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MOBI-DEEP addresses the development of technologies for autonomous navigation in unknown environments using low cost vision sensors. The project relies on the assumption that the inference of semantic information (presence of particular structures, identification of objects of interest, obstacles, e

In a Virtual Reality simulation, haptic devices are supposed to allow a more tangible and physical interaction with the virtual environment. To date, efficient haptic devices do exist and can be purchased along with industrial applications, but they suffer from several drawbacks. Particularly, they

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also called drones, have proved to be a very efficient means to address surveillance and inspection applications in both the military and civilian domains. Among the numerous missions that can be achieved with drones, some of them only require to hover or fly in a na

The ambition of the CoDiCell project is to develop innovative methodologies for the trajectory control of large populations of biological cells inside fluidic chips at high speed. It proposes to combine the approaches coming from the microfluidics and the microrobotics communities. Microfluidic chip

When a drone (or unmanned aerial vehicle) has to operate on its environment, it is called an aerial manipulator. These robots embed a robotic arm or a gripper to allow the grasping or the transport of objects. Aerial manipulators combine the large working area capacity of drones with the dexterity a

This project is at the crossroad of Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) and Emotional Design. It investigates how the sense of touch can be integrated in interactive systems to leverage communicative and emotional channels between humans and machines or between humans via machines. It focuses on a commu

Three-dimensional (3D) graphics are commonplace in many applications such as digital entertainment, cultural heritage, architecture and scientific simulation. These data are increasingly rich and detailed; as a complex 3D scene may contain millions of geometric primitives, enriched with various appe

In the foreseeable future, the adoption of multifunctional car structure (MCS) will offer the potential to radically upgrade the abilities of vehicles in terms of ecological requirements emerging from the social and legal environment. Integrating car structures with functional systems that monitor s

Opinion mining is a progressing domain. A lot of efforts have been recently dedicated to the development of methods able to analyze opinion data available on the social Web. At the same time, companies that are developing companion robots and virtual vocal assistants (Siri, Google Now, Cortana, etc.

Facial expressions convey information regarding a subject's cognitive state as well as its social intentions. As such, facial expression recognition is an active domain on the edge between computer vision and machine learning that aims at automatically extracting such cues from an image or a video s

Fab labs are workshops which make powerful fabrication machines available to a wide audience to create physical and computational artifacts. The machinery available in fab labs was previously solely available to experts, partly because it is expensive and partly because their use requires a certain

The objective of this research project is to deeply investigate the problem of monitoring a dynamic phenomenon using a team of multiple mobile robots. The sensor-equipped robots will have the task of tracking and registering the phenomenon, and storing its evolution through a stream of data. In the