphological Computation.
(Paul, C. (2004) "Morphology and Computation",
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive
Behaviour
Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp 33-38 )
Paul, C. (2006) Morphological Computation, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Morphology, Control and Passive Dynamics, August 2006, 54(8): 619-630
Paul, C., Lungarella, M., Iida, F. (2006) Morphology, Control and Passive Dynamics, Special Issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, August 2006, 54(8): 617-718
Paul, C., Valero-Cuevas, F. J., Lipson, H. (2006) Design and Control of Tensegrity Robots for Locomotion, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (accepted)
Paul, C., Bellotti, M., Jezernik, S. and Curt, A. (2005) Development of a Human Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Model for the Investigation of Spinal Cord Injury, Biological Cybernetics. 93(3):153-170
Paul, C., Roberts, J. W., Lipson, H., Valero-Cuevas, F. J. (2005) Gait Production in a Tensegrity Based Robot, Best Paper Award, International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Seattle, WA, USA
Paul, C., Lipson, H. and Valero-Cuevas, F.J. (2005) Evolutionary Form-Finding of Tensegrity Structures, accepted to the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Washington, D.C., USA
Paul, C. (2005) "Sensorimotor Control of Biped Locomotion", Journal of Adaptive Behavior 13(1):67-80
Paul, C., Lipson, H., Valero-Cuevas, F. J. (2005) "Redundancy in the Control of Robots with Highly Coupled Mechanical Structures", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Canada
Matsushita, K., Lungarella, M., Paul, C. and Yokoi, H. (2005) "Locomoting with less computation but more morphology", accepted to the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, to be held in Barcelona, Spain
Paul, C. (2004) "Investigation of Morphology and Control in Biped Locomotion", Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Paul, C. (2004) "Morphology and Computation", Proceedings of the International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp 33-38
Paul, C. (2004) "Sensorimotor Control of Biped Locomotion based on Contact Information", Proc. International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Robotics Allahbad, India
Paul, C., Yokoi H., and K. Matsushita (2003) "Design and Control of Humanoid Robot Locomotion with Passive Legs and Upper Body
Paul, C. (2003) Book Review of "Biorobotics:Methods and Applications", accepted to International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications
Paul, C. (2003) "Bilateral Decoupling in the Neural Control of Biped Locomotion", in Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines , Kyoto, Japan.
Paul, C., Dravid, R. and F. Iida (2002) "Control of Lateral Bounding for a Pendulum Driven Hopping Robot", in Proceedings of the International Conference of Climbing and Walking Robots , Paris, France.
Paul, C., Dravid, R. and F. Iida (2002) "Design and Control of a Pendulum Driven Hopping Robot ", in The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Lausanne, Switzerland
Paul, C. and J. C. Bongard (2001) "The Road Less Travelled: Morphology in the Optimization of Biped Robot Locomotion", in Proceedings of The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , Maui, Hawaii, USA.
Bongard, J. C. and C. Paul(2001) "Making Evolution an Offer It Can't Refuse: Morphology and the Extradimensional Bypass", to appear in Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Artificial Life , Prague, CZ.
Paul, C., V. Hafner & J. C. Bongard (2000) "Teaching New Artificial Intelligence using Constructionist Edutainment Robots", Workshop on Edutainment Robots, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Bongard, J. C. & C. Paul (2000) "Investigating
Morphological Symmetry and Locomotive Efficiency using Virtual Embodied
Evolution", in J.-A. Meyer et al (eds.), From Animals to Animats: The Sixth
International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour
Paul, C., (1998) "Visually Guided Reaching for an Autonomous Mars Rover", Master's Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology