Publications

Robotics

Enhancing Exoskeleton Assistance Flow Control by Leveraging Human Variability and Probabilistic Movement Primitives

Exoskeletons have the potential to significantly reduce users' physical effort and decrease the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders by providing robotic assistance. Human motor control is governed by a complex interaction between the…

Aymeric Orhan, Duy Hoàng, Olivier Bruneau, Bastien Berret, Franck Geffard

Robotics

Using Artificial Demonstrations Emulating Human Movement Variability for a Learning-based Exoskeleton Flow Controller

Robotic exoskeletons hold great potential for reducing physical effort and mitigating work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Nevertheless, designing exoskeletons that assist users without disrupting their natural movement remains challenging, as…

Aymeric Orhan, Duy Hoàng, Olivier Bruneau, Bastien Berret, Franck Geffard

Robotics

Early Classification of Human Motion Intent for Exoskeleton Assistance Using Kinematics

Exoskeletons can reduce physical effort and the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders by providing robotic assistance in repetitive tasks. Designing exoskeletons that seamlessly assist human users without disrupting their natural movements…

Aymeric Orhan, Duy Hoang, Olivier Bruneau, Bastien Berret, Franck Geffard

Engineering Sciences

An Enriched Polyhedral-based Simulation for the Contact Modeling with Form Defects and Mechanical Loads

Contact modeling is an important activity in the geometrical and tolerancing management. The research on contact modeling using methods based onsets of constraints has focused on the stack-up functions or graph reductions for the accumulation of…

Carlos Andrés Restrepo García, Yann Ledoux, Nabil Anwer, Vincent Delos, Laurent Pierre, Denis Teissandier

Computer-Aided Design - 2025

Life Sciences

Model predictive game control for personalized and targeted interactive assistance

Contact robots are increasingly used to assist humans in physical training and manufacturing tasks. However, the effectiveness of current systems is limited as their control focuses on the system performance without explicitly considering the…

Abdelwaheb Hafs, Anaïs Farr, Dorian Verdel, Olivier Bruneau, Etienne Burdet, Bastien Berret

Signal and Image processing

EMG feature extraction and muscle selection for continuous upper limb movement regression

Achieving a versatile control of exoskeletons or prostheses requires accurate, robust and fast predictions of upcoming human movements. Electromyographic (EMG) signals are increasingly being used for this purpose as they theoretically allow to…

Lucas Quesada, Dorian Verdel, Olivier Bruneau, Bastien Berret, Michel-Ange Amorim, Nicolas Vignais

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control - 2025

Engineering Sciences

Investigation of natural convection heat transfer in various structures of a partitioned triple porous enclosure under permanent magnetic field

Badreddine Ayadi, Ahmad Hajjar, Mohsen Izadi, Mohamed Moussa El Idi, Lotfi Ben Said, Qng. Lam, Faris Alqurashi, Mohamed Mohamed, Mohamed Ali, Ahmed Hendy

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering - 2024

Engineering Sciences

Multi-sensor data fusion framework and validation of algorithms with reference datasets

Louis-Ferdinand Lafon, Alain Vissière, Charyar Mehdi-Souzani, Hichem Nouira, Nabil Anwer

18th CIRP Conference on Computer Aided Tolerancing (CAT2024) - 2024

Biomechanics

Impact of EMG signal processing on accuracy and latency of motor intention prediction

Lucas Quesada, Dorian Verdel, Olivier Bruneau, Bastien Berret, Michel Ange Amorim, Nicolas Vignais

Neural Control of Movement (2024) - 2024

Mechanical engineering

Synthèse de stratégies de fabrication pour la maîtrise de la microstructure des pièces produites par dépôt de matière sous énergie concentrée

Metal additive manufacturing is a process that builds objects layer by layer, producing the material simultaneously with the object. A major industrial challenge is to achieve optimal material properties based on mechanical stresses. However, the…

Michèle Bréhier