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CNRS Research Director

Institute of Movement Sciences, CNRS-AMU, Marseille

From insects to robots and vice versa

• Resilience
• Perception
• Insects
• Robotics

PhD

Institut National Polytechnique, Grenoble, France

Biorobotics

OpenSky: a modular and open source sky polarization measurements simulator

IEEE Trans. on Instr. and Meas.

an open-source and easily upgradable simulator, named OpenSky, which can simulate the measurement of sky polarization properties, i.e., the light intensity, the angle of polarization, and the degree of linear polarization of light seen through a polarimetric camera.

A six-legged walking robot able to home like desert ants in outdoor environments

Science Robotics

We tested several ant-inspired solutions to outdoor homing navigation problems on a legged robot using two optical sensors equipped with just 14 pixels, two of which were dedicated to an insect-inspired compass sensitive to ultraviolet light.

Agile robotic flyers: a morphing-based approach

Soft Robotics

The aerial robot presented here for the first time was based on a quadrotor structure, which is capable of unique morphing performances based on an actuated elastic mechanism.

Miniature Curved Artificial Compound Eyes

PNAS

Ther first functionnal artificial compound eye.

ResiRob

Resilient robots able to fly or roll onto the ground.

• Crashproof
• Morphing robots