Personnel
Overall Objectives
Research Program
Application Domains
Highlights of the Year
New Software and Platforms
New Results
Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry
Partnerships and Cooperations
Dissemination
Bibliography
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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR

ANR "VIMAD" (2015-17)

The VIMAD project, led by A. Martinelli, aims at developing a robust and reliable perception system, only based on visual and inertial measurements, to enhance the navigation capabilities of fully autonomous micro aerial drones. It also aims at acquiring a deep theoretical comprehension of the problem of fusing visual and inertial measurements, by investigating its observability properties in challenging scenarios.

The activities related to this project, followed the work-plan (first year). They regarded the usage of our closed-form solution (recently published on the journal of computer vision, [64]) in the framework of micro aerial navigation in order to:

  1. automatically perform state initialization;

  2. improve the data matching process.

Additionally, the activities of VIMAD regarded the investigation of an unsolved problem in control theory, which is the unknown input observability problem in the nonlinear case, and its applications to the visual-inertial structure from motion problem.

See section 3.2.5 for a description of the results obtained during this year of the project.

ANR "Valet" (2016-18)

The ANR VALET project proposes a novel approach for solving car-sharing vehicles redistribution problem using vehicle platoons guided by professional drivers. An optimal routing algorithm is in charge of defining platoons drivers' routes to the parking areas where the followers are parked in a complete automated mode. The consortium is made of 2 academic partners : Inria (RITS, Chroma, Prima) and Ircyyn Ecole Centrale de Nantes and the AKKA company. The phD student (Pavan Vashista) recruited in this project focus on integrating models of human behaviors to evaluate and communicate a risk to pedestrians that may encounter the trajectory of the VALET vehicle. His phD thesis started in february 2016 and is codirected by D. Vaufreydaz (Inria/PervasiveInteraction).

ANR "HIANIC" (2017-20)

The HIANIC project, led by A. Spalanzani, proposes to endow autonomous vehicles with smart behaviors (cooperation, negotiation, socially acceptable movements) that better suit complex SharedSpace situations. It will integrate models of human behaviors (pedestrian, crowds and passengers), social rules, as well as smart navigation strategies that will manage interdependent behaviors of road users and of cybercars. The consortium is made of 3 academic partners: Inria (RITS, Chroma, Pervasive Interaction teams), Lig Laboratory (Magma team) and LS2N laboratory (ARMEN and PACCE teams). A. Spalanzani is the leader of this project.

PIA Ademe "CAMPUS" (2017-20)

The CAMPUS project aims to identify, develop and deploy new functions for the autonomous cars in urban environments. In this project, Chroma will focus on finding solutions to navigate in complex situations such as crowded environments or dense traffic. The consortium is made of 1 academic partner: Inria (Rits and Chroma teams) and 3 companies: Safran electronics, Gemalto and Valeo.