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Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair
  • Marie Babel was the General Chair of the 2018 IROS Workshop on “Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment”, Madrid, Spain, co-organized by Fabio Morbidi (MIS, Université Picardie Jules Verne), Francis Colas (Inria Nancy), David Daney (Inria Bordeaux) and Samer Mohammed (LISSI, Universié of Paris-Est Creteil).

  • Marie Babel was the Scientific Chair and the General co-Chair of the workshop “Robots d'assistance, handicap et vie quotidienne” organized in Inria Rennes on December 7th 2018.

Member of the Organizing Committees
  • Paolo Robuffo Girodano co-organized with P. Salaris (Inria Sophia-Antipolis) and R. Spica (Stanford University) the workshop “The interplay between optimal estimation for improved action and optimal action for improved estimation” at the 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia

  • Paolo Robuffo Girodano is Area Chair for RSS 2019 and Program Chair for MRS 2019

  • Claudio Pacchierotti was the Publicity Chair of the Asiahaptics conference held in Songdo, Republic of Korea. He was also Award Co-Chair (Best Poster), and Session Co-Chair at Eurohaptics, Pisa, Italy. He also co-organized the Cross-Cutting Challenge “Expanding sensory interactions: the path to intelligent clothes and objects able to change the way we communicate with the world”' at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA. Finally, he co-organized the workshop on `Haptic-enabled shared control of robotic systems: a compromise between teleoperation and autonomy” at IROS in Madrid, Spain and the workshop on “Wearable and portable haptics for VR and AR” at IEEE VR in Reutlingen, Germany.

  • François Chaumette organized the tutorial on Vision-based Robot Control at the 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia. (https://team.inria.fr/rainbow/en/icra18-tutorial-vbrc)

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees
  • Claudio Pacchierotti: Eurohaptics (Associate Editor)

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano: ICRA 2019 (Associate Editor)

  • Eric Marchand: Orasis 2018

  • François Chaumette: ICRA 2019 (Associate Editor)

  • Alexandre Krupa: BioRob 2018 (Editor)

  • Julien Pettré: IEEE VR 2019

Reviewer
  • Claudio Pacchierotti: HAPTICS 2018, Eurohapics 2018, ICRA 2018, IROS 2018, also Senior Reviewer for IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Young Reviewers Program (from 2016)

  • Alexandre Krupa: IROS 2018 (1), ICRA 2019 (1)

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano: RSS 2018 (4), ICRA 2019 (2), ECC 2019 (1)

  • Marie Babel: ICRA 2018 (1), SMC 2018 (2), IROS 2018 (2), ICRA 2019 (3)

  • Vincent Drevelle: IROS 2018 (2), ICRA 2019 (1), AIM 2018 (1)

  • Eric Marchand: IROS 2018 (1), ICRA 2018 (2), ICRA 2019 (2)

  • François Chaumette: IROS 2018 (1), CDC 2018 (1)

  • Julien Pettré: ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 (1), ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 (1), Eurographics 2019 (1), IEEE VR 2019 (6)

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards
  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano is Guest Editor for the Special Issue on “Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems” in Autonomous Robots, 2018

  • Claudio Pacchierotti has been Guest Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics for the Special Issue on Wearable and Hand-held Haptics.

  • Alexandre Krupa is Associate Editors of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

  • Eric Marchand was an Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (till august 2018)

  • Eric Marchand is a Senior Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (from august 2018)

  • Eric Marchand is an Editor for Interstices )i(

  • François Chaumette: Senior Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Robotics, Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Robotics Research, Founding Senior Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters till June 2018, Editorial Board of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, and Board Member of the Springer Encyclopedia of Robotics.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities
  • Claudio Pacchierotti: JMRR (2), TOH (7), THMS (1), TIM (1), RAL (5), TBME (3), TMECH (1), IJMRCAS (1), IJCARS (1), Plos One (1), Journal of Engineering in Medicine (3), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science (2), Mechatronics (1), IJHCI (4), Advanced Robotics (1), International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (2), Endoscopy International Open (2), Frontiers in Robotics and AI (1)

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano: IEEE TRO (1), IEEE T-CYB (1), IEEE TCST (2), IEEE RAL (3), IJRR (1), IJC (1), AURO (1)

  • Eric Marchand: CVIU (1)

  • François Chaumette: IEEE TIE (4), IEEE RA-L (2)

  • Julien Pettré: Graphical Models (1), Frontiers in Robotics and AI (1), IEEE TVCG (1)

Invited Talks

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano:

    • “Human-assisted robotics”. H. H. Bülthoff's Farewell Symposium - Flies, Men and Machines: A Scientific Adventure, Tübingen, Germany, August 2018

    • “Blending Human Assistance and Local Autonomy for Advanced Telemanipulation”. IROS 2018 Workshop on Haptic-enabled shared control of robotic systems: a compromise between teleoperation and autonomy, October 2018 [47]

    • “Formation Control and Localization with Onboard Sensing and Local Communication”. IROS 2018 Workshop on Multi-Robot Perception- Driven Control and Planning, October 2018 [48]

    • “Physical Interpretation of Rigidity for Bearing Formations”, Second Workshop “Rigidity Theory for Multi-Agent Systems meets Parallel Robotics”, Nantes, France

  • Claudio Pacchierotti:

    • “Our wearable haptics experience: story, insights, and open questions” Workshop “User-Centered Methods in Human-Robot Interaction” at IROS Conference, Madrid, Spain, 2018.

    • “Haptic feedback and robotic procedures” 10th Annual meeting on Robotic Gynaecological Surgery of the Society of European Robotic Gyneacological Surgery (SERGS), Milan, Italy, 2018.

    • “Cutaneous haptic feedback in robotic medical procedures.” Presentation to Titan Medical Inc., Strasbourg, France, 2018.

    • “Wearable haptics for virtual and augmented reality: applications in the entertainment and robotic fields” Robotics Research Jam Sessions at the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 2018.

    • “Wearable fingertip haptics for mixed reality.” University of Aarhus, Herning, Denmark, 2018.

    • “Haptic feedback in robotic procedures: current work and perspectives.” Congress of the Society of Endometriosis and Uterine Disorders, Florence, Italy, 2018.

    • “The future of haptic feedback in robotic procedures.” Beyond Gynecologic Surgery conference, Clermont-Ferrant, France, 2018.

    • “Wearable fingertip haptics for Virtual Reality.” Workshop on “Wearable and portable haptics for VR and AR”, IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality (VR), Reutlingen, Germany, 2018.

  • François Chaumette:

    • “Visual servoing with and without image processing”, 1st Symposium on Intelligent Robots: Autonomy and Vision, Abu-Dhabi, March 2018 [46]

    • “Geometric and photometric vision-based robot control: modeling approach”, ICRA 2018 Tutorial on Vision-based Robot Control, Brisbane, May 2018 [45]

    • “Geometric and end-to-end visual servoing”, Plenary talk at IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems, Tianjin, China, July 2018 [44]

  • Fabien Spindler

    • “Vision-based robot control with ViSP”, ICRA 2018 Tutorial on Vision-based Robot Control, Brisbane, May 2018 [49]

Leadership within the Scientific Community

  • Claudio Pacchierotti is the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics, and Secretary of the Eurohaptics Society.

  • François Chaumette is a 2016-2018 elected member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is also a nominated member of the Scientific Council of the CNRS INS2I, a member of the Scientific Council of RTE Vedecom, and a founding member of the Scientific Council of the “GdR Robotique”.

Scientific Expertise

  • Alexandre Krupa was reviewer of an ANR project (Generic project call 2018)

  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano was reviewer for evaluating proposals of the ANR (French National Research Agency), NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation), MIUR (Italian National Research Agency)

  • Marie Babel served as an expert for the International Mission of the French Research Ministry (MEIRIES) - Campus France

  • Vincent Drevelle has been reviewer of an ANR ASTRID project

  • François Chaumette served as member of IEEE RAS Pioneer Award Evaluation Panel and IEEE RAS Awards Evaluation Panel. He was a panel member of the 2018 ICREA Academia program (similar to IUF for Catalonia). He was also involved in the evaluation of a research proposal submitted to the Research Foundation of Flanders.

Research Administration

  • Alexandre Krupa is a member of the CUMIR (“Commission des Utilisateurs des Moyens Informatiques pour la Recherche”) of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique. Alexandre Krupa also serves as Inria representative (correspondent) at the IRT Jules Verne.

  • Eric Marchand served as secretary in the board of the “Association Française pour la Reconnaissance et l'interprétation des Formes” (AFRIF). He was also 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 (till september 2018). He is in the board of the “Ecole doctorale Matisse”. He is the head of "Digital Signals and Images, Robotics" department at IRISA (from june 2018).

  • 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, and of the Scientific Steering Committee (COSS) of IRISA.