The Systems Analysis and Architecture Laboratory (LAAS-CNRS, UPR8001, www.laas.fr) is a proper unit of the CNRS attached to the Institute of Computer Science and their Interactions (INS2I) and to the Institute of Engineering and Systems Sciences (INSIS).
LAAS-CNRS accounts for nearly 570 researchers, research professors, engineers, postdoctoral fellows, and doctoral students conducting research in information and communication sciences and technologies. Its research logic is to design, model, and control complex, heterogeneous systems interacting with other systems or with humans, using a constructivist and integrative approach. Four major scientific areas are studied in particular: Automation, computer science, robotics, and micro/nanosciences.By placing the concept of "Systems" at the center of its research, the work carried out at LAAS-CNRS ultimately concerns large-scale distributed systems, autonomous systems with critical infrastructure, mobile systems, embedded systems, integrated systems, micro- and nano-systems, biological systems, and more. It targets diverse fields of application such as: aeronautics, space, energy, transport and mobility, telecommunications, health, agri-food, the environment, manufacturing and the industry of the future, defense, and more.
The research themes of LAAS-CNRS are structured around six scientific departments. leading the activities of twenty-five teams, the basic units of research:
- Networks, Information and Trust Systems (RISC),
- Robotics (ROB),
- Decision and optimization (DO),
- Energy Management (EM),
- Micro nano bio technologies (MNBT),
- Microwaves and optics: from electromagnetism to systems (HOPES).
All research activities are ultimately brought into internal synergy through five cross-cutting application areas :
- Energy
- Space
- Industry of the future
- Health & Environment
- Transport & Mobility
Credits:
– Building: © LAAS-CNRS/Julie Foncy
– robots: © CNRS Photothèque
