Claude Laurgeau Explained
| Claude Laurgeau |
| Birth Date: | 1942 11, mf=yes |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Professor
Engineer |
| Known For: | Engelberger Robotics Award |
Claude Laurgeau (born November 1942) is a French professor in robotics. His primary interest is intelligent transportation systems.
He was a professor at the University of Nantes from 1975 to 1982, then director of the "Productive robotics research" department at the IT Agency from 1982 to 1987.[1]
In 1989, he was appointed professor at École des Mines de Paris where he created the Robotics Research Center (CAOR)[2] which he directed until February 2008. He officially retired at the end of 2010, while continuing to collaborate on research projects.
He has contributed to the creation of several robotics "start-up" companies, both at the IT Agency and at the École des mines.
He is president of the company Intempora which develops and publishes the software RTMaps.[3]
Awards
Books
- Programmable automates Dunod, 1978
- The machines of vision - ETA, 1986
- Industrial automation - SCM, 1977
- Languages for Robotics - Hermès,
- Understanding Robotics - AFRI
- The century of the intelligent car - at Press of Mines ParisTech 2009
References
- The 'IT Agency' (French: L'Agence de l'Informatique - ADI) was a French EPIC which operated from January 1981 to January 1987, under the successive presidencies of Bernard Lorimy, Charlie Garrigues and Olivier Marec; its goal was to promote IT projects in the French private sector and academic research oriented towards these projects.
- Web site: CAOR website. 2021-02-21. 2012-07-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20120722125345/http://caor.mines-paristech.fr/. dead., MINES ParisTech robotics research center,
- Web site: fr . M. Claude LAURGEAU, PCA of INTEMPORA on DIRIGEANT.COM . 2021-02-21 . 2018-03-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180308041326/https://dirigeant.societe.com/dirigeant/Claude.LAURGEAU.61128022.html . dead .
