Dr. Martín Abadi
Roland Siegwart MEMBERS
Director of the Autonomous Systems Lab of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich
Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • 2023
  • Electronics and Electrical Engineering (E.E.E.)
More Info
  • 2023
  • Electronics and Electrical Engineering (E.E.E.)
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Roland Siegwart (born in 1959, Lausanne), is director of the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) in Switzerland,of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich and a known robotics expert.

Siegwart's research activities focus on mobile robot design and navigation – localization and mapping, planning in dynamic environments, human–robot interaction, 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).

In 2023, he was elected as member of the European Academy of Engineering.