François Ferland
Vice Dean Of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty Of Engineering
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFrançois Ferland is a robotics researcher and academic leader with 14 years of experience bridging research, teaching, and technology leadership in autonomous and domestic humanoid robots. As Vice Dean of Undergraduate Studies and an associate professor at Université de Sherbrooke, he combines curriculum leadership with hands-on research in software integration for robot perception, control and human-robot interaction. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Robotics) and a track record of mentoring graduate courses and producing practical ROS-based solutions, including substantive contributions to the Kinova ROS stack improving pose, force publishing, admittance control and URDF support. François also brings industry leadership as CTO of ARTIK Technologies, translating academic robotics advances into product-focused engineering. Colleagues cite his uncommon blend of rigorous control-theory expertise and pragmatic API/refactor work that makes complex robot systems more reliable and integrable. Based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he thrives at the intersection of open-source engineering, applied research and undergraduate education.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, PhD, Electrical Engineering, Robotics at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English
Github Skills (15)
robotics10
ros10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
api9
apim9
quaternions8
kinematics8
robot-control8
geometry7
sensor7
geom7
msg7
geo7
sens7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Kinovarobotics/kinova-ros
Dec 2014 - May 2015
ROS packages for Jaco2 and Mico robotic arms
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 10 PRs, 34 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:François primarily contributed to the `jaco-ros` repository by addressing issues related to the Kinova robotic arm's control and functionality. They focused on improving the arm's pose calculations and publishing capabilities, fixing the orientation quaternion, publishing the end effector forces as a wrench, and implementing a basic ROS admittance control for demonstrating cartesian velocity input. The user also refactored API calls, added joint velocities and effort to joint states, and provided interfaces for force control, while also working on URDF models.
roboticsros2slam-algorithmsros-packagesros
introlab/irl_audio
Apr 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 1 year 1 month
ros-packagesrosintrolab
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