Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

Renault (2015 - 2018)

Participants : Mathieu Barbier, Christian Laugier, Olivier Simonin.

This contract was linked to the PhD Thesis of Mathieu Barbier (Cifre Thesis). The objective is to develop technologies for collaborative driving as part of a Driving Assistance Systems for improving car safety in road intersections. Both vehicle perception and communications are considered in the scope of this study. Some additional short-term contracts (about 3 months) and an evaluation license for the team CMCDOT software have also been signed during this period. We are on the process of signing a new PhD research agreement for the period 2019 – 2021, with objective to address the open problem of emergency obstacle avoidance in complex traffic situations (for ADAS or AD applications).

IRT Nanoelec – Security of Autonomous Vehicles project (2018 - 2020)

Participants : Christian Laugier, Lukas Rummelhard, Jerome Lussereau, Jean-Alix David, Thomas Genevois, Nicolas Turro [SED] .

Security of Autonomous Vehicles is a project supported by ANR in the scope of the program PULSE of IRT Nanoelec. The objective of this project is to integrate, develop and promote technological bricks of context capture, for the safety of the autonomous vehicle. Building on Embedded Bayesian Perception for Dynamic Environment, Bayesian data fusion and filtering technologies from sets of heterogeneous sensors, these bricks make it possible to secure the movements of vehicles, but also provide them with an enriched and useful representation for autonomy functions themselves. In this context, various demonstrators embedding those technology bricks are developed in cooperation with industrial partners.

FUI Tornado (2017 – 2020)

Participants : Rabbia Asghar, Anne Spalanzani, Christian Laugier, Olivier Simonin.

The project Tornado is coordinated by Renault. The academic partners of the project are Inria Grenoble-Rhône Alpes, UTC, Institut Pascal, University of Pau, IFSTTAR. The industrial and application partners are Renault, Easymile, Neavia, Exoskills, 4D-Virtualiz, MBPC and Rambouillet Territoires. The objective of the project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a mobility service systems operating in the commercial zone of Rambouillet and on some public roads located in its vicinity. Several autonomous cars (Autonomous Renault Zoe). The IRT Nanoelec is also involved in the project as a subcontractor, for testing the perception, decision-making, navigation and controls components developed in the project.

FUI STAR (2018 – 2021)

Participants : Andres Gomez Hernandez, Olivier Simonin, Christian Laugier.

The Project STAR is coordinated by IVECO. The academic partners of the projects are Inria Grenoble-Rhône, IFSTTAR, ISAE-Supaéro. The industrial and application partners are IVECO, Easymile, Transpolis, Transdev and Sector Groupe. The goal of the project is to build an autonomous bus that will operate on a safe from other vehicle lane but not from pedestrian. Inria is involved in helping design situation awarness perception, specialy in special case like docking at the bus stop and handling dynamicity of any obstacle. The IRT Nanoelec is also involved in the project as a subcontractor, for testing the perception, decision-making, navigation and controls components developed in the project.