Catalogue of Infrastructures and Facilities

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Facility
Mobile Living Laboratory
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology  (INRIA)
Country
France

This facility is a movable laboratory specifically designed to meet the requirements for providing Agrifood-TEF services. The Mobile Living Laboratory (MLL) is equipped with essential infrastructure such as power generators, ground (AGR) and aerial (UAV) robots, computing units, and a robust communication system supporting LAN, WiFi, and 4G/5G connectivity. It is tailored for testing, monitoring, and experimental activities and also includes basic living and working amenities to support up to three engineers during field operations. To support logistics, an external trailer is attached to the MLL, used for transporting ground and aerial robots, power backup systems, fuel supplies (petroleum, diesel, etc.), and other necessary equipment.
Facility
UAV Arena
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology  (INRIA)
Country
France

At ACENTAURI, we host a dedicated indoor UAV Arena measuring 5 meters x 6 meters x 7 meters, specifically designed for the development, testing, and demonstration of mobility algorithms for both Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Autonomous Ground Robots (AGRs). This facility offers a controlled and customisable indoor environment, making it ideal for preliminary experimentation and fine-tuning of robotics systems before deployment in real-world conditions. Elements such as lighting, spatial configuration, ground truth data, and object placement can all be tailored to suit specific research or industrial use cases.
Facility
Private Parking
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology  (INRIA)
Country
France

At INRIA, the private parking facility spans an area of 85 meters by 13 meters and is naturally enclosed by plants and trees, creating a semi-structured, forest-like environment. This makes it an ideal outdoor space for conducting development, testing, and validation experiments with Autonomous Ground Robots (AGRs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Its dynamic setting bridges the gap between controlled indoor testing and fully unstructured field environments, allowing for safe and effective experimentation under realistic outdoor conditions.
Facility
NEF
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology  (INRIA)
Country
France

NEF is a multidomain scientific experimentation platform at INRIA, designed to support high-performance computation, storage, and visualisation for advanced research applications. It is built on a heterogeneous parallel computing architecture, combining multiple generations of high-performance servers into a cluster-based system. The platform features high-speed network interconnects and large-capacity storage and is directly connected to the Inria Sophia interactive visualisation platform, enabling seamless data processing and graphical analysis. Financed by INRIA, CPER, various research teams, and the Scientific Piloting Committee (CSPP), NEF provides a robust digital infrastructure for scientific innovation. This dedicated platform is widely used by PhD researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and the engineering team at ACENTAURI for a range of computational experiments. Access is managed through user accounts and containerisation, ensuring secure and efficient use of digital resources.
Facility
AzurArena Parking
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology  (INRIA)
Country
France

INRIA has access to a 100 m x 100 m reconfigurable outdoor facility located at AzurArena in Antibes, ideal for conducting experiments involving Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), Autonomous Ground Robots (AGRs), and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The site can be equipped with a 4G/5G communication network, enabling real-time connectivity and coordination across multiple robotic platforms. Its open and adaptable layout makes it suitable for both individual and collaborative autonomous system testing.
Infrastructure
Sophia
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology  (INRIA)
Country
France

INRIA is the national research institute in digital sciences and technologies. World-class research, technological innovation, and entrepreneurial risk constitute its DNA. Within 220 project teams, most of them joint with major research universities, more than 3,800 scientists are exploring new avenues, often interdisciplinary and in collaboration with industrial partners, to respond to ambitious challenges. A technological institute, Inria supports the diversity of paths to innovation: from open-source software publishing to the creation of technological startups (Deeptech). The physical infrastructure at INRIA (named Sophia) used in the AGRIFOOD-TEF project is located in the Inria Centre of Côte d’Azur University in Sophia-Antipolis, France. It is managed by the ACENTAURI robotic team that studies and develops intelligent, autonomous, and mobile robots that can help humans in their day-to-day lives at home, at work, or during their displacements. The team focuses on perception, decision, and control problems for multi-robot collaboration by proposing an original hybrid model-driven/data-driven approach to artificial intelligence and by investigating efficient quantum algorithms. The team deals with robotic applications in smart territories, smart cities, and smart factories.