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The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
The Robo(cs Department

          Philippe Souères
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
LAAS-CNRS : 8 Research Departments

Toulouse

                !   Crucial Computing
                !   Networks and Communications
                !   Decision and Optimization
                !   Microwaves and Optics
                !   Nano Engineering and Integration
                !   Micro Nano Bio Technologies
                !   Energy Management
                !   Robotics
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
The Robo(cs Department: 3 Research Teams

! RAP: Robo$cs, Ac$on and Percep$on (P. Danès)
! RIS: Robo$cs and Interac$onS (R. Alami)
! GEPETTO: The movement of Anthropomorphic Systems (P.Souères)

              104 members :
              - 15 full-time researchers
              - 13 faculty members
              - 62 PhD students
              - 8 technical staff
              - 6 associate and post-doctoral members
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
Robo(cs

The robot as a research object
an ar$ficial en$ty endowed with integrated sensorimotor and
cogni$ve abili$es ac$ng in open and variable environments

! Several research axes : Mul$-Sensory Percep$on, Decision-
making, Mo$on Planning and Control, Interac$ons

! Search for generic methods, for a large diversity of systems,
tasks and environment

! Relevant for a broad spectrum of applica$ons
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
Robo(cs Applica(ons

          !   Agriculture
          !   Service Robotics
          !   Factory of the Future
          !   PLM, virtual worlds and animation
          !   Biochemistry
          !   Biomechanics, Neuroscience, Psychology
          !   Ergonomics
          !   Surveillance, civil security
          !   Embedded systems
          !   Ambient intelligence systems
          !   Planetary exploration and space
          !   Transportation
          !   Art

Ongoing Projects
Europe: FP7, H2020, ERANET
France: ANR, FUI, DGA, CEA, CNRS, CNES, ONERA; Région Midi-Pyrénées
Industry: Airbus, Alstom, Astrium, Dassault, EADS, Sanofi, Pierre Fabre, KineoCam/
Siemens, Latécoère, PSA, Thales, SoYBank, PAL, Magellium,…
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
The Robo(cs PlaIorm

!   Highly qualified engineers and technicians commissioned by the lab
!   Numerous advanced soNware in open source:
!   Capacity to support collabora(ve developments

ROBOTEX: Node for mobile robotics, humanoid robotics and natural interactions
ADREAM: Research axis on Cybernetics Systems, Ambient Intelligence
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
The Robo(cs PlaIorm

      Two equipped experimentation rooms
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
RAP

  RAP Robotics Action Perception
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
RAP : Robotics-Action-Perception
! Three prominent topics rooted in signal processing, ranging from
  Design & Prototyping to Implementation & Evaluation

> Challenges                               > Application to and outside robotics
   ! Variable and evolving environments         !   Robotics in interaction with humans
   ! Embeddability, Real-time computations...   !   Ambient Intelligence
                                                !   Video-surveillance
                                                !   Agriculture
> Keywords                                      !   Transports
   ! Probabilistic data fusion – Machine        !   Factory of the future
     learning                                   !   Non-destructive testing and quality control...
The Robocs Department - Philippe Souères - LAAS-CNRS
RIS

  RIS Robotics and InteractionS
RIS domains and contextual perspectives

Field and Aerial                                     Cognitive and
   Robotics                Architectures          Interactive Robots

  Multi-Robot           Control & Physical          Human-Robot
  Cooperation             Interactions              Collaboration
                            Temporal
 Environment
                      Planning & Reasoning           Manipulation
  Modeling
                         Learning Skills,
                        Behaviors & Plans
                       Motion Planning &
                      Geometric Reasoning

                         Motion Planning for
                      structural bioinformatics

                   Molecular Motion Algorithms
GepePo

« The movement of          Seniors                      PhD students
Antropomorphic systems »   •
                           •
                                P. Souères (DR CNRS)
                                J.P Laumond (DR CNRS)
                                                        •
                                                        •
                                                            Dinesh Atchuthan
                                                            François Bailly
                           •    F. Lamiraux (DR CNRS)   •   Nassime Blin
                           •    N. Mansard (CR CNRS     •   Mylene Campana
                           •    O. Stasse (DR CNRS)     •   Justin Carpentier
                           •    M. Taïx (MC UPS)        •   Pierre Fernbach
                           •    B. Tondu (Pr INSA)      •   Thomas Flayols
                           •    B. Watier (MC UPS)      •   Florent Forget
                                                        •   Mathieu Geisert
                                                        •   Nirmal Giftsun
                           Associate professor          •   Ganesh Kumar
                           • J. Solà                    •   Galo Maldonado
                                                        •   Alexis Mifsud
                               Visiting Scholars        •   Joseph Mirabel
                               • I. Ramirez             •   Maximilien Naveau
                                                        •   Guilhem Saurel
                                                        •   Christian Vassallo
                           Postdocs
                           • M.Benallegue               Research Engineers
                           • A Del Prete
                                                        • Rohan Budhiraja
                           • S. Tonneau
                                                        • Kevin Giraud Esclasse
                                                        • Anna Seppala
                                                        • Florian Valenza
GepePo

The movement of anthropomorphic systems

! Complex tree-like structure including many degrees of freedom
! Underactua$on, redundancy
! Natural instability of the bipedal posture
! Difficult problem of collision and self-collision avoidance

    avatar              humanoid robot         human being
Scien(fic Coordina(on within LAAS

! Each team develops its specifici(es and its own projects.

! Collabora(ons with other teams in LAAS:
   • ROC (RAP) Opera$ons research for vision-based modali$es: target detec$on,
   target re-iden$fica$on in an ambient camera network
   • NBS (Gepe]o) on the development of electroac$ve polymer muscles
   • PHOTO (RIS) on sensor design
   • MAC (RIS, Gepe]o) on the control of mul$-robot systems, op$miza$on
   • VERTICS (RIS) on valida$on of robot soYware
   • TSF (RIS) on safety and fault-tolerance for robots

! Synergy:
   • Contribu$ons to several projects: EU FP7, ANR, Région Occitanie, PSPC, DGA,
   FUI, PIA, Interna$onal academic partnership
Ongoing Projects

European
! Actanthrope(2014-19) ERC Advanced Grant by J.P. Laumond, “Computational Foundations of
   Anthropomorphic Action”.
! Factory in a Day (2013-16) FP7-NMP-ICT-FoF «New hybrid production systems in advanced
   factory environments based on new human-robot interactive cooperation » TU Delft, KU Leuven,
   Franhaufer IPA, TU Munich and several industrials.
! EUROC FP7-NMP-ICT-FoF (2014-18) European Robotics Challenges; Univ de Naples, Univ
   Basilicata, Cassin and Lazio, de Salerne, ALSTHOM, Asc. Tech, DLR, ETHZ, Innocentive,
   Franhaufer IPA, Kuka.
! RoboCom++ (Flag ERA, 2017-20) Rethinking Robotics for the Robot Companion of the future, 24
   European Institutions involved – Laying the foundation of a future Flagship.
! AEROARMS (H2020 2015-2019) Aerial Manipulation
! MUMMER (H2020 2016-2020) Cognitive and Interactive Robot
! CPSELABS (H2020 2016-2020) RIS-TSF –Validation and vérification of software for cyberphysical
   Systems
! DualArmWorker (2016-2020 ECHORD++ ) with Tecnalia: Planification of two-arms coordinated
   movements
! FIRE_RS: (2017-2020, SUDOE-INTERREG) Perception machine for forest fire detection – Univ.
   Porto – Inst. of Vigo
! inFuse: PERASPERA Fusion de donnée robotique planétaire: 500 Keuros (DFKI - Magellium -
   Space Application Services) octobre 2016
Ongoing Projects

National
! Romeo2 (FUI, 2012-17) FUI « Conception of a human size humanoid robot » Led by SoftBank
   Robotics, with several academic and industrial partners.
! Loco 3D (ANR JCJC, 2017-20) Locomotion in Complex Dynamic Environments
! IKKY (PIA CORAC, 2016-18,) AIRBUS*, ORME, THALES AVIONICS, LAAS
! DESERB’HEUR (PIA, France-AgriMer, 2017-20) NAIO*, LAAS, Desherbage robotisé
! TALVIS (DGAC, 2016-20) AIRBUS, DASSAULT, ONERA, VOEA, LATECOERE*, OKTAL-SE,
! SERVAT (DGA RAPID, 2014-18) SPIKENET*, LAAS
! JoinACtion4HRI (ANR, 2016-20) Multidisciplinary Philosophical and Psychological Works around
   the question of the human-robot joint action
! TWB – CUSTOSIME (2017-19)- Protein Design - LISBP - MIAT INRA - Protein Design
! PRÉCIDRONES (anc. AGRIDRONES) - FUI - Drones for monitoring large field cultures

Region
! AgileIT Prestige: SOGEFI*, QUALISOL, CESBIO, LAAS ––– Oct 2015 – Nov 2017
! CLE ESSILOR: ESSILOR*, LAAS ––– January 2015 – December 2019
! EASYNOV Realism: Innersense*, IRIT, LAAS ––– November 2015– October 2017
! EASYNOV SafeBus: EasyMile/Steery, LAAS ––– November 2016 – October 2018

Industry
! Airbus project (2015-20): Humanoids in the factory of the future,
! CASDAR ROVIPO (2016-19) IFV*, NAIO, LAAS
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