Rachid Alami

Current Projects

INNOVCARE (PPR Autonomie - France 2030)
Horizon Europe: euROBIN (WP7 Leader / Human-Centered issues for robotics)
PEPR O2R (Robotique Organique) - A3S ( Décision, Apprentissage, Interaction Sociale) Project
ANR Ostensive Project (starting 02/2025)
ANR HumFleet Project
TRAIL: TRAnsparent, InterpretabLe Robots: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action

Past Projects

ANITI The Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute I have been offered the Academic Chair of Cognitive and Interactive Robotics of Cognitive and Interactive Robotics at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute.
The flying coworker - ANR The Collaborative Flying Manipulator Robot (March 2019 - March 2022). Our main activity here is to apply, refine and extend our Human-Aware Task and Motion Planning in the context of a flying manipulator which collaborates with human workers.
AI4EU is the European Union’s landmark Artificial Intelligence project, which seeks to develop a European AI ecosystem, bringing together the knowledge, algorithms, tools and resources available and making it a compelling solution for users. Our main activity (in WP7) to AI4EU is to contribute to AI-enabled Human-Robot Interaction.
JointAction4HRI (ANR 16-CE33-0017) Joint Action for Human-Robot Interaction (March 2017 - March 2021). Our main activity here is to conduct collaborative multidisciplinary research involving a philosophy laboratory (Institut Jean Nicod), a psychology laboratory (CLLE), and a robotics laboratory (LAAS) on Joint Action conceptual framework and its application to Human-Robot Joint Action.
MuMMER - H2020 No 688147 MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot (March 2016 - March 2020) Our main topic here concerns the development and the evaluation of the decisional capabilities of an interactive and cognitive robot in interaction with humans in the context of a mall: interplay between decision and dialog, perspective-taking, motion and task planning for the robot and the humans, human-aware motion planning and social navigation.
Collaborative Project with SAFRAN (March 2019 - March 2020). Our main activity here is to apply, refine and extend our contributions to Human-Robot Collaborative Task Achievement.b
SPENCER IP-FP7 No 600877 Social situation-aware perception and action for cognitive robots(March 2013 - March 2016) Our main contribution in this project was human-aware navigation planning, social navigation and decisional interaction for an autonomous robotic guide which has been successfully deployed at Schiphol Airport.
iCeiRA : International Center of Excellence on Intelligent Robotics and Automation Research - Taiwan-France Cluster of Excellence I-RiCE NTU (2012 - 2017) This was a collaborative research initiative on collaborative robotics involving National Taiwan University (Prof. Ren Luo), INRIA and CNRS. Our contribution here involved a number of key issues for robots when they share the task and the space with humans.
SAPHARI - IP-FP7 Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction (November 2011 - November 2015) Our main contribution in this project was oriented toward decisional capabilities for an interactive and cognitive robotic co-worker: human-aware task and motion planning, decisional processes involved reasoning and planning for the robot and the human, belief management and reasoning about affordances.
ARCAS - IP-FP7 Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly System (December 2011 - December 2015) Our main contribution in this project was oriented toward motion and task planning for a set uf UAVs equipped with manipulator to achieve collaborative assembly tasks.
RoboErgoSum There is an intricate relationship between self-awareness and the ability to perform cognitive-level reasoning. ANR (January 2014 - January 2017) Our contribution to this project concerned the decisional processes for fluent and efficient human-robot joint activity and the integration of goal-directed and habitual behaviors.
ROMEO 2 Project FUI (2013-2017) Our contribution to this project concerned human-aware task planning integrating affordance estimation for humanoid robot.
MaRDi Man Robot Dialogue ANR-CONTINT (October 2012-April 2016) In this project, our contribution concerned situated Humann-robot dialog integrating Model-based Decisional and Perspective-Taking Robot abilities with learning.
SCA2RS - Supervision et Coopération Autonome entre Aéronefs de Recherche et Sauvetage - STAE Foundation (2008-2013) In this project, our contribution concerned the overall control architecture and the distributed planning abilities for a set of autonomous robots.
CHRIS - IP-FP7 215805 Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems (2008-2012) Our contribution to this project concerned Human-Aware Task and Motion Planning, Affordance computation and Perspective-Taking, Robot Ontologies reasoning and dialog.
AMORCE - Algorithmes et MOdèles pour un Robot Collaboratif Eloquent et Social. ANR-PSIROB (2008-2012) In this project, our contribution, involved robot capabilities for collaborative task-achievement with a human including shared-plans elaboration.
ROSACE - RObots et Systèmes Auto-adaptatifs Communicants Embarqués - STAE Foundation (2008-2013) The objective was to gather a multidisciplinary consortium to study and develop design, specification, implementation and deployment methods and tools for a fleet of networked cooperative robots that satisfy verifiable, auto-adaptative and reconfiguration properties in dynamic environments.
COGNIRON FP6 IST-O02020 The Cognitive Robot Companion (2002-2008) This project was an essential step in the development of our approach to decisional aspects for Human-Robot collaborative task achievement.
URUS - Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Settings - STREP FP6 (December 2006 - December 2009) The objective of URUS was the development of the key components necessary to deploy a fleet of autonomous robots that transport persons and goods in urban pedestrian areas. Our contribution concerned the overall control architecture, task allocation and coordinated navigation.
PHRIENDS - Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Dependability and Safety STREP FP6 (October 2006 - October 2009) In this project we essentially contributed through the development of Human-Aware Motion and Manipulation Planning
The COMETS Multi UAV project Real-time coordination and control of multiple heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles (2002-2005) In this project we studied and built multi-robot a decisional architecture for intervention missions: task allocation and collaborative mission achievement.
The HR+ ROBEA Project (2000-2003) This project was the first in which we started to investigate human-friendly robotics. One important result was the successful deployment of an autonomous and interactive mobile robot guide at the Cité de l'Espace.
EGERIS project European Generic Emergency Response Information System (2001-2003) In this project we developed a decisional kernel for the assistance of rescue teams.
MARTHA: Multi-robot cooperation for a fleet of autonomous mobile robots for transshipment tasks in harbors, airports and marshalling yards.European ESPRIT III Project No 6668 (1992-1996) In this project we developed and deployed an original coordination scheme and an architecture for multi-robot systems: The Plan-Merging Paradigm.
The AMR Advanced Mobile Robot - Eureka Project (1990, 1993) We developed in this framework an architecture for High-level teleoperation of remote semi-autonomous robots in hazardous environments.
The VAP/RISP (1989-1993) and the I-ARES/EUREKA (1993-1997) Projects (with CNES) I contributed here to the study and the development of the overall mission deployment and control architecture for a Mars planetary rover.
The FAMOS/Eureka Project (1987, 1989) This project aimed to support the development of flexible robotized manufacturing in Europe.
ARA - The French National Robotics and Automation Program (1980 - 1986) I was involved in the Advanced Robotics topic where I developed NNS (No-Name System), a complete Lisp-based system to program and control a Flexible Assembly Cell.
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