Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) - France Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics
UPMC is one of the leading teaching and research institutions in Europe, and the largest scientific and medical university in France. Recently the National Centre for Healthy Aging has been opened at the UPMC and Charles Foix hospital. New technologies development for autonomous living and accessible technologies is one of the challenges of this Center. ISIR (the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics) will actively participate in this technological research.
ISIR is associated with CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique), Department of Sciences and Technology for Information and Engineering (STII). ISIR was created in 2007 by fusion of three UPMC's entities: LRP (Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris), LISIF PARC research group (Perception and Neural Networks) and LIP6 Animat group (engineering mimicking of biological animals). ISIR is involved in fundamental and applicative multidisciplinary research (signal-image-vision processing, computer science, automatics, mechanics, cognitive science (multimodality: tactile, haptic, vision, balance)). ISIR investigates various aspects related to man-machine-world interactions of any age (modelling simulation, design and prototyping of complex and/or teleoperated systems for human vision, posture, gesture). Intelligent systems (vision, robotics) are designed by using a neuro-cognitive approach (cooperation with Collège de France ; CEA (Commissariat à l‘Energie Atomique), hospitals, and institutions for visually impaired). For more than 20 years, the laboratory has been involved in more than 200 national and international research projects, including a vision system for unmanned autonomous vehicle (RobVolInt), a modelling of human visuo-tactile perception and action (HuPer) and an assistance for walking of visually impaired (IGS). For a detailed list of activities and publications please refer to: www.isir.fr
ISIR participates in EU-supported workshop series for young researchers on Assistive Technologies and Rehabilitation Engineering (CVHI, Conference on Visual and Hearing Impairment).
Contribution to the AsTeRICS Project:
- Concept development for a tailored computer vision system to support AT-applications with motion and/or gaze tracking
- Development of a hardware / software prototype for the vision system, meeting the constraints of the AsTeRICS embedded computing platform
- Firmware development for digital signal processing to extract features from live video images and to transmit those features to the AsTeRICS platform
- Integration of the vision system into the AsTeRICS hardware and software framework as a sensor module
Role in the AsTeRICS Project:
UPMC will contribute to AsTeRICS mainly by the concept development for a tailored computer vision system to support AT-applications with motion and/or gaze tracking. UPMC will contribute to the development of a hardware / software prototype for the vision system, meeting the constraints of the AsTeRICS embedded computing platform and to the integration of it.