INTRO
INTeractive RObotics Research Network
| Coordinatore | UMEA UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITETOMRADET contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Sweden [SE] |
| Totale costo | 2˙083˙328 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙083˙328 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008 |
| Funding Scheme | MC-ITN |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-01-01 - 2013-12-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UMEA UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITETOMRADET contact info |
SE (UMEA) | coordinator | 587˙881.00 |
| 2 |
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
Organization address
address: Office of the President - Main Campus contact info |
IL (BEER SHEVA) | participant | 433˙928.00 |
| 3 |
"UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL"
Organization address
address: COLDHARBOUR LANE contact info |
UK (BRISTOL) | participant | 362˙820.00 |
| 4 |
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAT ZU BERLIN
Organization address
address: UNTER DEN LINDEN 6 contact info |
DE (BERLIN) | participant | 331˙840.00 |
| 5 |
ROBOSOFT SA
Organization address
address: TECHNOPOLE D'IZARBEL contact info |
FR (BIDART) | participant | 193˙059.00 |
| 6 |
SPACE APPLICATIONS SERVICES NV
Organization address
address: "Leuvensesteenweg, 325" contact info |
BE (ZAVENTEM) | participant | 173˙800.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The INTRO project – elaborated in close cooperation between universities and industry – will offer 10 young researchers (8 ESRs and 2 ERs) a unique training program to assist their career development in the interdisciplinary areas of Interactive Robotics: Cooperative Robot Learning; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Intelligent Interface Design. INTRO's overall objective is to contribute to create a new generation of researchers with a broad understanding of the research and technologies needed to build intelligent robots that function in close interaction with humans in unstructured, changing “real word” conditions. The research will develop the necessary foundations to expand robots into new markets by creating novel systems with cognitive and multi-modal interaction abilities. A strong multidisciplinary approach will complement specialized domain knowledge to enhance career prospects for the ESRs/ERs The industrial participation will endow the trainees with good insight into product life-cycle and provide unique training and valuable hands-on experience in top-level robotics development. There are four major components to the training program: in the Research program, each researcher will engage in an individual research project in close cooperation with well established researchers from the partner institutes. In addition, the research will be transferred to an operational platform in industry. A Joint training program will facilitate strong theoretical training. This includes a series of seminars and network-wide workshops. Each ESR will also undergo a Secondment and have short visits to other partners.. Other Network training activities will further strengthen the training program together with courses and activities providing complementary skills such as participation in project management, organization of workshops, presentation of research results, and courses in communication techniques, proposal writing , IPR etc.'
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Traditional robots that are used in industry often lack any perceptual abilities as they are programmed to perform only one thing. However, to be useful for other real-world applications, people should be able to easily train and control them.
With EU funding, the 'Interactive robotics research network' (http://introbotics.eu/ (INTRO)) project laid the necessary foundations for robots to break into new markets by creating novel systems with cognitive and multi-modal interaction functions.
Through the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) programme, the project contributed to creating a new generation of scientists focusing on the technologies needed to build intelligent robots. Such robots were expected to function in close interaction with humans in unstructured, real-world changing conditions.
Project members recruited eight early-stage and two experienced researchers who explored such themes as cognitive psychology, sequence learning and imitation as well as behaviour and intention recognition. Other research topics included dynamic gesture analysis, emotional interaction, robot safety and interaction, failure detection and recovery, and intelligent interface design.
Except for the individual research projects, the programme also included a series of seminars, network-wide workshops and courses to offer researchers a strong theoretical background. Project activities resulted in two demonstrators: a robot waiter, and an urban search-and-rescue robot.
INTRO findings were disseminated through the project website, a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUcyAe6kFegad (video presentation) and publications in several journals.