State estimation & navigation
Geometric observers for range-, vision-, magnetic-field-, barometer-, and Pitot-aided inertial navigation.
Université du Québec en OutaouaisDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering
LaRSA · Université du Québec en Outaouais
Estimation and control
for autonomous robots.
Research in state estimation, safe navigation, and coordination for autonomous robotic systems.
LaRSA develops guidance, navigation, and control methods for ground, aerial, and marine robots, connecting mathematical foundations with experimental research.
Control theory.
Robotics in practice.
The Laboratoire de Robotique et Systèmes Autonomes (LaRSA) is part of UQO’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Founded in 2020 and led by Prof. Soulaimane Berkane, the laboratory studies estimation and control algorithms with guarantees for stability, safety, and robustness.
Research directions
Research overview →Safe autonomous motion
Reactive navigation and obstacle avoidance that reconcile collision prevention with convergence.
Multi-robot systems
Distributed estimation, formation control, and reactive collision avoidance for teams of robots.
Nonlinear & hybrid systems
Geometric feedback design, attitude control, and hybrid methods for the dynamics of robotic systems.
Research in motion
All demonstrations →
Robot experiment Watch on YouTube ↗Reactive navigation in the laboratory
Safety Velocity Cones on TurtleBot 4.
Multi-agent simulation Watch on YouTube ↗200 agents navigating shared space
Coordinated motion through narrow passages.
Recent research
Full bibliography →- A smooth penalty-based feedback law for reactive obstacle avoidance with convergence guarantees
Lyes Smaili and Soulaimane Berkane · Automatica
- Global Attitude Synchronization for Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems on SO(3)
Mouaad Boughellaba, Soulaimane Berkane, and Abdelhamid Tayebi · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
- Hybrid Feedback Control for Global Navigation With Locally Optimal Obstacle Avoidance in n-Dimensional Spaces
Ishak Cheniouni, Soulaimane Berkane, and Abdelhamid Tayebi · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
From the laboratory
News archive →- New tutorial accepted in IEEE Control Systems Magazine
The public preprint is available in the accepted and forthcoming section of the bibliography.
- Discover LaRSA’s research in robotics and autonomy
A look inside the laboratory and its research activities.
Connect with LaRSA
For research enquiries, collaboration, or graduate study, contact Prof. Soulaimane Berkane. Prospective students can find guidance on the joining the laboratory page.