Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• O. Simonin was Sponsor Chair of ECAL 2017, the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life, organized in Lyon, September 4-8 (https://project.inria.fr/ecal2017/).

• C. Laugier, Ph. Martinet, C. Stiller and U. Nunes, organized a workshop entitled “9th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicle’’ at IEEE IROS 2017, Vancouver (Canada), September 2017 (about 170 attendees). http://ppniv17.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/

• C. Laugier co-organized with Suzanne Lesecq an Inria-CEA workshop on “Technologies for Autonomous vehicles’’, Grenoble, February 2017. http://www.irtnanoelec.fr/organisation-dun-workshop-autour-des-technologies-du-vehicule-autonome/

• C. Laugier co-organized with Chao Lu a workshop at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) on “ Technologies for Autonomous Vehicles’’, Beijing, May 2017.

• C. Laugier co-organized with NUS and MIT a workshop at IEEE ICRA 2017 entitled “ Workshop on Robotics and Vehicular Technologies for Self-Driving Cars’’, Singapore, June 2017. http://cim.mcgill.ca/ malika/ICRA17_WS/

• 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).

• J. Dibangoye and O. Simonin co-organized the 1st Ecole d'Automne en IA, in Lyon, with Prof. C. Solnon (LIRIS, INSA Lyon) and the Pre-GDR IA, CNRS.

• F. Jumel is Member of Organizing Committees of the Robocup@Home league.

• F. Jumel is elected member of Technical Committees of the Robocup@Home league.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• C. Laugier was Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2017 (Vancouver), for IEEE ICRA 2017 (Singapore), and for IEEE ITSC 2017(Yokohama).

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Jilles S. Dibangoye served, in quality of program committee member, for the following conferences: AAAI, IJCAI

• O. Simonin served, in quality of program committee member, for AAMAS (Autonomous Agent and Multi-agent Systems International Conference), Track Robotics.

• O. Simonin served, in quality of program committee member, for ICAPS (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling), Track Robotics.

• O. Simonin served, in quality of program committee member and co-editor of the proceedings, for ECAL (European Conference on Artificial Life).

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

Reviewer

• Agostino Martinelli served, in quality of reviewer, for the following conferences: ICRA, IROS, ACC.

• Jilles S. Dibangoye served, in quality of reviewer, for the following conferences: AAAI, IJCAI, ICRA.

• Olivier Simonin served, in quality of reviewer, for the following conferences: ICRA, IROS, ICAPS, ACC.

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 Robotics, Transaction on Automatic Control, Transaction on Control System and Technology, Robotics and Automation Letters.

• Jilles S. Dibangoye served, in quality of reviewer, for the following journals: Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Journal

• O. Simonin served, in quality of reviewer, for the following journals : Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Autonomous Robots (AURO) and RIA (Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle).

Invited Talks

• A. Martinelli was invited to give a talk at the Robotics and Perception Group at the university of Zurich, December 2017, “Closed form solution to cooperative visual inertial sensor fusion”.

• Christian Laugier was invited to give a talk at the 4th journée “Mobilité Innovante: La sécurité Par et Pour les véhicules autonomes”, Clermont-Ferrand, January 2017. Title: “Perception for risk prediction and autonomous driving” [14].

• Christian Laugier was invited to give a talk at the IS-Auto-Europe 2017, Dusseldorf, April 2017. Title: “Embedded Bayesian Perception and V2X Communication for Autonomous Driving” [13].

• Christian Laugier was invited to give a talk at the GTC 2017, San José, California, May 2017. Title: “Embedded Bayesian Perception and VTX Communication for Autonomous Driving” [17].

• Christian Laugier was invited to give a talk at the IEEE ICRA 2017 Workshop on Robotics and Vehicular Technologies for Self-Driving Cars, Jun 2017, Singapore, 2017. Title: “Embedded Bayesian Perception and Collision Risk Assessment” [12].

• Jilles S. Dibangoye was invited to give a talk at the MAFTEC group of the Artificial Intelligence GDR, Nov 2017. Title: “Learning to Act Optimally in Decentralized POMDPs”.

• C. Wolf was invited to a talk at DL2T : Deep Learning – Télédétection - Temps November 20th, 2017, Paris (Issy-Les-Moulineaux), France. Title: Apprentissage profond (Deep Learning) et séries temporelles : Concepts et mise en oeuvre.

• C. Wolf was invited to a talk at the conference Journées Nationale de la Recherche en Robotique. November 8th-10th, 2017, Biaritz, France. Title: Learning human centered computing for vision and robotics.

• C. Wolf was invited as a Keynote at European and Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication. October 17th, 2017. Title: Learning human motion: gestures, activities, pose, identity.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• O. Simonin was elected in 2017 as member of the Board of AFIA, the French Association for Artificial Intelligence.

• 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 is member of the Advisory Board of ISR University of Coimbra. He visited ISR in March 2017.

• C. Laugier is Scientific Advisor for the ProbaYes SA.

• C. Laugier have written a report on the concept of “Robot Taxi’’for Renault-Nissan.

• O. Simonin was a member of the 2017 ANR scientific committee, and a reviewer, for the Interaction and Robotics call.

• O. Simonin was a reviewer for ANRT, CIFRE PhD thesis grant.

• O. Simonin was a reviewer for ANR ASTRID project submissions.

• A. Martinelli served, in quality of reviewer, for ANR project submissions.

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 Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Robotics cluster (Coboteam), for Inria and INSA de Lyon entities.

• O. Simonin is member of the Scientific Council of the Digital League (Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes).

• 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

• F. Jumel is member of the board of IMAGINOVE cluster (digital content industry)

• F. Jumel is member of the Rhone-Alpes Robotics cluster (Coboteam)