OMNI (Optimisation, Mobility, NetworkIng) team is one of the four teams of the DISC department of the FEMTO-ST institute. It is located in two towns in East of France: Montbéliard and Belfort, at 15 km away each other. It is composed of 17 permanent researchers and several PhD students, around half of them in each location.
The two main research topics of the OMNI team are:
- Programmable Matter thematic deals with algorithms and protocols for programmable matter (modular robots).
- Transport and Mobility thematic deals with transport, logistics, and geopositioning.
The team has collaborations with academic institutions, both international (CMU USA, LIMMS Japon, PU Hong-Kong, FORTH Greece etc.) and national (IRISA, IRIT etc.), and has industrial partners (PSA, Faurécia, Orange Labs etc.) through projects and common publications.
Postal addresses:
- Montbéliard: Numérica, cours Leprince-Ringuet, 25200 Montbéliard, France
- Belfort: UTBM, 13 rue Thierry Mieg, 90010 Belfort, France
Contact:
Abdallah Makhoul, Team Head, abdallah.makhoul@univ-fcomte.fr
Oumaya Baala, Team Deputy Head, oumaya.baala@utbm.fr