Olivier Kermorgant

Position

  • Associate Professor
  • Professor of robotics, Centrale Nantes robotics major and Control & Robotics master
  • Head of the Control & Robotics master

Research institute

Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N)

Research group

  • Armen

Research

  • Sensor-based control
  • Localization and navigation
  • Maritime robotics
  • Simulation
BAckground
BAckground Born in 1981 in Rennes. I graduated from École Centrale Paris in 2004, then I joined Arcelor research centre as a research engineer.
From 2008 to 2011 I was a PhD student in the Lagadic team at Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, under the supervision of François Chaumette.
I then spent 6 months as a research assistant in Ocean Systems Lab at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, with Yvan Pétillot.
I was associate professor at Télécom Physique Strasbourg from 2012 to 2014, teaching Robotics, Discrete-time control theory and optimization.
From 2014 to 2015 I was at IRT Jules Verne as a research engineer, for the prototyping of an autonomous mobile robot in the ship industry.
Since 2015 I have been associate professor at Centrale Nantes and a researcher at LS2N in the ARMEN team.
I obtained the Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) from Nantes Université in 2025.
Publications
Publications
Published on February 15, 2024 Updated on January 19, 2026

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