This project aims, in a context of organ avilabily shortage and the desire to control expend on public health, increase the number of endpoints on a graft to optimize the processing conditions, and give the possibility to delegate the explantation of organs to a team without mobilize and move precociously the team receiving center. Given the importance of the shortage of grafts, the Agency for Biomedicine (ABM) promotes the expansion of indications for organ transplant Non-Heart Beating Donors (NHBD), which also broadens the risk to the quality of the organ and its preservation. During his transplant, an organ is submit to conditions different of its normal physiological context (ischemia, cooling, ...), which induces stress and trauma that may affect the restoration of its function after transplantation. Continuous monitoring of organ physiological status associated to its temperature, would allow a better understing of the evolution of the conservation status of the organ. Learning about graft and its behavior during the transplantation period (strating from the explantation phase, until the reperfusion phase after tranplantation / preservation) will allow a better understing of the function retrieval and therefore better sizing treatment post-transplant (dialysis, medication, ...). In addition, as part of cardiac and liver transplantation among other things, we are at a time when every team is searching the pooling of harvest. The harvest delegation would be possible by the development of a device providing complete traceability as well as monitoring the quality of the organ which would save the samplers fatigue of travel and allow the public health system to reduce expenses on logistics costs. The aim of this project is the development of such a device.

Despite recent advances in robotics around autonomous machines, machines really capable of giving a real to humans, as part of everyday life, remains limited. On the other hand, the animal, especially dogs, has shown for many years the capacity to complete the man in his life in daily tasks, such as aid for service dogs, or in exceptional event such as avalanche or earthquakes intervention, or in professional life to search for drugs, for example. Nevertheless, each system, robot or dog has its own limits, for example: a step or a hole can be fatal to a robot, a cat turns "mad" a dog. The actual idea is to take best of both entities to increase the performance of the couple animal / robot. In this context, the subject requires extensive research in particular on the development of interaction, communication or cooperation between a robot and a dog. The Cochise project proposes a modest focus of this research, on a particular set of dogs: service dogs for people with mobility impairments. Service dogs assist the human in the gestures of everyday life and for this purpose the problem is clearly identified. In this context, we propose to design a robot to act on and with the service dog, to build a "couple" with high performance in regard to the problem. The machine will become a mediator robot that allows on one hand to "understand" the state of the dog and retransmit it to the man, and on the other hand to enable autonomous robot via the trigger sequences of behavior on the dog. The question underlying the Cochise project is: how far a dog he will accept to obey to a robot? and what type of robot should be designed for this?. The project Cochise is twofold: firstly to increase the knowledge on the interactions in an animal / robot system and to achieve an experimental development that could quickly become a mainstream product. For this project we bring together the skills of users and trainers of service dogs , people specialized in robotics sensors and actuators for the realization of the robot and finally reseachers specialized in human / machine interface and architectures to build an operational device for the user.