International actions

International collaborations

EA Talisker, France-US

Lagadic is involved in an Inria associate team (EA) with Prof. Seth Hutchinson from Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In the scope of this project, Seth Hutchinson has spent a one-week visit in March, September and November 2008. Reciprocally, Mohammed Marey and François Chaumette have spent a one-week visit at Beckman Institute in May and November 2008 respectively. Roméo Tatsambon Fomena has spent a one-month visit in August 2008 to work on the visual servoing of a mobile robot using an omnidirectional vision sensor

Visual servoing of a mobile robot
from a target point with a catadioptric camera

CNRS PICS, France-Australia

This international collaboration between France and Australia is supported by CNRS. It is about visual servo-control of unmanned aerial vehicles. It started fall 2005 for three years. It joins Rob Mahony (Australian National University, Canbera), Peter Corke and Jonathan Roberts (CSIRO, Melbourne), Tarek Hamel (I3S, Sophia-Antipolis), Vincent Moreau (CEA-List, Paris) and our group.

European Projects

Pegase project - FP6 Aerospace

This FP6 project started in September 2006. It is managed by Dassault Aviation and groups many industrial and academic partners (Alenia Aeronautica, Eurocopter, EADS, Walphot, I3S, EPFL, ETHZ, IST, JSI). It is concerned with the automatic landing of fixed wing aircrafts and helicopters using a vision sensor. In this project, we are the leader of the workpackage devoted to visual tracking and visual servoing.

Pegase www site

Landing at Marignane airport

European Space Agency - Vimanco: Vision-based manipulation of non-cooperative objects

We began in october 2005 a project for the European Space Agency. It will be realized in collaboration with the Trasys company (Brussels), Galileo Avionica (Milano) and KUL in Leuven. Its aims is to develop a demonstrator able to grasp objects using vision-based control of robot in space environment. The considered robot is the ESA Eurobot prototype. Our task in this project is to provide algorithms for objects tracking and vision-based control.

Vimanco www site

Tracking an APFR (Articulated portable foot restraint), APFR courtesy of European Space Agency

Past projects or collaborations

INRIA/GRICES project, France-Portugal

This collaboration with IST Lisbon, Portugal (Prof. J. Santos-Victor) is concerned with visual servoing for robotics applications. M. Lopes did a one month visit in our group in February 2005, and N. Mansard did a one month visit at IST in June 2005.