Bio-inspired robotics and sensorimotor control
My research work specializes in bio-inspired robotics, bio-inspired sensory-motor control, understanding of visual guidance mechanisms in different animals (insects, birds) and humans through a global and transdisciplinary approach. Nothing can be more efficient than Nature, my scientific approach aims to better understand the perceptive and navigation systems of animals in order to reconstruct them. This biomimetic approach is undoubtedly a vector of innovation! My current scientific interests are: the use of sky polarimetry for navigation purposes, hexapod robotics, unconventional visual navigation algorithms, and in general all forms of bio-inspired navigation.
Current research projects
Completed research projects
My main scientific collaborators at the national level are:
- Bird: study of altitude control system and prey capture system by vision with Franck Ruffier, Simon Potier, and Olivier Duriez.
- Honeybee: study of visual guidance and navigation systems with Franck Ruffier, Antoine Morice, and Gilles Montagne.
- Fly: study and modeling of the coordination of saccades of the head and the body with Franck Ruffier and Stéphane Viollet.
- Ant: study and modeling of the generation of virtual routes on board the mobile robot AntCar with Franck Ruffier and Antoine Wystrach; study of locomotor coordination, proprioception, and load transport on board hexapod robots with Pierre Moretto, Vincent Fourcassié, and Stéphane Viollet.
- Human: study of the informational cues used during a landing task with Antoine Morice, Franck Ruffier and Thomas Rakotomamonjy
- Computational modeling: simulation under Matlab/Simulink of visuomotor loops mimicking animal behavior.
- Sensors: Development and design of insect-inspired bio-inspired sensors, including polarized light compasses, optical flow sensors or bio-inspired artificial retinas with Franck Ruffier and Stephane Viollet.
- Robots: embodiment of our computer models on board various small robots mimicking animal behavior, including micro flying robots, micro air vehicles (MAV), hexapod robots, mobile robots, or unmanned guided vehicles (UGV) with Franck Ruffier and Stéphane Viollet.
Learned societies and expertise:
- Member of the Société Française pour l’Étude du Comportement Animal (SFECA) since 2018.
- Member of the Biomechanics Society (SB) since 2022. Member of the organizing committee of the session “Movement displacement” (Under the aegis of the GDR 2088 Biomim) and within the congress of SB 2022.
Member of the organizing committee of the 50th Congress of the Society of Biomechanics (SB’2025), which will be held from October 27 to 29, 2025, in Marseille, France. - 75 reviews of articles in 3 different scientific fields: robotics, biology, computational model.