Publications by Marc Michel Charles Favier

DEMO: Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) for the restoration of facial movements

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Marc Michel Charles Favier, Simon Holzer

Facial paralysis is a highly burdening condition, resulting in a patient's inability to move his musculature on one or both sides of the mouth. The restoration of facial movement is crucial for enhancing the overall patients' quality of life. The use of DE ...

SPIE2025

Development and validation of a dielectric-elastomer-based artificial urinary sphincter

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Paolo Germano, Armando Matthieu Walter, Quentin Philippe Mario De Menech, Marc Michel Charles Favier

This study presents the development and experimental validation of an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) based on dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) for the treatment of urinary incontinence. Traditional AUS devices are often mechanically complex, prone ...

SPIE2025

Normal Contact Force Estimation Using Deep Learning

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Marc Michel Charles Favier

Small scale ultrasonic piezoelectric actuators performance strongly depends on not well-known contact dynamics. Deep Neural Network (DNN) sees their use in physic simulation growing as their flexibility allows better performance especially when dynamics la ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Contact Tip Trajectory in Steady-State Regime Prediction Using Deep Learning for Piezoelectric Actuators

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Marc Michel Charles Favier, Marjan Ghorbani

Including friction modeling in simulation can be challenging and requires time domain simulation, which is time consuming. We propose to separate the friction modelling from the FEA (Finite Element Analysis). The approach is defined for UCM (Ultrasonic Cer ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Reinforcement Learning and Hardware in the Loop for Localized Vibrotactile Feedback in Haptic Surfaces

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Xiaotao Ren, Marc Michel Charles Favier, Camilo Hernandez Mejia

Touch is commonly used to mediate human-machine interactions, notably in the setting of Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs), where touch screens are prevalent. The lack of rich haptic feedback has an impact on the richness and quality of the interaction. Pi ...

IEEE2021