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I am Cédric Girerd, a CNRS Researcher in Robotics in the DEXTER Team at LIRMM in Montpellier, France. My team focuses on the design and control of continuum, soft and inflatable robots for navigation in structured and unstructured environments. We are mostly interested in medical applications and industrial inspection tasks.

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(2024). 💼 Open PhD Position in Soft and Inflatable Robotics.

(2024). 📊 Presentation of our paper at ICRA@40.

(2024). 📊 Presentation at the Hong Kong AI and Robotics Forum for Healthcare.

(2024). 📊 Presentation of our paper at the MARSS conference.

(2023). 📊 Presentation at the Susan Calvin Colloquium.

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Recent Publications

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Camille Benoist, Cédric Girerd, Nabil Zemiti, Philippe Poignet, Pierre Berthey-Rayne (2024). Tendon-Driven vs Rod-Driven Continuum Robots: A Bench Test Evaluation. In CRAS.

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Jui-Te Lin, Cédric Girerd, Benjamin T. Ostrander, Parsa Molaei, Hunter B. Gilbert, Philip A. Weissbrod, John T. Hwang, Tania K. Morimoto (2024). Closing the Loop on Concentric Tube Robot Design: A Case Study on Micro-Laryngeal Surgery. TBME.

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Cédric Girerd, Anna Alvarez, Elliot W. Hawkes, Tania K. Morimoto (2024). Material Scrunching Enables Working Channels in Miniaturized Vine-Inspired Robots. TRO.

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Ryan C. Dunn, Anugrah Jo Joshy, Jui-Te Lin, Cédric Girerd, Tania K. Morimoto, John T. Hwang (2023). Scalable enforcement of geometric non-interference constraints for gradient-based optimization. Optim Eng.

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Jingpei Lu, Fei Liu, Cédric Girerd, Michael C. Yip (2023). Image-based Pose Estimation and Shape Reconstruction for Robot Manipulators and Soft, Continuum Robots via Differentiable Rendering. In ICRA.

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Agrim Gupta, Daegue Park, Shayaun Bashar, Cédric Girerd, Nagarjun Bhat, Siddhi Mundhra, Tania K. Morimoto, Dinesh Bharadia (2023). ForceSticker: Wireless, Batteryless, Thin & Flexible Force Sensors. In ACM IMWUT.

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Chibundo Nwafor, Cédric Girerd, Guillaume J. Laurent, Tania K. Morimoto, Kanty Rabenorosoa (2023). Design and Fabrication of Concentric Tube Robots: A Survey. TRO.

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Concentric Tube Robots Continuum Robots Follow-the-Leader Deployment SLAM-Based Deployment Soft Robots Vine Growing Robots Wireless Sensors