Online application here Context A postdoctoral position is opened within the Inria-KAIST partnership. It is part of the SHAARE associate team, initiated between the Auctus team at Inria and the IRiS lab at KAIST that focuses on haptics and shared teleoperation. Together, we aim at developing shared-control approaches that, either, better guide the human through adaptive haptic guidance, or adjust the robot behavior according to the human gestures.
The postdoc contract will have a duration of 12 to 24 months.
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The SHAARE associate team is created in 2024 between the IRiS lab at KAIST and the Auctus team at Inria, to share our complementary methodological orientations in haptic shared control. Together, we aim at developing shared-control approaches that, either, better guide the human through adaptive haptic guidance, or adjust the robot behavior according to the human gestures.
The IRiS lab develops virtual-fixture feedback, generated from a task description given by the user.
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Context This internship is part of a research project on haptic guidance. Haptic guidance provides force feedback to help an operator to remotely operate a robot thanks to a haptic interface. The purpose of these forces is to induce a certain behavior of the robot with respect to the task, such as following a reference trajectory or applying a precise interaction force. The advantage of using such guidance methods is to relieve the user’s cognitive workload during the teleoperation through proper assistance, while allowing him to control the task.
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Context Recent progresses in robotics, which tend toward assistive systems or versatile collaborative robots, could make a reorganization of industrial sites possible in order to preserve the health of human workers, by improving their working conditions, while enhancing the value of human expertise and skills. Such a transformation of work requires to rethink robotic control approaches, both in terms of safety and physical capabilities, to enable the robots to help humans in their activity and evolve in a shared environment.
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Context A postdoctoral position is opened in collaboration between the AUCTUS team at Inria and the IRiS lab at KAIST, about shared control and skill transfer in haptic teleoperation.
The postdoc contract will have a duration of one year, later extendable. The postdoctoral fellow will be recruited at the Inria center of the University of Bordeaux (AUCTUS team), where he/she will start the research project. A six-month exchange period will be planned at KAIST (IRiS lab) to share the works and progresses.
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This collaborative project started in 2021 between the AUCTUS team at Inria, the RoBioSS team at the Pprime Institute (CNRS), and the Interaction team at the CeRCA laboratory (CNRS). It is co-funded by the ASAP-HRC young-researcher ANR grant and the Perception-HRI Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Aid. It aims at rethinking Autonomy for Shared Action and Perception in Human-Robot Collaboration, through transverse studies in robotics and cognitive sciences.
Three scientific axes are studied to develop a human-centered and generic shared-autonomy framework:
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Akka Technologies is an engineering and technology consulting group. The group is positioned in all industrial and tertiary sectors of activity, namely aeronautics, automotive, energy, railways, defense, space, information systems and telecommunications.
In 2019-2022, we have established a recurrent collaboration with AKKA to transfer our know-how on collaborative robotics design. Two partnerships have been established.
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People involved:
Farm3 develops a robotic and ultrasound-based farm for vertical off-ground cultivation: The Cube. Supported by French starred chefs, the company aims at countering intensive farming by locally producing nutritive and tasty veggies and herbs, without pesticides nor GMOs, and in respect of the environment. Such novel ultraponic farming, inside a closed and controlled space, fosters local and quality cultivation of various species. The ultrasound-based technique maintains an optimal level of oxygenation and provides the needed amount of water and nutriments to the plants. The plants must be confined in this ideal growth atmosphere until they are ripe. However, some actions must be done while growing or harvesting the plants, such as clearing up the seedling, removing bad leaves, or pollinating the flowers. A robotic arm, equipped with a dedicated gripper, has been designed to perform these actions inside the Cube. To preserve the expertise of the farmer in the cultivation process, these skilled actions will be remotely controlled through a teleoperation device. Through a collaboration with the AUCTUS team, at INRIA Bordeaux, and the RoBioSS team at Pprime Institute, Farm3 aims at smartly robotizating the Cube, to enhance the cultivation conditions while facilitating the remote control of the farm. The first challenge of this project is to set up the dedicated robotic manipulator inside the Cube to autonomously perform simple tasks, such as grasping and placing plant buckets on the cultivation grid. The second objective is to preserve the farmers’ expertise as they should be able to control the actions through a Human-Robot interface. To remotely perform the task, the teleoperation interface should be augmented with relevant visual and haptic information, related to the plants and the Cube.
In 2022, a contract was signed with Farm3 for a PhD on assisting the human by transferring skills to the robot in teleoperated vertical agriculture. The PhD student is Alexis Boulay under the supervision of David Daney.
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Research My research aims at rethinking how robots can assist and collaborate with Humans in a shared environement. The main challenge is to improve human-robot interaction and coordination to better perform shared activities.
To meet this goal, my works focus on four axes:
Mechatronic design of robotic systems, Control of human-robot-environment interaction, Shared-autonomy approach of robotic assistance, Ergonomic and cognitive studies of human-robot collaboration. I am particularly interested in augmented haptic teleoperation, where the robot and human agent interact remotly through a sensory-rich interface (motion, haptic, visual, auditory data).
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