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Oct.08 Permanent position in LAAS/CNRS Toulouse

Dec.07 Best Thesis Award from Région Bretagne

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Since October 2008, I am working as a permanent researcher at LAAS/CNRS, Toulouse. I am involved in the Gepetto research group, with Jean-Paul Laumond.

My research activities are concerned with visual servoing, and more specifically the integration of visual-servoing schemes into real robot applications. This research topic is at the intersection of the fields of robotics, automatic control, and computer vision. My main application field is currently the Humanoid robotics, as it causes serious challenges that can be found in many other robots domain.

Before my post-doc in Tsukuba, I was a post-doc at the IA Lab of Stanford University, in the group led by Prof.O.Khatib. I have done my PhD. with Francois Chaumette in the Lagadic group, at INRIA Rennes.


American dream in Santa Cruz, June 07

PhD Defense

My PhD defense has occured on the 12th of December, 2006. The defence comitee was composed of Albert BENVENISTE (directeur de recherche, IRISA, Rennes), Etienne DOMBRE (directeur de recherche, LIRMM, Montpellier), Abderrahmane KHEDDAR (directeur de recherche, JRL, Tsukuba, Japan), Jean-Paul LAUMOND (directeur de recherche, LAAS, Toulouse), José SANTOS VICTOR (associate professor, ISR/IST, Lisbon, Protugal), Luigi VILLANI (associate professor, University of Napoli, Italy) and Francois CHAUMETTE (directeur de recherche, IRISA, Rennes).

My thesis is available here (in french):

N. Mansard. Enchaînement de tâches robotiques. PhD Thesis Université de Rennes 1, mention informatique, December 2006. pdffile

The slides of the prentation are available, in pdf file (800Ko), in power-point format (6.7Mo) or in zipped power-point format, including the videos (24Mo).

Best Thesis Award of région Bretagne. Received in Nov. 2007.
ASTI Thesis Award: ASTI is the french association for the Computer and Telecommunication Sciences.
GDR-Macs Best Thesis: My thesis has been selected has one of the best french thesis of the GDR-Macs for the years 2005-2006.