2023-20225 BPI France
with SeaOwl, Exail, Kley France, Open-C and LHEEA
STORM is an industrial project on the design of boat deploying a ROV. The whole system is tele-operated from the shore and can perform various underwater operations without sending any human at sea. More information in this webinar (in French).
2019-2022, Carnot MERS
with IRISA and LIP6
SESAME is a project led by Sébastien Briot on fundamental research in which we propose to overcome scientific issues that prevent for the moment the acceleration of the industrial transfer of sensor-based controllers for robots, issues which are the study of singularities and of stability for sensor-based controllers.
2021-2022, Carnot MERS
with GEM
GOROV was about stabilizing a ROV or AUV in order to accurately track marine growth on offshore underwater structures. In the left image, mussels and starfishes appear on a wind turbine floater after a few months at sea.
2017-2020, Pays de la Loire RFI Atlanstic2020
PROMPT was about exploring the current limitations of visual servoing approaches, namely speed and singularities.
2015-2019, FUI
with Khun Audureau, LAAS-CNRS, BA Systèmes
ALFS was an industrial project to develop a prototype for an autonomous feeding robot in the dairy industry. The project has given birth to a commercial product in 2022: Khun Aura.
2015-2019, ANR
with Inria RITS, Inria Chroma, Akka Technology
Valet was about semi-autonomous cars to provide valet parking for car-sharing systems. We have worked on autonomous parking and unparking, and urban platoon control and stability.
2015-2019, IRT Jules Verne
with Airbus, GE, Inria, Renault, Tecdron
Mascot investigated mobile manipulators for the industry (car, naval, aero). It was featuring autonomous srewing, visual servoing and autonomous navigation in cluttered environments. More on this page.
2014-2015, IRT Jules Verne
with Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Naval Group, Europe Technologies
Charman was a prototype for a semi-autonomous welding robot in the ship industry. More on this video.