Papers
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Total Citations
98
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About
Cyril Drocourt is a robotics researcher whose work centers on mobile robot perception, localization, and environmental mapping, with a particular focus on omnidirectional vision systems. He is best known for developing and advancing SYCLOP (Conical SYstem for LOcalization and Perception), an innovative omnidirectional vision sensor combining a CCD camera with a conical mirror to capture a full 2π radian panoramic field of view. His most cited work (31 citations) introduces a stereoscopic omnidirectional vision system enabling absolute robot localization by mounting SYCLOP on a movable rail, a creative solution that significantly enhanced depth perception and spatial accuracy. Drocourt's contributions span several interconnected challenges in autonomous robotics, including Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), uncertainty propagation architectures, interval analysis-based map construction, and sensor fusion combining omnidirectional vision with dead-reckoning systems. His 2002 experimental results paper (22 citations) provided crucial validation of the SYCLOP platform, establishing it as a credible tool for indoor robot navigation research. With a focused body of work accumulating nearly 100 citations across eight key publications, Drocourt has made meaningful contributions to the robotics community, particularly for researchers developing vision-based autonomous navigation systems in structured indoor environments.
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- 2Experimental results got with the omnidirectional vision sensor: SYCLOP22 citations · 2002
- 3Self localization: a new uncertainty propagation architecture11 citations · 2005
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- 5An absolute localization method using a synthetic panoramic image base8 citations · 2003
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