Bio:
Dimitris Pongas graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in March 2005 with a Master of Science in Microengineering. He joined the CLMC lab in Fall 2005 and graduated with his M.S. in Computer Science from USC in December 2006.
Research Interests:
Motor primitives, Robotics, Robot Locomotion.
Address:
Dimitris Pongas
University of Southern California
Ronald Tutor Hall 417
3710 S. McClintock Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Email:
Phone:
(213) 740 6717
Fax:
(213) 740 1510 or (213) 740 5687
Publications:
Pongas, D.;Mistry, M.;Schaal, S. (2007). A robust quadruped walking gait for traversing rough terrain, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2007), pp.1474-1479.
[Keywords: quadruped locomotion, static walk, crawl gait, cog trajectory, rough terrain, internal-model control]
[Detail] [BibTeX] [PDF]
Pongas, D.;Billard, A.;Schaal, S. (2005). Rapbid synchronization and accurate phase-locking of rhythmic motor primitives, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), pp.2911-2916.
[Keywords: earning from demonstration
periodic movement
phase locking
rhythm generation
rhythmic motor
rhythmic movement pattern synchronization
motor primitives
periodic movement
synchronization and phase locking
learning from demonstration]
[Detail] [BibTeX] [PDF]
Pre-clmc publication:
Pongas, D., Guenter, F., Guignard, A. and Billard, A. (2004) Development of a Miniature Pair of Eyes With Camera for the Humanoid Robot Robota. IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots
