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Thomas Estier
Sonnenmattweg, 28
3186 Guin
Suisse

thomas [arobasque] estier [point] net

Né le 27 Février 1972
Nationalité suisse et française
Marié, 1 enfant

Expérience Professionnelle

2014 -
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), La Forge - Shaping Ideas into Companies, Suisse
2012 - 2013
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Vice-Présidence pour l'Innovation et la Valorisation (VPIV), Suisse
2012 - 2013
Swiss National Competence Center in Research - Robotics (NCCR Robotics), Suisse
2009 - 2013
A3 Angels, Business Angels & Mentoring Club, Suisse
2008 - 2009
LNS Group, Business Unit BarFeed, Suisse
2006 - 2007
LNS Group, Business Unit BarFeed, Suisse
2004 - 2005
LNS Group, Suisse
2001 - 2003
BlueBotics SA, Suisse
2001
NETS (New Entrepreneurs in Technology and Science) Prize 2001
1999 -2002
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Suisse

Formation

Juin 2001
Babson College School of Executive Education, Wellesley, Massachusetts
1992 - 1999
Diplôme d'ingénieur en Microtechnique à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1989 - 1992
Certificat de maturité scientifique (type C) - Collège Sismondi (GE)
Informatique
  • Langages: JAVA 1.4, C++, C, Pascal, LISP
  • Edition W3: HTML, CSS, XHTML, PHP, PERL, Javascript
  • Données: XML, XSLT, SVG, SQL, mySQL, SOAP
  • OS: Windows 2k, UNIX, MacOs, Linux
  • CAO/DAO: Pro Engineer 2000i, Ideas Master 7
  • Simulation: Matlab, SysQuake
  • Très bonne maîtrise de Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, FileMaker Pro, Framemaker
  • Langues

    Français
  • Langue maternelle
  • Anglais
  • Courant
  • Allemand
  • Très bonnes connaissances
  • Publications

    Journals

    Siegwart, R., Lamon, P., Estier, T., Lauria, M. and Piguet, R. (2002) Innovative Design for Wheeled Locomotion in Rough Terrain. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier. To appear.

    Caprari, G., Estier, T. and Siegwart, R. (2002) Fascination of Down Scaling - Alice the Sugar Cube Robot. Journal of Micro-Mechatronics, VSP, Utrecht, Vol. 1, No. 3, 177-189.

    Peer-reviewed Proceedings

    Lauria, M., Freese, M., Estier, T., Lamon, P., Caprari, G. and Siegwart, R. (2002) LameAlice, a Nanorover for Planetary Exploration. In Video Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Teipei, Taiwan. [ICRA'2002] [show abstract]

    Estier, T., Crausaz, Y., Merminod, B., Lauria, M., Piguet, R. and Siegwart, R. (2000) An Innovative Space Rover with Extended Climbing Abilities. In Proceedings of Space & Robotics, the Fourth International Conference and Exposition on Robotics in Challenging Environments, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 27 - March 2. [ROBOTICS'2000] [pdf]

    Caprari, G., Estier, T. and Siegwart, R. (2000) Fascination of Down Scaling - Alice the Sugar Cube Robot. In Workshop Proceedings on Mobile Micro-Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, USA, April 24-28. [ICRA'2000] [pdf]

    Lauria, M., Estier, T. and Siegwart, R. (2000) An Innovative Space Rover with Extended Climbing Abilities. In Video Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, USA, April 24- 28. [ICRA'2000]

    Siegwart, R., Estier, T., Crausaz, Y., Merminod, B., Lauria, M. and Piguet, R. (2000) Innovative Concept for Wheeled Locomotion in Rough Terrain. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Venice, Italy, July 25-27. [IAS- 6]

    Estier, T., Piguet, R., Eichhorn, R. and Siegwart, R. (2000) Shrimp, a Rover Architecture for Long Range Martian Mission. In Proceedings of the Sixth ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation, The Netherlands, December 5-7. [ASTRA '2000]

    Estier, T. and Siegwart, R. (2000) Innovative Locomotion Concept for Long-Range Mission and Study of Martian Wind. In Proceedings of the Sixth ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation, The Netherlands, December 5-7. [ASTRA '2000]

    Hill, W., Mäusli, P.-A., Estier, T., Huber, R. and van Winnendael, M. (2000) Using Microtechnologies to Build Micro-Robot Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation, The Netherlands, December 5-7. [ASTRA '2000]

    Freese, M., Kaelin, M., Lehky, J.-M., Caprari, G., Estier, T. and Siegwart, R. (1999) LAMAlice : A Mini Mobile Robot for Planetary Exploration. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science, Nagoya, Japan, November. [MHS'1999] [pdf]

    Other Publications

    Lauria, M., Terrien, G., Piguet, R., Estier, T. and Siegwart, R. (2001) Un robot mobile tout-terrain. paru dans La Revue Polytechnique, no 8, ao�t 2001, p. 455-456.

    Piguet, R., Estier, T. and Siegwart, R. (2000) Shrimp, un robot tout-terrain. Bulletin de l'Association Suisse des Electriciens, 19, 13-16.

     Activités extra-professionnelles

     
  • Photographie
  • Tennis, Badminton