Guillaume Millet

Contact: Tel: +1 (514) 398 8282 Email: ac.lligcm.mic@emualliug

Postdoctoral researcher in the Shared Reality Lab, Centre for Intelligent Machines since November 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Jeremy Cooperstock, and funded by the Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation (Québec).

My work at McGill involves mechatronic and haptic engineering for applications including walking in virtual environments, real-time material simulations, and slip prevention research.

The project Natural Interactive Walking aims to enable people to experience walking on natural ground surfaces such as sand, ice, or snow in virtual reality. My activities relate to the engineering of mechatronic devices aimed at studying walking perception and improving the realism of virtual ground simulations by rendering mechanical properties such as vibration signature, compliance, or friction properties.

This research is being undertaken in collaboration with international partners at U. Pierre et Marie Curie (France), U. Verona (Italy), INRIA-IRISA (Rennes, France), and Aalborg U. (Denmark), and local collaborators B. Giordano and S. McAdams. Funding is provided in part by the MDEIE of Quebec in coordination with the European Commission 7th Framework FET project NIW (no. 222107).

More information on the project's webpage.

My PhD work at the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR) was under the supervision of Prof. Stéphane Régnier and D. Sinan Haliyo, in collaboration with Vincent Hayward, Anatole Lécuyer, and Jean-Marie Burkhardt. It focused on the design of a high-fidelity haptic device and of haptic aids, for micromanipulation tasks on atomic force microscope (AFM) and for understanding AFM.