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Permanent positions: |
Stéphane VIOLLET, CNRS Researcher, Head Franck RUFFIER, CNRS Researcher, Co-Head Nicolas FRANCESCHINI, Emeritus Research Director, CNRS Thibaut RAHARIJAONA, Assistant Professor, Aix-Marseille Univ. Julien SERRES, Associate researcher Marc BOYRON, Engineer, CNRS Julien DIPERI, Technician, CNRS |
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Ongoing PhD thesis: |
Raphaël JUSTON (Dir. S. Viollet, Co-Dir. J.-L. Vercher), 2009-... Fabien EXPERT (Dir. F. Ruffier, Co-Dir. R. Bootsma), 2009-... Fréderic ROUBIEU (Dir. S. Viollet, Co-Dir. F. Ruffier et R. Bootsma), 2009-... Guillaume SABIRON (Dir. P. Mouyon - ONERA Toulouse -, Co-Dir. F. Ruffier, Superv. T. Raharijaona), 2011-... Augustin MANECY (Dir. N. Marchand - GIPSA-lab Grenoble -, Co-Dir. S. Viollet), 2011-... |
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Recent alumni: |
Geoffrey PORTELLI (PhD defended on September 21st, 2011, Dir N. Franceschini, Co-Dir M. Giurfa - CRCA Toulouse -, Superv. F. Ruffier) Lubin KERHUEL (PhD defended on Dec. 2009, Dir. N. Franceschini) Yannick LUPARINI (Technician 2006/2009) |
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For almost 30 years, this research group has acquired strong skills in the study of the visual system of invertebrates (especially fly and bee) and their behaviour and sensorimotor control feedback loops (such as optic flow regulation) which are hard-wired into their brains. The Biorobotics Lab was one of the first to propose a model of the Elementary Motion Detector of the fly (EMD) derived from electrophysiological analysis under single photoreceptor stimulation (Franceschini et al., 1989). The team built a variety of analog and digital electronic circuits, including aVLSI prototypes that realized an array of EMDs and also built several wheeled and flying robots. Since 2005, the results of this trans-disciplinary work have been regularly published in major life sciences and robotic journals (such as Current Biology; Journal of Physiology; Autonomous Robots; Robotics and Autonomous Systems; Sensors and Actuators), in major IEEE conferences in robotics (BIOROB, ICRA, IROS and ICAR), and have also received two IEEE conference awards. Furthermore, the team has patented several devices inspired by the fly with word-wide extension.
