Micky Rakotondrabe,
Full Professor, University of Technology of Tarbes Occitanie Pyrénées (UTTOP)
University of Toulouse Community
Address:
SYSTEMS department (deputy-head)
MAVRICS research group
LGP (Laboratoire Génie de Production)
UTTOP (University of Technology Tarbes Occitanie Pyrénées)
University of Toulouse Community
47, Avenue d'Azereix
65000 Tarbes - FRANCE
Phone: +33 562 442 763
Emails: mrakoton 'at' uttop 'dot' fr and mrakoton 'at' enit 'dot' fr
Homepage: m.rakoton.net
BIO
Micky Rakotondrabe graduated from the Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers (ICAM engineering school,
Lille France) in 2002, and
obtained the MSc in Control Systems from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA, Lyon France) in 2003.
He received the PhD and the HDR habilitation in Control Systems from the University of Franche-Comté at Besançon (nowadays called University Louis Marie Pasteur,
UMLP Besançon France) in 2006 and in 2014 respectively
with research works at
FEMTO-ST Institute, Besançon France.
In 2006-2007, he was assistant professor and then, from 2007 to August 2019, associate professor at UMLP with research affiliation at FEMTO-ST institute.
From Sept 2019, he is full professor at the University of Technology of Tarbes (UTTOP,
a member of the University of Toulouse) with research
affiliation at the Laboratoire Génie de Production (LGP).
His research fields deal with the design and development, modeling, signal estimation and control
techniques for mechatronic systems, in particular based on smart materials, mainly (but not exclusively) piezoelectric systems. Applications are in various domains such as:
medical, aeronautics, human-machine interaction, cobotics and robotics, micromechatronic systems and related high precision and/or high dynamics positioning, autonomous systems and harvesting energy in these, bio-inspired systems...
Micky Rakotondrabe was a UMLP-best phd thesis finalist (2006); obtained the IEEE ICARCV-2006 best paper award finalist, the IEEE CASE-2011 best application paper award finalist, and the Romanian-Scientific-Activity-Award (shared with a
Romanian colleague) in november 2011. Micky Rakotondrabe participated to the
control of the French-team mobile microrobot that holds the IEEE-NIST Mobile Microrobot International Challenge Awards several times
(1st prize on speed in 2010, in 2011 and in 2012). In july 2011,
Micky Rakotondrabe obtained a CNRS-delegation award for one year (2011-2012). In 2013, the paper 'Complete open loop control of hysteretic, creeped and
oscillating piezoelectric cantilever', was among the 5 most cited papers of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science
and Engineering of the year.
He was awarded the national ANR emerging project grant for research-to-industry transfer (ANR-MyMeSyS project, ANR Emergence)
in 2011, the national ANR young investigator award (ANR-C-MUMS project, ANR Jeune Chercheur) in 2012
and a second national ANR young investigator award (ANR-CODE-Track project, ANR Jeune Chercheur) in 2017.
Micky Rakotondrabe received the Big-On-Small 2016 award delivered during the IEEE MARSS-2016 international Conference
(http://marss-conference.org/awards/big-on-small-award/). This award is to recognize a young professional with excellent performance and international visibility
in the topics of manipulation, automation and robotics at small scales. More explanation can be found
HERE and
HERE.
His students also received various awards: the ACC 2014 best presentation award in sessions, the 2014 µ-d'Or special jury award during the French Micronora exhibitions,
a prematuration grant award (2015-2016) to create the AMAROB Technologies company,
the 2015 Inovation award during the French MEDTEC exhibitions,
the article on the frontpage of MDPI Micromachines in 2020,
the MARSS 2019 best paper award finalist,
the MARSS 2023 best paper award finalist, and the IFAC Symposium on Mechatronics 2025 best paper award.
Micky Rakotondrabe is an active member of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation. He is also
active member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems (TC 4.2).
He serves as Vice-Chair for the working group "Micro/Nano, Smart Materials/Structures" and for "Education" at the
the IFAC TC.4.2 on Mechatronics between 2020 and 2026. He was Chair for the Task-Force on "Organization of Summer Schools" to support Educational Activities
across IFAC Technical Committees Education in the 2020-2023 term. In the 2023-2026 term, he is member of the Education Activities Committe of IFAC Exectuve Committees.
From 2018 to 2024, Micky Rakotondrabe was "Distinguished Lecturer of Micro/Nano Robotics & Automation" at the IEEE/RAS Society.
He has organized several workshops and tutorials on design, control or signal estimation in mechatronic systems working for microscale, for precise positioning or for interaction:
at IEEE-ICRA-2009 (Kobé, Japan),
IEEE-ICRA-2010 (Anchorage Alaska USA),
IEEE-ICRA-2011 (Shanghai China),
IEEE-CASE-2011 (Triesta Italy),
IEEE/ASME-AIM-2014 (Besançon France),
MICNON-2018 (Guadalajara Mexico),
IFAC-WC-2020 (Berlin Germany),
IEEE-IROS-2021 (Prague Czech Republic),
IFAC World Congress 2023 (Yokohama Japan),
and IFAC Symposium on Mechatronics 2025 (Paris France).
He was visiting professor at
the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA, 1month, November 2011) where he has held at the same
time a guest lecturer position on MicroRobots Control, and visiting researcher at
the University of Newcastle Australia (a quarter, 2012).
He did several short term visiting (between one week and one month) in various Universities/Institutes for research and teaching purposes:
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Nanjing China,
Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's NF Canada,
Texas A & M in Doha Qatar,
USTO in Oran Algeria,
UANL in Monterrey Mexico,
CIO in Leon Mexico,
DeKUT in Nyeri Kenya,
Univ of Yaoundé 1 in Yaoundé Cameroon,
Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra Marocco.
University of Mahajanga in Mahajanga Madagascar.
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