Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

general chair, scientific chair

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano co-organized the Workshop “On the centrality of decentralization in multi-robot systems: holy grail or false idol?” at ICRA 2014, Hong Kong, China

member of the organizing committee

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano co-organized the 7-th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, Pontedera, Italy

Scientific events selection

member of the conference program committee

• François Chaumette: ICRA'14, ICRA'15

• Eric Marchand: ICRA'14, RFIA'14 (area chair), ICIP'14

• Patrick Rives: RFIA'14

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano: RSS'14, ICRA'14, DARS'14, RSS'15

• Marie Babel: ICIP'14, ICRA'15

reviewer

• François Chaumette: ICRA'14, RSS'14, IROS'14, , WAFR'14, ICRA'15

• Eric Marchand: ICRA'14, ICIP'14, IROS'14, ICRA'15

• Patrick Rives: ICRA'15, IROS'14, MVIGRO'14, RFIA'14, ECCV'14, ASROB'14

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano: ICRA'14, IROS'14, MSC'14, IFAC WC'14, ICRA'15

• Alexandre Krupa: ICRA'14, IROS'14, IPCAI'14, ICRA'15, ISBI'15

Journal

member of the editorial board

• Eric Marchand and Paolo Robuffo Giordano are Associate Editors of the IEEE Trans. on Robotics.

• Eric Marchand is a Guest Editor (with Peter Corke and Jana Kosecka) of a Special Issue of the Int. Journal of Robotics Research on Robot Vision.

• François Chaumette is in the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Robotics Research.

reviewer

• François Chaumette: IEEE Trans. on Robotics (7), Int. Journal of Robotics Research (1), IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (1), Robotics and Autonomous Systems (1)

• Eric Marchand: IEEE Trans. on Robotics (8), Int. Journal of Robotics Research (4), Autonomous Robots (1)

• Patrick Rives: Int. Journal of Robotics Research (1), Journal of Control (1)

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano: IJRR (2), T-CST (2), JHRI (1), TAC (1), TRO (1)

• Alexandre Krupa: Robotics and Autonomous Systems (1)

Selection committees

• François Chaumette was in the selection committee for an Assistant Professor position at the “Université Picardie-Jules Verne” in Amiens. He also served in the jury for the selection of research scientists (SRP/ARP) at Inria.

• Marie Babel was in the selection committee for research scientists (CR2) at Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique. She also served in the selection committee for an Assistant Professor position in robotics at the “Université de Lorraine”.

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano and François Chaumette were in the selection committee for an Assistant Professor position in robotics at the “Université de Rennes 1”.

• Eric Marchand was in the selection committee for a Professor position in image processing at Insa in Rennes.

• Patrick Rives as a member of the Inria evaluation committee was in the selection committee for research scientists (CR2) at Inria Nancy-Grand Est and Inria Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest, and also in the selection committees for senior research scientists (DR2, DR1, and DR0).

Participation in seminars, invitation

• François Chaumette and Paolo Robuffo Giordano were invited to give a talk during the final workshop of the FP7 Regpot project at Dubrovnik, Croatia, in September 2014.

• Alexandre Krupa was invited to give a talk in the tutorial session on Mechatronics for medical robotics at the IEEE/ASME Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Besançon, France, July 2014 [59] .

Animation at the international level

• François Chaumette served in the 2014 IEEE RAS Fellow Nomination Committee and in the 2014 IEEE RAS Chapter of the year Award Committee. He was also a member of the jury in charge of the 2014 IEEE ICRA Best Vision paper award.

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano served as External Reviewer for the EU FP7 Project “SHERPA”

Animation at the national level

• François Chaumette and Patrick Rives are members of the scientific council of the “GdR Robotique” and JNRR. They have both served in the jury to select the best French Ph.D. thesis in robotics.

• Patrick Rives is a member of the Inria evaluation committee.

• Eric Marchand is in the board of the “Association Française pour la Reconnaissance et l'Interprétation des Formes (AFRIF)”. He is secretary of this association.

• Alexandre Krupa is a member of the Inria Cost-GTAI in charge of the evaluation of the ADTs (“Actions de développments technologiques”)

Animation at the regional and local levels

• Eric Marchand is in the board of the “Images et réseaux” competitivity cluster.

• Alexandre Krupa is a member of the GestChir project at the IRT B-Com in Rennes.

• Eric Marchand is a member of the scientific council of the “École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Rennes” (ESIR).

• François Chaumette is the president of the committee in charge of all the temporary recruitments (“Commission Personnel”) at Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique and Irisa. He is also a member of the Head team of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique.

• Eric Marchand is a member of the committee in charge of all the temporary recruitments (“Commission Personnel”) at Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique and Irisa. He is particularly in charge of Irisa Ph.D. students.

• Marie Babel is a member of the “Comité de centre” of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique.

• Fabien Spindler is a member of the “Commission développement durable” of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique.

• Alexandre Krupa is a member of the CUMIR (“Commission des Utilisateurs des Moyens Informatiques pour la Recherche”) of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique.

• Paolo Robuffo Giordano was invited to give a talk to the M.Sc. students at the ENS Rennes in October 2014.