E112 Inria Grenoble Rhone-Alpes

655, Avenue de l’Europe

Montbonnot 38330 France

I develop numerical methods to solve difficult control problems that we face in humanoid robotics: nonlinearities and redundancy. I am interested in being able to compute solutions to these problems about as fast as bees flap their wings (which is around 5[ms] or 60 times faster than the blink of an eye) so we can make robots jump, climb trees, run and execute other highly dynamic motions.

At the same time, I am interested in the way these motions are shaped by user command and context. Robots should have the same sort of avatar intelligence that videogame characters have about their virtual worlds and that allows them to smoothly move around and interact. In reality, I just want to have a monkey robot and play with it.

I live in the beautiful French Alps and work everyday with a talented team of roboticists: Matteo Ciocca, Nahuel Villa, Alexis Mifsud, Adrien Pajon and Pu Zheng. All lead by the brilliant and sharp-minded Pierre-Brice Wieber.