LAAS conducts research activities on different type of systems: micro and nano systems, embedded systems, integrated systems, large scale systems, biological systems, mobile systems, autonomous systems et critical information systems, with application domains such as : aeronautics, space, transportation, energy, services, health, telecommunications, environment, production and defense.

There are 8 research topics in the LAAS animating the activities of the 21 Research Teams of the laboratory:

• Critical Infomation Processing
• Networks and Communications
• Robotics
• Decision and Optimization
• MicroNanosystems RF and Optical
• Nano-Engineering and Integration
• Energy Management
• MicroNanoBio Technologies

21 Research Teams covering a Wide Scientific Span in Systems Sciences:

• Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
• Verification of Time Critical Systems
• System Engineering and Integration
• Distributed Computing and Asynchronism 
• Services and Architectures for Advanced Networks
• Humanoid motion
• Robotics, Action and Perception
• Robotics and Interactions
• Diagnosis and Supervisory Control
• Methods and Algorithms in Control
• Modeling, Optimization and Integrated Management of Activity Systems
• Micro and Nanosystems for Wireless Communications
• Microwave Integrated Devices and Systems for Telecommunications 
• Optoelectronics for Embedded Systems
• Photonics
• Nano Engineering and System Integration
• Integration of Energy Management Systems
• Nanobiosystems
• Microsystems for Analysis
• Processes for Nanoelectronics
• Hyper Frequency Micro and Nano Systems

Le LAAS is a Carnot institute, label given by the French Ministery of Research, indicating its excellency of relationship with industry.