Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

• Program: International Center of Excellence

• Duration: 2012 – 2017

• Coordinator: C. Laugier

• Other partners: UPMC & CNRS (France), NTU (Taiwan)

The iCeiRA (International Center of Excellence in Intelligent Robotics and Automation Research.) international robotics laboratory led by Prof. Ren Luo from NTU (Taiwan) and strongly supported by the Taiwanese government, has been launched in 2012 for 5 years. Christian Laugier (Inria) and Raja Chatila (UPMC & CNRS) have actively participated to the starting of this laboratory in 2012 and are external Principal Investigators. The addressed research is about the concept of Human centered robotics.

• UC Berkeley & Stanford University (CA, USA)

• Subject: Autonomous Driving (postdoc in the scope of Inria@SV, common publications and patent).

• NUS Singapore & NTU Singapore.

• Subject: Autonomous Driving (visits, common ICT Asia project, common organization of workshops, review of PhD students).

• Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (USA)

• Subject: Decentralized Control of Markov Decision Processes.

• Subject: Autonomous Driving (visits and common organization of a workshop).