Victor Paléologue

Freelance consulting and development for interactive robotic software: behavior management, decision making, SDK / API. Researching new ways to include open dialogues into more predictible robotic behaviors.

Application of the outcomes of my PhD on teaching behaviors to robots in rich scenarios, into an application for the Pepper robot to work as a receptionist. Translation of the decision-making system from Python / C++ to JNI and Kotlin for Android, centered on the PDDL planner Fast-Downward (AI). Optimization to achieve sufficient performance for end-user grade HRI, with limited resources (embedded). Design of the software architecture and of the ontology (database). Setup of an independent release process. Dissemination of the advances in the community.

Back to technical grounds. Rework of the behavior execution pipeline for more repeatability and security. Study, specifications and technical lead for the integration of NAOqi with Pepper's new GMS-compliant Android tablet. Maintenance of the Qi SDK's API, part of the Pepper SDK. Contributions in libqi, the C++ open-source framework for micro-services, used in NAOqi.