Stéphane CARO

Stéphane Caro works as **Director of Research** at the National Centre for Scientific Research ([CNRS](http://www.cnrs.fr/ "CNRS")) and in the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes ([LS2N](https://www.ls2n.fr/?lang=en "LS2N")), UMR CNRS 6004, France. Dr. Caro received his Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from Ecole Centrale Nantes, Nantes, France, in 2001, and his Doctorate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Nantes in 2004. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada from 2005 to 2006. He was awarded the accreditation to supervise research (HDR) in 2014. Dr. Caro is the head of the “Robots and Machines for Manufacturing Society and Services” ([RoMaS](https://www.ls2n.fr/equipe/romas/ "RoMaS")) Team at LS2N. He is also a part-time researcher at [IRT Jules Verne](https://www.irt-jules-verne.fr/industrial-research-institute/ "IRT Jules Verne"), a mutualized industrial research institute. Moreover, he is a lecturer at Ecole Centrale de Nantes. He is a member of ASME and IEEE. He is one of the two recipients of the [2018 Reviewers of the Year](https://www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/asme-journal-program-awards/awards-reviewers-of-the-year) for the [ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics](https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/mechanismsrobotics). He is one of two recipients of the [2019 Crossley Award](https://www.journals.elsevier.com/mechanism-and-machine-theory/awards/mechanism-and-machine-theory), [Mechanism and Machine Theory](https://www.journals.elsevier.com/mechanism-and-machine-theory). He is ranked in [Stanford's 2023 list](https://www.ec-nantes.fr/centrale-nantes/news/20-centrale-nantes-researchers-among-the-worlds-top-2-scientists-named-by-stanford-university-in-2023?l=1) of the 2% most cited scientists in their discipline. He is associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and the International Journal of Robotics Research. He is member of both IFToMM Computational Kinematics and ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Technical Committees. Dr. Caro’s research focuses on design, modeling and control of **cable-driven parallel robots** and **reconfigurable parallel robots**. He is the author of 90 papers published in international journals, 193 papers presented in international conferences, 59 contributions in books and 10 patents. E-mail address: <stephane.caro@ls2n.fr> Tel: +33 (0)2 40 37 69 68 LS2N - Centrale Nantes Room 505 1, rue de la Noë 44 321 Nantes CEDEX3 FRANCE