Sylvain DURAND CHAMONTIN

Associate Professor at INSA Strasbourg, affiliated with ICube research laboratory (UMR 7357), specializing in frugal design and control of embedded cyber-physical and robotic systems with limited resources, with particular expertise in non-periodic sampling using event-driven techniques.

His research spans critical domains including:

• Robotics (UAV control, swarm systems, aerial manipulators)
• Cyber-Physical Systems (resource-constrained implementations)
• Control Theory (nonlinear stabilization, event-driven feedback)
• Embedded Systems (system-on-chip, real-time optimization)
• Event-Driven Systems (acoustic localization, aperiodic sampling)
• Frugal Design (energy-efficiency, miniaturization)

Current research projects feature:

• eSWARM: Modular UAV swarm control (ICube-funded, 2023-2025)
• muteSWARM: Acoustic-based swarm formation (ANR-funded with GIPSA-lab/ISM, 2023-2027)
• STRAD: Street art drone development (ANR-funded with Polyvionics/Spacejunk, 2022-2026)
• TIR4sTREEt: Urban thermal monitoring (ANR-funded with INRAE, 2022-2026)
• dark-NAV: GPS-denied navigation via photolocation (ANR-funded, 2021-2025)
• dextAIR robot: Omnidirectional aerial manipulator platform (ICube, 2019-present)

His PhD students have secured prestigious awards:

• M. Pivert: Best Student Paper Award, IFAC Robotics Symposium (2025)
• T. Paul: i-PhD Innovation Contest for OptHySource (2022)
• A. Yiğit: Best PhD Award (GdR Robotique) and Best Video Award (2020-2021)
• A. Vega-Alonzo: Best Paper Award, IEEE EBCCSP (2019)
• B. Boisseau: Best Paper Award, IEEE EBCCSP (2015)

He actively participates in major robotics forums including the French Congress of Mechanics (2025), International Micro Air Vehicles Conference (2025), and ROSCon France & Germany (2025).