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Louis Petit

Professeur, Faculté de génie
FGEN Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique

Présentation

Sujets, disciplines ou intérêts de recherche

Robotics, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Field Robotics, Autonomous Robots, Mobile Robots, Autonomous Vehicles, Mechatronics, Mapping, Perception, Decision-Making, Control, Optimization, Computer Vision, Path Planning, Trajectory Planning, Exploration, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Apprentissage profond, Intelligence artificielle, Planification de trajectoire, Cartographie, Robotique, Navigation, Robot, Drones, Marine Robotics, Underwater, Quadruped

Adhésions

  • (2025-). Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • (2025-). Institut Nordique du Québec (INQ). Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
  • (2025-). Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation (3IT). Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

Qualifications

  • ing. Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (2025).

Diplômes

  • (2019-2023). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Robotics Engineering. Université de Sherbrooke Faculté de Génie. Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
  • (2017-2019). Master's degree. Mechatronics Engineering. Université catholique de Louvain Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.
  • (2014-2017). Bachelor's degree in engineering sciences. Engineering. Université catholique de Louvain Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.

Expériences académiques

  • Assistant Professor. (2025-). Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow. (2024). McGill University. Montreal, Canada.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow. (2023). Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada.

Prix et distinctions

  • (2024) Best doctoral dissertation in the Faculty of Engineering. Université de Sherbrooke.
  • (2023) Excellence Scholarship. Université de Sherbrooke.
  • (2023) Mention of Excellence awarded by the doctoral thesis jury. Université de Sherbrooke.
  • (2022) Leonardo da Vinci Medal of Merit. Université de Sherbrooke.
  • (2022) Second popularization prize - 2 minutes of engineering. Université de Sherbrooke.
  • (2021) Best Paper Award Finalist. IEEE Foundation.
  • (2021) Best Student Paper Award. IEEE Foundation.
  • (2018) Belgian Vice-Champion of Robotics. Eurobot.
  • (2018) Swiss Guest Champion of Robotics. Eurobot.

Financement

  • Subvention. Scalable Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Collaboration for Understanding Environments. NSERC (Ottawa, Canada). Discovery Grant. 217 500 $. (2026-2031).
  • Subvention. Horizon Europe International Mobility Award. Mitacs (Vancouver, Canada). 10 000 $. (2026).
  • Subvention. Autonomous drone navigation in GPS-denied environments. Mitacs (Vancouver, Canada). 15 000 $. (2026).
  • Subvention. Proactive Robot Agent for Human-Machine Teamwork without Explicit Communication. NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, États-Unis). Academic Grant. 30 000 $. (2025).
  • Subvention. Startup funds. Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Canada). 70 000 $. (2025-2028).
  • Subvention. Automatic identification of arctic alpine plants using drone photos. NSERC (Ottawa, Canada). 150 000 $. (2024-2027).
  • Subvention. Smart, Connected and Perceptive (SCoPe) Off-Road Vehicle. NSERC (Ottawa, Canada). 3 334 753 $. (2022-2026).

Publications

Articles

  • Petit, L., Desbiens, A.L. (2022). TAPE: Tether-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Unknown 3D Cavities Using a Tangle-Compatible Tethered Aerial Robot. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. DOI

Articles de conférence

  • Tremblay, J.-F., Alhosh, J., Petit, L., Lotfi, F., Landauro, L., Meger, D. (2025). Topological Mapping for Traversability-Aware Long-Range Navigation in Off-Road Terrain. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. DOI
  • Petit, L., Desbiens, A.L. (2024). MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. DOI
  • Petit, L., Desbiens, A.L. (2021). RRT-Rope: A deterministic shortening approach for fast near-optimal path planning in large-scale uncluttered 3D environments. Conference Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics. DOI

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés ou supervisés à l'UdeS

  • GMC806 - Projet de développement en génie mécanique II. (2026). (6CR).
  • PMC760 - Projet majeur de conception II. (2026). (6CR).
  • GRO830 - Programmation robotique. (2025). (2CR).

Présentations

  • Louis Petit. (2026). Autonomous Robotic Systems for Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring. UCLouvain - Mechatronic, electrical energy, and dynamic systems (MEED) pole seminar.
  • Antoine Plouffe Leboeuf. (2025). Inventory of arctic alpine plants of interest in Forillon National Park using drone imagery. Parks Canada Ecowebinar.
  • (2025). Predictive, Adaptive and Scalable Algorithmic Foundations for Intelligent Robots. Createk 10th Anniversary Symposium.
  • (2024). Empowering Autonomous Inspection Robots: Field-Inspired Algorithmic Simplifications. 21st Annual Marine Robotics Workshop & Field Trials.
  • (2024). Intelligent Field Robotics for Understanding Unstructured Environments. Université Laval - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar.
  • (2023). Advancing Drone Operations for High-Voltage Power Line Inspections. NSERC Canadian Robotics Network (NCRN).
  • (2023). NetherDrone: A Tethered Drone for Underground Mapping and Inspection. NSERC Canadian Robotics Network (NCRN).
  • (2021). Une corde à l'aide de la navigation de drone pour la cartographie minière. Journée de la Vulgarisation Scientifique de Sherbrooke (JVSS).

Activités professionnelles

  • Consortium For Research and Innovation In Aerospace In Quebec. Scientific Committee Member. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (2025-2028).
  • RoboRev'Up. RoboRev'Up mentoring initiative, pairing researchers with undergrad competition teams (drone competition, rover competition, F1Tenth/RoboRacer). Shebrooke, Canada. (2025-).
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Session co-chair. Atlanta, États-Unis. (2025-).
  • Université McGill. Co-organizer - McGill x UdeS Robotics Seminar. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (2024-).
  • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). Session co-chair. Melbourne, Australie. (2021-).
  • UCLouvain. Collaborator. Collaboration with Pr. Benoit Macq (UCLouvain, TRusted Al Labs) for research and student exchange. Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgique.

Divers

  • Poissant, D.-A., Desbiens, A.L., Ferland, F., Petit, L. (2025). ARENA: Adaptive Risk-aware and Energy-efficient NAvigation for Multi-Objective 3D Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV. Arxiv.