18^th JOINT COORDINATING FORUM

INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED ROBOTICS PROGRAM

FRANCE STATUS REPORT

SUMMARY

GLOSSARY

1. STATUS AND CURRENT ACTIVITY OVERVIEW

2. TWO BASIC RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

   • 2.1. Vision basic motion control
   • 2.2. Service and personal robotics
     • 2.2.1. BIP 2000
     • 2.2.2. DILIGENT



3. SELECTED R&D DOMAINS

   • 3.1. Nuclear Robotics
     • 3.1.1. CEA - Teleoperation and Robotics Department
     • 3.1.2. Teleoperation and virtual reality laboratory
     • 3.1.3. EDF - Robots and remote control research and development
   • 3.2. Underwater Robotics
     • 3.2.1. IFREMER: main robotics events
     • 3.2.2. GRSM
     • 3.2.3. CNRS Strategic action on Intelligent machines
   • 3.3. Medical Robotics
     • 3.3.1. Medical robotics in France
     • 3.3.2. Guiding systems for surgery
     • 3.3.3. Robotics computer for Assisted Surgery
     • 3.3.4. EPIDAURE: medical imaging and robotics
   • 3.4. Field Robotics
     • 3.4.1. Overview
     • 3.4.2. Planetary exploration
     • 3.4.3. Antarctica
     • 3.4.4. Humanitarian demining



4. APPENDIX

   • 4.1 Nuclear robotics
   • 4.2 Underwater robotics
   • 4.3 Medical robotics
   • 4.4 Field robotics