Ad augusta per absurda

Alphonse Allais's works are unjustly termed "funny" by some. His contemporaries regarded him as one of the best representatives of nonsense literature. Today, thanks to studies based on psychoanalysis, sociocriticism and more recent research on humour, his works can be considered as partaking of a certain commitment. As a result, jokes could be viewed as an aesthetic or political way to question reality and they could be reconsidered to be as highly esteemed as the ideas of great philosophers like Jeremy Bentham or Friedrich Nietzsche or the works of more "serious" authors like Jules Laforgue, Remy de Gourmont or Raymond Roussel. To make the reader know himself and to understand the world through nonsense - this is the paradoxical and original aspect of Allais'a works

Transforming Basic Robotic Platforms into Easily Deployable and Web Remotely Controllable Robots

International audienceThis paper describes a way to transform basic robotic platforms into Web remotely controllable robots. Our goal is to achieve robot deployment anywhere, at anytime, at low-cost. As soon as full or even restricted Internet access is available (WiFi or 3G), the robot can be deployed and Webcontrolled. The distant user can send commands to the robot and monitor the state of the robot. For example, the distant user can make the robot move and get snapshots taken by the robot

Internet-based teleoperation: A case study - toward delay approximation and speed limit module

International audienceThis paper presents the internet-based remote control of mobile robot. To face unpredictable Internet delays and possible connection rupture, a direct teleoperation architecture with “Speed Limit Module” (SLM) and “Delay Approximator” (DA) is proposed. This direct control architecture guarantees the path error of the robot motion is restricted within the path error tolerance of the application. Experiment results show the effectiveness and applicability of this direct internet control architecture in the real internet environment

LCA AND THE X-DEVELOPMENT METHOD, THE CASE STUDY OF A TRANSPORT BOX

International audienceIn this article a case study the design of a plastic transport box is presented. After a short listing of the requirements, and explaining what is expected as definition of the product after the designing work, we formulate general assumptions about the environment of the product. We use the X-development method. We follow in parallel the twice left branches of the X, performing two key choices, the first one about the material and the second one about the optimized shapes. The X-development method permits the usage of environmental impact indicators during the design process, before taking important decisions. The targeted consequence is the reduction of the iterations during the design, especially in a LCA

Toward a Generic Framework for Ubiquitous System

International audienceIn this paper we present a beginning work about industrial applications using WEB technologies. Systems to study are, for example, robot arms in factories, Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems for commercial center or buildings, water distribution networks or power management consumption systems of corporate. WEB technologies give us new opportunities to collect the data, to analyze correlations of signals and external events, and finally to change in "soft real-time" the parameters of the managed system. But these applications can be strongly influenced by the behaviour of the communication network and its reliability. We describe the key points that we will explore in our further work

Virtual Reality to Improve Remote Control in Presence of Delays

International audienceThis paper presents the use of virtual reality in the context of remote control. Virtual reality may be used in a classical manner in order to simulate the behavior of a system, but also in parallel with the real system in order to improve the quality of the control, making it possible to deal with time delays induced by the network. Our proposal may be applied to various fields such as robotics, measurements systems, industrial applications or domotics

Modeling and analysing ubiquitous systems

International audienceThe growth of industrial activities during the last decades and the diversity of industrial products require standards and common methodologies for building and integrating different parts. It is also required that working groups use the same terminologies and concepts needed for each domain. The Model Driven Engineering (MDE) approach aims to give an answer while using a high level method based on models and transformations. In this paper, we use the MDE approach to model ubiquitous systems. Those systems are composed of devices interconnected through various kinds of network and offer to get and send information. We present a model for this class of system and its use in the field of energy while studying real cases from our industrial partner Terra Nova Energy (TNE)

Vers un conservatoire immatériel des gestes techniques et professionnels

Ce document décrit un projet pédagogique dont l'objectif est de constituer une filmothèque de séquences filmées en stéréoscopie. Ces séquences portent sur des sujets abordés par les étudiants d'IUT lors de séances de travaux pratiques pendant lesquelles ils apprennent des gestes techniques et professionnels, par exemple des séances de réglages de machines-outils en génie mécanique et productique, ou des manipulations de biologie en génie biologique. L'idée est de faire visionner ces films avant les séances ou juste au début de celles-ci pour entraîner les neurones miroirs des étudiants. Un tel usage de films de gestes techniques et professionnels s'accorde avec la pédagogie de la classe inversée