Overview

The goal of ACENTAURI is to study and develop intelligent, autonomous and mobile robots that collaborate between them to achieve challenging tasks in dynamic environments. The team focuses on perception, decision and control problems for multi-robot collaboration by proposing an original hybrid model-driven / data driven approach to artificial intelligence and by studying efficient algorithms. The team focuses on robotic applications like environment monitoring and transportation of people and goods. In these applications, several robots will share multi-sensor information eventually coming from infrastructure. The team will demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches on real robotic systems like cars AGVs and UAVs together with industrial partners.

Keywords: Autonomous robotics, Modelling, Perception, Control, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, Numerical Analysis, Quantum computing

Background:

The ACENTAURI team is the follow-up of CHORALE team (headed by Philippe Martinet from 2018 to 2020) which takes its roots from the LAGADIC Sophia Antipolis team (headed by Patrick Rives from 2012 to 2017) and the EVOLUTION team (headed by Ezio Malis from 2009 to 2011). The main scientific focuses were Automatic Control, Visual servoing, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Nonlinear Control, Robotics, SLAM and Deep Learning.

For a detailed presentation of the scientific goals guiding our research activities, please visit the Scientific Objectives page.