Network Robot Systems (NRS)

Proposal

Professor: Alberto Sanfeliu, Research group on Learning and Vision Mobile Robotics Group, Institute of Robotics, Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC)), Barcelona, Spain;

Accepted: 2005;

Website: http://turina.upc.es/nrs/.

Abstract

We apply for a Research Atelier on Network Robot Systems (NRS), a new paradigm which has attracted the attention in the USA and Japan due to the importance in the future relations between robots and the environment, and robot systems and humans. In Europe, however, this paradigm has not being yet analysed this way. We believe that NRS are going to play a very important role in the future, and for this reason we propose a Research Atelier to analyse the potential of this paradigm, the constituent elements and their inter-relationship, standards, and the actuations to be taken into account with regards to NRS in the European Community. The impact of the NRS technologies and applications in the European industry can be a very important issue, since they have immediate implications for example, in the development of robots, telecommunication systems, sensors, perception systems or smart interfaces.

The objectives of the Research Atelier are the following ones:

Produce a Roadmap
Create a Network Robot System community in Europe, by means of creating an Interest Working Group in EURON and a Website.
Disseminate the results of the Research Atelier among the research institutions and companies, co-organise an International Workshop on Network Robot Systems and dedicate a monographic journal issue on this topic in a well established scientific journal.

The Research Atelier addresses issues of EURON II and support the Beyond Robotics initiative, since some of the main issues of Network Robot Systems are inherent in the areas of Cognitive Companion (adaptive servant that co-exists and continuously interacts) and Robot ecologies (heterogeneous members exhibiting collective behaviour and intelligence, co-operation and evolving in order to attain a global objective, co-ordination and sharing of knowledge), and IP Projects COGNIRON (embodied robots in human centred environments, exhibiting a social behaviour and communicating with other agents) and I-SWARM (distributed multi agent systems, huge number of heterogeneous robots).

Consortium

Project co-ordinator: Dr. Alberto Sanfeliu, Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC)), Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Rachid Alami, Laboratory for Analysis of Architecture and Systems (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes (LAAS)),
French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)), France.
Dr. Roland Siegwart, Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL),
School of Engineering (STI), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dr. Anibal Ollero, Robotics, Vision and Control Group, AICIA-Escuela Superior Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
Dr. Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant´Anna, Pontedera, Italy.
Dr. Luis Montano, Instituto de Investigaciòn en Ingeniería de Aragòn, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.
Dr. Jose Santos-Victor, IST/ISR Institute for Systems and Robotics, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.
Dr. John Illingworth, Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP),
Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.

Funded Projects

Call 4 : Open call for PRPs and SIGs

Funding cancelled by EU.

Call 3 (deadline April 2006)

No proposal fitted the criteria well enough to receive funding.

Call 2 (deadline April 2005)

Lower-Extremity Movement Restoration through Muscle Closed-loop FES Control using Natural Sensor Feedback (PRP)
Network Robot Systems (RA) Website
Visual Perception System for a Social Robot (TRS) Final Report.

Call 1 (deadline October 2004)

ROSE: a Robotics Ontology for the Semantic WEB (RA)
RoboEthics (RA)
PHRIDOM aimed at charting physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) (PRP)

Other Multicentre Robotics Research Projects

Selected FET 5th Framework Programme robotics projects

Other projects funded by the European Union

Other international projects

Selected national project links



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