Issy-les-Moulineaux
Since January 2015 Director of Ifremer Mediterannean Center (Guyana, Martinique, Sete, Montpellier,Palavas,Laseyne dur Mer, Bastia, Reunion).
Dr. Vincent Rigaud has been director of the underwater system department within Ifremer since 2003 and was formally head of the Robotics, Navigation and Vision R&D Laboratory. The underwater systems department is in charge of research and development on new underwater systems and design, integration and overhauls of operational systems for the Ifremer fleet. The activity covered AUVs (AsterX and IdefX), ROV (Victor6000), Manned submersible (Nautile),Deep tow sonar (SAR), Observatories (Antares, Km3,Deepseanet,Esonet) and related technologies and instrumentations. He is graduated in 1990 as Doctor in Signal Processing and Automation from University of Rennes, and INRIA, France and engineering degree in oceanography from Toulon University. After an experience in the offshore industry, he joined Ifremer in 1990, and since have been involved in several projects within Ifremer, with an activity split between operational engineering and research projects, with a high level of activity at sea mainly as head of technological campaigns. He use to act as leader of several Ifremer programs and projects in underwater systems mainly in the field of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, in relationship with industrial partners (oil industry) (Projects, UNION-IST, Sirene DESIBEL-MASTII, SWIMMER and ALIVE within Thermie EU program). He has also launch the ASTERx survey class AUVs system now in operation within Ifremer He is expert and consultant for several organisations at the regional, national and European levels (GROWTH, THERMIE, ESPRITII, TMR, and national programs ANVAR, RITMER, SARTA-CNRS, CEPM). He has published around 112 papers since 1988, and has supervised 6 PhD students. He is teaching in several engineering schools, Ecole Centrale de Paris, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Institut Supérieur des Ingénieurs de Toulon et du Var, Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Marseille, and DESS ingénierie marine UTV, and University of Rio de Janeiro – Brasil UFRJ-CENPES. He is co-editor of several journals (Journal of Field Robotics, Journal of Marine Technologies). He was auditor of the Fondation Méditérannéenne d’Etude Stratégique et of the Institut de Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie. He is author or co-author of several active patents
Mes compétences :
Robotics
Signal processing
Ingénierie
R&D
Underwater systems
Management
Gestion d affaire
