Maxime Vaidis is currently a Ph.D candidate in Norlab laboratory. He got a formation in mathematics and physics of two years in the preparatory classes for the Grandes Ecoles at Faidherbe (Lille, France) as well as two Master’s degrees, one in electrical Engineering from UQAC (University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada), and an other one in Telecommunication and computer Engineering from Telecom Saint Etienne (University of Jean Monnet-Saint-Etienne, France). He did an internship at UQAC in LAIMI laboratory (Automatic and 3D Multimodal Intelligent Interaction Laboratory), during which he participated in the develoment of a smart insole and a creation of a new type of robot’s swarm and his interaction which a human operator. He also worked for ConformiT compagny through a research contrat to develop a new accident-prevention system working with some Deep learning. His current works are about using several robotic total stations to obtain the six degrees of freedom of a robotic platform.

Education

• Master’s degree in electrical Engineering at UQAC (University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada), 2016-2018
• Master’s degree in Telecommunication and computer Engineering from Telecom Saint Etienne (University of Jean Monnet-Saint-Etienne, France), 2014-2018
• Preparatory classes for the Grandes Ecoles in Mathematics and Physics at Faidherbe (Lille, France), 2012-2014

Projects involved

• Project RTS (main work)
• DARPA competitions (Urban and Final challenges respectively in 2020 and 2021)
• Project Scutigera
• Project SNOW

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Rouček, T., Pecka, M., Čížek, P., Petříček, T., Bayer, J., Šalanský, V., Azayev, T., Heřt, D., Petrlík, M., Báča, T., Spurný, V., Krátký, V., Petráček, P., Baril, D., Vaidis, M., Kubelka, V., Pomerleau, F., Faigl, J., Zimmermann, K., … Krajník, T. (2022). System for multi-robotic exploration of underground environments CTU-CRAS-NORLAB in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Field Robotics, 2(1), 1779–1818. https://doi.org/10.55417/fr.2022055
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2. Baril, D., Deschênes, S.-P., Gamache, O., Vaidis, M., LaRocque, D., Laconte, J., Kubelka, V., Giguère, P., & Pomerleau, F. (2022). Kilometer-scale autonomous navigation in subarctic forests: challenges and lessons learned. Field Robotics, 2(1), 1628–1660. https://doi.org/10.55417/fr.2022050
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3. Chahine, G., Vaidis, M., Pomerleau, F., & Pradalier, C. (2021). Mapping in unstructured natural environment: A sensor fusion framework for wearable sensor suites. SN Applied Sciences, 3(5).
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Conference Articles

1. Gamache, O., Fortin, J.-M., Boxan, M., Vaidis, M., Pomerleau, F., & Giguère, P. (2024). Exposing the Unseen: Exposure Time Emulation for Offline Benchmarking of Vision Algorithms. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2309.13139, Accepted to the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.13139 Accepted
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2. Vaidis, M., Shahraji, M. H., Daum, E., Dubois, W., Giguère, P., & Pomerleau, F. (2024). RTS-GT: Robotic Total Stations Ground Truthing dataset. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11935
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3. Vaidis, M., Dubois, W., Daum, E., LaRocque, D., & Pomerleau, F. (2023). Uncertainty analysis for accurate reference trajectories with robotic total stations. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10341529 Accepted for oral presentation
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4. Vaidis, M., Dubois, W., Guénette, A., Laconte, J., Kubelka, V., & Pomerleau, F. (2023). Extrinsic calibration for highly accurate trajectories reconstruction. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01048
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5. Kubelka, V., Vaidis, M., & Pomerleau, F. (2022). Gravity-constrained point cloud registration. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 4873–4879. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981916
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6. Vaidis, M., Giguère, P., Pomerleau, F., & Kubelka, V. (2021). Accurate outdoor ground truth based on total stations. 2021 18th Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV). https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14396
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7. Baril, D., Grondin, V., Deschenes, S., Laconte, J., Vaidis, M., Kubelka, V., Gallant, A., Giguere, P., & Pomerleau, F. (2020). Evaluation of Skid-Steering Kinematic Models for Subarctic Environments. 2020 17th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 198–205. https://doi.org/10.1109/CRV50864.2020.00034 Best Robotic Vision Paper Award!
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Miscellaneous

1. Daum, E., Vaidis, M., & Pomerleau, F. (2023). Benchmarking ground truth trajectories with robotic total stations. In presented at IROS23, Workshop on Methods for Objective Comparison of Results in Intelligent Robotics Research. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05134 Best paper award!
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2. Vaidis, M., Dubois, W., Guénette, A., Laconte, J., Kubelka, V., & Pomerleau, F. (2023). Extrinsic calibration for highly accurate trajectories reconstruction. Colloque REPARTI, Université Laval.
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3. Vaidis, M., Laconte, J., Kubelka, V., & Pomerleau, F. (2020). Improving the Iterative Closest Point Algorithm using Lie Algebra. In IROS 2020 Workshop - Bringing geometric methods to robot learning, optimization and control. https://doi.org/10.1109/CRV52889.2021.00012
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