# Michel Parent

Michel Parent, né le 24 octobre 1945, est un ingénieur français, conseiller scientifique à l’Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique, spécialiste dans le domaine des nouveaux modes de transport, notamment les cybercars, concept dont il est l'auteur.

## Biographie

Michel Parent est diplômé de Sup’Aéro en 1968, il obtient un master en recherche opérationnelle suivi d'un doctorat (Ph.D.) en informatique obtenu à l'université Case Western Reserve (Cleveland, USA). Il est membre du « Transportation Research Board » aux États-Unis et expert auprès de la Commission européenne.
Sa carrière commence à l’Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) dans la recherche en modélisation puis en robotique. Il contribue à de nombreux projets d’automatisation innovants et participe à plusieurs programmes de recherche en automatisation, à l’université Stanford (un an) puis au MIT (deux ans). De retour à l’INRIA en 1991, il lance le programme Praxitèle, premier système de transport public basé sur des véhicules électriques en libre-service et qui a été expérimenté entre 1997 et 1999 à Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. En 2001, il coordonne le projet européen CyberCars et ses suites au sein de l’équipe IMARA qu’il a dirigé jusqu’en octobre 2010.
Michel Parent est actuellement conseiller scientifique du programme « La route automatisée » à l’INRIA, programme visant à étudier les nouveaux modes de transports routiers et en particulier l’introduction des aides à la conduite et de la conduite automatique.
Il est également président de AutoKAB (Automation Kits for Autos and Buses) et auteur du site www.cybercars.fr.

## Publications

Il est l’auteur de plusieurs livres et brevets en robotique et en transport, ainsi que de nombreuses communications et publications scientifiques.
* Michel Parent, « 2112, Paris à grande vitesse », dans Le monde au XXIIe siècle : Utopies pour après-demain, PUF, coll. « La vie des idées », 2014, 120 p. (ISBN 9782130631408, lire en ligne)
* (en) Ljubo Vlacic et Michel Parent, Intelligent Vehicle Technologies, SAE, juin 1999
* Michel Parent, « Intelligent Vehicles », dans Bruno Siciliano et Oussama Khatib, Handbook on Robotics, Springer, 2008
* Liste des articles sur Scholar
Arnaldi Bruno, Cozot Rémi, Donikian Stéphane, Parent Michel. « Simulation Models for French Praxitele Project ». Transportation Research Record, n° 1521, pp.118-125. 1996.
Parent, M. A Dual Mode Personal Rapid Transport System. Motoring Directions, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 1997, pp. 7-11.
Massot Marie-Hélène, Allouche Jean-François, Benéjam Evelyne, Parent Michel. “Praxitèle : Preliminary Results from the Saint-Quentin Experiment”. Transportation Research Record 1666. Paper n° 99-1457, pp.125-132. January 1999
Blosseville Jean-Marc, Parent Michel. "The French Program La Route Automatisée". IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Council Newsletter. Vol.2, n° 3. September 2000.
Zvirin Yoram, Parent Michel. “Energy and Environmental Aspects of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Towards the 21st Century”. JSER. Vol.22, n°1. pp.42-45. Japon. 2001.
Blosseville J-M., Parent M. "The French Program La Route Automatisée". IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal. P.10-13. May/June 2000.
Baloh Michael, Parent Michel. “Low-Level Control of a Self-Balancing Vehicle for an Autonomous Urban Transportation Network”. Machine Intelligence & Robotic Control. Vol.5, N° 3, pp.71-85. 2003.
Andras Csepinszky, Gabriele Giustiniani, Michel Parent, Adriano Alessandrini. « Safe Integration of Fully Automated Road Transport System in Urban Environment : the Basis for the Missing Legal Framework». Transportation Research Board Journal, 2015.
Conferences
Parent Michel, Texier Pierre-Yves. "De la Voiture Publique au PRT. Le Programme DEDALE". Journée sur le Transport Urbain Public Individuel. Arcueil. Déc. 1992.
Parent Michel et Allal Chafik. "Gestion Décentralisée d'une Flotte de Petits Véhicules Urbains". Colloque INFAUTOM '93. Toulouse. Février 1993.
Parent Michel, Texier Pierre-Yves. "A Public Transport System Based on Light Electric Cars". Fourth International Conference on Automated People Movers. Irving, USA. March 1993.
Parent Michel, Dumontet François, Texier Pierre-Yves, Leurent Fabien. "Design and Implementatio of a Public Transportation System Based on Self-Service Electric Cars". IFAC ‘94. Tianjin, Chine. 1994.
Parent Michel and Daviet Pascal. "Automatic Driving for Small Public Urban Vehicles". Intelligent Vehicles '93. Tokyo. July 1993.
Parent Michel, Texier Pierre-Yves, Leurent Fabien. "Self-Service Electric Cars : A New Public Transport ?". OECD Seminar. Omiya, Japan. June 1994.
Parent Michel, Daviet Pascal, Denis Jean-Christophe, M'Saada Tarek. "Automatic Driving in Stop and Go Traffic". IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Conference, Paris Oct. 1994.
Augello Daniel, Benéjam Evelyne, Nerrière Jean-Pierre, Parent Michel. “ Complementary Between Public Transport and a Car Sharing Service ”. First World Congress on Application of Transport Telematics and Intelligent Vehicule Highway System. Paris, Nov.-Dec. 1994.
Parent Michel, Daviet Pascal, Denis Jean-Christophe, M’Saada Tarek. “ Automatic Stop and Go Driving in Heavy Traffic ”. ITS America, Washington. March 1995.
Daviet Pascal, Parent Michel. “Platooning for Small Public Urban Vehicles ”. Fourth International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, ISER’95. Stanford, California, June 30-July 2, 1995.
Parent Michel, Fauconnier Sylvain. "Design of an Electric Vehicle Specific for Urban Transport". Congress EVT'95. Paris, Nov.1995.
Parent Michel, Daviet Pascal. « Automated urbain vehicles : towards a dual mode PRT (Personnal Rapid Transit) ». IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 22-28, 1996.
Abdou Sofiane, Parent Michel, Espiau Bernard. “ Mission Programming : Application to the Distribution of Empty Vehicles in the PRAXITELE Project ”. Proceeding of the 4th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation. Malem, Krete, Greece. June 10-13, 1996.
Daviet Pascal, Parent Michel. “ Platooning Technique for Empty Vehicules Distribution in the PRAXITELE Project ”. Proceeding of the 4th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation. Malem, Krete, Greece. June 10-13, 1996.
Dumontet François, Allal Chafik, Parent Michel. “ Queuing and Optimization Models for Public Cars Transportation Systems and Applications for the PRAXITELE Project ”. CESA’96 IMACS Multiconference, Symposium on Discrete Events and Manufacturing Systems. Lille, France. July 9-12, 1996.
Parent Michel. « Development of the Electric Vehicle Market in France : Products and Strategies ». Congrès EVS96, New York. Sept.96.
Parent Michel, David Yves. « Automated Urban Vehicles : Towards a Dual Mode PRT (Personnal Rapid Transit) ». International Conference on PRT and Other Emerging Transportation Systems. Minneapolis, USA. November 18-20, 1996.
Parent Michel, Fauconnier Sylvain, Lisowski Leszek. « PRAXI : A Small Electric Vehicle Specific for Urban Transport ». EVS-13. Osaka, Japon. 1996.
Blosseville J-M., Dumontet F., Massot MH., Parent M., Polacchini A. « Performance Evaluation of a Station Car System ». TRB Meeting, Washington, USA. 12-16 January, 1997.
Bensoussan S., Parent M. « Computer-aided teleoperation of an urban vehicle ». ICAR’97. Monterey, California, USA. July 7-9, 1997.
Lisowski L., Fauconnier S., Parent M. « Specifications of a Small Electric Vehicle. Modular and Distributed Hardware Approach ». IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Robots and Systems, Grenoble, September 8-12, 1997.
Parent M. « Public Electric Vehicles for Urban Transport ». City Trans Asia’97 Conference, Singapore, China. 25-27 September 1997.
Parent Michel, Daviet Pascal, Lisowski Leszek, Fauconnier Sylvain. « Automated Public Urban Vehicles : For a Sustainable City ». IROS’97 Grenoble, September 7-1997.
Blosseville J-M., Broqua F., Dumontet F., Massot M-H., Parent M., Polacchini. « Prior Technical and Economical Evaluation of the Station Car System « Praxitèle » ». Congrès ITS’97. Berlin, Allemagne. 21-24 Octobre 1997.
Parent Michel. « Automated Public Vehicles : A First Step Towards the Automated Highway ». 4th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems. Berlin, 21-24 Octobre 1997.
Parent Michel. « Development of the Electric Vehicle Market in France : Products and Strategies ». EVS-14 Symposium. Orlando, USA. Dec.1997.
Donikian Stéphane, Espié Stéphane, Parent Michel, Rousseau Gilles. « Simulation Studies on the Impact of ACC ». Submitted to ERTICO ITS Congress Association, Belgique. February 1998.
Blosseville Jean-Marc, Parent Michel. « Semi-Automated Urban Vehicles : The Transportation System of the Future ? » WCTR Conference. Hollande. 1998.
Parent Michel, Blosseville Jean-Marc. « Automated Vehicles in Cities : A First Step Towards the Automated Highway ». SAE. Future Transportation Technology Conference and Exposition. Costa Mesa, USA. August 11-13, 1998.
Charron M., Viel D., Laurgeau C., Texier P-Y., Parent M. « Scenarios for the « Route Automatisée », the French AHS Approach ». ITS World Congress. Seoul-Korea. Octobre 1998.
Parent Michel, Bleijs Cyriacus. « The CyCab : an Electric Vehicle Specifically Designed for Car-Free Cities ». EVS’15. Bruxelles. Octobre 1998.
Gualino David, Parent Michel, Uchanski Michael. « Autonomous Lateral Control of a Vehicle Using a Linear CCD Camera ». IEEE Conference on Intelligent Vehicles. Stuttgart. 1998.
Donikian Stéphane, Parent Michel, Maurel David. “Influence of ACC in Stop & Go Mode Traffic Flow”. SAE Conference on Future Transportation Technologies. Costa Mesa, USA. August 1999.
Laugier C., Parent M. “Automated Vehicles for Future Urban Transport Systems”. International Conference on Field and Service Robotics. Pp.191-196. Pittsburgh, USA. August 1999.
Laugier C., Parent M. “Towards Motion Autonomy for Future Vehicles”. International Symposium on Robotics Research. Invited Paper. Snowbird, USA. October 1999.
Laugier C., Paromtchik I.E., Parent M. “Developing Autonomous Maneuvering Capabilities for Future Cars”. International Conference on Intelligent Transportation systems. Pp.68-73. Tokyo, Japon. October 1999.
Lu J., Sekhavat S., Laugier C. “Fuzzy Variable-Structure Control for Nonholonomic Vehicle Path Tracking”. International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Pp.465-470. Tokyo, Japon. October 1999.
Laugier C., Parent M. “Towards a New Urban Transport Sustem Involving Automated Vehicles”. Actes de la Conférence sur les Véhicules Electriques. pp.146-150. Invited Paper. Grenoble, Novembre 1999.
Duron Cyril, Parent Michel, Proth Jean-Marie. "Analysis of the Balancing Process in a Pool of Self-Service Cars". Rapport de Recherche n° 3949. Mai 2000.
Chalmé Sébastien, Visser Willemien, Denis Michel. "Cognitive Aspects of Urban Route Planning". International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology. Berne, Switzerland. 4-7 September 2000.
Langheim J., Divko R., Tango F., Artis JP, Wahl M., Ambellouis S., Lavergne Ch., Spigai M., Lages U., Dittmer M., Ludwig S., Reiland W., Parent M., Fraichard Th., Marchand E., Tarel J.-Ph., Aubert D., Mangeas M., Blosseville J-M., Buchanan A., Thompson M., Trace A., Shooter C., Steux B., Coulombeau P., Laurgeau C. "Sensing of Car Environnment at Low Speed Driving". Conférence ITS. Turin, 6-9 Novembre 2000.
Parent Michel, Crisostomo Manuel. « Collision Avoidance for Automated Urban Vehicles ». IV’2002. Tokyo. May 2001.
Pradalier Cédric, Sekhavat Sepanta. “Localization Space : A Framework For Localization and Planning, For Systems Using A Sensor/Landmarks Module”. IEEE Int. Conf. On Robotics and Automation. Washington. May 13-15, 2001.
Clerget V., Hafez N., Parent M. Zvirin Y. "Low Cost, Trackless PRT". Automated People Movers Conference. San Francisco. July 2001.
Hafez Névine, Parent Michel, Proth Jean-Marie. « Managing a Pool of Self Service Cars ». IEEE Conf. on ITS. Oakland, USA. August 2001.
Kaïs Mikaël, Hafez Névine, Parent Michel. „An Intelligent Vehicle Architecture for Automated Transportation in Cities“. ECC’01. Porto. Sept.2001.
Tirmant Hélène, Vermeiren Laurent, Guerra Thierry-Marie, Parent Michel. « Stabilization of a Two-Wheeled Vehicle”. IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Conference. Versailles. 18-20 June 2002.
Tirmant Hélène, Baloh Michael, Vermeiren Laurent, Guerra Thierry-Marie, Parent Michel. « B2, An Alternative Two Wheeled Vehicle for an Automated Urban Transportation System ». IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium. IV’2002. Versailles. France. 18-20 Juin 2002.
McDonald Mike, Henry Alain, Espié Stéphane, Parent Michel, Vaa Torgeir. « Stardust – A Research on Deployment of Urban Sustainable Transport Systems ». ITS World Congress. Chicago. Oct.2002.
Parent Michel, Gallais Georges. “Intelligent Transportation in Cities with CTS”. ITS World Congress. Chicago. Oct.2002.
Ollivier Edern, Parent Michel. „Odometric Navigation with Matching of Landscape Features“. ICARCV. Singapore. Dec.2002.
Parent Michel. “Intelligent Transportation Services and Wireless Internet”. International Seminar on Wireless Internet Society. Ajou University, Korea. April 2003.
Parent Michel, Gallais Georges. « CyberCars : Review of First Projects ». Ninth International Conference on Automated People Movers. Singapore. Sept.2003.
Awasthi Anjali, Parent Michel, Proth Jean-Marie. « Computing Travel Time on a Single Lane Using System Analysis ». ITSC. Shanghai. Oct.2003.
Yang M., and Parent M. “Cybercars: An Alternative Public Transportation for City of Tomorrow”, Proceeding of Sustainable Multi-Modal Transportation for Chinese Cites, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2003.
Awasthi Anjali, Parent Michel, Proth Jean-Marie. « Simulation System For Estimating Travel Time In A Network ». SMC’2003. Washington. Oct.2003.
Baloh Michael, Parent Michel. « Modeling and Model Verification of an Intelligent Self-Balancing Two-Wheeled Vehicle for an Autonomous Urban Transportation System ». CIRAS 2003, Singapore. Dec.2003.
Parent Michel. “Cybercars : a Solution for Urban Transport ?”. CODATU Conference. Bucharest. April 22-24, 2004.
Parent M., and Yang M. Road Map Towards Full Driving Automation, Proceeding of the Eighth International Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation Engineering, Beijing, China, May 2004, pp. 663-668
Parent Michel. « From Drivers Assistance to Full Automation for Improved Efficiency and Better Safety ». IEEE-VTC Conference. Milan., May 17-19, 2004.
Parent Michel. « Road Map Towards Fully Automated Driving ». ITS-Europe Conference. Budapest, May 24-26, 2004.
Yang M., and Parent M. Cybernetic Technologies For Cars In Chinese Cities, Proceedings of CityTrans China 2004, Nov. 17-18, 2004, Shanghai, China.
Pauplin Olivier, Louchet Jean, Lutton Evelyne, Parent Michel. « Obstacle Detection by Evolutionary Algorithm : the Fly Algorithm ». ICARA. Palmerston North, New Zeland. December 13-15, 2004.
Myers Toby, Vlacic Ljubo, Noël Tony, Parent Michel. “Autonomous Driving in a Time-Varying Environment”. IEEE-ARSO 2005. Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts. Nagoya, 12-15 June 2005.
Rodrigo Benenson; Stéphane Petti; Thierry Fraichard; Michel Parent. “Towards urban driverless vehicles”. International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems, INDERSCIENCE, 2008, Special Issue on Advances in Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Urban Environment, 1/2 (6), pp. 4 – 23
Jianping Xie; Fawzi Nashashibi; Michel Parent; Olivier Garcia-Favrot. “A Real-Time Robust SLAM for Large-Scale Outdoor Environments”. 17th ITS world congress (ITSWC’2010), Oct 2010, Busan, Korea.
Adriano Alessandrini; Michel Parent; Carlos Holguin. “Advanced Transport Systems Showcased in La Rochelle”. IEEE. 14th International Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct 2011, Washington DC, United States.