Dr Séverin Kezeu invents the universal anti-collision system for mobile machinery

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FThey from a teacher and a nurse, Sévérin Kezeu was born in Yaoundé in 1967. He developed a taste for reading very early on, discovered the world of robotics at the age of 7 and became aware of the black cause through Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

After a brilliant schooling, he takes courses in mathematics and computer science at the University of Yaoundé 1 and is accepted after many efforts at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation of Strasbourg in France. The young talent, 2 years before the end of his studies, is already sinking under the wonderful professional proposals in the United States. In 1991, the brilliant subject of 24 ans won the first French national prize for invention and innovation after his doctoral dissertation on collision.

Prior to his invention, although there were many collision avoidance systems, they were all designed by a vertical approach, that is, by specialists in each field. Crane professionals, for example, developed a system for cranes, those of the car one for cars. The disadvantage of this approach was that we obtained systems that only fit a given type of mobile on the one hand and especially non-optimal: presence of false alerts, some untreated risk cases.