Roland Siegwart (born in 1959,

Lausanne Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet ...

), is a Swiss robotics expert. He is director of the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

Early life

Siegwart was born in

and grew up in the

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. He received an MA in mechanical engineering from

in 1983 and, in 1989, a PhD degree with distinction Silver Medal ETH for his work on ''Electro-magnetically Suspended Milling Spindle with Active Digital Control''.

Career

After completing his doctorate, Siegwart was employed as a research assistant at various universities (

, HTL Zurich (since 2001 ZHAW),

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California) and, in 1990, became Vice-President R&D at MECOS Traxler AG. Since 1996, Siegwart is associated as full professor at EPFL Lausanne and, in 2006, of

. From 2010 to 2014, Siegwart was Vice President Research and Corporate Relations of ETH Zurich. Siegwart's research activities focus on mobile robot design and navigation – localization and mapping, planning in dynamic environments,

human–robot interaction Human–robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between humans and robots. Human–robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural languag ...

, locomotion concepts for rough terrain, mobile micro-robots, space rovers, autonomous cars, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Siegwart is founder and co-founder of various high-tech startups, such as Shockfish Communication Ltd. (1999), BlueBotics Ltd. (2001), or ALSTOM Inf> and Aspection Robotics Ltd. (2006).ALSTOM Inspection Robotics Ltd.
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External links

IEEE RAS Pioneer Award Recipients
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