André CROSNIER

Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM)

161, rue Ada

34392 Montpellier cedex 5 - France

Phone : (33) 467 418 585 (LIRMM) / (33) 467 418 637 (Office)

Fax : (33) 467 418 500

Email : crosnier@lirmm.fr

Occupation

Professor at the University of Montpellier (France)

Education

• Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches
• Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Montpellier
• Agrégation in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan

Experience

University of Montpellier

October 1989 –

Assistant Professor at the University of Montpellier.

Teaching robotics and modern control systems in an Electrical Engineering School (Institut des Sciences de l’Ingénieur de Montpellier), geometric modelling at M.S. level.

Research on robotics, geometric modelling and physics based models, design process modelling of mechanical parts, Knowledge Based CAD/CAM Systems, CSG design systems, sensor modelling, sensor referenced control and robot path planning.

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

March 1992 – December 1992

Post doctoral position in the Interactive Geometric Modelling group (Manager : Jarek Rossignac.)

Development of advanced algorithms for interference detection in large assemblies and parallelization of the code on the Power Visualization System (PVS).

Research topics

Robotics:

Modelling and simulation of sensors and cameras for off-line robot programming. Representation of the free configuration space. Robot path planning. Teleoperation and virtual reality. Computer aided gesture.

Geometric modelling:

Complex shape generation based on Minkowski, sweeping and deformation operators. 3D multi-resolution geometry. Physics based models for simulation. Cellular automata for Free-Form modelling. Deformation and interaction models for Robotics.

Mechanical CAD/CAM and Concurrent Engineering:

Representation of the design process for mechanical parts. Knowledge-based CAD/CAM systems dedicated to design process modelling.

Computer Aided Gesture for replication of sculptures

Teaching Activity

Courses

Control : Modern control. Non linear control. Discrete systems - Electrical Engineering School (Institut des Sciences de l’Ingénieur de Montpellier – MEA – First and second year)

Robotics : Geometric and cinematic models. Dynamic control of robots - Electrical Engineering School (Institut des Sciences de l’Ingénieur de Montpellier – MEA – Second year) – M.S. degree

Geometric modelling: Differential geometry. Curves and surfaces modelling. Solid modelling – M.S. degree

Lectures

Control: Modern control. Non linear control. Discrete systems - Electrical Engineering School (Institut des Sciences de l’Ingénieur de Montpellier – MEA – First and second year)

Robotics: Geometric and cinematic models. Dynamic control of robots - Electrical Engineering School (Institut des Sciences de l’Ingénieur de Montpellier – MEA – Second year)