RockEU2 – Robotics Coordination Action for Europe Two
The FP7 coordination action RockEU has been extremely successful in building a strong European robotics community, leading to the creation of euRobotics aisbl - the private partner of the SPARC PPP and development of the Strategic Research Agenda and the Multi-Annual Roadmap, which are the main guidelines for shaping European robotics R&D&I. RockEU2 builds on and extends this [...]
Developmental Learning of Internal Models for Robotic Manipulation based on Motor Primitives and Multisensory Integration
Dexterous manipulation is a key challenge for the dissemination of robots in our society: most of the tasks robots can be useful for resort in some form of manipulation of objects. However, unlike humans, robots only achieve good performances in very controlled settings, failing to scale to unknown environments or novel objects. This project focuses [...]
Innovative Training Network on Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring
MarineUAS is an EU-funded doctoral program to strategically strengthen research training on Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring. It is a comprehensive researcher training program across a range of partners in several countries designed to have high impact on the training of individual researchers and their knowledge, skills and their future careers. [...]
Development of Small Flexible Mobile Robots
This project is mainly motivated by the yearly participation of IST at the French mobile robot contest Festival International des Sciences et Technologies, since 1995. The contest requires the construction of a robot capable of track following and beacon following, object capture and discrimination, track choice at multiple-path locations, and track recovery after a track [...]
Advanced Intelligent Multi-sensor System for Control of Boilers and Furnaces
The objective of this project is to develop, implement and test a general-purpose multi-sensor system to optimise the operation of industrial fuel-burning systems, and to control and assist the maintenance of industrial furnaces and boilers. The objective of this project was to develop, implement and test a general purpose multisensor system to optimise the operation [...]
Multi-sensor High Resolution Intelligent Marine Observation of Ocean Floor in Continental Shelves
The objective of the project is to prove the feasibility of a new concept for an oceanographic imaging system in coastal zones (depth 500 kHz, resolution < 0,2o) and a low light level CCD camera (sensitivity 2VaJcm2). The sonar provides directly the distances, and a dynamic stereo vision process has to be done with the [...]
European Neurological Network
Sleep disorders, headaches and epileptic disorders are common health problems in the ECC. The cost of treating these disorders is tremendous. Sleep disturbances and snoring are even more common complaints, and epidemiological surveys indicate a large waste of human and financial resources to deal with these problems. The project objective is the creation of a [...]
High Performance Optimization of Simulation Models in Agriculture
This activity will focus on the optimization of simulation models currently used in crop protection by the grape-growing industry. These models are used as a tool to improve the positioning of chemical treatment applications, reducing the economical and environmental impact associated with these practices. Greater effectiveness could be obtained if the final-users could use models [...]
Visual Intelligent Recognition for Secure Banking Services
The goal of this Reactive LTR project is to realize a prototypeautonomous station for personal identification. This station will include all the features required to be integrated in to a newgeneration of automated security check-point along corridors,passageways or access doors, and in the next-generation ofautomatic teller machines. This prototype will be used to performa significant [...]