Tønnes F. Nygaard

I’m an associate professor at the University of Oslo where I work on robotics and artificial intelligence. My main focus in on legged robots and how they can adapt to different real-world environments and tasks.

In addition to this, I hold a researcher position at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment where I work on autonomous robots for defence applications.

Selected publications

N:MI

Real-world Embodied AI Through a Morphologically Adaptive Quadruped Robot

Nygaard, Tønnes F., Martin, Charles P., Torresen, Jim, Glette, Kyrre, and Howard, David

Nature Machine Intelligence 2021

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@article{nygaard2021real,
  author = {Nygaard, T{\o}nnes F. and Martin, Charles P. and Torresen, Jim and Glette, Kyrre and Howard, David},
  title = {{Real-world Embodied AI Through a Morphologically Adaptive Quadruped Robot}},
  journal = {Nature Machine Intelligence},
  pages = {410--419},
  volume = {3},
  number = {5},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
  doi = {10.1038/s42256-021-00320-3},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oug9pkZMUnc}
}

ECJ

Environmental Adaptation of Robot Morphology and Control Through Real-world Evolution

Nygaard, Tønnes F., Martin, Charles P., Howard, David, Torresen, Jim, and Glette, Kyrre

Evolutionary Computation 2021

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@article{nygaard2021environmental,
  author = {Nygaard, T{\o}nnes F. and Martin, Charles P. and Howard, David and Torresen, Jim and Glette, Kyrre},
  title = {{Environmental Adaptation of Robot Morphology and Control Through Real-world Evolution}},
  journal = {Evolutionary Computation},
  pages = {1-21},
  year = {2021},
  issn = {1063-6560},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  doi = {10.1162/evco\_a\_00291},
}