Olivier Stasse

Bio sketch

I am a senior CNRS researcher at LAAS, Toulouse in the Gepetto group. My main research is motion generation for humanoid robots based on sensor feedback.

In 2000, I received a Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Paris 6 (now Sorbonne University) under the supervision of P. Coiffet, and the French Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Robotics (2013) from the University of Toulouse III. From 2000 to 2003, I was assistant professor at the Univ. of Paris XIII. From 2003 to 2011, I was one of the funding members of the Joint French-Japanese Robotics Laboratory (JRL) between the CNRS and the AIST in Tsukuba, Japan and created by P. Coiffet and K.Tanie. In 2011 I joined the Gepetto team at LAAS, Toulouse.

Research interests

From a scientific point of view, my main approach is to explore, develop and validate theoritical approaches allowing autonomous motion generation formulated as an optimization problem on real hardware. Human is considered as a great source of inspiration and a reference in terms of versatility and performances.

Highlights

(12/2022) The H2020 Memory of Motion European project coordinated by Nicolas Mansard and in which I participated received the Etoile de l’Europe award.
(12/2022) Program co-Chair Humanoids 2022
(01/2021 - ) Head of the Gepetto group
(2019 - ) co-chair of the ANITI Robotics chair
(2019 - ) Associate editor at the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
(2018 - ) I am co-directing the ROB4FAM joint lab between the Gepetto group with Airbus Toulouse.
(2018 - 2022) Involved in the Memmo, Terrinet H2020 European projects.
(2014-2016) In charge of the humanoid robots in the Gepetto Team at LAAS-CNRS, I managed the specifications and the contracting of the new humanoid robot Pyrène to PAL-Robotics. It is the first robot from the TALOS serie.
Former Associate editor of the IEEE-Robotics Automation Letter.
The scientific project R-Blink I coordinated was nominated for the 2013 Digital Technlogical ANR Awards.
I was nominated as an exceptional reviewer in 2012 for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
Together with Bjorn Verrelst we won the best paper Award at ICMA 2006 for stepping over large obstacle with the humanoid robot HRP-2.
Along with Francois Saidi I was finalist for best paper award ICAR 2007 for visual search with HRP-2.
Together with Andrew Davison, Nicolas Mansard and other colleagues I was finalist for best video award ICRA 2007.

Numbers

H-index: 37 according to Google scholar

106 articles written

10 completed projects

20 PhD students