Section: Overall Objectives

Origin of the project

Chroma is a bi-localized project-team at Inria Grenoble Rhone-Alpes between Grenoble and Lyon. The project was launched at the beginning of the year 2015 (March) before it became an Inria project-team on December 1st, 2017. It brings together experts in perception and decision-making for mobile robotics, all of them sharing common approaches that mainly relate to the field of Artificial Intelligence. It was originally founded by members of Inria project-team eMotion led by Christian Laugier (2002-2014) and teacher-researchers from INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) Lyon (INSA Lyon is part of the University de Lyon) working in the robotic group led by Prof. Olivier Simonin in CITI Lab. (Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of Service, see http://www.citi-lab.fr/) (since 2013). Earlier members include Olivier Simonin (Prof. INSA Lyon), Christian Laugier (Inria researcher DR1), Jilles Dibangoye (Asso. Prof. INSA Lyon), Agostino Martinelli (Inria researcher CR1) and Dizan Vasquez (Inria starting researcher SRP). On December 1st, 2015, Anne Spalanzani (Asso. Prof. Univ. Grenoble, habilite) joined the team (she was previously member of Prima and eMotion Inria project-teams). In January 2016, Dizan Vasquez left the team to join Apple.