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\nPartners: Olivier Simonin (INSA Lyon, CITI lab) and Jan Faigl (Czech Technical University in Prague). \nWith Maan Badaoui. Project on localisation in urban environments using GPS and INS aided by a monocular vision system and 3D geographical models. Funded by the scientific CEDRE program between France and Lebanon (Universit\u00e9 Libanaise, Facult\u00e9 de G\u00e9nie, Tripoli). \nParticipants: Alain Dutech and Olivier Simonin. Partners from Vietnam (IFI, MICA, CARGIS), China (LIAMA), Cambodia (ITC) and France (IRD, LRI-Paris Sud, MaIA-LORIA, IGN). \nPartners: Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts), Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University), Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts), Rich Washington (NASA); Collaborators: Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet and Abdel-Illah Mouaddib (GREYC). \nPartner: University of Massachusetts at Amherst. \nDecision-theoretic investigation of coordination and control for collaborative multi-agent systems, emphasizing formal models and performance guarantees.\n<\/p>\n \nContinuation of Resource-Bounded KBS I with advanced techniques for reasoning and meta-level control under computational constraints.\n<\/p>\n \nDevelopment of the Progressive Processing model and an optimal meta-level control architecture for resource-bounded reasoning systems.\n<\/p>\n Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n \nFunding: 332,500 \u20ac subsidy on 677,182 \u20ac committed. \nPartners: AKN, ARC Informatique, BIKIT, Cegelec France, Cegelec Germany, ifak, IML, LAB, LIFC, LIP6, LORIA, Pertinence, Schneider Electric, TUM, TIL Technologies, Vartec. \nPartners: Thomson (France), VTT (Finland), Rautaruuki Oy (Finland). Duration: 2 years \/ 77.5 person-months. \nContinuation of REAKT I. Consolidated specifications, definitions, and prototypes for dependable real-time knowledge-based systems.\n<\/p>\n \nPrimary goal: develop tools and methodologies for applying knowledge-based systems (KBS) in real-time domains, producing a toolkit for efficient development, deployment, and maintenance of embedded KBS modules.\n<\/p>\n \nPartners: Cognitech (France), AI Systems (Belgium), Laborelec (Belgium), Technatom (Spain). Duration: 3 years \/ 30 person-years. Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n \nFunding: 310 k\u20ac (309,528 \u20ac). \nFunding: 235 k\u20ac (235,304 \u20ac). \nFunding: 159,425 \u20ac. \nLarge-scale Inria initiative involving teams AROBAS, COPRIN, DEMAR, E-MOTION, STARS, PRIMA, MAIA, TRIO, and LAGADIC. \nFunding: ANR project led by P. Lucidarme (LISA Univ. Angers). \nPartners: MAIA, ENST Brest, PY Automation. \nPartners: SLCA, Visuol Technologies, Institut de Soudure, PPE, INRIA (MAIA, CORTEX), TREFLE. \nPartners: UTT, LORIA, TIMC, AFM, IRR, CHU Nancy, LAPMA, AEC, ACDM, TEFAL, CHU Toulouse, H\u00f4pital Charles Foix, R\u00e9sidence La Moline, R\u00e9sidence Victor Hugo, MEDeTiC, Gym Volontaire, Les Arcades. \nPartners: LACL, LAS, LAMIH, ROI-SID, LIFC, TFC, LORIA (DEDALE, MAIA). \nPartners: Lohr Transitec, GEA, VULog, UTBM, MAIA, TRIO, DEDALE, IMARA, LASMEA. \nPartners: CRIL Technology\/Alyotech, PY Automation, ENST Brest, LORIA. \nPartners: Eurisco, Airbus, DSNA\/SDER, Dassault Aviation, Thales Avionics, LAMIH, ONERA, OKTAL, MAIA. \nPartners: I3S, L3I, LASMEA, LIMOS, HEUDIASYC, GERME, INRIA (VISA, AxIS, Mascotte, Icare, MAIA, eMotion, Lagadic, Vista, Texmex), Robosoft, Ceolia, BeNomad, Caisse Commune, Transitec, Wysiwyg. \nPartners: GREYC, MAD team. \nPartners: INSA Lyon (Microcapteurs et Microsyst\u00e8mes Biom\u00e9dicaux), ALTIR Nancy, CALYDIAL Lyon, LORIA. \nPartners: Diatelic SA, Gambro, CHU Nancy, ALTIR. \nPartners: UTT, CHU Nancy-Brabois, Institut de Myologie de Paris, Institut R\u00e9gional de R\u00e9adaptation, ACDM Concept, and others. \nGoal: integrate information technologies into home health-care services and develop assistive telemedicine systems.\n<\/p>\n \nDeveloped a decision-support model for managing signal interpretation tasks in EDF\u2019s monitoring and diagnostics group. Produced a generic intelligent library to guide users in selecting, applying, and interpreting numerical algorithms for industrial data.\n<\/p>\n \nResearch on resource-limited reasoning and anytime computation for real-time decision-making problems.\n<\/p>\n \nPartners: ILOG, Matra, Inria. Duration: 2 years. \nDeveloped non-preemptive scheduling algorithms for naval tactical systems (SENIT). Introduced Hopfield-based anytime approximation methods for real-time constraint satisfaction and robustness under limited computational resources.\n<\/p>\n \nDuration: 24 months (~120 person-months).
\nWeb: https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/FCharpillet\/projets\/murotex\/<\/a>
\nMain objective: develop a distributed planning framework for efficient task-allocation in exploration and reconnaissance missions by groups of mobile robots operating in unknown environments, considering communication constraints and localization uncertainty. The challenge is to decentralize decisions for scalability to large robot fleets.\n<\/p>\n06 SCI F2 \/ L 37 CEDRE (Lebanon) \u2014 Urban localisation with GPS\/INS, monocular vision and 3D GIS (2007\u20132008)<\/h3>\n
\nDeveloped geo-localisation methods combining GPS, INS, monovision camera and a 3D cartographical model. A dedicated 3D-GIS was built to manipulate and navigate in a precise 3D model database (Stanislas Place).\n<\/p>\nSCOUT \u2014 Survey of Catastrophe and Observation in Urban Territories (2006\u20132009, STIC-Asie)<\/h3>\n
\nGoal: develop technologies for district-level decision-making in case of disasters through robotic teams and data fusion. Robots (gound & aerial) gather information with sensors; a fusion system extracts semantic data; a 3D GIS supports simulation and decision-making for local authorities.\n<\/p>\nSelf-Directed Cooperative Planetary Rovers (1999\u20132004, NASA Aerospace Technology Enterprise)<\/h3>\n
\nDeveloped pre-compiled control policies for planetary rovers to enable fast autonomous decisions under uncertainty and limited communication bandwidth. Research addressed how rovers can allocate resources, react to failures and optimize task execution in real time without constant ground control.\n<\/p>\nINRIA\u2013UMass Associated Team \u2014 Formal study of coordination and control of collaborative multi-agent systems (1997\u20132003)<\/h3>\n
\nObjective: develop a decision-theoretic framework for planning and control of collaborative multi-agent systems via decentralized Markov decision processes. Provided formal foundations for coordination strategies and improved understanding of limitations of heuristic methods.\n<\/p>\nFormal Study of Coordination and Control of Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems (NSF & INRIA)<\/h3>\n
NSF\u2013INRIA Resource-Bounded Knowledge-Based Systems II (1999\u20132001)<\/h3>\n
NSF\u2013INRIA Resource-Bounded Knowledge-Based Systems I (1996\u20131999)<\/h3>\n
\n<\/p>\nEuropean projects<\/h2>\n
INTERREG INTRADE \u2014 Intelligent Transportation for Dynamic Environment (2010\u20132013)<\/h3>\n
\nPI Inria: Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet.
\nWeb: Project page<\/a>
\nPartners: University of Science and Technology of Lille (LAGIS, France, coordinator), South East England Development Agency (UK), CRITT TL (France), Port of Oostende (Belgium), Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), Liverpool John Moores University (UK).
\nGoal: improve traffic management and space optimization in seaports by developing a safe, intelligent transport system combined with virtual site simulation. The Maia team studied decentralized control for automated vehicle platooning and adaptive traffic, funding two PhD theses and one engineer.\n<\/p>\nITEA 01011 PROTEUS \u2014 Integrated e-Maintenance Platform (2002\u20132005)<\/h3>\n
\nObjective: design a fully integrated platform supporting broad e-maintenance strategies as part of Enterprise Asset Optimisation (EAO). The project delivered a new generation of predictive-maintenance toolchains finalized in 2004.\n<\/p>\nREAKTANSE \u2014 Esprit project n\u00b020938 (1995\u20131997)<\/h3>\n
\nFocus: embedding knowledge-based reasoning into real-time industrial applications and defining integration tools and methods.\n<\/p>\nREAKT II \u2014 Esprit project n\u00b07805 (1993\u20131995)<\/h3>\n
REAKT I \u2014 Esprit project n\u00b05146 (1991\u20131993)<\/h3>\n
AITRAS \u2014 Esprit project n\u00b02167 (1989\u20131992)<\/h3>\n
\nObjective: design and develop AITRAS, a knowledge-based system for real-time signal understanding including a reusable system shell and design tools for industrial signal interpretation.\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nNational projects<\/h2>\n
Flying Co-Worker (ANR, 2019\u20132023)<\/h3>\n
\nConsortium: LAAS (coord.), Inria Nancy Grand-Est (PI: Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet).
\nGoal: develop an aerial manipulator acting as a human teammate for cooperative handling tasks. Combines progress in physical and decisional human\u2013robot interaction with aerial manipulation. Focused on human-aware planning, perception, and safety under floating-base, payload, and energy constraints.\n<\/p>\nASMOA \u2014 Prediction of User Intentions for Exoskeletons (DGA RAPID, 2019\u20132022)<\/h3>\n
\nConsortium: Kompa\u00ef Robotics (coord.), Inria Nancy Grand-Est (PI: Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet), Safran Electronics & Defense.
\nGoal: predict movement intentions of exoskeleton users handling loads. Develop machine learning\u2013based prediction and control methods to optimize motion assistance and experimentally evaluate user performance and comfort.\n<\/p>\nLAR \u2014 Living Assistant Robot (PIA, 2013\u20132016)<\/h3>\n
\nPI Inria: Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet.
\nPartners: Cr\u00e9dit Agricole, Diatelic, Robosoft.
\nWeb: Project page<\/a>
\nGoal: design an assistant robot to improve autonomy and quality of life for elderly people. Developed RGB-D SLAM algorithms robust to dynamic environments and social interaction capabilities for home use.\n<\/p>\nPAL \u2014 Personally Assisted Living (Inria Project Lab, 2010\u20132014)<\/h3>\n
\nObjective: create a research infrastructure to test technologies improving quality of life for people with reduced autonomy due to age, illness, or accident.
\nMore info: PAL overview<\/a>\n<\/p>\nANR D\u00e9fi Robotique \u201cCarotte\u201d \u2014 Cartomatic (2009\u20132012)<\/h3>\n
\nPartners: MAIA (INRIA\/UHP), Wany Robotics.
\nWeb: Cartomatic<\/a>
\nObjective: distributed algorithms for deployment and mapping by autonomous robot fleets for exploration and object identification. Demonstrated benefits of cooperation to reduce uncertainty and improve robustness.\n<\/p>\nREI DGA \u201cSUSIE\u201d \u2014 Supervision de Syst\u00e8mes d\u2019Intelligence en Essaim (2009\u20132012)<\/h3>\n
\nGoal: study human supervision of swarms of drones coordinated through self-organization mechanisms based on digital pheromones (stigmergy). Continued from the SMAART project.\n<\/p>\nCOMAC \u2014 Contr\u00f4le Non Destructif de Mat\u00e9riaux Composites (2008\u20132011)<\/h3>\n
\nSupported by the MIPI competitiveness cluster. Developed an efficient non-destructive inspection system for composite aeronautical structures in production and operation.\n<\/p>\nANR TECSAN Pr\u00e9DICA (2006\u20132009)<\/h3>\n
\nGoal: predict and detect falls among elderly people, continuing the RNTS PARAChute project. Developed balance and gait analysis methods using non-intrusive sensors.\n<\/p>\nANR TACOS \u2014 Trustworthy Assembling of Components (2006\u20132009)<\/h3>\n
\nGoal: specify and verify high-safety systems via component-based approaches. Applied to verification of vehicle-platooning control software.\n<\/p>\nCRISTAL \u2014 Cooperative Urban Transportation Systems (2007\u20132009)<\/h3>\n
\nMajor project under the Alsace\u2013Franche-Comt\u00e9 automotive cluster. Focused on automated vehicle platooning and simulation-based validation of control robustness under sensor and actuator noise.\n<\/p>\nDGA PEA SMAART \u2014 UAV Coordination for Surveillance (2007\u20132008)<\/h3>\n
\nGoal: design decentralized control for UAV swarms using bio-inspired coordination algorithms based on digital pheromones.\n<\/p>\nFUI PAUSA \u2014 Authority Sharing in Aeronautics (2006\u20132007)<\/h3>\n
\nInvestigated human\u2013machine authority sharing in future air-traffic systems within the Aerospace Valley competitiveness cluster.\n<\/p>\nPREDIT 3 MobiVip \u2014 Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (2004\u20132006)<\/h3>\n
\nGoal: navigation and guidance for the Cycab autonomous vehicle in urban environments. Supported development of intelligent mobility services.\n<\/p>\nROBEA COROCOP \u2014 Cooperative Planetary Rover Control (2003)<\/h3>\n
\nDeveloped a framework for planning, monitoring, and control of planetary rovers to improve reliability and scientific return. Included PhD co-supervision (Simon Le Gloannec).\n<\/p>\nRNTS DEPIC \u2014 Detection of Peritoneal Infections (2003\u20132004)<\/h3>\n
\nDesigned a circular sensor array to detect infections around catheters for peritoneal dialysis using temperature signatures interpreted through signal processing algorithms.\n<\/p>\nDialHemo \u2014 Telemonitoring for Kidney Disease (INRIA, 2003\u20132005)<\/h3>\n
\nDeveloped a telemonitoring and diagnosis aid system for home or hospital hemodialysis patients. Software used by more than 500 patients in France.\n<\/p>\nRNTS PARAChute \u2014 Prevention of Falls (2003\u20132006)<\/h3>\n
\nAimed at preventing falls among elderly people through interdisciplinary research combining medicine, physiology, and computer science. Formed the foundation for the subsequent Pr\u00e9DICA project.\n<\/p>\nACI Technologies for Health \u2014 Tiissad (1999\u20132001)<\/h3>\n
EDF Convention (1999\u20132001)<\/h3>\n
INRIA Cooperative Action LIRE \u2014 Resource-Bounded Problem Solving (1998\u20132000)<\/h3>\n
DBB \u2014 Distributed Blackboard (Ministry of Industry, 1994\u20131995)<\/h3>\n
\nBuilt a distributed real-time multi-agent architecture derived from ATOME-TR in C++, using ILOG Broker and ILOG Server for coordination and reasoning.\n<\/p>\nDGA CPM Convention \u2014 Anytime Scheduling (1994\u20131995)<\/h3>\n
DRET & Ministry of Industry \u2014 MATRA Defense and MSII Projects (1989\u20131991)<\/h3>\n
\nDeveloped real-time blackboard architectures for combat aircraft self-protection systems (SEGCM). Prototype implemented in Common Lisp. Served as foundation for the later AITRAS project.\n<\/p>\n