Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Partners

International Academics Partners

• NAIST – Japan: RITS has a close cooperation with NAIST (Nara institute of Science and Technology), Japan since 2009. Based on this collaboration NAIST and Inria established the MoU agreement to accelerate and strengthen future research collaborations and the exchange of researchers and students. This year RITS hosted Sakriani Watiasri Sakti, assistant professor at NAIST.

• International Chaire “Drive4U”: Inria-RITS, Mines ParisTech, EPFL, Univ. of Berkeley (PATH Program) and Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (SJTU) are the academic partners of the international Chaire GAT, funded and supported by: Valeo Group, SAFRAN Group and MPSA Group (Peugeot-Citroën). A recent NDA has been signed recently. This Chaire will promote and fund academic activities related to Ground Automated Transportation and autonomous driving.

• Technical University of Sophia – Bulgaria: RITS is conducting a close partnership with the Technical University of Sophia (Department of Mechanical Engineering). Since 2009, Professor Plamen Petrov has been a visiting professor at Inria. He contributed in conducting common advanced researches with RITS researchers in the field of dynamic modeling and adaptive motion control for vehicles and robots. Joint works have been also driven to develop and validate platooning concepts for normal speed driving of automated vehicles.

Participation In other International Programs

• ASIA-ITC (STIC-ASIE) programme: project SIM-CITIES (2015-2016), "Sustainable and Intelligent Mobility for Smart Cities", coordinated by F. Nashashibi.

  Partners: RITS, IRCCyN/CNRS, NTU (Singapore), Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Graduate School of Science and Technology Kumamoto University (Japan), Department of Automation of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU University, China) and the Information and Communication Engineering and the MICA Lab (Vietnam). RITS and MICA lab have obtained from the Vietnamese Program 911 the financing of the joint PhD thesis of Dinh-Van Nguyen (co-directed by Eric Castelli from MICA lab and Fawzi Nashashibi).

• ECOS Nord international program: cooperation between Simon Bolivar University – Venezuela and RITS. This program started effectively in 2014 with the visit of two researchers and a PhD student from each institute to the other institute. This year, Adriana Zurita Villamizar engineer (trainee) from SBU made several months stay at RITS. She worked in the field of intelligent control.