ChiRoPing

Developing Versatile and Robust Perception using Sonar Systems that Integrate Active Sensing, Morphology and Behaviour

Coordinatore	SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET    more  Organization address address: CAMPUSVEJ 55 city: ODENSE M postcode: 5230 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jens V. Cognome: Kierkegaard Email: send email Telefono: 4565502911 Fax: 4565501090
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Denmark [DK]
Totale costo	3˙285˙295 €
EC contributo	2˙500˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2007-1
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-02-01   -   2011-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: CAMPUSVEJ 55 city: ODENSE M postcode: 5230 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jens V. Cognome: Kierkegaard Email: send email Telefono: 4565502911 Fax: 4565501090	DK (ODENSE M)	coordinator	0.00
2	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL contact info Titolo: Miss Nome: Angela Cognome: Noble Email: send email Telefono: +44 131 6509024 Fax: +44 131 6509023	UK (EDINBURGH)	participant	0.00
3	UNIVERSITAET ULM  Organization address address: HELMHOLTZSTRASSE city: ULM postcode: 89081 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Karl-Heinz Cognome: Müller Email: send email Telefono: +49 731 5022010 Fax: +49 731 5022096	DE (ULM)	participant	0.00
4	UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN  Organization address address: PRINSSTRAAT city: ANTWERPEN postcode: 2000 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Anne Cognome: Adams Email: send email Telefono: 3232653028 Fax: 3232653011	BE (ANTWERPEN)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Versatile and robust systems able to respond sensibly to challenges not precisely specified in their design, as envisaged in Challenge 2 target outcome (a), depend on (amongst other competences) effective perception systems able to function in complex and variable conditions. The principal objective of the proposed project is to discover how to engineer such systems, specifically embodied active sonar perception systems which can serve as a complement to vision and facilitate the deployment of robotic systems in situations where vision is infeasible.nnFor understanding the implementation of sonar systems able to function in demanding and open-ended environments, the Chiroptera (bats) are an obvious source of ideas. Their astounding diversity of diet and habitat attests to their success in integrating morphological, acoustic and behavioural parameters to enable robust and versatile hunting behaviours --- the bat equivalent of tangible object handling.nnThe project will implement and evaluate two demonstration sensors built as biomimetic models of an insect gleaning and a water-trawling bat species respectively. It will use a classic biomimetic methodology, involving close collaboration between bat ethologists and roboticists. It will proceed by identifying and measuring the relevant acoustic and morphological parameters of a few carefully selected bat species, reconstructing from that the bat's acousticnexperience as it flies through natural hunting tasks. From this data, computational models of how the bat coordinates its acoustic, behavioural and morphological choices during hunting will be elicited and implemented on appropriate robotic systems. The robustness, versatility and generality of these implemented models will be evaluated from an engineering standpoint as example embodied activensonar perception systems, using tasks analogous to the hunting tasks of their living prototypes; evaluation from a biological standpoint will also be carried out.