Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

SPHERE ADT Inria project, 2019-20

Participants: Philippe Martinet, Patrick Rives, Renato Martins. The project SPHERE is an Inria ADT coordinated by Philippe Martinet. The aim is to put in place the PERCEPTION360 framework embedded inside the vehicle ICAV in order to map, localize and navigate autonomously in urban areas. It funds an Inria expert engineer position in CHORALE (John Thomas, 12/19-05/20) focusing on instrumentation, control and software development around the autonomous vehicle ICAV.

E-WHEELED ATT Inria project, 2019-21

Participants: Philippe Martinet. The project E-WHEELED is an Inria ATT coordinated by Philippe Martinet. The aim is to provide mobility to things by implementing connectivity techniques. It makes available an Inria expert engineer (Nicolas Chleq) in CHORALE in order to demonstrate the Proof of Concept using a small size demonstrator.

Local initiatives

CHORALE is in touch with local government CASA (Communauté d'Agglomération de Sophia Antipolis) in order to have access to the experimental site dedicated to Autonomous Vehicle demonstration. The first demonstration of autonomous driving has been done mid December. This site will be inaugurated during spring 2020.

Contacts with local companies involved in connected and autonomous driving have been made (including Renault Software Lab and Hitachi). CHORALE has participated to the GetTogether meetings organized by the local initiative SmartVehicles06.