Steve Tonneau
Reader (Associate Professor) · School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Bayes Centre, Room 1.16
47 Potterrow
Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK
(Really) short bio
Steve Tonneau is a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Edinburgh, where he joined as a lecturer in 2019. He defended his PhD in 2015 after 3 years in the INRIA/IRISA Mimetic research team, and pursued a post-doc in robotics at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse, within the Gepetto team.
His research focuses on motion planning based on the biomechanical analysis of motion invariants. Applications include computer graphics animation as well as robotics. He is a member of the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB) of the School of Informatics.
Research interests
Legged robots and humanoids, contact planning and multi-contact locomotion, motion planning, model predictive control and optimal control, whole-body manipulation, character animation and computer graphics. See the publications page for recent work and the projects page for the main lines of work.
Prospective students
I am deputy director of the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR), and the CDT is the way to work with me as a PhD student. The supervision page explains how to apply, and lists the students and post-docs I work or have worked with. You can also get in touch through the contact page.