Romain Lagneau

Romain Lagneau

Engineer

Email : romain.lagneau@inria.fr
Address :
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France
Tel : 02 99 84 71 00
Fax : 02 99 84 71 71
Assistant : 02 99 84 22 52 (Hélène de La Ruée)

Bio

I did my PhD at INSA Rennes.

I’m now a research engineer in the Rainbow team, mostly working on computer vision.

Théo Le Terrier

Théo Le Terrier

PhD Student

Email : theo.le-terrier@inria.fr
Address :
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France
Tel : 02 99 84 71 00
Fax : 02 99 84 71 71
Assistant : 02 99 84 22 52 (Hélène de La Ruée)

Supervisors

Marie Babel (Rainbow team, Irisa Rennes, marie.babel@irisa.fr)

Vincent Drevelle (Rainbow team, Irisa Rennes, vincent.drevelle@irisa.fr)

Bio

I started getting interested in robotics during my engineering studies at Télécom Physique Strasbourg. In 2022, I did a 3-month internship in Belgium, with the Brubotics team. There, I helped develop a robotic rehabilitation platform, using a soft sensorized physical interface. This internship took place in collaboration with physiotherapists, and it was then that I discovered my keen interest in assistive robotics and research.

To specialize myself in robotics, and learn about ROS, I took part in a 6-month assignment for my school’s junior company. I also did a double master’s degree to take additional robotics courses.

In October 2023, I started my PhD with the rainbow team. I’m working on sensor-based control of an electric wheelchair using interval set methods.

Lorenzo Balandi

Lorenzo Balandi

PhD Student

Contact

Email : lorenzo.balandi@inria.fr
Address :
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France
Tel : 02 99 84 71 00
Fax : 02 99 84 71 71
Assistant : 02 99 84 22 52 (Hélène de La Ruée)

Short bio

I was born in Bologna, Italy, in 1998.
I received my BSc and MSc cum laude in Automation Engineering from the University of Bologna in October 2020 and March 2023, respectively.
From September 2022 to February 2023 I had an internship in the Rainbow Team, where I developed my Master Thesis with title “Distributed Persistent Monitoring of Moving Targets Using High Order Control Barrier Functions” under the supervision of Paolo Robuffo Giordano (Inria-IRISA Rennes) and Giuseppe Notarstefano (University of Bologna).
From October 2023 I am a PhD student at Inria Rennes, under the supervision of Marco Tognon and Paolo Robuffo Giordano. I work on novel designs and controls for Aerial Physical Interaction.

Paul Mefflet

Paul Mefflet

Doctorant, Cifre Haption

Encadrants : Paolo ROBUFFO-GIORDANO (CNRS), Marco AGGRAVI (Haption)
Sujet de thèse : Contrôle partagé centré sur l’humain pour la télémanipulation robotique à différentes échelles

Contact

Email : paul.mefflet@inria.fr / paul.mefflet@haption.com
Address :
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France
Tel : 02 99 84 XX XX
Fax : 02 99 84 71 71
Assistant : 02 99 84 22 52 (Hélène de La Ruée)

Short bio

Je suis né à paris

Diplômé d’un master Sciences pour l’Ingénierie, spécialité Automatique, Robotique, mention Systèmes Avancés et Robotique de Sorbonne Université (Paris VI).

Entre 2021 et 2023, j’ai réalisé mon master en alternance au sein de l’ISIR (Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique), au sein de l’équipe Interactions Multi-Echelles sous la supervision du Dr. Sinan Haliyo. Mes recherches se sont portées principalement sur l’haptique et la perception.

J’effectue au sein de l’IRISA une thèse CIFRE sur le contrôle partagé centré sur l’humain pour la télémanipulation robotique à différentes échelles, en partenariat avec Haption. Cette thèse a pour but la conception d’algorithmes de contrôle partagé robustes pour des schémas de contrôle human-in-the-loop lors de tâches de manipulation robotique semi-autonomes. Une fois ces algorithmes créés, nous évaluerons leur efficacité et nous les adapterons à différents types de robots et à différentes échelles.

Cette thèse CIFRE est effectuée dans le cadre du projet européen RĔGO, qui vise la conception d’outils de robotique cognitive pour des opérations multi-robots à petite échelle centrés sur l’humain.

Olivier Roussel

Olivier Roussel

Inria R&D Engineer

Email: olivier.roussel@inria.fr
Address:
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France


Short bio

I obtained my M.S. degree in Robotics from University of Toulouse III in 2010. Then I worked as a research engineer at CEA-List from for two years until 2012, mainly on humanoid path planning (combinatorial planning based on convex cells partitioning) and crowd simulation.

I defended my Ph.D. in 2015 on motion planning for elastic rods under the supervision of Michel Taïx within the Gepetto team at LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse). The subject was mixing topics such as robotics, optimal control and mathematical modelling. You can watch the video of the defense (in French) or read the manuscript (in French). From August to November 2014, I was a visiting scholar at the Bretl Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I worked as a research engineer in industry for companies such as Wandercraft (2015-2016, Paris) as consultant for a short mission on dynamic control for a medical exoskeleton, and Easymile (2016-2018, Toulouse) working on navigation and obstacle avoidance for autonomous vehicles.

I did a post-doc at LAAS-CNRS from 2018 until 2021 working on agricultural robotics on the R2T2 project with Patrick Danès, designing a prototype of a wine-pruning robot. My work was about designing a pruning cell based on industrial manipulators and setting up a software architecture to control the robots in real-time and acquire sensors data. I was leading the software development of the prototype as well as its digital twin, with in particular the integration of research software for motion planning (HPP) and robots dynamics computation (Pinocchio). I then pursued this work until 2022 as employed by Vinovalie R&D, the R2T2 project leader.

I joined the Rainbow team in 2023 as a research engineer as part of the TIRREX project, working on open-source robotics software in collaboration with other Inria teams (Willow @Inria Paris and Defrost @Lille).

Leon Raphalen

Leon Raphalen

CNRS PhD

Email: leon.raphalen@irisa.fr
Address:
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France

Short bio

I grew up in La Réunion, and left the island back in 2013 to start my curriculum in the field of aerospace in Toulouse. I was taught Mechatronics at University of Arizona in Tucson, Embedded Systems at IPSA in Paris and Robotics at NCKU in Tainan. After obtaining a Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics in Taiwan, I completed my Aerospace Engineering curriculum with an internship at Volkswagen, which led me to the topics of autonomous vehicles. From there, I spent almost five years working in the automotive industry at Continental as an ADAS R&D engineer, first on algo development for 4D object tracking and environment modeling, and then leading international teams located in France, India, Germany and Portugal and specializing in collision avoidance for pedestrians and cyclists.

Looking for of a new experience, less focused on Development and more on Research, I joined the Rainbow team as a CNRS PhD student in September 2023, under the supervision of Dr. Claudio PACCHIEROTTI. I am now studying micro-robotics and shared control problematics as I work on the REGO Project.

Esteban Restrepo

Esteban Restrepo

CNRS Postdoc

Email: esteban.restrepo@inria.fr
Address:
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France

Website: https://erestrep.github.io/

Short bio

Esteban Restrepo is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at CNRS-IRISA in Rennes, France, since 2023. He was previously a Postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He received his PhD in Automatic Control from Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. He received the Award for Best PhD Thesis from GdR MACS and the EEA Club, in 2022. His research interests include multi-agent systems, nonlinear and networked control with application to autonomous robots and aerospace systems.