Publications and talks
In brief
Talks and publications by Fabrice Trollet, managing director of AGGIL, from 2014 to 2026, on autonomous vehicle validation (ISO 21448, SOTIF), model-based testing and the French research tax credit. His ERTS 2020 paper is cited as prior art by the European Patent Office.
The talks, demonstrations and projects from 2014 to 2021 were carried out by Fabrice Trollet as part of his duties at ALL4TEC, publisher of the MaTeLo software. They establish his personal experience; these are not client references of AGGIL. Each line links to a public source or is marked “supporting document available on request”.
AGGIL, the company managed by Fabrice Trollet, is a minority shareholder of ALL4TEC, publisher of MaTeLo.
Sources and verification dates: References and sources.
Talks with a written paper
F. Trollet (ALL4TEC), “Autonomous Vehicle Validation : Method to generate variability on known uses cases and to discover new unknow unsafe uses cases required by ISO21448 SOTIF”, 10th European Congress Embedded Real Time Systems (ERTS 2020), Toulouse, 29 January 2020, session We.1.A “Autonomy and Validation” (chair G. Le Calvez, VEDECOM), Auditorium Saint-Exupéry, paper We.1.A.2. Proceedings published by Embedded France.
Work cited as prior art
This work is cited as prior art in the background section of patent US 12,091,051 B2 (Siemens Industry Software NV, granted on 17 September 2024).
The international search report drawn up by the European Patent Office (PCT/EP2022/050269, search completed on 29/04/2022) classifies this paper in category X for claims 1 and 9.
Official legend of form PCT/ISA/210 : "X" document of particular relevance;; the claimed invention cannot be considered novel or cannot be considered to involve an inventive step when the document is taken alone
A search report places documents within the prior art. It is neither a decision on the validity of a patent nor an assessment of the work cited; the patent was granted after this search.
WO 2022/179759 A1 (application PCT/EP2022/050269, published on 01/09/2022). International search report: search completed on 29/04/2022, report mailed on 12/05/2022; ERTS 2020 paper in category X, claims 1 and 9, passages “paragraph [00IV] – paragraph [000V]” (sections IV and V of the paper). It is one of three documents classified X in this report.
WIPO publication (Patentscope)Publication with search report (Google Patents)Archived capture of 29/09/2026Registry
EP 4 264 436 B1 (granted on 28/08/2024): ERTS 2020 paper cited on the front page.
US 12,091,051 B2 (granted on 17/09/2024): ERTS 2020 paper cited on the front page and in the background section.
Google PatentsEspacenetArchived capture of 29/09/2026Registry
KR 10-2796909 B1 (18/04/2025): ERTS 2020 paper cited in the description (§ [0002]).
Publications CN116997890A, KR20230144646A and EP4264436A1 of the same family do not cite this document. In the databases consulted on 29/09/2026 (Espacenet, Google Patents, Lens), no other patent publication citing this document was found.
Paper (PDF, congress website)Official programmeArchived capture of 29/09/2026Archived capture of 29/09/2026Proceedings (archived page)Registry
F. Trollet (ALL4TEC), “Generate Automatically Unknown Unsafe Test Cases for Autonomous Vehicle Required by the SOTIF”, Driving Simulation Conference Europe 2019 VR, Strasbourg, Thursday 5 September 2019, 10:30, “Product Solution Session – ADAS, Autonomous and Connected Vehicle I”, Cassin Amphitheatre.
Talk; the paper was not found in the online list of proceedings (checked on 29/09/2026). Cited (ref. 14) in Hejase et al., IEEE IV 2020: see “Work cited by third parties”.
Official programmeConference guidebook (PDF)Archived capture of 29/09/2026Registry
Conference talks
F. Trollet (All4Tec), “Platform for automated testing of distributed systems applied to case studies (Airbus, Thales and IoT)”, MTV2 workshop, joint day with the IFIP-ICTSS 2019 conference, Télécom ParisTech, Thursday 17 October 2019, 11:00, session 10 “Industrial presentations”. Lessons learned from the DisTA project.
F. Trollet (ALL4TEC) and F. Jérémie (Renault), “Create unknown complex test cases for indeterministic autonomous vehicle behaviors”, Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium, Stuttgart, 2019. Speakers as shown in the video caption.
Official 2019 programme not found to date; the video is the public source.
F. Trollet, “Tests de véhicules autonomes en boucle fermée basés sur les exigences” (closed-loop requirement-based testing of autonomous vehicles), French Requirements Engineering Day (JFIE 2018), CFTL, MAS, Paris 13e, Tuesday 13 November 2018.
Event page (CFTL)Slides (PDF hosted by the CFTL)VideoArchived capture of 29/09/2026Archived capture of 29/09/2026Registry
F. Trollet and L. Cosson (ALL4TEC), “Generate combinatorics and optimize test variability to validate your autonomous vehicles”, User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT 2018, ETSI), Thursday 18 October 2018, 12:00-12:20. Poster: F. Trollet (ALL4TEC), “How to test Artificial Intelligence with Online Model-Based Testing approach : Tutorial based on Autonomous Vehicles testing”.
Slides (hosted by ETSI)VideoProgramme (archived capture)Registry
F. Trollet (ALL4TEC), “Générez les combinatoires et optimisez la variabilité des tests pour valider vos véhicules autonomes” (generate combinatorics and optimise test variability to validate autonomous vehicles), study day “SIA Validation du véhicule autonome”, Société des ingénieurs de l’automobile, Maison des Travaux Publics, Paris, 27 June 2018, 11:00.
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F. Trollet (MaTeLo product manager, All4tec), “Autonomous vehicle mode-based testing: generate test cases for 3D simulator”, Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium, Messe Stuttgart, Thursday 7 June 2018, 11:45. Programme abstract: “Based on a Renault-Nissan methodology and other R&D projects…”. [Video title: “Optimize combinatorics test variability”.]
“Retour d’expérience PagesJaunes : alignement métier et couverture des exigences en Model-Based Testing” (business alignment and requirements coverage with model-based testing), French Software Testing Day (JFTL 2014), Espace CAP 15, Paris, 1 April 2014, 14:30. Co-presented by PagesJaunes and ALL4TEC.
F. Trollet’s personal part in the co-presentation: supporting document available on request.
ALL4TEC announcement (industrie-mag.com)Report by an attendee (L. Bristiel)VideoArchived capture of 29/09/2026Archived capture of 29/09/2026Registry
Work cited by third parties
Patents: see “Work cited as prior art”, under the ERTS 2020 paper.
Hejase M., Özgüner Ü., Barbier M., Ibanez-Guzman J., “A Methodology for Model-Based Validation of Autonomous Vehicle Systems”, 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), pp. 2097-2103, DOI 10.1109/IV47402.2020.9304603. Reference 14: “Fabrice Trollet. "Generate automatically unknown unsafe test cases for autonomous vehicle required by the SOTIF". In: (2019).” The IEEE reference gives the title and year; the match with DSC 2019 rests on the identical title.
Samson M., Vergnaud T., “Automatic Generation of Test Oracles from Component Based Software Architectures”, in Gaston C., Kosmatov N., Le Gall P. (eds), Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2019, Springer, LNCS 11812, pp. 261-269, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-31280-0_16. Page 262, footnote 1: reference for the DisTA project = article “Automated Distributed Test Platform for IoT Testing” (F. Trollet, LinkedIn, 17/11/2017).
MaTeLo user experience reports
Experience reports presented by users of the MaTeLo software, published by ALL4TEC (2016-2019); public videos. No figures from them are reproduced here.
T. Schartle and S. Machon (Euronext), “Retour d’expérience du test du moteur de cotation de la bourse Pan-Européenne Euronext et de son SI en Model-Based Testing” (model-based testing of the Euronext trading engine and its information system), French Software Testing Day (JFTL 2017), room 2.2, 15:20-16:00. The programme does not name the tool; the link with MaTeLo comes from the video, published as “Retour d’EXperience Euronext sur le déploiement de MaTeLo Model-Based Testing”. F. Trollet was not a speaker.
Official programme (CFTL, PDF)VideoArchived capture of 29/09/2026Registry
Continental, “Retour d’EXperience Continental sur le déploiement de MaTeLo Model-Based Testing”, MaTeLo users’ morning organised by ALL4TEC, Paris La Défense, 30 June 2016.
Date, setting and F. Trollet’s role: supporting document available on request (ALL4TEC invitation and slides).
Renault: Renault-Nissan methodology cited in the Stuttgart 2018 programme; co-presentation at Stuttgart 2019.
Demonstrations and webinars
- « Autonomous vehicles validation with SOTIF », 2019-03-23 — Cited in the ERTS 2020 paper. — video
- « Reduce test combinatorial using MaTeLo Gibbs sampler algorithm » — Cited in the ERTS 2020 paper. — video
- « Autonomous Vehicle Simulation in a closed Model-Based Testing loop », 2018-07-12 — video
- « How to perform efficiency your combinatorics for Autonomous Vehicle Testing », 2018-05-25 — video
Tutorials and tool-integration demonstrations: “MaTeLo Model-Based Testing” channel
Collaborative research projects (ALL4TEC)
DisTA — automated test platform for distributed and connected systems (FUI 23). ALL4TEC role: project leader. F. Trollet’s role: project manager for ALL4TEC (supporting document available on request). His presentation article is the reference given for DisTA in the ICTSS 2019 proceedings (LNCS 11812, p. 262).
ICTSS 2019 proceedings, DOIL’Embarqué, 12/04/2017 (archived capture)Registry
SVA — simulation for autonomous vehicle safety (IRT SystemX). ALL4TEC role: partner. F. Trollet’s role: ALL4TEC lead, technical contributor, steering committee member (supporting document available on request). Work reused in section III of the ERTS 2020 paper.
3SA — simulation for the safety of autonomous vehicle systems (IRT SystemX, 2019). ALL4TEC role: partner. F. Trollet’s role: ALL4TEC lead, technical contributor, steering committee member (supporting document available on request).
vipress.net, launch of the 3SA projectArchived capture of 29/09/2026Registry
COVADEC — design and validation of embedded driver-assistance systems (FUI 15, 2013-2016). ALL4TEC role: coordinator. F. Trollet’s role: member of the ALL4TEC team (supporting document available on request). Work reused in section III of the ERTS 2020 paper.
REPLICA — massive computing platform for autonomous vehicle validation. ALL4TEC role: partner. F. Trollet’s role: ALL4TEC contact for the project (supporting document available on request). Work reused in section III of the ERTS 2020 paper.
Articles and interviews
F. Trollet, “Sélectionner, assembler, adapter : ce que le développement par agents d’IA laisse au crédit d’impôt recherche” (what AI-agent development leaves to the research tax credit), Le Village de la Justice, 21 September 2026.
“Témoignage : développer un outil MBT pour automatiser les tests” (developing an MBT tool to automate testing), La Taverne du Testeur, 8 April 2019.
F. Trollet, “How to create efficient combinatorics for 3D Autonomous Vehicles testing”, LinkedIn, 26 March 2018.
Direct address of the article: available on request.
F. Trollet, “Automated Distributed Test Platform for IoT Testing”, LinkedIn, 17 November 2017. Reference for the DisTA project in the ICTSS 2019 proceedings (Springer).