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Florian Pouthier

Doctor in Control and Robotics

Professional Summary

My research focuses on the efficient navigation of UAVs in constrained environments. I recently joined the LEASARD CominLabs project at LS2N Nantes, in which I investigate SLAM and navigation algorithms with event-based cameras to improve drone autonomy in cluttered environments. This work is supervised by Isabelle Fantoni. My Ph.D. thesis work, led at ICube Strasbourg and GIPSA-lab Grenoble, has been dedicated to the event-driven navigation of a drone in dark environments, as a part of the dark-NAV ANR project. This thesis has been supervised by Nicolas Marchand and Sylvain Durand. Through my research work, I developed research interests in aerial robotics, robust control and set theory. As a graduate of an engineering school (INSA Strasbourg), I have developed a taste for control theory, which I try to deploy as much as possible on real control systems.

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Education

Ph.D. in Control and Robotics

2021-10-01
2024-12-05

Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France

M.Sc. in Control and Robotics

2020-09-01
2021-09-01

Télécom Physique Strasbourg, France

M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering

2019-09-01
2021-09-01

INSA Strasbourg, France

Interests

Aerial Robotics Set Theory Event-based Control Robust Control

Recent Publications

LEASARD

Towards Low-Latency Object Detection on Board Reactive Search-and-Rescue Drones

We introduce LoLa-YOLO, a lightweight and low-latency object detection model for search-and-rescue UAVs. It adapts YOLOv3-tiny for FPGA deployment with both event and RGB cameras, …

ismail-amessegher

• Sep 9, 2025 • 1 min read

Mechanical Design

Innovative and Frugal Design of a Modular and Reconfigurable System of UAVs

This project investigates the prototyping of a system of UAVs (here of the quadcopter type) capable of assembling and disassembling in mid-flight to form larger structures or …

sylvain-boegeat

• Aug 27, 2025 • 1 min read

Event-Triggered

Adaptive Tuning of Event-Triggered Control based on Machine Learning: Application to Mobile Robotics

This paper looks at optimizing the frugal navigation of mobile robots by combining event-triggered control with artificial intelligence techniques.

maya-pivert

• Jul 17, 2025 • 1 min read

Self-Triggered

Guaranteed Self-Triggered Control of Disturbed Systems: A Set Invariance Approach

This article introduces a novel self-triggering strategy designed to ensure the control of discrete-time linear systems with guaranteed stability, even in the presence of …

Florian Pouthier

• Jun 3, 2025 • 1 min read

Research News

Visit and seminar at the Heudiasyc laboratory

Feb 26, 2026

I had the pleasure of visiting the Heudiasyc laboratory and its research facilities, presenting my current research work, and exchanging ideas with the team.

Feb 26, 2026