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Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair
  • Patrick Rives was the co-organizer and the scientific chair of the Journées Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique (JNRR'15) held in October at Cap Hornu.

Member of the organizing committees
  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano co-organized the 7-th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, Pontedera, Italy

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees
  • François Chaumette: ICRA'2015, RSS'2015, ICRA'2016

  • Eric Marchand: Orasis'15, IROS'2015, ICRA'2016

  • Patrick Rives: ICRA'2016, RFIA'2016

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano: ICRA'2015, ICRA'2016

Reviewer
  • Marie Babel: ICRA 2016 (2), IROS 2015 (1)

  • François Chaumette: IROS'2015 (3), Humanoids'2015 (1)

  • Vincent Drevelle: IROS'2015 (4)

  • Alexandre Krupa: IROS'2015 (2), ISBI'2015 (1), ICRA'2016 (4)

  • Eric Marchand: Orasis'15 (3), ICRA'2015 (3), IROS'2015 (2), ICRA'2016 (2)

  • Patrick Rives: ICCV'2015 (2), ICRA'2015 (3), IROS'2015 (3), IV'2015 (1), MVIGRO'2015 (1)

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano: ICRA'15, IROS'15, IROS'15, MED'15

Journal

Member of the editorial boards
  • François Chaumette: Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Robotics Research, Senior Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

  • Alexandre Krupa: Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

  • Eric Marchand: Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter, Guest Editor (with Peter Corke and Jana Kosecka) of a Special Issue of the Int. Journal of Robotics Research on Robot Vision.

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano: Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Robotics, Area Chair of RSS 2015

Reviewer - Reviewing activities
  • Marie Babel: Autonomous Robots (1)

  • François Chaumette: IEEE Trans. on Robotics (4), Robotics and Autonomous Systems (1)

  • Patrick Rives: IEEE Trans. on Robotics (1), Robotics and Autonomous Systems (1), TSI (2)

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano: IEEE Trans. on Robotics (2)

Invited talks

  • Marie Babel and François Pasteau were invited to give a talk during the final workshop of the Interreg 4A France Channel COALAS project at Kent University, UK, in May 2015.

  • François Chaumette: Plenary talk at DICTA'2015, Adelaide, Australia [58] ; Tutorial at SIDRA'2015 (Ph.D. Summer School on Robot Control), Bertinoro, Italy

  • Eric Marchand: Plenary talk at Orasis'2015, Amiens, France.

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano. Invited Talk: Control of Quadrotors in Unstructured Environments. RSS 2015 Symposium: Frontiers of Robotics, April 2015

  • Fabien Spindler: Plenary talk and visual servoing atelier at RPRA'2015 summer school (Recent Progress in Robotics Applications), Alicante, Spain

Leadership within the scientific community

  • François Chaumette and Patrick Rives are members of the scientific council of the “GdR Robotique” and JNRR.

  • François Chaumette has been elected to serve in the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). He chaired the 2015 IEEE RAS Chapter of the year Award Committee and served in the 2015 IEEE RAS Fellow Nomination Committee. He also served in the Advisory Board of the Peraspera project. This project funded by the EC is in charge of drafting the roadmap of the EC Strategic Research Cluster on Space Robotics.

  • Alexandre Krupa is a member of the GestChir project at the IRT b<>com in Rennes.

  • Eric Marchand is in the board of the “Images et réseaux” competitivity cluster. He is also a member of the scientific council of the “École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Rennes” (ESIR).

  • Patrick Rives has represented Inria's robotic community at European Robotics Forum 2015 for the election of the Board of Directors of euRobotics AISBL.

Scientific expertise

  • François Chaumette and Patrick Rives served in the jury to select the best French Ph.D. thesis in robotics.

  • François Chaumette served as a Panel member for the ERC PE7 consolidator grants. He also served as evaluator of the FP7 Euroc project and reviewed a set of ANR proposals.

  • Eric Marchand served in the jury to select the best French Ph.D. thesis in image processing and computer vision.

  • Patrick Rives served as a member of the Inria evaluation committee until July 2015. He also served in the local CR2 (Rocquencourt) and national DR2 recruitment juries.

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano served as External Reviewer for the EU FP7 Sherpa Project.

Research administration

  • Marie Babel is a member of the “Comité de Centre” of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique.

  • François Chaumette serves as the president of the committee in charge of all the temporary recruitments (“Commission Personnel”) at Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique and Irisa. He is also a member of the Head team of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique.

  • Eric Marchand served as secretary in the board of the “Association Française pour la Reconnaissance et l'Interprétation des Formes (AFRIF)”. He isalso in charge of the Irisa Ph.D. students in the committee in charge of all the temporary recruitments (“Commission Personnel”) at Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique and Irisa.

  • Alexandre Krupa is a member of the CUMIR (“Commission des Utilisateurs des Moyens Informatiques pour la Recherche”) of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique.

Patents

  • François Pasteau and Marie Babel are the main authors of a patent (No FR 3 021 400) entitled “Méthode de correction d'une trajectoire dans un dispositif d'aide au déplacement de personnes”.

  • Lucas Royer, Alexandre Krupa and Maud Marchal (Hybrid group at Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique and Irisa) submitted a patent application (No. FR15/60541) to INPI entitled “Process for tracking a clinical target in medical images”.