Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Success for European H2020 ICT Robotics project application 'BugWright2' (9M€), led by C. Pradalier (CNRS, GeorgiaTech Metz). O. Simonin leads the multi-robot systems Work-Package (funding for Chroma & Agora teams 600K€). Domain : Autonomous Robotic Inspection and Maintenance on Ship Hulls and Storage Tanks.

• Success for several ANR project applications in the field of Artificial Intelligence :

  • ANR JCJC 'PLASMA' led by J. Dibangoye (250K€)

  • ANR 'DELICIO' led by C. Wolf (510 K€), Chroma is partner.

  • AI Chair led by C. Wolf (520 K€), Chroma is partner (O. Simonin, J. Dibangoye).

• Success for several project applications in the field of Autonomous Vehicles : 2 multi-annual R&D projects with Toyota Motor Europe, a PSPC project ES3CAP leaded by Kalray (3 years), and an EU ECSEL project CPS4EU (3 years).

• Our team LyonTech obtained the 3rd place at the Robocup@Home Pepper league in the 2019 RoboCup competition organized in Sydney (July).

• O. Simonin co-chaired with F. Charpillet (Inria Nancy) the JNRR'2019 bi-annual conference, gathering the French Robotic community (GDR Robotique) ($\sim$ 200 pers.).

• New book by A. Martinelli : "Observability: A new theory based on the group of invariance". To be edited by SIAM on year 2020.

• Exploitation Licenses of CMCDOT have respectively been sold to Toyota and to a French company in the field autonomous vehicles (confidential), with an engineer support for the related transfer of technology.