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Dr.
Elena García
 Elena
García is a roboticist at the Centre for Automation and Robotics -
CSIC-UPM. She received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid in 1996 and 2002, respectively.
She has been a visiting
student at the MIT Leg Laboratory in 1998 and at the Laboratoire
d’Automatique de Grenoble in 2001. She
is a Tenured Scientist as a member of the Robot Locomotion and
Interaction Group, a research group that since 1990 is concentrated
on the design, development and control of legged robots.
Dr.
Elena García has participated in various research projects on field and
service legged robots like ROWER, a walking platform for ship building,
SILO4, a four legged locomotion system used as a testbed in most of her
PhD
work, and DYLEMA, a project aimed at using walking robots for
antipersonnel mine detection and location. At the present time, Dr.
Elena García is involved in a new research line aimed at improving
legged locomotion for field and service applications by means of
designing new actuators based on smart
materials and hybrid technologies. She is currently leading research
projects HADE for agile locomotion quadrupeds and ATLAS devoted to the
development of functional lower-limb exoskeletons.
Her research topics include:
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Robot Locomotion and Interaction :: Centre for Automation and Robotics :: Spanish National Research Council - CSIC |
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