Alain Coudray

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Alain Coudray is a leading expert in telerobotics and force-feedback telemanipulation, with a career dedicated to advancing remote handling technologies for hazardous nuclear environments. His major contributions center on adapting both dedicated and standard industrial robots for use as high-precision slave arms in nuclear fuel recycling plants. Coudray’s seminal 2006 work, which has garnered 60 citations, details the integration of force-torque sensors onto a Staübli RX170 robot to enable intuitive force-feedback teleoperation for tasks in spent fuel reprocessing. Over a 15-year joint research program between CEA LIST and AREVA, he helped develop the TAO2000 V2 computer-assisted force-feedback telemanipulators, now routinely used for maintenance and production at the AREVA NC–La Hague plant. His 2011 paper (17 citations) and 2010 paper (15 citations) document the evolution of these systems from research prototypes into operational tools, demonstrating how industrial robots can safely perform delicate interventions inside hot cells. Coudray’s work has directly improved the safety, precision, and efficiency of nuclear waste handling, making him a pivotal figure in applied telerobotics for extreme environments.

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1. 1
   Force‐feedback teleoperation of an industrial robot in a nuclear spent fuel reprocessing plant

   60 citations · 2006
2. 2
   TAO2000 V2 computer‐assisted force feedback telemanipulators used as maintenance and production tools at the AREVA NC–La Hague fuel recycling plant

   17 citations · 2011
3. 3
   Dedicated and standard industrial robots used as force-feedback telemaintenance remote devices at the AREVA recycling plant

   15 citations · 2010

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