Selected Research Projects
While working as a researcher in universities and research centers, Patrice Caire launched and directed a number of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and Virtual Reality (VR) research projects. Typically, these projects extend over a three-year period, and are carried out in partnership with private companies and/or public institutions.
Luxembourg United Robot Soccer Team
RoboCup is an international scientific competition to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots.
In 2015, Patrice Caire launched Luxembourg United—the first national autonomous robots soccer team of Luxembourg—and in 2016 the team was selected to participate in the RoboCup 2017, World Cup XXI.
Research topics included: Real-time detection and tracking of objects; visual information integration into global map; localization under disturbances; motion control; robot team coordination and cooperation.
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Tough match against the UNSW Australian team
CoRobots (Cooperative Robots) at MUDAM
Increasingly intelligent robots need to make critical decisions—for example, in search and rescue operations—and to collaborate with each other and with us, humans.
In 2014, Patrice Caire designed CoRobots to provide a use case for such collaboration between humanoids, drones and us, humans. It was shown in 2015 in the grand setting of the Luxembourg Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM).
Research topics included: Multirobot systems; perception and action; robot cognition and learning; human-robot-interaction.
The Humanoid robot Pepper: A History museum guide
Humanoid social robots—such as Softbank Robotics’ Pepper robot—can safely interact with people, collaborate, learn and respond to human behaviors and language.
In 2017, the Luxembourg History Museum showed interest in these new ways of interaction. They approached Patrice Caire to do research and development using Pepper during cultural visits to communicate and share information with visitors in a natural way.
Research topics included: Speech synthesis and natural language generation; natural language recognition; understanding of human intent and behavior; dependability; safety and security.
Copains (Buddies) Conviviality and Privacy in Smart Houses
As internet of things (IoT) devices collect and transmit a large amount of sensitive data, such as personal information, financial data, and health data, they have become prime targets for cybercriminals.
In 2013, Patrice Caire launched this project, with Antonis Bikakis, to address the trade-offs between security and privacy in smart homes, ambient intelligent-IoT systems.
Research topics included: Cooperative multiagent systems; dependence networks; dynamic coalition formation; multi-context systems; graph theory; knowledge representation and reasoning.
Secure and Reliable Cloud-Based Solutions for Smart Cities
In smart cities, information is collected, processed and analyzed to monitor and manage a wide array of activities, from transportation networks, to water supply systems, crime detection and healthcare facilities.
Patrice Caire launched this project in 2013 to address the need for secure and Reliable Cloud-Based Solutions for the smart city of Luxembourg.
Research topics included: intelligent signal processing; dynamic software reconfiguration; smart control systems; dynamic component models; dynamically adaptive systems.
Robotorium
This research and development project was launched in 2019 by the Stanford University, Robotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science. Currently, Patrice Caire acts as a Consulting Scientist on the project.
The goal is to establish a modular framework for Robotorium, to engage researchers to collaborate indevelopment and demonstration of technologies, addressing real world robotic challenges.
Research topics include: Ethical AI; human robot interaction.
Cyberhead… A VR flight through a reconstructed head
Patrice Caire launched and spearheaded this project at the Virtual Reality (VR) and AI Laboratories of the Stanford research Institute (SRI). The Cyberhead project, launched in 1994, consists of a VR flight through a human head, reconstructed from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data.
Research topics included: 3-D reconstruction and modelling; binocular vision; software integration; Collision detection-prediction; mobile localization and mapping using visual features; 3D sound.