2026 François Pierrot: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	42	4150	3985	71	69	222	6360

Overview

François Pierrot is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research spans multiple areas within Engineering, Computer Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering, Geology, Aerospace Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The primary topics covered in their work include:

Advanced Vision and Imaging
3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Image Processing Techniques and Applications

Selected recent papers by François Pierrot are as follows:

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-based canopy height modeling under leaf-on and leaf-off conditions for determining tree height and crown diameter (case study: Hyrcanian mixed forest), 2021, Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Application-oriented selection of poses and forces for robot elastostatic calibration, 2021, Mechanism and Machine Theory
Complex Deformation at Shallow Depth During the 30 October 2016M_w6.5 Norcia Earthquake: Interference Between Tectonic and Gravity Processes?, 2020, Tectonics
A NEW STEREO DENSE MATCHING BENCHMARK DATASET FOR DEEP LEARNING, 2021, The "international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
LANDSLIDE EVOLUTION PATTERN REVEALED BY MULTI-TEMPORAL DSMS OBTAINED FROM HISTORICAL AERIAL IMAGES, 2022, The "international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences

Frequent co-authors working with François Pierrot include:

Ewelina Rupnik
Bruno Vallet
Vinayak Jagannathrao Kalas
Alain Vissière
Olivier Company

The scientist's work has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

The "international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences (4 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)
IFAC-PapersOnLine (2 publications)
ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences (2 publications)

Best Publications

Optimal Design of a 4-DOF Parallel Manipulator: From Academia to Industry

F. Pierrot;V. Nabat;S. Krut

368
Citations
DELTA: a simple and efficient parallel robot

François Pierrot;C. Reynaud;Alain Fournier

367
Citations
H4: a new family of 4-DOF parallel robots

F. Pierrot

313
Citations
Hippocrate: a safe robot arm for medical applications with force feedback

François Pierrot;Etienne Dombre;Eric Dégoulange;Loïc Urbain

262
Citations
Par4: very high speed parallel robot for pick-and-place

V. Nabat;M. de la O Rodriguez;S. Krut

248
Citations
Four-degree-of-freedom parallel robot

Francois Pierrot;Tetsuro Shibukawa;Koji Morita

182
Citations
H4 parallel robot: modeling, design and preliminary experiments

F. Pierrot;F. Marquet;T. Gil

160
Citations
A New Design of a 6-DOF Parallel Robot

François Pierrot;Masaru Uchiyama;Pierre Dauchez;Alain Fournier

159
Citations
I4: A new parallel mechanism for Scara motions

S. Krut;M. Benoit;H. Ota;F. Pierrot

156
Citations
Towards a fully-parallel 6 DOF robot for high-speed applications

F. Pierrot;A. Fournier;P. Dauchex

151
Citations
HEXA: a fast six-DOF fully-parallel robot

F. Pierrot;P. Dauchez;A. Fournier

136
Citations
Force polytope and force ellipsoid for redundant manipulators

Pasquale Chiacchio;Yann Bouffard-Vercelli;François Pierrot

119
Citations
High-speed parallel robot with four degrees of freedom

Vincent Nabat;François Pierrot;Maria De La O Rodriguez Mijangos;Jose Miguel Azcoitia Arteche

111
Citations
Effects of non-negligible cable mass on the static behavior of large workspace cable-driven parallel mechanisms

Nicolas Riehl;Marc Gouttefarde;Sebastien Krut;Cedric Baradat

108
Citations
A new high-speed 4-DOF parallel robot synthesis and modeling issues

F. Marquet;F. Pierrot

105
Citations
Fast parallel robots

François Pierrot;Pierre Dauchez;Alain Fournier

103
Citations
MoonWalker, a lower limb exoskeleton able to sustain bodyweight using a passive force balancer

Sebastien Krut;Michel Benoit;Etienne Dombre;Francois Pierrot

99
Citations
HIPPOCRATE: an intrinsically safe robot for medical applications

E. Degoulange;L. Urbain;P. Caron;S. Boudet

89
Citations
Robust design of independent joint controllers with experimentation on a high-speed parallel robot

P. Chiacchio;F. Pierrot;L. Sciavicco;B. Siciliano

86
Citations
Kinematic and dynamic identification of parallel mechanisms

Pierre Renaud;Andres Vivas;Nicolas Andreff;Nicolas Andreff;Philippe Poignet

85
Citations
Eureka: a new 5-degree-of-freedom redundant parallel mechanism with high tilting capabilities

S. Krut;S. Rangsri;F. Pierrot

11
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Martinet French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Jean-Pierre Merlet French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Sophie Tarbouriech Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems

Guillaume Morel Sorbonne University

Clément Gosselin Université Laval

Wisama Khalil École Centrale de Nantes

Bruno Siciliano University of Naples Federico II

Olfa Kanoun Chemnitz University of Technology

External Links

Wikipedia of François Pierrot Personal website of François Pierrot Google Scholar page

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