Papers
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Total Citations
157
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About
Joseph Canou is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work spans construction automation, service robotics, and intelligent manufacturing systems. His most impactful contribution lies in advancing concrete hybrid manufacturing, where he integrates additive and subtractive 3D printing processes for construction. His highly cited 2021 paper on life cycle assessment of this technology (73 citations) demonstrates its environmental and practical viability, while his concurrent work on a cable-robot-based machine architecture (18 citations) establishes foundational design principles for on-site construction robots. Canou’s earlier innovations include the ACROBOTER platform (23 citations), a ceiling-crawling, hoisting, and swinging robot that dramatically expands indoor service robots’ vertical workspace while outperforming aerial robots in payload and environmental impact. He also contributed to tele-echographic systems through the PROSIT project and developed robust localization methods combining dead reckoning and GPS with satellite masking prediction for mobile robots. His work on the INT-MANUS project advanced interactive, distributed production control for factory reconfiguration, and he applied force/torque hybrid control to improve accuracy in robotic fiber placement for aerospace composites. With over 150 total citations, Canou’s research consistently bridges theoretical robotics with real-world industrial applications, from construction to healthcare and manufacturing.
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- 3Concrete hybrid manufacturing: A machine architecture18 citations · 2021
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- 5A local map building process for a reactive navigation of a mobile robot9 citations · 2004
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- 8INT-MANUS: Interactive Production Control in a Distributed Environment6 citations · 2007
- 9IMPROVING ACCURACY IN ROBOTIZED FIBER PLACEMENT4 citations · 2013
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