Raphaël Lallement

Research Engineer - Robotic and AI expert

CEA List
Embedded and Autonomous Systems Design Laboratory

Mail: raphael.lallement [at] cea [dot] fr

Raphaël Lallement

Résumé

Experience

Research Engineer

CEA List, Embedded and Autonomous Systems Design Laboratory

  • Confiance.ai: Aims at building trustworthy AIs through modeling, tooling, and validation. The project makes tangible solutions, which industrial partners deploy in operations.
  • Robot auto-apprenant: (self-learning robot) Builds a solution around a robot that learns in contact with human operators in indusrty. It is a stepping-stone toward the Industry 5.0, where the factories are meant to be reconfigured on demand.
Paris-Sclay, France
Nov. 2022 - Today

Project Manager for Drone projects

Scalian, "Unmanned" Team

  • Comp4Drones: European project (50 partners), definition of a generic architecture for drones, createion of drones ecosystem. Role: Workpackage leader. Management of deliverables and internal developments. Organisation of partners’ activities.
  • Metis: project for Total company, Fleet of cooperative drones dropping sensors on huge areas. Role: Project manager. Management of deliverables and development team. Review meeting and defense of our company interests. Supplier selection and management.
  • Technical support to development team: containerisation (Docker), Continuous Integration, cross-compilation.
  • Answer to Requests for Proposal: definition of system architecure, business plan.x
Toulouse, France
Jul. 2018 - Nov. 2022

Co-Founder and CTO of Elter, an AI company

AI Company in Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Task Planning

  • R&D in computer vision and task planning: study of feasability and corresponding market study.
  • Answer to innovative-project calls: private investor and public research (ANR).
  • Participated in commercial and legal-status activities.
  • Co-Founder of a commission around data valorisation in the Digital Place cluster.
Toulouse, France
Nov. 2016 - Feb. 2018

PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, at LAAS-CNRS and University of Toulouse

Symbolic and Geometric Planning for teams of Robots and Humans

  • Formalisation of a novel algorithm to ensure geometric feasibility of a symbolic task plan.
  • In the context of the ARCAS European project, where a team of UAV has to build structures with cooperative transport operations.
  • Other case study is Human-Robot Interaction in the context of collaborative factory assembly work.
  • Publication of 5 peer-reviewed article in international workshops and conferences.
  • Part-time lecturer at INSA (Unix systems, C and Ada programming, processor design).
Toulouse, France
Oct. 2012 - Oct. 2016

Master-2 validation Internship, LAAS-CNRS

Improvement of an innovative robotic architecture to allow multi-robot system

  • Work carried out in the scope of a research project and supervised by a PhD student.
  • Presentation of the work in a research-oriented report.
Toulouse, France
Mar. 2012 - Aug. 2012

Master-1 validation Internship, University of Birmingham

Design of a robotic-hand simulator to specify the feasability of realistic simulation of robotic grasps

  • Design of several simulators to benchmark the feasibility of grasping objects with different physic engines.
  • Presentation of the work in a research-oriented report.
Birmingham, United-Kingdom
Apr. 2011 - Aug. 2011

Education

Bachelor and Professional Master in Robotics

University Paul Sabatier

  • Ranked top of the class. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, graph theory, image and speech analysis and synthesis, signal processing
Toulouse, France
Sept. 2007 - Aug. 2012

Skills

Languages Native French, Bilingual English
Project management skills Projects structuring (PMP) and answer to RFP, deliverables writing, technical specification, supplier selection and management, quality management, technical support and lead
Research skills Analyse of the state of the art, scientific-articles writing, conception and formalisation of novel ideas
Programming skills C++ and boost, CMake, ROS, Git, Gitlab CI, Makefile, Python, Prolog
Knowledge in: Matlab/Octave, Java, VHDL
General computer skills Linux administration, virtualisation and dockerisation, shell scripting, code licensing, CI integration
Interests Travel (Japan, Iceland, Indonesia, ...), home beer brewing, board games, blacksmithing

Publications

Conferences

Using Human Knowledge Awareness to Adapt Collaborative Plan Generation, Explanation and Monitoring, HRI 2015

Milliez, G. and Lallement, R. and Fiore, M. and Alami, R.

@inproceedings{milliez2015,
  author = {Milliez, Gr{\'e}goire and Lallement, Rapha{\"e}l and Fiore, Michelangelo and Alami, Rachid},
  title = {{Using Human Knowledge Awareness to Adapt Collaborative Plan Generation, Explanation and Monitoring}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
  year = {2015}
}
						

Combining Symbolic and Geometric Planning to Synthesize Human-Aware Plans: Toward More Efficient Combined Search, IROS 2015

Gharbi, M. and Lallement, R. and Alami, R.

@inproceedings{gharbi2015,
  author = {Mamoun Gharbi and Rapha{\"e}l Lallement and Rachid Alami},
  title = {Combining Symbolic and Geometric Planning to Synthesize Human-Aware Plans: Toward More Efficient Combined Search},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
  year = {2015}
}
						

The HATP Hierarchical Planner: Formalisation and an Initial Study of its Usability and Practicality, IROS 2015

de Silva, L. and Lallement, R. and Alami, R.

@inproceedings{desilva2015,
  author = {Lavindra de Silva and Rapha{\"e}l Lallement and Rachid Alami},
  title = {The {HATP} Hierarchical Planner: Formalisation and an Initial Study of its Usability and Practicality},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
  year = {2015}
}
						

Workshops

HATP: An HTN Planner for Robotics, PlanRob 2014

Lallement, R. and de Silva, L. and Alami, R.

@inproceedings{lallement14,
  author = {Rapha{\"e}l Lallement and Lavindra de Silva and Rachid Alami},
  title = {{HATP}: An {HTN} Planner for Robotics},
  booktitle = {2nd ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics},
  pages = {20-27},
  year = {2014}
}
						

On Human-aware Task and Motion Planning Abilities for a Teammate Robot, RSS HRCIM 2014

Alami, R. and Gharbi, M. and Vadant, B. and Lallement, R. and Suarez, A.

@inproceedings{alamiRSS14,
  author = {Rachid Alami and Mamoun Gharbi and Benjamin Vadant and Rapha{\"e}l Lallement and Adolfo Suarez},
  title = {On Human-aware Task and Motion Planning Abilities for a Teammate Robot},
  booktitle = {RSS Workshop Human-Robot Collaboration for Industrial Manufacturing},
  year = {2014}
}
						
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