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Bio
Alexandre Oliveira Souza is a CIFRE PhD candidate jointly hosted by Safran Electronics & Defense and Inria Nancy (HUCEBOT Team), University of Lorraine (France), since 2022.
His research explores anticipatory and data-driven control of active upper-body exoskeletons for industrial load-carrying tasks, combining machine-learning techniques with human–robot interaction principles to improve assistance quality while preserving user comfort.
Before starting his doctorate, Alexandre worked as a Research Engineer at Inria Nancy on exoskeleton simulation and evaluation (Oct 2021 – May 2022) and has been an Intern at Safran Electronics & Defense (March 2021 – September 2021), where he worked on Human Action Recognition (HAR) for lower limb exoskeleton control. He got a Biomedical Engineering degree from Grenoble Institute of Technology (Phelma) in 2021.
Research Interests
Exoskeleton control
Human Motion prediction
Digital human and exoskeleton modeling
Human robot-interaction
In Brief
Topic: AI-based predictive control of upper-limb exoskeleton
Supervisors: Dr. Francois Charpillet, Dr. Pauline Maurice, Dr. Serena Ivaldi
Funding: CIFRE Safran Electronics & Defense
Publications
2025
Conference papers
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- ExoSim: Towards Physics-Based Modeling and Validation of Human-Exoskeleton Interaction
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- Alexandre Oliveira Souza, Anna Bucchieri, Francois Charpillet, Serena Ivaldi, Pauline Maurice
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- DAWR 2025 – IEEE EMBC Workshop – Design and Assessment Wearable Robotics, Jul 2025, Copenhague, Denmark
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2024
Conference papers
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- Enhancing Exoskeleton Transparency with Motion Prediction: An Experimental Study
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- Alexandre Oliveira Souza, Jordane Grenier, François Charpillet, Serena Ivaldi, Pauline Maurice
- article
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nov 2024, Nancy, France
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2023
Conference papers
- titre
- Towards data-driven predictive control of active upper-body exoskeletons for load carrying
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- Alexandre Oliveira Souza, Jordane Grenier, François Charpillet, Pauline Maurice, Serena Ivaldi
- article
- International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, Jun 2023, Berlin, Germany. ⟨10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187548⟩
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2022
Conference papers
- titre
- Simulating Upper Body Exoskeleton on a Digital Human Model
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- Alexandre Oliveira Souza, Jean Michenaud, Raphaël Lartot, Jordane Grenier, François Charpillet, Pauline Maurice, Serena Ivaldi
- article
- JNRH, Jul 2022, Angers, France. ⟨10.21105/joss.00500⟩
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- titre
- Torque prediction for active exoskeleton control using ProMPs
- auteur
- Raphaël Lartot, Jean Michenaud, Alexandre Oliveira Souza, Pauline Maurice, Serena Ivaldi, François Charpillet
- article
- JNRH 2022 – Journées Nationales de la Robotique Humanoïde, Jul 2022, Angers, France
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