Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• C. Laugier was General Co-Chair of IEEE/RSJ IROS (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) 2019 (Macau, Nov 2019).

• C. Laugier co-organized in the scope of IEEE/RSJ IROS 2019 and of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee IGV-ITS, the 11th Workshop of the series PPNIV (Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles) having attracted about 300 people (see http://project.inria.fr/ppniv19 for more details).

• C. Laugier co-organized at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2019 a Cutting Edge Forum on “Robotics, AI and ITS for Autonomous Driving” having attracted about 150 people (see https://project.inria.fr/ad19/ for more details).

• O. Simonin was General Co-Chair and Co-Organizer with F. Charpillet (Inria Nancy) of the JNRR 2019 conference, the bi-annual conference gathering the French Robotic community, in Vittel ($\sim$ 200 pers.) October 15-17 2019. https://jnrr2019.loria.fr/

• O. Simonin was General and Scientific Chair of JFSMA 2019 (27emes Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents), in Toulouse, as part of PFIA 2019 (Plate-forme IA), July 1-5 2019. https://www.irit.fr/pfia2019/jfsma/

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Agostino Martinelli was in the organizing committee of the workshop on “visual-inertial navigation: challenges and applications”, held during IROS 2019 in Macau, China.

• C. Laugier was Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference IEEE CIS-RAM 2019 (Bangkok, Nov 2019).

• J. S. Dibangoye and O. Simonin were Members of the Organizing Committee of IA${}^2$ – Institut d'Autonomne en Intelligence Artificielle, Lyon 2019.

Scientific Events: Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• O. Simonin was Chair of JFSMA Program Committee (27emes journées francophones sur les systèmes multi-agents), Toulouse, France, July 3-5, 2019. He co-edited with S. Combettes (IRIT/Toulouse) the JFSMA 2019 Proceedings, Cépaduès 2019, ISBN 9782364937192.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• C. Laugier served as Associate Editor for the conference IEEE ICRA 2019 (Montreal, May 2019) and also for IEEE ICRA 2020 (Paris, May 2020).

• C. Laugier served as member of the Senior Program Committee of IEEE/RSJ IROS 2019 (Macau, Nov 2019).

• A. Martinelli was Associate Editor for IEEE ICRA 2020.

• A. Spalanzani was PC member of the ECAI 2019 conference.

• J. S. Dibangoye was Senior PC member of the ECAI 2019 conference.

• J. S. Dibangoye was PC member of the IJCAI 2019 conference.

• J. S. Dibangoye was PC member of the AAAI 2020 conference.

• J. S. Dibangoye was PC member of the NeurIPS 2019 conference (selected as one of the best reviewers).

• J. S. Dibangoye was PC member of the PKDD-ECML 2019 conference.

• J. S. Dibangoye was PC member of the JFPDA 2019 conference.

• O. Simonin was Senior PC member of the ECAI 2019 conference.

• O. Simonin was PC member of the IJCAI 2019 conference.

• O. Simonin was PC member of the AAAI 2020 conference.

• O. Simonin was PC member of the ICAPS 2019 conference - Robotics Track (29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling).

• O. Simonin was PC member of the ECMR 2019 conference (European Conference on Mobile Robots).

Reviewer

• A. Martinelli served, in quality of reviewer, for the following conferences: ICRA.

• O. Simonin served, in quality of reviewer, for the following conferences: IROS, ICRA.

• J. S. Dibangoye served, in quality of reviewer, for the following conferences: CDC, ACC, AAMAS, JFPDA.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• C. Laugier is Member of the Steering Committee of the journal IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Vehicles.

• C. Laugier is Senior Editor of the journal IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Vehicles

• C. Laugier is member of the Editorial Board of the journal IEEE ROBOMECH.

• O. Simonin was member of the Editorial Board of RIA revue (Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle), from 1/1/2018 to 1/06/2019. He is now member of the Editorial Board of the new revue ROIA (Revue Ouverte d'Intelligence Artificielle).

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Agostino Martinelli served, in quality of reviewer, for the following journals: Transaction on Automatic Control, Automatica, Journal of Robust Control, Transaction on Robotics.

• O. Simonin was reviewer for SMCA journal (Systems, Man and Cybernetics: System).

• O. Simonin was reviewer for RIA revue (Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle).

• J. S. Dibangoye was reviewer for AIJ (Artificial Intelligence Journal).

• J. S. Dibangoye was reviewer for JAIR (Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research).

• J. S. Dibangoye was reviewer for JMLR (Journal of Machine Learning Research).

• J. S. Dibangoye was reviewer for TAC (IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control).

Invited Talks

• J. S. Dibangoye gave an invited talk at the Czech technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, in July 2019.

• J. S. Dibangoye gave an invited talk at the MAFTEC working group of GdR IA, in Caen, France, in February 2019.

• C. Laugier gave an invited talk at the conference IS Auto Europe 2019, Berlin, April 2019. Title: Embedded Sensor Fusion and Perception for Autonomous Vehicles.

• C. Laugier gave an invited talk at the conference IS Auto Europe 2019, Berlin, April 2019. Title: Embedded Sensor Fusion and Perception for Autonomous Vehicles.

• C. Laugier gave an invited talk at the Technological Conference Minalogic B2B 2019, Grenoble, May 2019. Title: Mixing Bayesian and AI approaches for Autonomous Driving.

• C. Laugier gave an invited keynote talk at the conference IEEE World Robotics Conference WRC 2019, Beijing, August 2019. Title: Impact of AI on Autonomous Driving.

• C. Laugier gave an invited Pioneer’s talk at the conference IEEE/RSJ IROS 2019, Macau, November 2019. Title: A Journey in the history of Automated Driving.

• C. Laugier gave an invited keynote talk at the Cutting Edge Forum “Robotics, AI and ITS for Autonomous Driving”, Conference IEEE/RSJ IROS 2019, Macau, November 2019. Title: Situation Awareness and Decision-making for Autonomous Driving.

• A. Martinelli gave the invited talk “Nonlinear Unknown Input Observability: the General Analytic Solution" on behalf of the Automatic Control Laboratory and the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at the ETHZ of Zurich, May, 6, 2019

• A. Martinelli gave invited talk “Nonlinear Unknown Input Observability: the General Analytic Solution” at La Sapienza University, Control lab, Rome, November, 29, 2019

• A. Spalanzani gave a talk that the "Journées Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique" (JNRR) in October 2019.

• O. Simonin gave an invited talk at the GdR Robotics Winter School: Robotica Principia "Decision making in robotics", Centre de recherche Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditérranée, France. January 21-25, 2019, [55].

• O. Simonin gave an invited talk at the GdR IA2 Autumn School: "Introduction à la coordination multi-agent", CITI Lab/INSA Lyon.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• C. Laugier is co-chair with Philippe Martinet, Marcelo Ang and Denis Wolf of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on “Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems (AGV-ITS)’’. He founded this IEEE RAS TC about 15 years ago, as a bridge between the RAS and ITS societies of IEEE.

• C. Laugier is member of the Steering Committee of IEEE/RSJ IROS.

• C. Laugier is member of the Scientific Committee of the French GDR Robotique.

• C. Laugier is member of several International Award Committees for IEEE RAS (Chapter Award Committee) and for IEEE/RSJ IROS.

• O. Simonin is member of the Board of AFIA "Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle" (https://afia.asso.fr/).

Scientific Expertise

• O. Simonin was member of the HCERES committee of LIG lab.

• C. Laugier is member of the Advisory Board of ISR University of Coimbra.

• C. Laugier is Scientific Advisor for the Probayes SA and for Baidu China.

Research Administration

• C. Laugier is a member of several Ministerial and Regional French Committees on Robotics and Autonomous Cars.

• A. Spalanzani was a member of the committee of the ANR project selection in Mobilité et systèmes urbains durables.

• A. Spalanzani was a member of the GDR best Robotics PhD thesis committee.

• O. Simonin is member of the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Robotics cluster (Coboteam), for Inria and INSA Lyon entities.

• O. Simonin is member of the Scientific Council of the Digital League (Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes).