Locomorph

Robust Robot Locomotion and Movements Through Morphology and Morphosis

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH    more  Organization address address: Andreasstrasse 15 city: Zurich postcode: CH-8050 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Helmut Cognome: Hauser Email: send email Telefono: +41 44 635 6755 Fax: +41 44 635 4507
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Switzerland [CH]
Totale costo	3˙924˙475 €
EC contributo	2˙699˙996 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2007-3
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-02-01   -   2013-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH  Organization address address: Andreasstrasse 15 city: Zurich postcode: CH-8050 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Helmut Cognome: Hauser Email: send email Telefono: +41 44 635 6755 Fax: +41 44 635 4507	CH (Zurich)	coordinator	0.00
2	ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE  Organization address address: BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 city: LAUSANNE postcode: 1015 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Auke Cognome: Ijspeert Email: send email Telefono: +41 21 693 2658 Fax: +41 21 693 3705	CH (LAUSANNE)	participant	0.00
3	RYERSON UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Victoria Street city: TORONTO postcode: M5B 2K3 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Robert Cognome: Dirstein Email: send email Telefono: +1 416 979 7609 Fax: +1 416 979 5336	CA (TORONTO)	participant	0.00
4	SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: CAMPUSVEJ city: ODENSE M postcode: 5230 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jens V. Cognome: Kierkegaard Email: send email Telefono: +45 6550 2911 Fax: +45 6550 2035	DK (ODENSE M)	participant	0.00
5	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DARMSTADT  Organization address address: Karolinenplatz city: DARMSTADT postcode: 64289 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: André Cognome: Seyfahrt Email: send email Telefono: +49 6151 163163	DE (DARMSTADT)	participant	0.00
6	UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN  Organization address address: PRINSSTRAAT city: ANTWERPEN postcode: 2000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Anne Cognome: Adams Email: send email Telefono: +32 3 2653028 Fax: +32 3 2653011	BE (ANTWERPEN)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Locomorph's goal is to push beyond the state of the art in robotic locomotion and movements, by increasing efficiency, robustness, and thus usability in unknown environments. As robotic research and industry are competing to increase robots' usability towards the highly-in-demand service robotics, advancements in robotic locomotion today would give Europe a significant competitive advantage. Locomorph combines multidisciplinary approaches from biology, biomechanics, neuroscience, robotics, and embodied intelligence to investigate locomotion and movements in animals and robots, focusing on two concepts: morphology and morphosis. We will build many diverse robots using heterogeneous modules to explore various morphological factors (shape, materials, sensors, compliance, etc) and sensory-motor control strategies, in order to generate novel and optimal robotic designs which exploit the physical dynamics emerging from the interaction among the physical morphology, control, and environment. The second concept, morphosis (changing of morphology), extends this concept further. Voluntary morphosis is a valuable skill for robots, as it can increase their adaptivity to current tasks/environments. We will adopt two complementary approaches. We will conduct animal/human experiments to study biological strategies in dealing with voluntary/involuntary morphosis. We will extract insights from the results to develop strategies for effective robotic morphosis and motor control solutions for dealing with morphosis. This, combined with the robot's modularity, will create highly robust robots, able to deal with body changes e.g. limb loss. Through an exploration of morphology and morphosis, we aim to develop robots with increased maneuverability, self-stabilization, energy efficiency, and adaptivity to unknown environments. These advances will bring us closer to service robotics, as a large part of these robots must able to locomote safely, regardless of surfaces, layouts, or terrains.