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Articles in refereed publications:

  1. R.-A. Peloquin, D. Thibault, and A. Lussier Desbiens. “Design of a Passive Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aquatic UAV”. In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2.2 (2017), pp. 381–388. (paper|preprint|video)
  2. J. Truong, C. Brousseau, and A. Lussier Desbiens. “A Method for Measuring the Bending and Torsional Stiffness Distributions of Alpine Skis”. In: Procedia Engineering (2016). (paper|preprint)
  3. Yufeng Chen, Nick Gravish, A. Lussier Desbiens, R. Malka, and Robert J. Wood. “Experimental and computational studies of the aerodynamic performance of a flapping and passively rotating insect wing”. In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics 791 (2016), pp. 1–33.
  4. Alexis Lussier Desbiens, M. Pope, David L Christensen, Elliot W Hawkes, and Mark R Cutkosky. “Design principles for efficient, repeated jumpgliding”. In: Bioinspiration & biomimetics 9.2 (2014), p. 025009.
  5. Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Alan T Asbeck, and Mark R Cutkosky. “Landing, perching and taking off from vertical surfaces”. In: The International Journal of Robotics Research 30.3 (2011), pp. 355– 370.
  6. Alexis Lussier Desbiens and Mark R Cutkosky. “Landing and perching on vertical surfaces with microspines for small unmanned air vehicles”. In: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2010), pp. 313–327.
  7. Richard Giroux, Alain Berinstain, Stephen Braham, Thomas Graham, Matthew Bamsey, Keegan Boyd, Matthew Silver, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Pascal Lee, Marc Boucher, et al. “Greenhouses in extreme environments: The Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse design and operation overview”. In: Advances in Space Research (2006).

Other refereed contributions:

  1. R.-A. Peloquin, D. Thibault, and A. Lussier Desbiens. “Design of a Passive Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aquatic UAV”. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). (Singapore). 2017. (paper|preprint|video)
  2. D. Mehanovic, J. Bass, T. Courteau, D. Rancourt, and A. Lussier Desbiens. “Autonomous Thrust-Assisted Perching of a Fixed-Wing UAV on Vertical Surfaces”. In: Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. 2017. Best robotics paper. (paper|preprint|video)
  3. J.-S. Lauzon, Francois Grondin, A. Lussier Desbiens, and Michaud Francois. “Localization of RW-UAVs Using Particle Filtering Over Distributed Microphone Arrays”. In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2017. (preprint)
  4. J. Truong, C. Brousseau, and A. Lussier Desbiens. “A Method for Measuring the Bending and Torsional Stiffness Distributions of Alpine Skis”. In: 11th conference of the International Sports Engineering Association. 2016. (paper|preprint)
  5. Yufeng Chen, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, and Robert J Wood. “A computational tool to improve flapping efficiency of robotic insects”. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2014.
  6. Alexis Lussier Desbiens, R. Malka, Yufeng Chen, and Robert J Wood. “Principles of Microscale Flexure Hinge Design for Enhanced Endurance”. In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelli- gent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2014.
  7. Alexis Lussier Desbiens, M. Pope, F. Berg, Z. E. Teoh, J. Lee, and Mark Cutkosky. “Efficient jumpgliding: Theory and design considerations”. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). (Karlsruhe). 2013, pp. 4451–4458.
  8. Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Yufeng Chen, and Robert J Wood. “A wing characterization method for flapping-wing robotic insects”. In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (Tokyo). 2013, pp. 1367–1373.
  9. Elena Glassman, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Mark Tobenkin, Mark Cutkosky, and Russ Tedrake. “Region of attraction estimation for a perching aircraft: A Lyapunov method exploiting barrier certificates”. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). (St-Paul). 2012, pp. 2235–2242.
  10. Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Alan T Asbeck, and Mark R Cutkosky. “Scansorial landing and perching”. In: The 14th International Symposium Robotics Research (ISRR). (Lucerne). Springer, 2011, pp. 169–184.
  11. Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Alan Asbeck, and Mark Cutkosky. “Hybrid aerial and scansorial robotics”. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). (Anchorage). 2010, pp. 72– 77.
  12. Alexis Lussier Desbiens and Mark R Cutkosky. “Landing and perching on vertical surfaces with microspines for small unmanned air vehicles”. In: Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV). (Reno). Springer. 2010, pp. 313–327.
  13. Marc-André Lavoie, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Marc-André Roux, Philippe Fauteux, and Éric Lespérance. “Design of a Cockroach-like Running Robot for the 2004 SAE Walking Machine Challenge”. In: The 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR). Springer, 2006, pp. 311–318.
  14. Richard Giroux, Alain Berinstain, Stephen Braham, Thomas Graham, Matthew Bamsey, Keegan Boyd, Matthew Silver, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Pascal Lee, Marc Boucher, et al. “CSA Research on Greenhouse Operations in Extreme Environments : Current status and future plans”. In: The 5th Canadian Space Exploration Workshop. 2005.
  15. Éric Lespérance, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, M-A Roux, M-A Lavoie, and Philippe Fauteux. “Design of a small and low-cost power management unit for a cockroach-like running robot”. In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2005.
  16. Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Marc-André Roux, Marc-André Lavoie, Eric Lespérance, and Guillaume Girard. “Design of a cockroach-like walking robot for the SAE walking machine challenge 2004”. In: Mechatronics and Robotics. 2004.
  17. Eric Martin, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Thierry Laliberté, and Clément Gosselin. “SARAH hand used for space operation on STVF robot”. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping. 2004.