Professor Clément Gosselin, Director of the laboratory

Prof. Clément Gosselin
Laval University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot
1065 Avenue de la médecine
Québec, Québec G1V 0A6
Canada

Tel: +1-418-656-3474
Fax: +1-418-656-7415

• Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1985
  
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics), McGill University, Quebec, in 1988

• Medal of the Governors, Université de Sherbrooke in 1985.
• Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada, Université de Sherbrooke, for the best academic results in 1985.
• D. W. Ambridge Award from McGill University for the best thesis of the year in Physical Sciences and Engineering in 1988.
• I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering, for creative engineering in 1993.
• Summa award for research achievements from the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering at Laval University in 1997.
• Best video award at the IEEE International Robotics and Automation Conference in 1997.
• Holding a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Robotics and Mechatronics since January 2001.
• ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee Award in 2008.
• Fellow of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).
• Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
• Officer of the Order of Canada.

• Joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Université Laval in 1989, Full Professor since 1997.
• Teaches several courses in mechanics and robotics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Supervision of several Master's and Ph.D. students
• Research activities are supported by grants from several agencies and industrial partners.

• Post-doctoral position at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), Sophia-Antipolis, France, in 1988-89.
• Half-year sabbatical at the Institut für Getriebetechnik und Maschinendynamik of the Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany, in 1995. The research stay was supported by a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• Three-month research stay at the University of Victoria in 1996. The research program was supported by the British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute.
• Two-month stay at the Institut de Recherche en Cybernétique de Nantes (IRCyN), France, in 1999 as visiting professor.

• Kinematics and dynamics of parallel mechanisms and manipulators;
• Mechanics of grasping and robot hand design;
• Cable-driven parallel mechanisms;
• Human-robot cooperation;
• Trajectory planning of robotic manipulators;
• Modelling and control of complex robotic systems.

• Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the ASME and member of CCToMM. Member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec (OIQ).