Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

• Year 2011 was a particular year, where the emblematic leader of IMARA – Michel Parent – has retired but remained a close collaborator with the team. His successor Fawzi Nashashibi is the new team leader.

• 2011 also saw the retirement of André Ducrot, who has been working for many years on image processing and lately visual odometry. Among the colleagues who left Imara this year, we would like to mention in particular Philippe Deschamps, who passed away last October. Philippe has been a researcher in several teams of Inria for more than thirty years.

• 2011 was also the end of several European projects: HAVEit, Intersafe-2, CityMobil and CityNetMobil. CityMobil showcases and the involvement of INRIA in the final event constituted a true breakthrough from the scientific and team visibility points of view. Thanks to the Cybercars service at La Rochelle, IMARA proved its leadership by performing a unique on-demand urban transportation system based on automated electric vehicles called Cybus.