He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Nantes in 2004. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Montreal, Canada from 2005 to 2006. He is currently CNRS Research Director, the head of the “Robots and Machines for Manufacturing Society and Services” (RoMaS) Team at LS2N and a part-time researcher at IRT Jules Verne. His research interests include design, modeling and control of cable-driven parallel robots and reconfigurable parallel robots. He is the author of 76 papers published in international journals, 165 papers presented in international conferences, 52 contributions in books and 9 patents.