Mathilde Legrand
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université
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About
Mathilde Legrand is a leading researcher in the field of advanced upper-limb prosthetics, with a focus on restoring natural, intuitive movement to amputees. Her work centers on a critical challenge: enabling simultaneous, multi-joint control of robotic arms while minimizing the awkward body compensations—like shoulder shrugging or torso twisting—that users often develop to overcome prosthetic limitations. Legrand’s major contributions include pioneering a body-compensation-based control strategy that closes the loop between the wearer’s posture and the prosthesis’s movements, as demonstrated in her 2022 study on 2DOF control (20 citations). This approach reduces the need for extensive training by leveraging natural compensatory motions as control signals. Her 2020 feasibility study (12 citations) further validated this paradigm, showing how real-time adjustments can improve task accuracy. Legrand also led the development of the Smart ArM platform (2024, 5 citations), a customizable, versatile robotic prosthesis showcased at Cybathlon, highlighting her commitment to translating research into practical, user-centered solutions. By addressing the positioning error problem (2021, 2 citations), she has laid groundwork for more seamless human-machine integration, making her a pivotal figure in next-generation prosthetic control.
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