Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Marie Babel was the Scientific Chair and the General co-chair of the workshop “Robotique de la marche” organized in Inria Rennes on December 13th 2019.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• P. Robuffo Giordano co-organized with F. Schiano and D. Floreano (EPFL) the Workshop on “Aerial Swarms” at the 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Robots, Macau, China

Scientific Events: Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano: Program Co-Chair of MRS 2019

• François Chaumette: Program Co-Chair of ICRA 2020 to be held in Paris in June 2020.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Claudio Pacchierotti: Eurohaptics (Associate Editor), World Haptics (Associate Editor), ICRA 2020 (Associate Editor), Demonstrations Co-Chair, IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS) 2020

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano: ICRA 2020 (Associate Editor), RSS 2019 (Area Chair)

• Eric Marchand: ICRA 2020 (Associate Editor)

• Julien Pettré: IEEE Virtual Reality 2019, ACM Motion and Interactions in Games 2019, ACM Symposium on Computer Animation

Reviewer

• Alexandre Krupa: IROS 2019 (1), ICRA 2020 (1)

• Eric Marchand: IROS 2019 (1), ICRA 2019 (2), ICRA 2020 (1)

• Marie Babel: ICRA 2020 (4), SMC 2019 (1)

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano: ICRA 2020 (2)

• François Chaumette: ICRA 2020 (1), CDC 2019 (1), RoMoCo 2019 (1)

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano is Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics since January 2019

• Alexandre Krupa was Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (until June 2019) and is currently Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (since July 2019)

• Eric Marchand is a Senior Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and an Editor for Interstices )i(

• François Chaumette: Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Robotics Research, Editorial Board of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Board Member of the Springer Encyclopedia of Robotics.

• Julien Pettré is Associate Editor for the Wiley's Computer Graphics Forum, and Associate Editor for the Wiley's Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Vincent Drevelle: ActaCybernetica

• Eric Marchand: IEEE RA-L (2)

• Marie Babel: IEEE RA-L (1)

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano: IJRR (1), IEEE RA-L (1), IEEE T-CST (2), IEEE T-RO (2)

• François Chaumette: IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics (2), IEEE RA-L (1), Acta Astronautica (1)

• Claudio Pacchierotti: RAL (1), IJHCS (5), TOH (7), JMRR (1), ICRA (4), TIE (2), TVCG (1), Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2), THMS (1), Presence (1), Scientific Reports (1)

Invited Talks

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano:

  • “Human-assisted Robotics”, Robotics and Mechatronics lab, University of Twente, Netherlands, October 2019

  • “Collective Control, State Estimation and Human Interaction for Quadrotors in Unstructured Environments”, Technoférence, Images et Réseaux, Rennes, October 2019

  • “Human-assisted Robotics”, Robotics Research Jam Session, Univ. of Pisa, Italy, April 2019

• Claudio Pacchierotti:

  • with A. M. Okamura, “Learnings from cross-functional work on skin stretch haptics.” Workshop “Cross-functional collaboration between engineering & perception researchers” at WHC Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2019.

  • “Cutaneous haptic technologies for robotics and immersive environments.” Cirrus Logic, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2019.

  • “Virtual Reality and Robotics for Industry 4.0.” University of Aarhus, Herning, Denmark, 2019.

• Marie Babel:

  • “Simulation virtuelle et retour haptique du mouvement : une expérience de conduite réaliste immersive”, Séminaire d'hiver de l'IFRATH, Paris, January 2019

  • “Fauteuil roulant intelligent : croiser les regards (académiques et cliniques)”, Technoférence, Images et Reseaux, January 2019

• François Chaumette:

  • Plenary talk on “Geometric and end-to-end robot vision-based control” at 12th Int. Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo 2019), Poznan, Poland, July 2019 [33].

  • “Sensor-based Control”, GdR Robotics Winter School : Robotics Principia, Sophia-Antipolis, January 2019.

• Fabien Spindler:

  • “Avancées en vision pour la saisie et la manipulation”, Journée GT3 du GDR robotique, ISIR, Paris, Juin 2019

Leadership within the Scientific Community

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

• François Chaumette is a member of the Scientific Council of RTE Vedecom, ImVIA lab in Dijon and Le Creusot, and a founding member of the Scientific Council of the “GdR Robotique”.

Scientific Expertise

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano was reviewer for evaluating proposals of the ANR (French National Research Agency), Mitacs (Canada), SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation), MIUR (Italian National Research Agency), and the EU commission (ERC Consolidator Grants)

• Claudio Pacchierotti was reviewer for evaluating proposals of the European Science Foundation (ESF).

• Fabien Spindler was a member of the HCERES evaluation committee of URIA, the laboratory of the Ecole des Mines de Douai, the DTIS laboratory of Onera and the LISTIC in Annecy.

• Marie Babel serves as an expert for the International Mission of the French Research Ministry (MEIRIES) - Campus France (about 30 expertises per year). She was also reviewer for evaluating proposals of the ANR (French National Research Agency)

• François Chaumette served for the fourth (and last) time as Panel Member of the PE7 ERC Consolidator Grants. He also served as member of IEEE RAS Pioneer Award Evaluation Panel and IEEE RAS Awards Evaluation Panel. He was a panel member of the 2019 ICREA Academia program (similar to IUF for Catalonia). Finally, he served in the jury for the Inria research positions (CR2) available for the Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique centre.

Research Administration

• Alexandre Krupa is a member of the CUMIR (“Commission des Utilisateurs des Moyens Informatiques pour la Recherche”) of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, he 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 is the head of "Digital Signals and Images, Robotics" department at IRISA.

• 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. Since December 2019, he is a member of the Inria COERLE committee (in charge of the ethical aspects of all Inria research).