Sylvain Joyeux
Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Robotics Research (United States), Roche (Switzerland)
Papers
16
Total Citations
276
H-Index
8
About
Sylvain Joyeux is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), robot software architectures, simulation frameworks, and multi-robot planning systems. He has made significant contributions to the development of subsea robotics, most notably through his involvement with the FlatFish compact inspection AUV — a self-resident underwater robot designed to autonomously monitor offshore oil, gas, and wind energy infrastructure — which has garnered 73 citations and represents a landmark advance in industrial underwater inspection. His GPU-based sonar simulator (61 citations) has further shaped how researchers develop and validate underwater perception systems in realistic real-time environments. Joyeux has also been instrumental in bridging simulation and real-world robotics deployment, contributing the Rock-Gazebo integration framework and earlier simulation tools within the LAAS architecture. On the software side, his plan manager for multi-robot systems and work on robot integration frameworks demonstrate a sustained commitment to making complex autonomous systems more reliable, modular, and deployable. Spanning both deep-sea exploration — including under-ice hybrid ROV systems — and foundational robotics middleware, Joyeux's cumulative body of work, exceeding 250 citations, reflects a career dedicated to pushing the boundaries of intelligent autonomous systems in challenging, real-world environments.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1FlatFish - a compact subsea-resident inspection AUV73 citations · 2015
- 2A novel GPU-based sonar simulator for real-time applications61 citations · 2017
- 3The Rock-Gazebo Integration and a Real-Time AUV Simulation32 citations · 2015
- 4A Plan Manager for Multi-robot Systems21 citations · 2009
- 5Robot development: from components to systems21 citations · 2011
- 6Using Embodied Data for Localization and Mapping15 citations · 2013
- 7Simulation in the LAAS Architecture11 citations · 2005
- 8Managing plans: Integrating deliberation and reactive execution schemes10 citations · 2010
- 9Intelligent Mobility6 citations · 2011
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