REPLICATOR
Robotic Evolutionary Self-Programming and Self-Assembling Organisms
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART
Organization address
city: Stutgart contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Germany [DE] |
| Totale costo | 7˙056˙633 € |
| EC contributo | 5˙414˙052 € |
| 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) | 2008-03-01 - 2013-08-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART
Organization address
city: Stutgart contact info |
DE (Stutgart) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
ALMENDE B.V.
Organization address
address: WESTERSTRAAT contact info |
NL (ROTTERDAM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE
Organization address
address: ZIKOVA contact info |
CZ (PRAHA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
Organization address
address: Hansastrasse contact info |
DE (MUNCHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
INSTITUT MIKROELEKTRONICKYCH APLIKACI S.R.O.
Organization address
address: NA VALENTINCE contact info |
CZ (PRAHA 5 - SMICHOV) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie
Organization address
address: Kaiserstrasse contact info |
DE (Karlsruhe) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA
Organization address
address: PIAZZA MARTIRI DELLA LIBERTA contact info |
IT (PISA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: HOWARD STREET contact info |
UK (SHEFFIELD) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 | Ubisense AG | DE | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
UBISENSE LIMITED
Organization address
address: ST ANDREWS ROAD contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 11 |
UNIVERSITAET GRAZ
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITAETSPLATZ contact info |
AT (GRAZ) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
TThe REPLICATOR project focuses on the development of an advanced robotic system, consisting of a super-large-scale swarm of small autonomous mobile micro-robots that are capable of self-assembling into large artificial organisms. These robotic organisms possess common energy and information buses as well as reliable legged, wheeled or climbing locomotion, based on modular sub-systems which can be autonomously reconfigured. Thanks to the heterogeneity of the elementary robots and their capability to share resources and communicate, the robotic organisms are able to achieve a large computational power, and rich close- and far-range sensing. The energy is autonomously harvested from external power sources.nThe main goal of the project is to develop novel principles underlying these robotic organisms, such as self-configuration, self-adjustment and self-learning. The bio-inspired evolutionary approach and evolvable hardware structure adopted in this project enable the robotic organisms to emerge new functionalities, to develop their own cognitive and control structures and, finally, to work autonomously in uncertain situations without any human supervision. Ultimately, these robotic organisms, which are extremely adaptive, robust, scalable and rich in sensing and actuating capabilities, will be used to build autonomous sensor networks, capable of self-spreading and self-maintaining in open-ended, even hazardous, environments.