A look back at the 14th Eurohaptics international haptics conference

Submitted on 09/09/2024

A look back at the 14th edition of Eurohaptics, the international conference on haptics, held in Lille from 30 June to 3 July

 

Among the 400 participants, IRISA was well represented at the Eurohaptics conference, an international conference dedicated to the latest research and technologies in the field of haptics. In addition to the presence of Maud Marchal, professor at INSA Rennes, as General Co-Chair and Claudio Pacchierotti, CNRS researcher, as Program Co-Chair, many of our scientists from the Rainbow and Hybrid teams travelled to take an active part in the event.

Among the contributions made by our scientists, we would like to congratulate Pierre-Antoine Cabaret and Antoine Bout for :

Pierre-Antoine Cabaret tenant le prix
  • Honourable mention for the best poster, awarded to Pierre-Antoine Cabaret, an Inria doctoral student supervised by Maud Marchal, Marie Babel and Claudio Pacchierotti in the RAINBOW team.
    ‘Multi-actuator Haptic Handle Using Soft Material for Vibration Isolation’.
    Pierre-Antoine Cabaret, Antoine Bout, Maxime Manzano, Sylvain Guégan, Claudio Pacchierotti, Marie Babel and Maud Marchal.
Photo Antoine Bout, 3e en partant de la gauche
  • Honourable mention for the best ‘Work-In-Progress’ award awarded to Antoine Bout, an Inria doctoral student supervised by Maud Marchal in the Rainbow team and Sylvain Guégan.
    ‘Design of Hairy 3D Printed Samples for Haptic Feedback’.
    Antoine Bout, Sylvain Guégan and Maud Marchal.

The two demonstrations presented by two doctoral students, Lendy Mulot (Rainbow) and Jeanne Hecquard (Hybrid), also caught the attention of the audience.

In the run-up to the conference, workshops were organised, including one on the theme of artificial intelligence and haptics in collaboration with Claudio Pacchierotti, which generated a great deal of interest in the future and limits of AI, as well as raising ethical questions.

And finally, an artistic performance resulting from a collaboration between the Mille au carré collective and IRISA highlighted the intersection of haptics with creativity and design. The Rainbow research team collaborated on the design of a haptic instrument.

 

Photo de la performance artistique

All these presentations provided an opportunity to showcase the various research projects carried out by our Rainbow and Hybrid scientific teams, as well as projects such as Rego* (Claudio Pacchierotti), ADVHANDTURE* (Maud Marchal) and GuestXR* (Ferran Argelaguet, Justine Saint-Aubert, Marc Macé, Anatole Lécuyer) and Dornell* (Marie Babel).

Photo Claudio et groupe

*REGO  aims to develop an innovative set of swarms of robots driven by artificial intelligence. These small, untethered micro-robots are sensitive to stimuli and will be directed wirelessly by electromagnetic fields, while also being able to react to other external stimuli. They will be jointly controlled by humans via intuitive multisensory interfaces.

*ADVHANDTURE aims to introduce a new computational approach for managing multimodal tactile feedback in immersive environments. This project focuses on the design of models dedicated to immersive tactile haptics, with an emphasis on the hand and its fundamental role in the sense of touch through tactile exploration of immersive environments.

*GuestXR aims to create an immersive online social space using extended reality (virtual or augmented reality). The emphasis is on the existence of a virtual agent called ‘the guest’, which is an artificial intelligence linked to machine learning, and which should facilitate interaction between participants and help them to achieve the objectives set.

*DORNELL aims to design an innovative, multisensory, multimodal and intelligent haptic handle designed to facilitate mobility for disabled people.