Xavier Pucel

Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales

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Xavier Pucel is a leading researcher in autonomous systems, with a particular focus on the design and supervision of maritime autonomous vehicles. His work addresses the critical challenge of enabling these systems to detect, diagnose, and react to disruptive events—such as internal faults, mission changes, or environmental shifts—that inevitably arise in real-world operations. His most-cited paper, "A generic and modular architecture for maritime autonomous vehicles" (2018, 8 citations), introduces a foundational framework that allows autonomous vehicles to embed supervisory capabilities for robust, adaptive behavior. This contribution is pivotal for advancing the reliability and resilience of autonomous maritime platforms. Pucel’s research integrates formal methods and model-based reasoning to ensure that autonomous systems can maintain safe and effective operation under uncertainty. His work has significant implications for naval, commercial, and scientific applications, where mission-critical autonomy must handle unpredictable conditions. By providing a modular, generic architecture, Pucel has laid essential groundwork for the next generation of intelligent, self-supervising vehicles, making him a key figure in the evolution of dependable autonomous systems.