Michel Taïx

Email: Michel.Taix@laas.fr
Address: LAAS-CNRS
7, avenue du Colonel Roche
31077 Toulouse Cedex 4
Tel: 05.61.33.78.31
Fax: 05.61.33.69.69
Assistant: 05 61 33 64 69 (Marie-Agnès Bellières)


Research Areas and Interests

  • Motion Planning
    • Interactive planning
    • Planning for humanoid robots
    • Planning for compliant and deformable objects (see the ANR Flecto projects with CEA and KineoCAM).
  • Neurobiologic principles and humanoid robot motion

Position

I am an Associate Professor in Control and Robotics at Université de Toulouse, southern France. I teach at Université Paul Sabatier, and I am conducting my research at LAAS-CNRS, in the GEPETTO group.

Master thesis/Sujets de stage 2014/2015 => see "Job Offers"

  • Collision Detection for a rod (deformable objet)
  • Path Planning for a rod with contact
  • Rod Motion with Baxter Robot

Selected Publications

All the publications are avaiblable here (with pdf files if available).

Teaching and Tutorials

Robotics:

  1. Robot Manipulators
  2. Mobile Robots

Motion Planning

Introduction to Numerical Optimization

Intelligent Systems Master

Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition and robotics Master