PROFESSOR PHILIPPE CARDOU

					Prof. Philippe Cardou Department of Mechanical Engineering Laval University Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot 1065 Avenue de la médecine Québec, Québec G1V 0A6 Canada pcardou@gmc.ulaval.ca

Welcome to my Web page. A summary of my education and research interests is presented below. Do not hesitate to contact me for any additional information.

• Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, Laval University, Quebec City, in 2003.
  
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, in 2008. (thesis title: "Design of Multiaxial Accelerometers with Simplicial Architectures for Rigid-Body Pose-and-Twist Estimation")

• Joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Laval University in September 2007; Associate professor since 2013.
• Teaches the undergraduate courses "Modélisation en ingénierie (GMC-3001)" (Modelling in engineering), "Statique des corps rigides (GMC-1001)" (Statics), and "Mécanique et ingénierie des matériaux (GIN-2120)" (Mechanics and materials engineering).
• Research activities are supported by NSERC, FRQNT and CFI.

• Design and fabrication of cable-driven parallel manipulators;
• Optimisation of robotic mechanical systems in general;
• Design and fabrication of human-machine interfaces similar to the Wii remote, and using arrays of accelerometers as inertial measurement unit.

• Member of IEEE and CCToMM.
• Editorial board member of the Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering.

•  The list of my publications in Google Scholar is available here

• Arachnis: Analysis of Robots Actuated by Cables with Handy and Neat Interface Software