Brice REBSAMEN

Research Assistant & PhD student
Social Robotics Lab, National University of Singapore
E-Mail: brice.rebsamen@gmail.com
Web: www.bricerebsamen.com

In brief

Research line: use engineering tools to understand the living and possibly improve it & use knowledge of the living to improve machines.
Main skill: System programming: hardware interface, data structure, real time aspects, etc.

Education

Jan 04:

Started a PhD at the National University of Singapore. Subject: Development of a Brain Controlled Wheelchair. Supervisors: Etienne Burdet (Imperial College London / NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS) and Christian Laugier (INRIA). To be completed soon.
Took classes in:

• Real time systems
• Evolutionary computation
• Human robotics
• Neural networks
• Uncertainty modelling in AI
• Neuroscience

Sept 02 - June 03:

advanced studies in cognitive sciences (Grenoble, France):

• artificial intelligence (neural networks, genetic algorithms, expert systems, probabilistic reasoning)
• cognitive psychology, linguistic
• physiology (detailed study of the retina and the visual cortex), neurology, cytology

Sept 99 - June 02:

Master degree of electronic engineering at ENSEIRB (National school of electronics, Bordeaux, France), specialty radio communications

• digital and analog electronics, HF and micro-wave circuits
• communication technologies:optical fibers, networks, GSM, hertzian beams
• quantum physics and electromagnetic waves physics, electromagnetic compatibility
• programming languages: C, C++, assembly, VHDL

Sept 97 - June 99:

A two years advanced mathematics course in preparation for the selective entrance examination to the french engineering schools at école des pupilles de l'air (Grenoble, France).

From the age of 12:

I taught myself programming: Basic, C, HTML, java, PHP, C#, C++ and experimented with many other languages for fun.

Professional Experience

Jan 08 - Sept 08:

Worked in NUS' team X-1 for the DSTA TechX grand challenge. We developped an autonomous robot able of navigating, climbing stairs and taking elevators on its own.

• Sensor and actuator layer
• Interface with USARSim, a robotic simulator based on the game Unreal Tournament.
• Concurrent and modular architecture that works under Linux and QNX
• Development of various tools for the other programmers

Jan 04 - Dec 07:

PhD project at NUS.

• Conception of a collaborative control strategy to reduce maneuvering efforts by following ergonomic guiding paths (collaboration with LIMS lab, Northwestern University, Chicago).
• Implementation of the control software under linux RTAI
• Development of a Brain-Machine Interface (collaboration with the Neurosignal processing lab at I2R/A*STAR, Singapore) to control in real time the wheelchair.

March 03 - June 02:

Research at INRIA
Movement detection with a laser telemeter using statistical learning and probabilistic reasoning (Hidden Markov Models).

March 02 - Aug 02:

Research internship at Bradford university, England
Electromagnetic propagation in human head close to a mobile phone antenna using finite-difference time-domain method. Application to the design of shielding methods to reduce absorption.

July 01 - Nov 01:

Industrial internship at Formes et performances, Bordeaux, France.
I designed a 1 MHz ultrasound generator for medical therapy.

1999 - 2004:

Tuition classes in mathematics and physics.

Publications

Journal Articles

• B. Rebsamen, E. Burdet, C. Guan, H. Zhang, C.L. Teo, Q. Zeng, M. Ang and C. Laugier, Controlling a Wheelchair Indoors using Thought, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March/April 2007.
• Q. Zeng, C.L. Teo, B. Rebsamen, and E. Burdet, A Collaborative Wheelchair System, IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2008.
• Q. Zeng, E. Burdet, B. Rebsamen, and C.L. Teo, Collaborative Path Planning for a Robotic Wheelchair, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, Vol: (in press) , 2008

Conference Articles

• B. Rebsamen, E. Burdet, C. Guan, Q. Zeng, M. Ang, and C.Laugier, Hybrid P300 and Mu-Beta Brain Computer Interface to operate a Brain Controlled Wheelchair, in IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2007.
• B. Rebsamen, E. Burdet, C. Guan, H. Zhang, C.L. Teo, Q. Zeng, M. Ang and C. Laugier, Controlling a wheelchair using a BCI with low information transfer rate, IEEE Int. Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2007
• Q. Zeng, C.L. Teo, B. Rebsamen, and E. Burdet, Evaluation of the Collaborative Wheelchair Assistant System, in IEEE Int. Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2007.
• Q. Zeng, E. Burdet, B. Rebsamen, and C.L. Teo, Experiments on Collaborative Learning with a Robotic Wheelchair, in Int. Convention for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe), 2007.
• B. Rebsamen, E. Burdet, C. Guan, H. Zhang, C.L. Teo, Q. Zeng, M. Ang and C. Laugier, A Brain-Controlled Wheelchair Based on P300 and Path Guidance, IEEE Int. Conf. on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2006.
• Q. Zeng, B. Rebsamen, E. Burdet and C.L. Teo, Design of a Collaborative Wheelchair with Path Guidance Assistance, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2006.
• B. Long, B. Rebsamen, E. Burdet, T.C. Leong and H.Y. Yu, Elastic Path Controller for Assistive Devices, Proc. 27th Int. Conf. of IEEE-EMBS, 2005.