Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• Co-organized the French days for Humanoid Robotics (JNRH – “Journées Nationales de la Robotique Humanoïde”), sponsored by the GT7 of the GDR Robotics [Serena Ivaldi, Karim Bouyarmane, Pauline Maurice, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, François Charpillet]

• Co-organized an international workshop at IROS 2018 (Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment) [Francis Colas]

• Co-organized an international workshop at IEA 2018 (Collaborative Robotics and Ergonomics) [Pauline Maurice, Serena Ivaldi]

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Publicity chair for IEEE ARSO 2018 (Advances in Robotics and its Social Impact) [Serena Ivaldi]

• Co-organized the JFPDA2018 (“Journées Francophones sur la Planification, la Décision et l'Apprentissage pour la conduite de systèmes”) [Vincent Thomas]

• Co-organized the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence day at the JFPDA 2018 [Serena Ivaldi]

Special issues

• Co-edited a special issue about “Human-Robot Interaction” in ERCIM News [Serena Ivaldi].

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Associate Editor for IEEE Humanoids 2018 [Serena Ivaldi]

• Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) [Serena Ivaldi]

• ALIFE 2018 (European Conference on Artificial Life) [Amine Boumaza, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• EVO* 2018 (EvoStar) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• GECCO2018 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) [Amine Boumaza, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• CEC 2018 (Congress on Evolutionary Computation) [Amine Boumaza]

• ICAART 2018(International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence)[François Charpillet]

• IJCAI-ECAI 2018 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and European Conference on Artificial Intelligence [François Charpillet]

• AAAI 2019 (AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence) [François Charpillet]

Reviewer for Peer-reviewed Conferences

• CoRL (Conference on Robot Learning) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis]

• ICRA 2019 (2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation) [Karim Bouyarmane, Francis Colas, Serena Ivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• IJCAI ECAI 2018 (27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence) [Francis Colas, Vincent Thomas]

• IROS 2018 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) [Karim Bouyarmane, Francis Colas, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• HUMANOIDS 2018 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots) [Francis Colas]

• IEEE ARSO 2018 (Advanced Robotics and its Social Impact) [Serena Ivaldi]

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters [Serena Ivaldi, associate editor]

• Frontiers in AI and Robotics [Amine Boumaza, Serena Ivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Journal of Field Robotics [Francis Colas]

• Robotics and Automation Letters [Francis Colas]

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters [Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Serena Ivaldi]

• IEEE Transactions on Robotics [Serena Ivaldi]

• Autonomous Robots [Serena Ivaldi]

• CEAS Aeronautical Journal [Alexis Scheuer]

Scientific expertise

• Serena Ivaldi evaluated a project for the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Invited Talks

• Jean-Baptiste Mouret gave a keynote at the CONTROLO 2018 conference (13th APCA International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing, in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal), and invited talks at the IEEE ICRA 2018 workshop “Self-healing, Growing and Evolving Soft Robots” (Brisbane, Australia), the IEEE ICRA 2018 workshop “Autonomous Robot Design”, the Frontiers Research and Artificial Intelligence Workshop organized by the ERC (Bruxelle, Belgium), the German-French Conference on Humanoids and Legged Robots (Munich, Germany), the French Academy of Science and Leopolodina symposium “Data Science versus Motion Intelligence” (Paris, France), the Workshop on Learning Applications for Intelligent Autonomous Robots organized at the IAS 15 Conference (Baden Baden, Germany), as well as at Uber AI labs (San Francisco, California), the Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR, near Kyoyo, Japan), and Safran R&D (Saclay, France).

• Serena Ivaldi gave an invited talk at the Workshop on Learning Applications for Intelligent Autonomous Robots organized at the IAS 15 Conference (Baden Baden, Germany) and at the atelier santé of the Journée Federation Charles Hermite (Nancy).

• Adrien Malaisé gave an invited talk at IEEE ARSO 2018 (Genova, Italy).

Research administration

• Francis Colas is member of the local commissions:

  • “Commission des Utilisateurs des Moyens Informatiques” (CUMI),

  • “Commission de Développement Technologique” (CDT),

  • “Comité du Centre Inria Nancy Grand-Est”,

  • “bureau de la Commission de la Mention Informatique” (CMI) of the IAEM doctoral school.

• Serena Ivaldi was a member of the commitee for the researcher selection at Inria Nancy Grand Est (Jury CR),

• François Charpillet was a member of the commitee for professor selection at Université Technologique de Troyes (PR LM2S No 4049 “Traitement du signal”),

• François Charpillet was a member of the HCERES commitee for U2IS,

• François Charpillet is member of the scientific council of the GDR Robotics.