VOLVO-Renault Trucks Group (2016-2019)

Participants : Olivier Simonin, Jilles Dibangoye, Laetitia Matignon.

This collaboration has been built inside the INSA-VOLVO Chair, led by Prof. Didier Remond. In this context, the Chair funds the PhD Thesis of Guillaume Bono (2016-19). The objective is to study how machine learning techniques can deal with optimization of goods distribution using a fleet of autonomous vehicles. In the following of the first results, VOLVO proposed to extend our collaboration by funding a Post-doc position concerning good distribution with a platoon of autonomous vehicles. This Post-Doc will start on February 2018.

Toyota Motor Europe (2006 - 2018)

Participant : Christian Laugier.

The contract with Toyota Motors Europe is a joint collaboration involving Toyota Motors Europe, Inria and ProbaYes. It follows a first successful short term collaboration with Toyota in 2005. This contract aims at developing innovative technologies in the context of automotive safety. The idea is to improve road safety in driving situations by equipping vehicles with the technology to model on the fly the dynamic environment, to sense and identify potentially dangerous traffic participants or road obstacles, and to evaluate the collision risk. The sensing is performed using sensors commonly used in automotive applications such as cameras and lidar.

This collaboration is on the process to be extended for 4 years (period 2018-2021) and Toyota provides us with an experimental vehicle Lexus equipped with various sensing and control capabilities. Several additional connected technical contracts have been signed also.