Chandana Paul











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.


Research

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 )


Publications

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

Posters, Exhibition and Other Presentations

Paul, C., Lipson, H. and Valero-Cuevas, F. J. (2003) "Design and Control of Tensegrity Robots", poster presented at DCI Postdoctoral Colloquium , Washington, D.C., USA, April 2005

Bellotti, M and Paul, C. (2003) "Human Neuromyoskeletal Model to Investigate Spinal Cord Lesion Neuro-mechanical Model to Investigate Human Locomotion", poster presented at European conference on Computational Mechanisms for the Generation and Perception of Action in 3D Space , Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, April 2003

Bellotti, M and Paul, C. (2003) "Neuro-mechanical Model to Investigate Human Locomotion", Joining Forces Workshop , Zurich 2003

Paul, C. (1999) "Motor Control Using Dynamical Systems", Dynamical Approach to Behavioral, Neural and Robotic Systems- Action, Perception and Cognition Workshop , Guimaraes, Portugal.

Paul, C. (1998) "Geological Target Selection During Navigation", Computer Vision and Mobile Robotics Workshop , Santorini, Greece.

Paul, C. (1998) "Reactive Visual Servoing for a Compliant Manipulator", VIRGO Workshop , Crete, Greece.

Lorigo, L. and Paul, C. (1997) "Visually Guided Obstacle Avoidance and Reaching on the Pebbles Mars Rover" Workshop on Planetary Exploration, IROS , Grenoble, France, September 1997.

Paul, C. (1997) "Vision based Target Selection" JPL Workshop on Planetary Exploration, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Paul, C. and Moy, M (1997) "Pebbles, An Autonomous Mars Rover", AAAI '97 Exhibition , Providence Rhode Island, USA.