Caroline Chanel

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BIOGRAPHY

since 2024 Professor at ISAE-SUPAERO / DCAS
2023 Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR), INP Toulouse
since 2022 Chair holder, Design and Architecture of Cognitive Aircraft Systems (CASAC Chair)
2019-2024 Associate Professor at ISAE-SUPAERO / DCAS
2019-2023 Associate Researcher at Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI)
2013-2019 Research Engineer at ISAE-SUPAERO / DCAS
2013 Ph.D in Control and Embedded Systems at Université de Toulouse, delivered by Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO)
2008-2009 Master’s Research degree in Automatic, Computer and Decision Systems (M2R-SAID) at Université Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France, with honors.
2002-2008 Automation and Control Engineer Diploma at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Academic Laureate, with honors.
2005-2006 Brafitec Engineer Exchange Program - Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Saint-Etienne

RESEARCH TOPICS

Main interest : embedded decision-making for autonomous systems
Topics :

decision-making approaches and proactive architectures that have been designed for single-robot autonomous navigation
decentralized multi-robot cooperation strategies to enhance systems efficiency and adaptability
methods to design human-machine(s) adaptive interaction control policies proposing flexible cooperation frameworks built upon the Mixed-Initiative Interaction paradigm.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

SAMURAI : Autonomous Multi-Robot System for Intelligent Active Exploration
AID 2023-2027 (role : partner). Co-supervision of PhD student (to be recruited)
Project leader : Damien Vivet (ISAE-SUPAERO)

CHIP-GT : Coordinating Heterogeneos Interacting Planning Agents using Game Theory
ANR-DFG 2022-2026 (role : WP leader). Co-supervision of PhD students and post-doctoral fellow (to be recruited)
Partners : Jane J. Kiam, Axel Schulte (UniBM), Régis Sabbadin, Meritxell Vinyals (INRAe), Thibault Gateau (ISAE-SUPAERO)

HAICO : Human-Artificial Intelligence Collaboration
CASAC Chair 2022-2024 (role : leader). Co-supervision of Post-doctoral fellow Christophe Lounis
Partners : Nicolas Drougard (ISAE-SUPAERO)

MINERVA : Mixed-Initiative Interaction : profile-based adaptive decision-making
CASAC Chair 2022-2024 (role : leader). Co-supervision of Post-doctoral fellow Adam Moreira Pinto
Partners : Nicolas Drougard, Mickaël Causse (ISAE-SUPAERO)

PHYBIC : POMDP-based hybrid brain-computer Interfaces control
AA doctoral school fellow (role : partner). Co-supervision of PhD student Juan Jesus Torre Tresols
Project leader : Frédéric Dehais (ISAE-SUPAERO)

BIPLANE : Blockchains for resilience and security of small autonomous vehicle networks
AID 2021-2024, MITT doctoral school fellow (role : partner). Co-supervision
of PhD students Thomas Lavaur and Déborah Conforto-Nedelmann
Projet leader : Jérôme Lacan (ISAE-SUPAERO)

CONCORDE : Integrated analysis and design towards certification of future UAV systems and their operations
PEA, Ministry of the Armed Forces 2019-2025 (role : partner). Co-supervision of PhD student Marion Zaninutti.
Partners : Charles Lesire, Yoko Watanabe (ONERA)

ANITI : Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute
Chair Neuro-adaptive Technology based Mixed- Initiative (role : partner). Co-supervision of PhD student Giorgio Angelotti and post-doctoral fellow Bertille Somon
Chair holder : Frédéric Dehais (ISAE-SUPAERO)
Partners : Nicolas Drougard, Raphaëlle N. Roy (ISAE-SUPAERO)

AIRTIME : Adaptive human-agent interaction based on mental state estimation
CASAC Chair 2017-2021 (role : leader). Co-supervision of PhD student Gaganpreet Singh
Partner : Raphaëlle N. Roy (ISAE-SUPAERO)

EPEE : Maximizing efficiency of predictive maintenance using sequential decision-making
ANRT CIFRE Airbus 2019-2021 (role : partner). Co-supervision PhD student Ilyass Haloui
Project leader : Alain Haït (ISAE-SUPAERO)

COCPIT : Cognitive counter measures for pilots
MMT (Dassault Aviation, Thalès, AID) 2018-2020 (role : partner).
Projet leader : Frédéric Dehais

HYPERSCAN : Hyperscan for cooperation detection
MMT (Dassault Aviation, Thalès, AID) 2018-2020 (role : partner). Co-supervision of post-doctoral fellows
Projet leader : Frédéric Dehais
Partners : Nicolas Drougard, Raphaëlle N. Roy, Grégoire Vergotte

HoRIzON : Driving Human-Robots Interactions
CASAC Chair 2016-2019 (role : partner), 2022-2024 (role : chair holder). Supervision and Co-supervision of PhD students and post-doctoral fellows
Partners : Nicolas Drougard, Raphaëlle N. Roy, Frédéric Dehais, Christophe Lounis, Adam Pinto, Mickaël Causse
Please visit our website.

NavPlan : Planning the navigation and guidance strategy for autonomous drones in constrained environments
Onera-ISAE Thesis financial support, 2016-2019 (role : partner). Co-supervision of
PhD student Jean-Alexis Delamer
Projet leader : Yoko Watanabe (ONERA)

MURE : Multi-robot exploration under non-ideal communication conditions
Universidad de la República (UdeLaR), Uruguay (role : partner). Co-supervision of PhD student Facundo Benavides Olivera
Partners : Janette Cardoso (ISAE-SUPAERO), Eduardo Grampín, Pablo Monzón (UdeLaR)

MIHINT : Towards mixed-initiative human-robot interaction : a cooperative human-drone team framework
CNPq Brazil Thesis financial support, 2014-2017 (role : partner). Co-supervision of PhD student Paulo Edouardo Ubaldino de Souza
Project leader : Frédéric Dehais (ISAE-SUPAERO)

Cooperative multi-drone mission control system. More information here.
Framing effect experiment : anonymous collected data is available here.

PROPLA : Online proactive planning with multiple Hypotheses
ONERA, 2016-2019 (role : partner).
Collaboration with Charles Lesire, Jorrit T’Hooft (ONERA)

MAIA - 2 : Modeling Attention for Adaptive Interaction
DGA MRIS 2014-2018 (role : partner). Co-supervision of post-doctoral fellows Thibault Gateau, Raphaëlle N. Roy, Mehdi Senoussi
Project leader : Frédéric Dehais (ISAE-SUPAERO)

ISCOPE : Intelligent assistance for Supervised Control in drones swarms OPErations : providing intelligent software assistance in tasks and authority allocation among human operator and autonomous artificial agents.
ATS AESE IDEX Programm, 2014-2017 (role : leader). Supervision of post-doctoral fellow Angela Bovo
Partners : Frédéric Dehais (ISAE-SUPAERO)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Module pedagogical responsability

Autonomous Systems minor (140h), ISAE-SUPAERO Engineer program
Action and Deliberate Decision-making (18h), ISAE-SUPAERO Engineer program, Autonomous Systems Domain
Contemporary issues in technology (6h), ISAE-SUPAERO Engineer program, Autonomous Systems Domain
AI methods and tools for Neuroergonomics (58h), ISAE-SUPAERO Engineer program, Neuroergonomics and Artificial Intelligence Domain
Applications : drones, missiles, satellites, autonomous cars, launchers, connected objects, robotics (100h), ISAE-SUPAERO Apprenticeship Engineer program, UE Avionics and Embedded Systems

Current Teaching Participation

Perception and Navigation (6h), ISAE-SUPAERO Engineer program, Autonomous Systems Domain
Action and Deliberate Decision-making (6h), ISAE-SUPAERO Engineer program, Autonomous Systems Domain
Drones (12h), ISAE-SUPAERO Engineer program, Autonomous Systems Domain, drones pathway
AI methods and tools for Neuroergonomics (22h), ISAE-SUPAERO Engineer program, Neuroergonomics and Artificial Intelligence Domain
Applications : drones, missiles, satellites, autonomous cars, launchers, connected objects, robotics (12h), ISAE-SUPAERO Apprenticeship Engineer program
AI methods and tools for Automatic Control (3h), Aerospace systems and control Major (ASC), Aerospace Engineering Master program
AI and Autonomous Systems (6h), Embedded Systems Major (ES), Aerospace Engineering Master program
Real-time Control of Aerospace Systems (9h), Aerospace Engineering Master
(MAE) program
Real-time Control of Aerospace Systems (14h), Embedded Systems Advanced Master (EMS) program
Real-time Control of Aerospace Systems (8h), Embedded Systems Advanced Master (TAS-ASTRO) program

OTHERS

since 2021, co-responsible of the ISAE-ONERA doctoral hosting team DECISIO — DECIsion, Supervision et Interaction pour l’Opération de systèmes complexes — with Charles Lesire (ONERA).
since 2015, EDSYS’ Executive Team Member
2013 ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation, PhD Fellow
2011 Amelia Eahart Fellow, Zonta International
2011 Novelized during the festival La Novela of Toulouse.

CONTACT

Address : 10 avenue Edouard Belin
BP 54032 - 31055 Toulouse CEDEX 4 - FRANCE
Phone Number : +33 (0) 5 61 33 81 50
Email : caroline dot chanel at isae-supaero dor fr