Transferring our knowledge
We are members of the OSCAR (Observer and Sensory Control of Autonomous Robots) team which is part of the I3S research laboratory based in Sophia Antipolis, France. OSCAR team is internationally recognized for their pioneering contributions in the domains of nonlinear control and nonlinear observer design for Aerial and Underwater Robotic applications. HomographyLab library is a crystallization of our long term research in nonlinear observer design on Lie groups and in particular nonlinear observers for homography estimation.
Minh Duc HUA
Permenant Researcher (CR1) of CNRS
Engineer's degree from Ecole Polytechnique (X)
Dr Hua received the engineer's degree from the Ecole Polytechnique, France in 2006 and the PhD degree from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France in 2009. After two postdoctoral years with the I3S laboratory and a short research stay with the Australian National University, he joined the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2011, where he currently holds a tenured research position. He was assigned to the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR UPMC-CNRS) in Paris from 2011 to 2016. Currently, he is with the I3S laboratory. His research interests include nonlinear control, sensor-based control, nonlinear observer, and computer vision, with applications to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer recognition of the Automatica IFAC journal for the year 2017.
Tarek HAMEL
Full Professor (Exceptional Class) of University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France
Prof Hamel is a full professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis since 2003. He received his PhD degree in Robotics from the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC), France, in 1996. After two years as a research assistant at the UTC, he joined the Centre d'Etudes de Mécanique d'Ile de France in 1997 as an associate professor. His research interests include nonlinear control theory, estimation and vision-based control with applications to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. He is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics and for Control Enginnering Practice. He is currently associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
Ninad MANERIKAR
PhD student at University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Ninad Manerikar obtained his Bachelors Degree from the University of Mumbai, India in 2010 and a Double Masters Degree in Robotics from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France and University of Genoa, Italy in 2012. He later worked as a Research Engineer at the University of Genoa until 2016. He is currently working on the PhD topic "Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion and State Estimation for the Navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles" at the I3S laboratory.
Lam Hung NGUYEN
Post-doc at I3S laboratory
Dr Lam Hung Nguyen obtained his Engineer degree from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia in 2007, a Master of Science degree from the Institut Superieur de l'Aeronautique et l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), France in 2014, and the PhD degree from the University Côte d'Azur, France in 2019. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the I3S laboratory. His research interests include nonlinear control and nonlinear observer with applications to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.