Papers
6
Total Citations
128
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4
About
Gilles Chabert is a leading researcher in the fields of interval analysis, constraint programming, and robotics, with a particular focus on the certified calibration and control of complex robotic systems. His most influential work, "Interval method for calibration of parallel robots: Vision-based experiments" (71 citations), established a robust framework for using interval methods to guarantee the accuracy of robot calibration, a critical step for precision manufacturing and automation. Chabert further advanced this domain by developing "interval contractor programming" for the certified calibration of cable-driven robots (23 citations), demonstrating how to handle the unique challenges of flexible, cable-based actuation. His contributions extend to dimensional tolerance synthesis for parallel manipulators (21 citations), where he introduced a three-step methodology to manage manufacturing imperfections. Chabert has also made notable theoretical contributions, including a constraint on the number of distinct vectors for localization problems (9 citations). More recently, he has tackled the complex challenge of computing capture tubes for nonholonomic mobile robots, addressing differential constraints like curvature limits. His work on generic interval solvers for differential-algebraic constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) continues to push the boundaries of reliable computation in robotics.
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- 1Interval method for calibration of parallel robots: Vision-based experiments71 citations · 2006
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- 5Towards a Generic Interval Solver for Differential-Algebraic CSP2 citations · 2020
- 6Computing Capture Tubes2 citations · 2016