Context
- WSNs for the smart city
- Autonomous vehicles
- Portable and confidential activity recognition
- Sensory substitution for the visually impaired
- space applications
Objectives
- Study and draw inspiration from the biological brain to explore new forms of artificial intelligence
- Make AI more efficient and autonomous
- Reduce the energy consumption of these complex algorithms
- Make IA algorithms compatible with real-time execution constraints
Challenges
- Optimize new models of artificial neural networks to integrate them into embedded electronic circuits (microcontrollers, FPGA, eFPGA, ASIC...)
- Confronting AI with biological intelligence
- Jointly optimize the compression and robustness of neural networks to make them applicable in realistic environments
Current projects
Integrating embedded neural networks and
self-mixing interferometry for smart sensors design
DeepSee
2020-2024
Keywords: Spiking neural networks, Event-based AI, Embedded Automotive Applications
Partners: LEAT, I3S, Cerco, Renault, Prophesse
Past projects
Smart Robot
2016-2019
Keywords: Mobile robotics, reinforcement learning, QoS, energy management, self-adaptive systems
Partners: CEA List
Smart Wireless Sensor Network
2017-2021
Keywords: WSN, autonomous sensors, unsupervised learning, power consumption, wireless communications
Partners: Univ. Tallinn
CIAR
2018-2021
Keywords: Spiking neural networks, System-on-Chip, neuromorphic architecture, unsupervised learning, spatial applications
Partners: Thales Aliena Space, Thales R&T
Event-based processing
2019-2022
Keywords: Spiking neural networks, event-based processing, autonomous driving, active vision
Partners: Renault, Prophesee
SOMA
2018-2021
Keywords: self-organization, unsupervised learning, multimodal association, brain plasticity, distributed computing
Partners: LORIA, INRIA, Institute of Neurodegenerative diseases, HESSO (Geneva)
ARTEFACT
2018-2021
Keywords: sensory substitution, extended mind, connected glasses, spiking neural networks, artificial/biologic hybridation, synchronous modeling, Neurosciences
Partners: I3S, LJAD, GREDEG, LAPCOS, Ellcie-Healthy, Actility