Tony Jaux, the vice president of the PSA Group, takes up his role as the new president of VEDECOM

On 6th December 2019, the Board of Directors appointed Tony Jaux as President of VEDECOM. He takes up this position on 1st April 2020 for a three-year period that may be extended. The vice president in charge of cockpit electronic R&D, infotainment, and connectivity in the PSA Group as well as manager of the connected vehicles programme at PFA, Tony Jaux succeeds Rémi Bastien from Groupe Renault.

“My arrival is in line with the continued support of industrial actors for the VEDECOM Institute since its creation in 2014 to help meet the automotive sector’s applied research needs. What the automotive sector needs now more than ever is to combine R&D efforts and increase their ability to compete with increasingly numerous and diverse actors in mobility sectors around the globe.

Working closely with public authorities, our institutional partners like the ANR, and the entire French mobility ecosystem, I will double down on our strategy to lead European-wide projects to boost the Institutes’s leadership and give it a multidisciplinary view of issues such as connected and autonomous vehicles, electrification, and new mobility and energy solutions.

I will also endeavour to supplement VEDECOM’s innovation tools to showcase its multidisciplinary excellence through open innovation, support for entrepreneurship, and commercialisation of technological building blocks and services that result from VEDECOM’s efforts”, states Tony Jaux, the president of the VEDECOM Institute.

After graduating from Supélec, a top-tier graduate school for engineering, Tony Jaux began his career in 1984 as a development engineer for Philips and later for Centaure-UP Systems. He then continued his career in the automotive sector when he was hired by Magnetti Marelli before working for the equipment manufacturer Johnson Controls between 2004 and 2011, where he notably worked in the electronics division as Engineering Director for Europe.

In 2011, he joined the PSA Group as vice president. He oversaw the development of powertrain computers and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and until recently he was in charge of infotainment development as well as being the manager of the connected vehicle programme at the Plateforme Française de l’Automobile (PFA).

His career path, which combines R&D, industry, and automotive experience, will help him rise to the challenges unique to the VEDECOM Institute, such as: promoting trust and cooperation; laying the groundwork for rolling out and accrediting self-driving vehicles; organising powerful, sustainable mobility with electric vehicles, smart charging, and smart grids; developing multi-modal mobility with artificial intelligence; and working on urban design and mobility options of the future, all while ensuring that people remain at the heart of all innovation efforts.

In additional to his technical skills, Tony Jaux brings to the table his knowledge of international industrial project management to support the development of research efforts and experiments conducted by VEDECOM in Europe and around the world.

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VEDECOM is exporting its know-how to Australia : a level 4 connected and automated vehicle delivered

VEDECOM is exporting its know-how to Australia : a level 4 connected and automated vehicle delivered

VEDECOM Research Institute subsidiary VEDECOM Tech delivered a level-4 connected and autonomous vehicle to QUT (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) on 6 June 2019. There will be a demonstration in Brisbane in August 2019.

At the same time, the VEDECOM Research Institute is launching a scientific cooperation project with QUT. This partnership will allow France and Australia to accelerate their research on autonomous vehicles in tandem.

The contract is based on VEDECOM Tech manufacturing and delivering an SAE level 4 autonomous vehicle, based on the Renault Zoé. This is the first supply contract for a French demo model outside of Europe. It sounds the starting pistol on an cooperative research programme between Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and VEDECOM Institute, both on the cutting edge of autonomous vehicles.

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Entropy, a premier start-up resulting from the VEDECOM Institute’s work on the analysis of mobility manager’s needs through artificial intelligence

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What are the movement patterns ? Which modes of transport are used ? Which routes ? Entropy, the new start-up stemming from the VEDECOM Institute’s research work, offers communities as well as individual actors a tool for understanding, measuring, and analysing all mobility requirements within a given territory. By means of an artifical intelligence which models flows, Entropy makes it possible to acquire detailed knnowledge of a territory’s mobility in order to make decisions on and evaluate the necessary facilities or services, bypassing field surveys.

Entropy provides predictive multi-sources software that uses wide-ranging data sources : GPS from cars, demographics, transport networks…A display interface enables the observation of all journeys made within a territory during a standard 24-hour day on an interactive map.

The use of artificial intelligence has many advantages : reactive, the Entropy’s tool provides 100% coverage in France, and is as accurate as face-to-face field surveys, but at lower cost.

The startup has set an ambitious objective : to establish itself by 2022 as the leader in demand estimation for mobility managers in France.

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RATP Group becomes a VEDECOM member to speed up innovation in autonomous mobility and connected roads

RATP Group becomes a VEDECOM member to speed up innovation in autonomous mobility and connected roads

Marie-Claude Dupuis, Director of Strategy, Innovation and Development at RATP Group, and Philippe Watteau, General Manager of the VEDECOM Institute for Energy Transition, announce the signing of a partnership agreement to accelerate RATP’s research and innovation in the field of future mobility.

This partnership is a result of the agreement signed last December certifying RATP’s membership in VEDECOM. Both partners will work together on research projects, primarily in the fields of autonomous vehicles, connected and cooperative roads and new mobility services.

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The Cerema becomes a member of VEDECOM to assist the deployment of electric, connected and autonomous vehicles and related road enhancement schemes.

The Cerema becomes a member of VEDECOM to assist the deployment of electric, connected and autonomous vehicles and related road enhancement schemes.

Today, at the ‘Biennale des territoires’ in Montrouge, Pascal Berteaud, CEO of the Cerema and Philippe Watteau, CEO of VEDECOM, signed an agreement acknowledging the Cerema’s integration as a member of VEDECOM, with the aim of developing large-scale initiatives in their respective areas of excellence.

The Cerema and VEDECOM have thus formalised their willingness to establish a long-term partnership in the field of electric, connected and autonomous vehicles and cooperative roads.

The goal is to contribute to the societal and technological qualification of electric, connected and autonomous vehicles, and also promote their deployment and use. Through this cooperation, the partners will develop new areas of shared interest as well as ambitious innovative projects. According to Philippe Watteau, “this partnership will enable us to complete our systemic vision of new mobilities, which includes vehicles, cooperative infrastructures and road network managers at the local level”. “These new mobilities will permanently shape the development of territories, which will require support by local authorities and an assessment of the medium- and long-term impacts” added Pascal Berteaud.

This partnership also ensures the continuity of the autonomous vehicle training programmes given jointly over the last 2 years by the Cerema and VEDECOM.

VEDECOM is an institute for energy transition (ITE) founded on unique cooperation between firms in the automotive and aviation sectors, mobility ecosystem infrastructure and service operators, academic research bodies and Ile-de-France local authorities. The role of VEDECOM is to forge closer ties between academia and industry. The institute helps them to achieve a high standard of innovation in the area of mobility and, in particular, in electric vehicles, autonomous and connected vehicles and shared energy and mobility infrastructure and services. VEDECOM is a part of the French government’s PIA future investment plan. Its founding members are Cetim, ESIGELEC, ESTACA, IFPEN, IFSTTAR, PSA Group, Renault Group, Safran, UVSQ and Valeo.

The Cerema is a French public establishment of an administrative nature created in 2014 on risks, environment, mobility and urban planning. In terms of mobility, in particular, it contributes to work on standardisation, testing of autonomous vehicles, qualification of road equipment and deployment of cooperative transport systems.

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Retour sur notre journée Mobilité@VEDECOM

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Aujourd’hui l’Institut VEDECOM compte près de 175 collaborateurs, dont plus de 110 sont des chercheurs académiques ou industriels et des ingénieurs.

A l’occasion de notre 4ème anniversaire, nous avons présenté, le 4 avril dernier, à nos financeurs et à nos membres, aux organismes français et européens, à nos futurs partenaires ainsi qu’à l’ensemble de notre écosystème industriel, académique, territoire et médiatique, les dernières avancées de nos projets de recherche, sur les pistes d’essais de Versailles-Satory.

La mission de notre Institut est d’apporter à nos membres et à notre écosystème des avantages majeurs dans la compétition internationale par le développement de technologies de rupture et par une vision transversale des nouveaux usages, pour une mobilité durable (environnement), sûre (vers le niveau des transports publics), efficiente (moins de gaspillage de temps, d’énergie, d’espace) et abordable (mobilité accessible à tous), des personnes et des biens.

Nous avons donc présenté nos avancées dans nos 3 domaines de recherche et avons mis l‘accent sur 5 projets qui réalisent des avancées importantes.

Dans le domaine du véhicule électrique :

– La recharge dynamique par induction

– La plateforme de simulation énergétique de l’habitacle

Dans le domaine du véhicule autonome :

– Le service de transport autonome à la demande

– Les interactions véhicule autonome et piéton

 Dans le domaine des mobilités :

– La modélisation et la visualisation des flux de mobilité

Lors d’une conférence de presse, nous avons pu assister à des témoignages marquants et encourageants pour l’Institut VEDECOM. Luc Marbach, le Directeur Général a émis un discours, ainsi que Rémi Bastien, le Président de l’Institut.

De plus, les membres des collectivités territoriales du Département des Yvelines, d’Ile-de-France et de Versailles ont ensuite rappelé en quoi l’ancrage de l’Institut est stratégique au sein des Yvelines et au cœur du plateau de Versailles – Satory pour soutenir la compétitivité et l’innovation de la filière des nouvelles mobilités. Les Présidents des départements d’Île-de-France étaient également présents à cette conférence et ont pu découvrir les avancées de nos travaux de recherche.

Lors de cette journée, environ 300 personnes étaient présentes afin de découvrir et d’échanger sur les avancées de nos recherches au travers de différents stands, dont notamment le pôle Formation, la Direction scientifique, la Valorisation et bien d’autres domaines de recherches. Cette journée était très enrichissante et c’était pour nous l’occasion d’accueillir et de pouvoir échanger avec nos membres et partenaires, ainsi qu’avec l’ensemble de notre écosystème.

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