Biography
Since October 1993, Thierry Fraichard is an INRIA Chargé de Recherche (Research Scientist) in the INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes Research Center. Until December 2002, he was attached to the Sharp team. Since January 2003, he is a member of the e-Motion team which is also part of the LIG laboratory (CNRS Joint Research Unit 5217).
From December 1993 to November 1994, Thierry Fraichard was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Manipulation Lab. of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. From November 2000 to January 2001, then again in November 2001, he was a Tan Chin Tuan Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Lab. of the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. From September to December 2002, he was a JSPS Fellow in the Distributed Adaptive Research Unit of the Riken Institute in Tokyo. From September 2007 to August 2008, he was a Visiting Professor in the Autonomous Systems Lab. of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Thierry Fraichard received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in April 1992 for his dissertation on "Motion Planning for a Nonholonomic Mobile in a Dynamic Workspace". In March 2006, INPG awarded him the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Accreditation to Supervise Research) for his work entitled "Contributions to Motion Planning". Thierry Fraichard's research focuses on motion autonomy for vehicles with a special emphasis on safe navigation, motion planning (for nonholonomic systems, in dynamic workspaces, and in the presence of uncertainty), prediction of the future motion of moving objects, and the design of control architectures for autonomous vehicles.
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INRIA Rhône-Alpes 655 avenue de l'Europe Montbonnot 38334 Saint Ismier Cedex. France |
Tel. +33 4 76 61 52 21 Fax. +33 4 76 61 54 77 thierry.fraichard@inria.fr http://emotion.inrialpes.fr/fraichard |
