Curriculum

Education and degrees

Professor Position (Enseignant de Rang Equivalent à Professeur des Universités), ISAE-Supaero, Toulouse, France, 2020
Habilitation degree (HDR) from Institut National Polytechnique (INP) of Toulouse, France, 2019, on "Deliberative architectures for autonomous robots, from algorithms to embedded software"
Drone pilot certificate from the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC), 2014
Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from University of Toulouse, France, 2006 on "Mode Estimation of Hybrid Systems using Particle Petri Nets"; under supervision of Catherine Tessier (ONERA/DTIS)
MSc degree in Computer Sciences from University of Toulouse, France, 2003
Engineering degree in Computer Sciences and Air Traffic Management from Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC), Toulouse, France, 2003

"Algorithms and Architectures for Autonomous Systems", University of Southern Denmark, Seminar Series, 2023
"Skill-based design of dependable autonomous robot architectures", International Symposium on the Verification of Autonomous Mobile Systems, Palaiseau, France, 2023
"Formal Methods for Verification and Control of Software Architectures", Robotics Research in Nouvelle-Acquitaine, Seminar Series, 2022
"Hierarchical and decentralized planning for multi-robot deployment", DLR Transferable Explainable Knowledge group, Seminar Series, 2021
"Formal Methods for Verification and Control of Software Architectures", IEEE/RAS TC on Verification o Autonomous Systems, Seminar Series, 2020
"Formal Models to Program Autonomous Robots", MODELS Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation, 2020 (virtual)
"Hierarchical and decentralized planning for multi-robot deployment in harsh communication environments", ECAI Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy, 2020 (virtual)
"Deploying teams of heterogeneous robots for surveillance missions", ICRA Workshop on Fielded Multi-Robot System, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
"Developing robotic application using Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Software Architecture in the Loop (SAIL) simulations", CESEC Summer School on Critical Embedded Systems, 2013, Toulouse, France

"Gestion des réseaux temporels simples multi-agents dynamiques", Guillaume Casanova, Charles Lesire, Cédric Pralet, Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA), Rennes, France, 2015; Best Paper Award

Erwan Lecarpentier, "Reinforcement Learning for Non-Stationary Markov Decision Processes", ISAE-Supaero, University of Toulouse, France; Best Ph.D. Award 2020, ISAE-Supaero Fundation; Best AI Ph.D. Award 2020, French Association of Artificial Intelligence

Co-organizer of the ICRA2023 workshop on Quality and Reliability Assessment of Robot Software Architectures and Components, June, 2023, London, UK
Co-organizer of the IROS2021 workshop on Quality and Reliability Assessment of Robot Software Architectures and Components, October 1st, 2021, online
Co-chair of the French Technical Group on Control Architectures of Robots, as part of the French Research Group on Robotics

Ph.D. Defense Committee of Mihai-Ioan Popescu: "Static and Dynamic Multi-Robot Routing with Periodic Connectivity Maintenance, Patrolling and Network Data Delivery", INSA Lyon, 2023
Ph.D. Defense Committee and Referee of Kristian Husum Laursen: "Autonomous Service Drones for Safety-Compliant European Operations", University of Southern Denmark, 2023
Ph.D. Defense Committee and Referee of Daravuth Kung: "Cooperative navigation of a fleet of mobile robots", Centrale Nantes, 2022
Ph.D. Defense Committee and Referee of Adrien Héreau: "Multi-level fault tolerance for autonomous robots, application to an underwater robot", Université de Montpellier, 2022
Ph.D. Defense Committee and Referee of Hamza El Baccouri: "Automatisation de la mise au point de lois de contrôle de systèmes cyber-physiques évoluant en environnement incertain", Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, 2020
Ph.D. Defense Committee of Rafael Bailon-Ruiz: "Design of a wildfire monitoring system using fleets of UAVs", LAAS/CNRS, INSA Toulouse, 2020
Ph.D. Defense Committee and Referee of Emilien Lavigne: "AMSA, un framework dédié à la simulation des lois de contrôle pour des voiliers de compétition", Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, 2019
Ph.D. Defense Committee of Arnaud Degroote: "A distributed control architecture for autonomous robots", LAAS/CNRS, University of Toulouse, 2012

Ph.D. Mid-term Defense Committee of Jérémy Turi: "Planning with operational models for deliberate action in robotics", LAAS/CNRS, University of Toulouse, 2022
Ph.D. Mid-term Defense Committee of Nicolas Cavrel: "Mission planning for integrated maritime robotic systems", LIG, University of Grenoble, 2021, 2022
Ph.D. Mid-term Defense Committee of Luca Sartori: "Virtual Worlds Generation for Testing Autonomous Robots in Simulation", LAAS/CNRS, University of Toulouse, 2020, 2021
Ph.D. Mid-term Defense Committee of Clément Robert: "Testing autonomous robots in virtual words", LAAS/CNRS, University of Toulouse, 2020
Ph.D. Mid-term Defense Committee of Andrea Di Maio: "Towards a versatile framework to integrate and control perception processes for autonomous robots", LAAS/CNRS, University of Toulouse, 2018, 2020
Ph.D. Mid-term Defense Committee of Valentin Bouziat: "Preferential Discrete Model-based Diagnosis for Intermittent and Permanent Faults", ONERA, University of Toulouse, 2018
Ph.D. Mid-term Defense Committee of Quentin Gaudel: "An integrated approach of diagnosis and prognosis for heal management of hybrid systems", LAAS/CNRS, University of Toulouse, 2015

Member of the Technical Committee on Software Development for Robotics and Automation (TC-SOFT), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Member of the Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems (TC-MRS), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Member of the Technical Committee on Verification of Autonomous Systems (TC-VAS), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Co-chair of the Technical Committee on Control Architectures for Robots (GT CAR), French Research Network on Robotics (GdR Robotique)
Member of the cluster TrustMeIA (RTRA, Region Occitanie)

National Conference on Software and Hardware Architectures for Robot Control (SHARC), 2017, Toulouse, France
National Conference on Software and Hardware Architectures for Robot Control (SHARC), 2019, Montpellier, France
National Conference on Planning, Decision and Learning for system control (JFPDA), 2019, Toulouse, France
International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS), 2020, 2021, 2022, Venice, Italy
International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE), 2021, 2022, 2023
International Workshop on Robot Software Architectures (RSA), 2023
International Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA), 2022, 2023