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).
