Sébastien Thomas

Sébastien Thomas

Inria R&D Engineer

 

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

Short bio

I have a master’s degree in computer science from IFSIC in Rennes, France. I have worked as an R&D engineer in several companies since 1999, especially in the field of 3D and speech synthesis.
I am currently working in the DORNELL project on the design of virtual environments and the implementation of navigation solutions as well as the improvement of technical solutions.

Hélène de la Ruée

Hélène de la Ruée

Reasearch Team Assistant

 

Email: helene.de-la-ruee@irisa.fr
Address:
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France

Short bio

 

Lendy Mulot

Lendy Mulot

PhD

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

Short bio

I have studied mathematics and physics from 2017 to 2019 in a preparatory class in Dijon, France. After that, I moved to Rennes, France where I followed a research-oriented computer science curriculum at the ENS Rennes and University of Rennes 1, and obtained my research master’s degree in 2022.

I am now mostly focused on topics related to haptics, virtual reality, human perception and human-computer interactions.
During my master degree, I have had several opportunities to work on ultrasound haptics:
– In 2020-2021, I worked on the development of Dolphin, an open-source framework to help people design and evaluate ultrasound mid-air haptic stimuli. This work was supervised by Thomas Howard, Maud Marchal and Claudio Pacchierotti. I later did an internship at Ultraleap, supervised by William Frier, to adapt Dolphin to a new API they were working on.
– In 2022, I did an internship in the Rainbow team (Inria/IRISA, Rennes), to work on ultrasound haptic rendering for bimanual interactions in virtual reality, supervised by Thomas Howard, Maud Marchal and Claudio Pacchierotti.

Since October 2022, I work as a Ph.D. student in the Rainbow team (Inria/IRISA, Rennes), under the supervision of Maud Marchal and Claudio Pacchierotti. I work on the “design of coupling schemes for vibro-tactile rendering in virtual reality”.

Maxime Manzano

Maxime Manzano

PhD Student

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

Supervisors

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

Sylvain Guégan (Rainbow team, LGCGM, INSA de Rennes, sylvain.guegan@insa-rennes.fr)

Ronan Le Breton (LGCGM, INSA de Rennes, ronan.le-breton@insa-rennes.fr)

Bio

I discovered my interest in mechatronics during my high school, enjoying to participate to some projects (and starting my endless relationship with Arduino ♥).

Since then, I’ve never stop studying mechatronics, specializing myself in robotics. Indeed, I participated in electronics, mechanics and computer science courses as well as some projects at the department of mechatronics of the ENS Rennes between 2018 and 2022. To specialize myself in robotics, I did a mobility in Nantes in 2021 to follow the M2 CORO IMARO at the École Centrale de Nantes.

In 2020, I obtained the mechatronics « agrégation » that enables me to get some teaching positions.

I started my Ph.D in 2022. I work on a robotic solution to support people with muscle weaknesses in the upper-limb to continue performing their activities of daily living in autonomy. I work on a new mechanical design that would better support the arm and a shared-control framework to reduce the user’s cognitive load to control it.

Jose Eduardo Aguilar Segovia

José Eduardo Aguilar Segovia

PhD

Email: jose-eduardo.aguilar-segovia@inria.fr
Address:
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France

Short bio

Born in Mexico City, Mexico. I have particular interests in medical sector, haptic technologies, control, system mechanics and materials.

Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in Mechatronics in 2022 from Compiègne Technological University.

PhD student since October 2022 at the National Institute of applied sciences (INSA) and Inria Rennes. 

Thesis subject: “Design of haptic feedback using innovative shapeable materials” within the DORNELL project. 

PhD’s supervisors:

  • Marie Babel (Rainbow team, Irisa Rennes, marie.babel@irisa.fr) 
  • Sylvain Lefebvre (MFX team, Inria Nancy, sylvain.lefebvre@inria.fr) 
  • Sylvain Guégan (ECSR team, LGCGM, INSA de Rennes, sylvain.guegan@insa-rennes.fr)

The aim of the Dornell project (Inria Challenge) is to propose an innovative multisensory, multimodal, smart haptic handle that can be easily plugged onto a wide range of mobility aids, including white canes, precanes, walkers, and power wheelchairs.

The goal of my PHD project is to design and fabricate a multimodal, multisensory, ergonomic, soft, compact, portable, customizable handle able to provide multiple haptic sensations (related to the sense of touch) as well as sense how the user interacts with it. The handle should provide a rich multimodal haptic feedback, i.e., controlled vibration and pressure sensation as well as the ability to actively modify the perceived stiffness of the handle. One of the challenges of my PhD project will be to ensure all these functionalities with low energy consumption, as the handle aims at being wireless.

The handle will make use of innovative shapeable materials, 3D/4D printing techniques, multimodal actuation technologies, and perceptual illusions to deliver complex yet intuitive haptic sensations.

Mandela Ouafo Fonkoua

Mandela Ouafo Fonkoua

PhD

 

Email: mandela.ouafo-fonkoua@inria.fr
Address:
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France

Short bio

 

Marco Ferro

Marco Ferro

Postdoc

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

Short bio

Marco Ferro is a postdoc at CNRS-IRISA in Rennes, France, since 2022. He was previously postdoc at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering (DIAG) of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he got also his Ph.D. in Automation, Bioengineering and Operational Research, in 2019. He visited the LIRMM in Montpellier in 2014 as intern, and he was a visting Ph.D student at CNRS-IRISA in Rennes in 2018. Throughout his Ph.D. and the subsequent postdoc experience, he worked on vision-based control and estimation methods for humanoid and surgical robots, focusing later on scientific and technological problems in the medical robotics domain.

CV

You can find my Curriculum Vitae here (pdf).

Antonio Marino

Antonio Marino

PhD Student

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

Short bio

I obtained my bachelor’s degree in automation engineering at the University of Naples Federico II in 2018 and my master’s degree in robotics engineering at the University of Genova in 2020. During my studies, I have covered different topics in robotics like mechanics, control and machine learning, developing a strong passion for control and robotic systems. My past experiences include Research engineer at the University of Leeds and Robotics Engineer at UnmannedLife.

I joined the Rainbow team at IRISA/ Inria Rennes as a PhD student in September 2022, under the supervision of Paolo Robuffo Giordano and Claudio Pacchierotti, working on learning-based multi-robot formation control.