"The seniors' economy and the smart city

This June 17, 2025, was held at the LAMIH premises, a workshop for axis 5 of the CPER RITMEA program.

Piloted by Antoine Dequidt and Mathias Blandeau, this axis focuses on the "Silver economy" and "Smart Cities".

Bringing together some twenty researchers from the various laboratories involved (BMBI, CHU-Lille, CRIStAL, IEMN, INRIA, LAMIH), this workshop provided an opportunity to discuss:

• comfortable navigation of a fleet of intelligent wheelchairs (presentation by Gilles Tagne)
• upper limb rehabilitation integrating kinematic modeling and AI (presentation by Othman Lakhal)
• the development and evaluation of assistance systems for wheelchair users (presentation by Chouki Sentouh)
• health technologies via non-linear control theory (presentation by Thierry Marie Guerra and Marcia Da Costa)
• an active handling assistance device (presentation by Khalil Ben Mansour)

It also provided an opportunity to present the testing resources available, in order to encourage collaborations between partners:

• "Eurasport" platform at the URePSSS (Unité de recherche pluridisciplinaire sport, santé, société, ULR 7369), presented by Serge Berthoin
• "PSCHITT" platform at LAMIH, presented by Gérald Conreur and Thierry Poulain

These presentations were followed by exchanges on

• the medium-term outlook on the general organization of axis5
• planned future work and opportunities for collaborations
• the importance of taking into account regulations such as :
  • the RIPH (research involving human subjects)
  • the RGPD (general data protection regulation)
  • the CPPs (committees for the protection of individuals)

This workshop ended by showing the adequacy between the objectives of RITMEA's Axis 5 and those of Horizon Europe, thus reinforcing the relevance of the research carried out in this Axis 5.