Current
Postdocs
- Anna Bucchieri (08/2024–07/2026), co-supervised with Serena Ivaldi from INRIA Nancy.
Topic: Human-exoskeleton physics-based simulation in care applications
Funding: LUE ExoSim project
- Jessica Colombel (09/2023–08/2024), co-supervised with Francis Colas from INRIA Nancy, and Vincent Thomas from Loria.
Topic: Inference of user-specific whole-body motor strategies for pHRI
Funding: ANR JCJC ROOIBOS project
PhD students
- Alexandre Oliveira Souza (09/2022–08/2025), co-supervised with Serena Ivaldi and Francois Charpillet from INRIA Nancy, and Jordane Grenier and Christophe Guettier from Safran.
Topic: Anticipatory learning for active exoskeleton control
Funding: CIFRE grant from Safran Electronics and Defense
- Aya Yaacoub (12/2021–05/2025), co-supervised with Francis Colas from INRIA Nancy, and Vincent Thomas from Loria.
Topic: User-specific planning of a collaborative robot behavior to help prevent musculoskeletal disorders
Funding: ANR JCJC ROOIBOS project
Engineers
Interns
Project Supervision
Past
PhD students
- Jacques Zhong (10/2020–06/2024), co-supervised with Francis Colas from INRIA Nancy, and with Vincent Weisstroffer and Claude Andriot from CEA-LIST.
Topic: Accounting for the operators’ diverse morphologies in RV simulated assembly tasks
Funding: CEA-LIST
- Waldez Gomes (09/2018–12/2021), co-supervised with Serena Ivaldi and Jean-Baptiste Mouret from INRIA Nancy.
Topic: Improving ergonomics through physical human-robot collaboration [PDF]
Funding: H2020 AnDy project
Engineers
- Nicolas Valle (10/2021–09/2023)
Topic: Dynamic simulation of human-exoskeleton system
Funding: INRIA ADT ExoSim project
- Nicolas Valle (07/2020–06/2021), co-supervised with Adrien Guénard from LORIA and Olivier Rochel from INRIA Nancy
Topic: Sensor integration for human motion analysis in human-robot collaboration
Funding: CNRS-INS2I
- Raphaël Bousigues (12/2020–11/2023), co-supervised with Vincent Padois and David Daney from INRIA Bordeaux, and with Jonathan Savin from INRS.
Topic: Motor variability in human-robot collaboration for industrial tasks
Funding: INRS and INRIA Bordeaux
- Raphaël Lartot (12/2020–05/2022), co-supervised with Serena Ivaldi and François Charpillet from INRIA Nancy.
Topic: Human motion prediction for active exoskeleton control (prediction and control)
Funding: DGA Rapid ASMOA project
- Jean Michenaud (03/2021–09/2022), co-supervised with Serena Ivaldi and François Charpillet from INRIA Nancy.
Topic: Human motion prediction for active exoskeleton control (biomechanics)
Funding: DGA Rapid ASMOA project
Interns
- Elissa El Khalil (01/2024–07/2024), co-supervised with Sophie Lemonnier from Perseus lab (University of Lorraine).
M.S. student in Ergonomics at University Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Topic: Influence of imposed postural changes on physical and cognitive load in manual tasks.
Funding: ANR ROOIBOS project
- Aurélien Osswald (02/2021–08/2021), co-supervised with Vincent Thomas from LORIA.
M.S. student at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques, Besançon, France.
Topic: Long-term policy planning for smooth adaptation to users’ fatigue in human-robot collaboration.
Funding: Loria ERGOBOT project
- Félix Cuny-Enault (02/2021–08/2021), co-supervised with Serena Ivaldi from INRIA Nancy.
M.S. student in Engineering and Human Movement Sciences at University Paris-Saclay, France.
Topic: Pilot study on using exoskeletons to assist hospital nurses.
Funding: INRIA ExoTurn project
- Raphaël Bousigues (03/2020–08/2020), co-supervised with Vincent Padois and David Daney from INRIA Bordeaux and Jonathan Savin from INRS
M.S. Student in Mechatronics from INSA Strasbourg, France
Topic: Quantification of human motor variability in collaborative robotics
Funding: INRIA
- Clélie Amiot (03/2019–08/2019), co-supervised with Adrien Malaisé and Serena Ivaldi from INRIA Nancy
M.S. Student in Cognitive Science from University of Lorraine, France
Topic: Wearable devices for feedback on postural ergonomics
Funding: H2020 AnDy project
- Vishnu Radhakrishnan (09/2018–01/2019), co-supervised with Serena Ivaldi from INRIA Nancy
M.S Student in Robotics Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Topic: Optimization of ergonomics in human-robot collaboration
Funding: H2020 AnDy project
- Clélie Amiot, Nicolas Paris and Guy Junior Richard (06/2018 — 08/2018)
M.S. Students in Cognitive Science from University of Lorraine, France
Topic: Collection and annotation of human motion data for automatic ergonomics assessment
Funding: H2020 AnDy project
- Waldez Gomez (06/2017–11/2017), co-supervised with Serena Ivaldi from INRIA Nancy
M.S. Student in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Topic: Role allocation in human-human collaboration
Funding: H2020 AnDy project
- Philipp Schlehuber (05/2014–07/2014) co-supervised with Vincent Padois from Université Pierre et Marie Curie
M.S. Student in Mechanical Engineering from Pierre et Marie Curie University, France
Topic: Automatic selection of ergonomics indicators for collaborative robotics
Project Supervision
- Camille Croze, Thibault Devienne, Victor Petit-Magat (10/2021–04-2022), co-supervised with Vincent Thomas from LORIA.
M.S. students from Control Engineering at Centrale-Supélec and Engineering and Human Movement Sciences at University Paris-Saclay, France.
Topic: Automatic sampling of collaborative robot poses for action space creation in the context of human-robot interaction for human fatigue mitigation
- Grégoire Chevalier, Nathaël Chery (01/2022–06-2022), co-supervised with Fabien Clanché from DevAH (University of Lorraine), and Gabin Personeni from INRS.
M.S. students from Telecom Nancy, France.
Topic: Assessing limitations of digital human tools for ergonomics assessment w.r.t motion realism
- Anuyan Ithayakumar (10/2020–06/2021), co-supervised with Vincent Thomas from LORIA
M.S. Student at Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France
Topic: Long-term policy planning for a collaborative robot to reduce musculoskeletal disorders risks
- Robert Bottomley (2017), co-supervised with Dagmar Sternad and Rifat Sipahi from Northeastern University
M.S. Student in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, USA
Topic: Design of a game device for diagnosis of childhood dystonia
- Sara Lakhal, Alain Sanguinetti and Eder Jimenez (2015)
M.S. Students in Robotics from Polytech Paris-UPMC, France
Topic: Using the Baxter robot as an endoscope positioner
