Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• O. Simonin was co-chair of the Workshop DEMUR "On-line decision-making in multi-robot coordination” at International Conf. RSS, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, June 2016.

• O. Simonin was General chair of the 2eme Journée nationale Robotique & IA., Clermont-Ferrand, RFIA 2016, 27 juin 2016.

• C. Laugier, Ph. Martinet, C. Stiller and U. Nunes, organized a workshop entitled "8th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles - A bridge between Robotics and ITS technologies" at IEEE ITSC 2016, Rio de Janeiro, November 1st 2016 (about 90 attendees).

• C. Laugier has been appointed as Program co-chair for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 (Madrid) and General co-Chair of IEEE/RSJ IROS 2019 (Hong Kong).

Member of the Organizing Committees

• C. Laugier was Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2016, for IEEE ICRA 2016, and for IEEE ITSC 2016.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Jilles S. Dibangoye was Program Committee member of the following conferences:

  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

  • Autonomous Agent and Multi-agent Systems International Conference (AAMAS)

• O. Simonin is Program Committee member for Autonomous Agent and Multi-agent Systems International Conference (AAMAS) Special Track Robotics.

• O. Simonin is Program Committee member of the JFSMA conference since 2008 (Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents).

Reviewer

• A. Martinelli served, in quality of reviewer, at the following international conferences: ICRA 2016, IROS 2016, ACC 2016.

• O. Simonin served, in quality of reviewer, at the following international conferences : IROS 2016, ICRA 2016.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• C. Laugier is Member of the Steering Committee of the journal IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Vehicles.

• C. Laugier Senior Editor of the journal IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Vehicles.

• C. Laugier is member of the Editorial Board of the journal IEEE ROBOMECH

• O. Simonin is a member of the editorial board of RIA Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• A. Martinelli served, in quality of reviewer, for the following journals: Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

• Jilles S. Dibangoye served as a reviewer for the following journals: Journal on Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO).

• O. Simonin serves, in quality of reviewer, for Autonomous Robots Journal (AURO) and the Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle (RIA).

Invited Talks

Anne Spalanzani was invited to give a talk at

• Xerox (Meylan), september 2016.

• the conference RFIA (Clermont Ferrand), June 2016.

• the journées scientifique d'Inria (Rennes), June 2016.

Agostino Martinelli was invited to give a talk at

• Centro Piaggio, University of Pisa, June 2016, “Nonlinear Unknown Input Observability: the General Analytic Solution”.

• Automation Lab, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, December 2016, “Nonlinear Unknown Input Observability: the General Analytic Solution”.

• Vision and Perception lab., University of Zurich, December 2016, “Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion”.

Christian Laugier was invited to give a talk at

• IEEE ICIT 2016, Session on Cognitive Systems and Automation for Service Robotics and Intelligent Mobility, Taipei, March 2016, "Bayesian Perception & Decision for Autonomous Vehicles and Mobile Robots”.

• Mediatek International Company, Hsinchu, Taiwan, March 15th 2016, “Bayesian Perception Technologies and Industrial Applications”.

• City-U Seminar, Hong Kong, April 22nd 2016, “Bayesian Perception & Decision for Autonomous vehicles and Mobile Robots”.

• Robotics Symposium, CUHK, T-Stone Robotics Institute, Hong Kong, April 21-22 2016, “Embedded Bayesian Perception & Decision-making for Autonomous Mobility in Dynamic Human Environments”.

• IEEE ARSO 2016, Plenary talk, Shanghai, July 2016, “Towards Fully Autonomous Driving ? The Perception & Decision-Making Bottleneck”.

Olivier Simonin was invited to give a talk at

• Université de Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 2016.

• Workshop SAMPEN, Lyon, Januray 27, 2016.

• Robotics Times Connect, Lyon, December 7, 2016.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• C. Laugier is co-chair with Philippe Martinet and Christoph Stiller, of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on "Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems (AGVITS)".

• C. Laugier is member of the Committee "safety of autonomous vehicles" (committee leaded by ARDI in the scope of the Innovation Regional Strategy).

Scientific Expertise

• C. Laugier has been invited as a panel member of the evaluation committee of "Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)". A three days evaluation seminar has been held in Beijing on November 9-11, 2016.

• C. Laugier is Scientific Consultant for the Probayes company.

• O. Simonin is member of the 2017 ANR scientific committee.

Research Administration

• C. Laugier is a member of several Ministerial and Regional French Committees on Robotics and Autonomous Cars.

• O. Simonin is member of the Rhone-Alpes Robotics cluster (Coboteam), for Inria and INSA de Lyon entities.

• A. Martinelli carried out the activity of leader for the ANR project VIMAD

• A. Martinelli carried out the activity of leader for the CARNOT project SEDIA