Luc Rolland, P.Eng, PhD

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University of the West of Scotland: Now

Director of the Hutchison Mechatronics Laboratory. I am supervising two PhD students:

- Autonomous vehicles certification framework.

- Simulation, control and optimization of industrial cleaning processes.

I have supervised two innovation projects (KTPs)

- Design of a robotics workcell for laser bar manipulation with Helia Photonics with high precision over large workspace.

- Design of the first auomated industrial cleaning processed based on ozone decontamination. Winner of three awards.

I have worked on the new design of parallel robots based on deployable mechanism with Dr. Damien Chablat (CNRS) and professor Luc Baron (Montreal Polytechnique). I have also worked with professor Roskam on the implementatiomn of micro-controllers for parallel robot controls.

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Memorial University: 2012 - 2016

Founder and director of the High Performance Robotics Laboratory in Newfounland.

I have supervised one team of 4 Master students and 2 PhD full-time students added with two PhD part-time students.

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Toros University: 2010 - 2012

Founder and director of the Sunflower Laboratory at the Toros University in Turkey, where I supervised two master students and collaborated with one researcher from Fidji on Genetic Algorithms for solving the kinematics problems of parallel robots. I have contributed to technological transfers towards two local companies in Mersin.

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METU: 2008 - 2010

At the Middle East technical University, I have worked on the design of solar tracker robots for solar panels in collaboration with a company located in Nicosia (Cyprus).

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UCLAN: 2006-2008

At the University of Central Lancashire, in the Robotics and Vision Laboratory, I have worked with Leyland Trucks on automatic reprogramming of robots and the integration of articulated robots on mobile robots mobile aiming the dynamic factory for BAE. I was also discussing with The Atomic Energy for nuclear decommissioning.