Papers
14
Total Citations
261
H-Index
8
About
Jean-Jacques Borrelly is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous mobile robot navigation, sensor-based control architectures, and real-time programming environments for robotic systems. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to the ORCCAD architecture (1998, 104 citations), a landmark programming environment that elegantly bridges continuous-time control laws at lower system levels with discrete-time logic at higher levels, providing integrated tools for specification, formal verification, simulation, and real-time code generation. This work established a rigorous framework for designing and verifying complex robotic controllers that remains influential in the field. Beyond ORCCAD, Borrelly made significant contributions to the challenge of simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM), demonstrating how embedding these techniques within sensor-based control schemes substantially enhances robustness for mobile robots navigating unknown environments. His two-part series on safe indoor robot navigation (2003) offers a comprehensive exploration and navigation methodology, combining reactive control laws with self-localization and map-building strategies. Additional work on multiprocessor robot controller simulation and vision-based control architectures further demonstrates his breadth across both software and hardware dimensions of robotics. Collectively, his research provides foundational tools and methodologies that have meaningfully advanced autonomous robotics for students and practitioners alike.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1The ORCCAD Architecture104 citations · 1998
- 2Localization and map building using a sensor-based control strategy28 citations · 2002
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- 4Simulation of multiprocessor robot controllers23 citations · 2003
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- 6Mobile robot navigation using a sensor-based control strategy12 citations · 2002
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- 8A versatile parallel architecture for vision based control applications10 citations · 2002
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