Séminaire Model-Based Design à Nantes

Stéphane Caro is a Director of Research at CNRS/LS2N in Nantes, France, holding Engineering, M.Sc., and Doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering.He leads the RoMaS Team at LS2N and holds an accreditation to supervise research (HDR), following a post-doctoral fellowship at McGill University. Dr. Caro is a lecturer at Ecole Centrale de Nantes and a highly-regarded associate editor for major journals, including the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. His research focuses on the design, modeling, and control of cable-driven and reconfigurable parallel robots. He is the author with 300+ publications and 10 patents, recognized on Stanford's list of the top 2% most cited scientists.

Hadrien Pinault graduated as an engineer from École Centrale Paris in 2017 and holds a PhD in numerical simulation. He completed a CIFRE thesis in 2020 at SNCF Réseau on the modeling and optimization of railway tracks, before moving to the Brest region to work on modeling tools and artificial intelligence applied to offshore wind turbines. Since 2022, he has been a modeling project manager at Rehlko, a manufacturer of generator sets. There, he implements Model-Based Design processes for the control-command architecture of power generation plants, with the aim of improving their efficiency while reducing their environmental impact.

Lubin Kerhuel holds a Ph.D. in Control Engineering and Microelectronics from Montpellier II University (CNRS Biorobotics Laboratory), where his research on visuo-inertial reflex for micro UAVs led him to create the first blockset for dsPIC microcontrollers to program the aerial robot. He also earned an M.S. in Signal Processing from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and a degree in System-on-Chip from ESIEE Paris. As an expert in Rapid Control Prototyping at Microchip Technology Inc. (Bayonne, France), he now develops the MPLAB® Device Blocks for Simulink® targeting dsPIC® and SAM® microcontrollers. His work spans advanced control systems, sensorless motor control with sliding mode observers, UAV autopilot development, and inverted pendulum stabilization.

Magnus Nord is a Principal Application Engineer at MathWorks, where he specializes in Systems Engineering and Verification & Validation (V&V) for high-integrity systems. He brings over 30 years of experience in Model-Based Design (MBD), particularly in the medical devices, aeronautics, and telecommunications domains.

Kévin Roblet is a Principal Application Engineer at MathWorks. He holds an engineering degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (2010), as well as two M.Sc. degrees: in Fluids and Energetic Systems from UPMC Paris 6 (2010), and in Energy and Powertrains from IFP School (2012). Before joining MathWorks in 2017, he contributed to the development of new F1 hybrid power units at Renault Sport F1, working on engine testing and control with customer teams such as Red Bull Racing, energy management, and on-track performance optimization during F1 race weekends.