INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble)

is among the largest technical universities in France. It consists of nine engineering schools. INPG is a member of the CLUSTER consortium (Consortium Linking European Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research). In the middle of a rich scientific and technological environment, INPG, with more than 30 laboratories and a graduate school in Engineering Sciences, has a first-rate research potential.

The participants of INPG into the AIM@SHAPE network are members of four different research laboratories namely the laboratory Sols, Solides, Structures (3S), the Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux (LIS), the laboratoire de GRAphique, VIsion et Robotique (GRAVIR), and the Laboratoire de Modélisation et Calcul (LMC) (representing altogether 160 permanentstaff researchers and 150 Ph.D students). The 3S is a research laboratory in Mechanical Engineering and is composed of three main themes.

The Integrated Design project focuses on ontologies in the design process, design methodologies, CAD-FEM link, and shape design subjected to aesthetic and functional constraints. The LIS laboratory participates to the AIM@SHAPE project through the GOTA group. Research in this group focuses on 2D and 3D shapes, images and video, providing expertise on shape reconstruction, meshing and skeletonization.

The Evasion group as part of GRAVIR contributes to AIM@SHAPE by its expertise on scientific visualisation of large data sets, interactive techniques for virtual sculpture and skeleton-based implicit surface modeling.

The LMC is a research laboratory in Applied Mathematics and is composed of four departments. The department of geometric modelling and approximation that is involved in AIM@SHAPE concentrates on multi-resolution techniques for visualisation and geometric modelling, computational geometry, CAD models and classical curve and surface design. The INPG team combines expertise at high nternational scientific level across several disciplines, including geometric modelling, computational geometry, multi-resolution analysis, mechanical design and simulation, and has already developed strong international collaborations.