Guillaume Jeanneau

École Centrale de Nantes, Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Guillaume Jeanneau is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on the critical intersection of collaborative robotics and intrinsic safety. His primary research areas include the design and analysis of underactuated parallel robots, compliant mechanisms, and the evaluation of human-robot impact forces. Jeanneau’s major contribution is the development of the R-Min robot, an intrinsically safe parallel manipulator for high-speed pick-and-place operations. By introducing passive joints to create a planar seven-bar mechanism with two degrees of underactuation, his design allows for large internal displacements that significantly reduce injury risk during collisions. His most cited works, including the 2023 “Experimental Safety Analysis of R-Min” and “A Reduced Mass-Spring-Mass-Model of Compliant Robots” (each with 5 citations), provide both experimental validation and a novel modeling framework for predicting impact forces. This reduced mass-spring-mass model is a key tool for decoupling link and rotor inertia effects, enabling safer robot design. Jeanneau’s geometrico-static analysis of the R-Min further establishes the theoretical foundation for safe physical interaction, making his work essential for researchers developing next-generation collaborative robots that are both fast and safe for human environments.