Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National initiatives

DGE Ministry grant COMAC “Optimized multitechnique control of aeronautic composite structures”

Participants : Laurent Bougrain, Octave Boussaton, Marie Tonnelier.

The goal of this three-years project is to develop a powerful system of control on site, in production and in exploitation, of aeronautical pieces made of composite. It takes up the challenge of the precise, fast and local inspection on composite pieces of aeronautical structures new or in service by using techniques of non-destructive control more effective and faster to increase the lifespans of the structures of planes. This project requires a decision-making system including fast methods of diagnostic based on several optical technics as non-destructive control.

ANR project KEOPS

Participants : Frédéric Alexandre, Laurent Bougrain, Thierry Viéville.

This «ANR Internal White Project» involving NEUROMATHCOMP and CORTEX Inria EPI in France with the U. of Valparaiso, U. Tecnica Frederico Santa-Maria, and U. De Chili is a 3 years, 248 person-months, sensory biology, mathematical modeling, computational neuroscience and computer vision, project addressing the integration of non-standard behaviors from retinal neural sensors, dynamically rich, sparse and robust observed in natural conditions, into neural coding models and their translation into real, highly non-linear, bio-engineering artificial solutions. An interdisciplinary platform for translation from neuroscience into bioengineering will seek convergence from experimental and analytical models, with a fine articulation between biologically inspired computation and nervous systems neural signal processing (coding / decoding) [23] .

ANR project PHEROTAXIS

Participants : Dominique Martinez, Thomas Voegtlin.

How can animals so successfully locate odour sources? This apparently innocuous question reveals on analysis unexpectedly deep issues concerning our understanding of the physical and biological world and offers interesting prospects for future applications. Pherotaxis focuses on communication by sex pheromones in moths. The main aim of the project is to integrate the abundant experimental data on the pheromone plumes, neural networks and search behaviour available in the literature, as well as that collected or being collected by us at the molecular, cellular, systemic and behavioural levels into a comprehensive global model of the pheromonal olfactory processes. To reach this objective, the consortium combines several groups of specialists with different and complementary fields, in physics (Institut Pasteur IP), neurobiology (INRA) and bio-robotics (Inria).

Project CNRS PEPII: A large-scale, robotically embodied decision making model

Participants : Frédéric Alexandre, Nicolas Rougier, Thierry Viéville.

This project is a collaboration between the “Institut des Maladies neuro-dégénératives” (UMR 5293, team “Approche systémique de la Boucle Extrapyramidale”), Supélec (“Information, Multimodalité, Signal”) and the Cortex team. This project aims at studying the decision making process viewed as a high-level brain function, actioned by a distributed network of cortical and sub-cortical structures, interconnected in positive and negative feedback loops.

Project CNRS PEPII IMAVO

Participants : Nicolas Rougier, Yann Boniface.

This project is a collaboration between the “Institut des Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d'Aquitaine” (UMR 5287), the “Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique” (Systèmes Intégrés Mobiles et Autonomes) and the LORIA (Maia and Cortex groups). This project aims at investigating model-free and model-based approaches in the decision process in order to propose a computational model of the decision process in simple tasks.