My transdisciplinary research activity:
· Honeybee: study of both the visual guidance and navigational systems with Franck Ruffier, Antoine Morice, and Gilles Montagne.
· Bird: study of the altitude control system and the prey capture system by the vision with Franck Ruffier, Simon Potier, and Olivier Duriez.
· Fly: study and modelling of the coordination of the head and body saccades with Franck Ruffier and Stéphane Viollet.
· Ant: study and modelling of the genaration of virtual routes on board AntCar robot with Franck Ruffier and Antoine Wystrach..
· Human: study of the informational clues used during a ship landing task with Antoine Morice, Franck Ruffier, and Thomas Rakotomamonjy.
· Computational modelling: simulation with Matlab/Simulink software of visuomotor feedback loops mimicking animal behavior.
· Sensors: development and design of bio-inspired sensors inspired from insects, especially polarized-light compasses, optic flow sensors or bio-inspired artificial retina with Franck Ruffier and Stéphane Viollet.
· Robots: embodiment of our computational modeling on board various small robots mimicking animal behavior, especially micro flying robots, micro air vehicle (MAV), hexapod robots, mobile robots, or unmanned guided vehicle (UGV) with Franck Ruffier and Stéphane Viollet.
Alumni research projects:
· OCTAVE robot with Franck Ruffier and Nicolas Franceschini.
· LORA robot with Frédéric Roubieu, Franck Ruffier, Stéphane Viollet, and Nicolas Franceschini.
· Honeybee visual guidance in the horizontal plane (LORA autopilot) with Franck Ruffier and Nicolas Franceschini.
· Regionalization of the visual information about the honeybee’s autopilot (ALIS autopilot) with Geoffrey Portelli, Franck Ruffier, and Nicolas Franceschini.
· X4-MaG quadcopter with Erik Vanhoutte and Franck Ruffier.
· AntBot robot and Hexabot robot with Julien Dupeyroux and Stéphane Viollet.