Pierre Dauchez

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Pierre Dauchez is a pioneering robotics researcher whose career spans several decades of foundational work in robot kinematics, cooperative manipulation, and force control. His research has made lasting contributions to two primary domains: parallel robot design and multi-arm robot coordination. Dauchez's most influential work, "A New Design of a 6-DOF Parallel Robot" (1990, 118 citations), extended the celebrated DELTA robot architecture to six degrees of freedom, establishing design principles that continue to inform parallel robotics today. Equally impactful is his theoretical framework for symmetric, non-master/slave coordination of dual-arm robots (1992, 92 citations), which provided a rigorous kinematic and static foundation for cooperative manipulation tasks — work that remains a cornerstone reference in the field. Beyond kinematics, Dauchez advanced practical force-control methodologies, applying hybrid position/force strategies to industrial robots, two-arm assembly tasks, and even underwater mobile manipulators — demonstrating remarkable breadth across both terrestrial and subsea robotics. His early explorations of robot cooperation date back to 1983, reflecting a career-long commitment to understanding how robotic systems can intelligently collaborate. With cumulative citations exceeding 350, his body of work has meaningfully shaped modern robotics research in manipulation, control, and human-inspired robot cooperation.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A New Design of a 6-DOF Parallel Robot

   118 citations · 1990
2. 2
   Symmetric kinematic formulation and non-master/slave coordinated control of two-arm robots

   92 citations · 1992
3. 3
   External force control of an industrial puma 560 robot

   34 citations · 1994
4. 4
   Position/Force Control of an Underwater Mobile Manipulator

   27 citations · 2003
5. 5
   Force-Controlled Assembly of two Objects with a Two-arm Robot

   18 citations · 1991
6. 6
   Hybrid control of a two-arm robot for complex tasks

   16 citations · 1989
7. 7
   Task Description for Two Cooperative Manipulators

   13 citations · 1991
8. 8
   Collision avoidance for a two-arm robot by reflex actions: Simulations and experimentations

   12 citations · 1995
9. 9
   Co-operation of robots in gripping tasks: the exchange problem

   10 citations · 1983
10. 10
    An easy way of controlling two cooperating robots handling light objects at low speed

    7 citations · 1986

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