Philippe Martinet
Université Clermont Auvergne, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sungkyunkwan University, Laboratoire d'Informatique et d'Automatique pour les Systèmes, Clermont Université, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, École Centrale de Nantes, Institut Pascal, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Nantes Université, Université Nantes Angers Le Mans, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur, Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes, Université de Nîmes
Papers
159
Total Citations
3,188
H-Index
30
About
Philippe Martinet is a prominent French robotics researcher whose career spans visual servoing, autonomous navigation, parallel kinematic machines, and intelligent vehicle control. His foundational contributions to visual servoing — particularly his 1996 and 2003 work on 3D visual features and keeping objects within a camera's field of view (189 and 63 citations respectively) — helped shape modern robot vision-based control frameworks. His 2009 comprehensive review of dynamic control for parallel kinematic machines (154 citations) remains a key reference for researchers working beyond classical serial robotics, demonstrating that traditional control strategies must be fundamentally reconsidered for parallel architectures. Martinet has also advanced omnidirectional perception, developing a widely adopted fisheye camera model (111 citations) that enables richer robotic vision in constrained environments. His work extends to aerial robotics, with influential contributions to vision-based UAV navigation (123 citations), and to ground vehicle automation, including model predictive control for farm vehicles navigating slippery terrain and mixed observers for high-speed off-road mobile robots. Collectively, his research — amassing over 830 citations across these ten papers alone — reflects a career bridging rigorous theoretical control with real-world autonomous systems applications.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Position based visual servoing: keeping the object in the field of vision189 citations · 2003
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- 3Vision-based navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles123 citations · 2010
- 4A generic fisheye camera model for robotic applications111 citations · 2007
- 5Indoor Navigation of a Wheeled Mobile Robot along Visual Routes78 citations · 2006
- 6Visual servoing in robotics scheme using a camera/laser-stripe sensor66 citations · 1996
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- 8Vision Based Control Law using 3D Visual Features63 citations · 1996
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