Eric Cabrol

CTO

Paris, France19 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in CAE and automotive industry.
Expertise in vehicle dynamics, ADAS, and robotics.
Proficient in multiple programming languages for automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled automotive engineer specializing in CAE, vehicle dynamics, and robotics.

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Skills

Core Skills

RoboticsMechatronicsVehicle DynamicsSimulationAdasStructural AnalysisDurabilityStructural OptimizationDesign AnalysisChassis Durability

Other Skills

software developmentCAE designfunctional safetylocalizationperceptioncontrolsimulation softwareHPCdriving simulatorsMIL/SIL/HILcustom virtual driverFEAroad noise analysischassis designdurability assessment

About

Short version : "Triple -ics" for structural mechanics, vehicle dynamics and robotics A bit longer : mechanical engineer with more than 20 years of experience in CAE in the automotive industry. I have worked during the five past years on simulation of vehicle dynamics and ADAS, and I have very recently switched to a new experience in robotics. Identified by my friends and family as a petrolhead (2 and 4 wheels), I enjoy learning new things, building up and sharing knowledge, solving problems, establishing links between disciplines, confronting simulations and test results. I also happen to be a moderate geek who enjoys coding simple tools that make repetitive tasks easier. I learned Perl at the beginning of the millenium, now trying to be as proficient in Python. I also have fun using Matlab/Simulink, and I learned PHP/MySQL only to develop my own wine cellar management tool :) As a result I have a solid multidisciplinary background in the CAE world, with a broad perspective both on 3D and 0D/1D simulation. In addition I speak French, English, a bit of Spanish, enough Italian to survive, Python, Matlab, Perl, Powershell, a bit of Julia and Bash TOEIC : 975

Experience

19 yrs

Total Experience

4 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Stanley robotics

Head of robot engineering

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France · On-site

Managing a team of 10 engineers in charge of the mechatronics and software development of the robots
CAE design and simulation
actuators and sensors sourcing
electrical design
battery sizing and charging strategy
functional safety
localization (GPS RTK, SLAM)
perception (obstacle detection, vehicle alignment)
control for path following

mechatronicssoftware developmentCAE designsimulationfunctional safetylocalization+3

Renault

2 roles

Simulation of vehicle dynamics

Apr 2016 – Sep 2022 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Leader of an R&D project for Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, dedicated to the development of a new simulation software for vehicle dynamics, in partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software.
This software is used not only for ride & handling assessment, but also for ESC homologation, ADAS simulation on HPC, etc ... Vehicle models are also used on driving simulators and in MIL/SIL/HIL context for systems simulation.
Also in charge of the development of a custom virtual driver used to simulate all the scenarios required for ADAS development, including Euro NCAP requirements (AEB 2020 and 2022, LKA, ELK ...)
Trying to bridge the gap between MBSE and the 0D/1D simulation world ...

vehicle dynamicssimulation softwareADASHPCdriving simulatorsMIL/SIL/HIL+2

Chassis NVH & Durability

Jul 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Tried to answer the following questions for road noise FEA :
what are the right moments to use FEA in the V-Model for chassis design ?
how to handle the tire question ? By working with superelements provided by OEMs, or by trying to build a detailed FE model via identification methods ?
what about the bushings ? Is the characterization of the dynamic stiffnesses on a limited set of operating points enough ? Do we really need to take couplings into account ? What about preload ?
... and for rear axle (twist beam) durability :
how to assess damage in virtual road simulations ? (via modal superposition method)
do we correlate with dynamic tests ? (comparison between virtual strain gauges and "real ones")
how to compare with quasi-static tests ?
how to specify quasi-static tests that allow to get the targeted damage ratios (wrt RLDA) ?
I developed a new methodology, relying upon virtual road load simulation, coupling finite element analyses and multibody simulations.

FEAroad noise analysischassis designdurability assessmentmodal superposition methodstructural analysis+1

Eurodecision

Automated structural optimization

May 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Versailles , France

Development of optimization methods for the design of bonnet/hood in pedestrian impact
Creation of a user-friendly analysis flow, (nearly) fully-automated, coupling the following operations in an optimization loop with the Alternova optimization library :
design of experiments selection
parametric CAD generation (Catia, via a Visual Basic macro)
meshing (Ansa)
execution and monitoring of Pamcrash jobs on remote HPC servers
post-processing (Metapost) of HIC criteria
aggregation of HIC results in order to get Euro-NCAP scores

optimization methodspedestrian impact analysisCAD generationmeshingHPC job executionstructural optimization+1

Medysys

3 roles

Chassis durability (for RENAULT Sport Technologies)

Jan 2007 – Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Design and analysis of vehicle suspension components (Catia, Ansa, Abaqus, Nastran, Pam-Crash, Falancs, Metapost)
Supervision of validation tests : impact, fatigue ...
Post-processing and analysis of test results and vehicle measurements (RPC Pro, Matlab)

suspension designvalidation testspost-processingvehicle measurementschassis durabilitydesign analysis