Olivier Simonin

Professor in Computer Science
Head of Inria team CHROMA (Inria Lyon & Inria Grenoble)
INSA de Lyon, Telecom. Dept., Université de Lyon, France
Member of CITI Lab.


Keywords: A.I. (decision-making, reinf. learning, multi-agent systems, planning, self-organized systems, bio-inspiration), Multi-robot systems, Swarm robotics, Autonomous vehicles, Simulation.


A short story of my robotics experience:
Pepper humanoid (2016-)
CITI Lab., INSA TC Dept., Inria CHROMA - Autonomous navigation among humans

3rd place Robocup 2019, SSL@Home, Sydney
5th place in Robocup 2018, Montreal (LyonTech team).
Parrot Bibop and Crazyflie UAVs CITI Lab. INSA Lyon / Inria CHROMA (2015-) 3D planning, drones cooperation, surveillance, UWB localization


Research and Teaching with drones
Turtlebot fleet : Complex scene mapping
CITI/Liris Lab. Inria CHROMA, INSA, Lyon 1 Coverage, mapping, 3D vision (2014-)

cf. AAMAS'2018, ECMR'2017 pub.
Minirex robots for the French ANR-DGA Carotte Challenge Algorithms for multi-robot mapping (2009-2012), Inria Maia (robot built by P. Lucidarme)

We won the contest ! (2012)

Robots and Sensors of the Intelligent Appartment LORIA/INRIA PAL & CPER Info Situ (2011-2013)
• Wifibot and Intelligent tiles

cf. infositu.loria.fr
"Khepera III" Robots (2007-2012)
Romea project (the interactive table)

• From Box-pushing to Robot-pushing
(Mechatronics 19(4))
• Extension of robots and definition of
the interactive table (ICTAI 11)
• Platooning models and experiments (IROS 11)
Robot soccer (2002-2005)
Supevized platform

• I managed the robotics activity in UTBM-SeT Lab.
"Type 1" mobile robot (2000-2002) Experiments with my PhD. model
(cf. Pub. ICRA 2002)
Robot built by P. Lucidarme at LIRMM


Contact Information

CITI-Inria Lab.
Office: 119
Mailing address: CITI-Inria Lab.
Bat. Claude Chappe, 6 avenue des Arts
69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
+33 (0)472 436 422 office
+33 (0)472 437 322 lab (Assistant)
+33 (0)472 436 227 lab fax (telling me beforehand)

olivier (dot) simonin (at) insa-lyon (dot) fr


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