WELCOME TO
CATIE ROBOTICS!
ABOUT US
Motivations
As a technology transfer center, the CATIE organization has a broad set of skills and strong ties with engineer schools, laboratories and high tech startups. CATIE robotics was created in early 2018, the team aims to explore service robotics from an application-driven perspective and benefits from the multidisciplinary environment it lives in.
One of the team’s goals is to participate in the RoboCup @Home competition. The RoboCup competition is a way to objectively measure progress, expose it to a broad audience and gather an international community.
At a local scope, creating a robotics team is also a way of uniting people from various scientific horizons towards a very pragmatic, tangible goal.
Achievements, current state and near future
In early 2018, we chose the ROS based robot TIAGo from PAL Robotics as the main development platform. The robot was received in August 2018 and renamed Epock.
Since then, promising results have been achieved during 3 major robotics competitions: RoboCup @Home German Open 2019 (2nd place), RoboCup @Home Sidney 2019 (3rd place) and SciRoc Challenge (2nd place).
A working pipeline of speech to text, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and speech synthesis has been integrated and succesfully tested in the difficult environment of RoboCup challenges.
Furthermore, reliable safe navigation and accurate Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) have been reached through the use of open source libraries.
State of the art neural networks architectures have been used for face recognition and body pose estimation. They have been integrated in the robot and showcased during the same competitions.
Two projects related to object segmentation and grasping have been completed with the 2019 class Bordeaux INP students specializing in robotics as their main semester project. The 2020 class will work on flexible grasping.
After having integrated previous developments to obtain robust and autonomous behaviors on the robot, the next step will be improving overall grasping capabilities and object recognition. We are also redesigning Epock’s head to enhance the interaction with users, particularly in order to make its intentions clearer to laymen.
OUR (DREAM) TEAM
Alexandre Perrot
Computer Vision & AI
Boris Albar
Computer Vision & AI
Charles Dormoy
Human-Robot collaboration
Clément Dussieux
Natural Language &
computer Vodou
Clément Pinet
Software Integration
Etienne Schmitz
Trainee in
control & grasping
Florian Larrue
department manager
"Human-centred systems"
Ludwig Joffroy
Natural Language &
Computer Vision
Rémi Fabre
Team leader
Sebastien Gamardes
Mechanical integration
Sébastien Loty
Department Manager
"Cyber-Physical Systems"
Zhe "Aurore" Li
Navigation & SLAM
Christine Jaureguiberry
Communication manager
Thierry Arsicaud
Website
Former members
Amanda Rambhujun
Communication manager
Antoine Pirrone
trainee in
Embedded computer vision
Edgar Lefevre
Natural Language
Jean-Baptiste
"JB" Horel
slam
Raphaël Bres
trainee in
control & grasping
EVENTS
2nd place
September 2019 – SciRoc
(Milton Keynes- United-Kingdom)
Competitions
3rd place
July 2019 – RoboCup
(Sydney – Australia)
Exhibitions
2nd place
May 2019 – German Open
(Magdeburg – Germany)
MEDIA
PUBLICATIONS
CATIE Robotics @Home 2020 Team Description Paper
by Rémi FABRE, Boris ALBAR, Clément DUSSIEUX, Christine JAUREGUIBERRY, Ludwig JOFFROY, Jean-Baptiste HOREL, Zhe LI, Alexandre PERROT, Clément PINET, Stéphane POUYET, Florian LARRUE and Sébastien LOTY
CATIE Robotics @Home 2019 Team Description Paper
by Rémi FABRE, Boris ALBAR, Clément DUSSIEUX, Ludwig JOFFROY, Zhe LI, Clément PINET, Jennifer SIMEON and Sébastien LOTY
Rhoban Football Club – Team Description Paper Humanoid Kid-Size League, Robocup 2018 Montreal
by Julien ALLALI, Rémi FABRE, Hugo GIMBERT, Loïc GONDRY, Ludovic HOFER, Olivier LY, Steve N’GUYEN, Grégoire PASSAULT, Antoine PIRRONE and Quentin ROUXEL
Rhoban football club: Robocup humanoid kid-size 2017 Champion Team Paper. In RoboCup 2017: Robot Soccer World Cup XXI, pp.423-434. 2018
by Julien ALLALI, Rémi FABRE, Loïc GONDRY, Ludovic HOFER, Olivier LY, Steve N’GUYEN, Grégoire PASSAULT, Antoine PIRRONE and Quentin ROUXEL
Rhoban Football Club – Team Description Paper Humanoid Kid-Size League, Robocup 2017 Nagoya
by Julien ALLALI, Rémi FABRE, Hugo GIMBERT, Loïc GONDRY, Ludovic HOFER, Olivier LY, Steve N’GUYEN, Grégoire PASSAULT, Antoine PIRRONE and Quentin ROUXEL
Rhoban Football Club – RoboCup Humanoid Kid-Size 2016 Champion Team Paper, pages 491–502. 2017
by Julien ALLALI, Louis DEGUILLAUME, Rémi FABRE, Loïc GONDRY, Ludovic HOFER, Olivier LY, Steve N’GUYEN, Grégoire PASSAULT, Antoine PIRRONE and Quentin ROUXEL
Dynaban, an Open-Source Alternative Firmware for Dynamixel Servo-Motors. In Symposium RoboCup 2016: Robot World Cup XX
by Rémi FABRE, Quentin ROUXEL, Grégoire PASSAULT, Steve N’GUYEN and Olivier LY
Rhoban Football Club – Team Description Paper Humanoid KidSize League, Robocup 2016 Leipzig
by Rémi FABRE, H. GIMBERT, Loïc GONDRY, Ludovic HOFER, Olivier LY, Steve N’GUYEN, Grégoire PASSAULT and Quentin ROUXEL
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