Richard Béarée received his M. Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from Lille University in 2001 and the M.S. degree in automatic control in 2002. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the French engineering school ENSAM in 2005, where he currently holds the position of professor in robotics at the LISPEN Laboratory.

His current research interests include robot localization, computer vision, trajectory planning, trajectory generation and vibration control with applications to industrial robotics systems and Human-Robot Interaction.

Service to the community 

• Associate Editor - Elsevier Journal of Control Engineering Practice - since 2018
• Associate Editor - ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control - since 2018
• Special session organization - IEEE IECON 2018 - Collaborative Robots in Smart Manufacturing
• Scientific commitee - JCM18, JCM19, GOL18, MUGV (since 2010)