Robotics,
grounded in physics.

I’m Mirado, a robotics researcher and engineer. I connect mechanics, modeling and control to understand how robots move — and build systems that put those ideas to work.

Teaching & research at ENSTA, Brest
PhD candidate · Lab-STICC

Mirado Mortel

From a physical idea
to a working robot.

Understanding motion, extracting information, and taking a model all the way to a prototype.

CAD model of the Pendrivencar: a wheeled mechanism coupled to an elastic pendulum
The Pendrivencar — a mechanical starting point.

Doctoral research · 2023–2026

Natural locomotion

Finding the motion in the mechanics.

How can a robot’s own dynamics organize a repeatable gait? My doctoral research connects natural oscillations, energy exchange and resonant control.

The aim is to discover motions the mechanics can sustain, then supply energy at the right time to maintain them when losses are present.

Explore the thesis
Inspection robot inside a hydraulic pipe, above its RTAB-Map 3D reconstruction
From a physical inspection setup to a reconstructed map.

Industrial R&D · EDF · 2022

Inspection robotics

Making sense of the world in 3D.

Visual SLAM and 3D reconstruction for hydraulic-pipe inspection at EDF.

I combined RealSense and inertial measurements with ROS and RTAB-Map, then used the reconstructed geometry for curvature-based pipe classification.

Perception · Estimation · Robot integration

Built, modeled, tested.

Selected engineering projects

EquiLeap wheeled biped: mechanical design and built prototype

Wheeled biped · 2023

EquiLeap

I designed the four-bar architecture and Lagrangian model, then integrated the structure, actuation, sensing and real-time control of a 1.2 m wheeled biped.

Read the project report
Cinclus-23 air–water vehicle and the project team

Air–water robotics · 2021–2022

Cinclus-23

As mechatronic lead, I designed a carbon/epoxy vehicle integrating Pixhawk, Raspberry Pi and MAVLink. The prototype was tested in flight, underwater and through air–water transitions.

Shiva Exo mechanism model and spring geometry

Assistive mechanisms

Shiva Exo

Buckling-spring characterization, an Arduino/Simulink test bench and a Simscape Multibody model to investigate variable assistance.

Different systems.
A shared curiosity.

Beyond my doctoral work, I explore how physical and geometric structure can simplify what a robot needs to model, sense or control.

Flexible bodies & walking

Reduced modeling of a flexible beam under an environmental constraint, and numerical reproduction of a conservative three-link walking gait. These studies explore how motion emerges from mechanics.

Modeling & numerical studies

Geometry for navigation

Can an environment offer its own coordinates? One prototype divides a cave-like geometry into connected cells; a separate circular SLAM study estimates position and a map from odometry and a single scalar signal.

Synthetic & simulated prototypes

Sensing with less

A compact three-electrode sensor in water motivates a simple question: how much can a small measurement reveal? I study a two-dimensional electric-field model and precomputed sensitivities for fast simulation.

Physical modeling & simulation

Papers & preprints

Earlier publications are indexed under Mirado Rajaomarosata.

Researcher.
Engineer. Teacher.

I hold a teaching and research position in robotics and computer science at ENSTA, Brest, while completing my PhD within Lab-STICC.

My doctoral work is advised by Luc Jaulin, Lionel Lapierre and Simon Rohou. It moves between mathematical models, numerical methods and physical mechanisms.

I trained at ENS Rennes and ENSTA, where I ranked first in the autonomous robotics engineering specialization. I also hold an MSc in Dynamical Systems and Signals from the University of Angers and the French agrégation teaching qualification.

I teach programming and computer vision, with experience in C, C++ and 3D vision.

Model
Nonlinear dynamics
Mechanics & geometry
Estimation & control
Compute
Python · C++ · MATLAB
Numerical continuation
ROS · SLAM · Simulink
Build
Mechatronic design
Sensing & actuation
Integrated robotic prototypes