PROTEUS: A platform to organise transfer inside French robotic community

Abstract

Last decades have seen the emergence of autonomy as a paradigm for the development of robots. Due to the many existing studies and many different actors working in this scope, many control architectures were developed either in laboratories or in industries, either in France or elsewhere. This proliferation obliterates capability to exchange easily ideas, software, hardware, etc. The end of the 90’, through the RTP 17 efforts [1], and the first two CAR conferences among many other occasions emphasised the need for some way to ease the transfer between the different actors of the field, academics as well as industrials. Through the “GDR 1 Robotique” and its associated partners’ club emerged the idea to promote a study inside the CONTINT 2 call of the ANR 3 that would tackle with this problematic at least inside the French Robotic community. This project is called PROTEUS (A platform to organise transfer inside French robotic community) and is presented in some detail in the following text.