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
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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

France Life Imaging WP3-FLI ANFEET

Participant : Alexandre Krupa.

duration: 24 months.

This project started in January 2016. Its objective is to initiate collaborative research with the ICube laboratory (Strasbourg) on the control and supervision of flexible endoscopes in the digestive tube using ultrasound images.

ANR Contint Visioland

Participants : Noël Mériaux, Pierre-Marie Kerzerho, Patrick Rives, François Chaumette.

no Inria Rennes 8304, duration: 48 months.

This project ended in October 2017. It involved a consortium managed by Onera in Toulouse with Airbus, Spikenet Technology, LS2N, and Lagadic. Its aim was to develop vision-based localization and navigation techniques for autonomous landing on a runway (see Section 7.1.4).

ANR Contint Entracte

Participant : Julien Pettré.

no Inria Rennes 8013, duration: 42 months.

This project ended in April 2017. It was realized in collaboration with the Gepetto group at Laas, Toulouse, and the Mimetic group at Irisa and Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique. It addressed the problem of motion planning for anthropomorphic systems, and more generally, the problem of manipulation path planning. Entracte proposed to study in parallel both the mathematical foundations of artificial motion and the neurocognitive structures used by humans to quickly solve motion problems.

ANR JCJC Percolation

Participant : Julien Pettré.

no Inria Rennes 7991, duration: 42 months.

The ANR “Jeune Chercheur” Percolation project ended on June 2017. It aimed at designing perception-based crowd simulation algorithms. We developed agents able of perceiving their virtual environment through virtual sensors, and able to navigate in it, as well as to interact with the other agents.

ANR JCJC SenseFly

Participants : Thomas Bellavoir, Muhammad Usman, Paolo Robuffo Giordano.

no Irisa CNRS 50476, duration: 36 months.

The ANR “Jeune Chercheur” SenseFly project started in August 2015. Its goal is to advance the state-of-the-art in multi-UAV in the design and implementation of fully decentralized and sensor-based group behaviors by only resorting to onboard sensing (mainly cameras and IMU) and local communication (e.g., Bluetooth communication, wireless networks). Topics such as individual flight control, formation control robust against sensor limitations (e.g., limited field of view, occlusions), distributed estimation of relative positions/bearings from local sensing, maintenance of architectural properties of a multi-UAV formation are studied in the project. Part of the platforms described in Section 6.8.5 has been purchased thanks to this grant.

ANR PLaTINUM

Participants : Eduardo Fernandez Moral, Vincent Drevelle, Patrick Rives.

no Inria Sophia 10204, duration: 42 months.

This project started in November 2015. It involves a consortium managed by Litis in Rouen with IGN Matis (Paris), Le2i (Le Creusot) and Lagadic group. It aims at proposing novel solutions to robust long-term mapping of urban environments.

BPI Romeo 2

Participants : Giovanni Claudio, Fabien Spindler, François Chaumette.

no Inria Rennes 7114, duration: 60 months.

This project ended in October 2017. It involved a large consortium managed by Softbank Robotics (ex Aldebaran Robotics) with Laas in Toulouse, Isir in Paris, Lirmm in Montpellier, Inria groups Lagadic, Bipop (Pierre-Brice Wieber), Flowers (Pierre-Yves Oudeyer), etc. It aimed at developing advanced control and perception functionalities to a humanoid robot. In this project, we developed visual manipulation and navigation tasks with Romeo and Pepper.

Equipex Robotex

Participants : Fabien Spindler, François Chaumette.

no Inria Rennes 6388, duration: 9 years.

Lagadic is one of the 15 French academic partners involved in the Equipex Robotex network that started in February 2011. It is devoted to get and manage significant equipment in the main robotics labs in France. In the scope of this project, we have got the humanoid robot Romeo (see Section 6.8.4).