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Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

Awards :

- C . Laugier, Ph. Martinet and C. Stiller have received the “Most Active IEEE RAS Technical Committee Award of the year 2013” for the Technical Committee they are co-chairing on “Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems”. This prize has been announced during the award ceremony of the annual IEEE ICRA conference in Karlsruhe.

- C. Laugier has been invited by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the Taiwan Office in Paris to participate has a French Robotics Expert, to the high level French delegation conducted by Mme Edith Cresson (former prime minister), October 2013.

- C. Laugier was a member of the Best paper Award Committee of the IEEE ICRA 2013 conference, Karlsruhe, May 2013.

- C. Laugier was chair of the Best paper Award Committee of the 5th PPNIV Workshop organized in the scope of the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2013 conference. The prize was given by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on “Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems”.

Patents:

- S. Lefevre, C. Laugier, and J. Ibanez-Guzman have submitted a patent (Inria and Renault) on “Method and process for the evaluation of the risk of collision at intersections”. The patent has initially been submitted in 2012 and finalized in 2013.

- I. Paromtchik and C. Laugier have submitted in 2013 a patent on “Method and apparatus for improving driving safety of a vehicle travelling on a road”. Patent no. 13305275.3-1803.

- S. Lefevre, C. laugier and R. Bajcsy have submitted in 2013 a patent (Inria and UC Berkeley) on "Decision Making for Collision Avoidance Systems". Patent no. 13306495.6-1810.

Invited talks:

- C. Laugier has given an invited talk entitled "Road Scene Understanding using Bayesian Perception & Risk Assessment” at the Colloquium on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Osaka, June 14th 2013.

- C. Laugier has given an invited talk entitled "Embedded Bayesian Perception and Situation Awareness for Mobile Robots” at a NTU-iCeiRA Seminar on Intelligent Robotics, Taipei, May 2013.

- C. Laugier has given an invited lecture entitled "Embedded Bayesian Perception and Situation Awareness Robots & Intelligent Vehicles” at Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, June 2013.

- C. Laugier has given an invited talk entitled “Embedded Perception & Risk Assessment for Intelligent Vehicles” at the Workshop “Vehicle Autonomy in Urban Transportation Systems” IEEE ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, May 10th 2013.

- C. Laugier has given a keynote talk entitled “Road Scenes Understanding & Risk Assessment using Embedded Bayesian Perception” at the 5th PPNIV Workshop, IEEE IROS 2013, Tokyo, November 2013.

- C. Laugier has given an introductory talk entitled “Embedded Perception for Future Cars” at the Seminar In’Tech “Perception embarquée pour les véhicules de demain”, Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, October 24th 2013.

- C. Laugier and A. Spalanzani have given a tutorial on “Autonomous Robotics” at the ISIE 2013 Conference, Taipei, May 2013.