Section: Overall Objectives

Overall Objectives

The overall objective of Chroma team is to address fundamental and open issues that lie at the intersection of the emerging research fields called “Human Centered Robotics" (Montreuil, V.; Clodic, A.; Ransan, M.; Alami, R., "Planning human centered robot activities," in Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2007. ISIC. IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.2618-2623, 7-10 Oct. 2007) and “Multi-Robot Systems (MRS)" (IEEE RAS Multi-Robot Systems http://multirobotsystems.org/).

More precisely, our goal is to design algorithms and develop models allowing mobile robots to navigate and operate in dynamic and human-populated environments. Chroma is involved in all decision aspects pertaining to mono- and multi-robot navigation tasks, including perception and motion-planning.

The general objective is to build robotic behaviors that allow one or several robots to operate and cooperate safely among humans in partially known environments, where time, dynamics and interactions play a major role. Recent technological progress on embedded computational power, on sensor and communication technologies, and on miniaturized mechatronic systems, make the required technological breakthroughs possible (including from the scalability point of view).

Chroma is positioned in the third challenge of the Inria 2013-2017 Strategic Plan "Interacting with the real and digital worlds: interaction, uses and learning".