Other International Projects

Of course, many robot research groups enter their robots into international competitions such as RoboCup robot soccer, RoboCupRescue, or the United Nations-sponsored Robot Demining competition. A fuller list of robot competitions can be accessed through the EURON links pages.

The PeLoTe project is targeted on concepts of creating the presence feature via remote control and navigation, as well as knowledge sharing in combined communities of living and nonliving entities. Foreseen applications include next generation teleoperation and telediagnosis systems incorporating both humans and (semi)autonomous robots, and design of highly realistic manmachine interfaces, allowing the accomplishment of complex teleoperation tasks. The PeLoTe Consortium comprises 3 university partners and 2 hi-tech companies in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Finland.

The key objective of the MAYASub project is to develop and demonstrate the performance of a small, modular, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for scientific and commercial applications. Envisioned missions include geological and oceanographic surveys, marine biology studies, marine habitat mapping for environmental management, inspection of harbors and estuaries, and marine pollution assessment.

The multinational Robot-Cub project, ROBotic Open-architecture Technology for Cognition, Understanding and Behaviour, aims to study cognition through the implementation of real robotic artifacts. Funded by the EU, this project also has American and Japanese partners.

INRIA/GRICES project This collaboration between France and Portugal deals with visual servoing and image sequence analysis for robotics applications.

The focus in the SCORPION project is the development of a biomimetic eight legged outdoor-capable walking robot. This research at the University of Bremen is sponsored by DARPA and NASA.

The Elvis project, e-learning with virtual interactive synthetic characters, aims to produce closer links between China and EU countries in the use of OpenSource 3D interactive graphic environments in e-Learning in schools.