CoCoRo

Collective Cognitive Robots

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITAET GRAZ    more  Organization address address: Universitaetsplatz 2 city: Graz postcode: 8010 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Thomas Cognome: Schmickl Email: send email Telefono: +43 316 3808759 Fax: +43 316 3809875
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Austria [AT]
Totale costo	3˙755˙902 €
EC contributo	2˙869˙998 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2009-6
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-04-01   -   2014-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITAET GRAZ  Organization address address: Universitaetsplatz 2 city: Graz postcode: 8010 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Thomas Cognome: Schmickl Email: send email Telefono: +43 316 3808759 Fax: +43 316 3809875	AT (Graz)	coordinator	0.00
2	SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA  Organization address address: PIAZZA MARTIRI DELLA LIBERTA 33 city: PISA postcode: 56127 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Paolo Cognome: DARIO Email: send email Telefono: +39 050 883420 Fax: +39 050 883497	IT (PISA)	participant	0.00
3	UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART  Organization address address: KEPLERSTRASSE 7 city: STUTTGART postcode: 70174 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Michael Cognome: Matthiesen Email: send email Telefono: +49 711 7816414 Fax: +49 711 78161414	DE (STUTTGART)	participant	0.00
4	UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES  Organization address address: Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 city: BRUXELLES postcode: 1050 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Christine Cognome: Courillon Email: send email Telefono: +32 2 6506718 Fax: +32 2 6502321	BE (BRUXELLES)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSITY OF YORK  Organization address address: HESLINGTON HALL city: YORK postcode: YO10 5DD contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Chris Cognome: Barber Email: send email Telefono: +44 1904 434416 Fax: +44 1904 434119	UK (YORK)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

This ambitious project aims at creating a swarm of interacting, cognitive, autonomous robots. We will develop a swarm of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that are able to interact with each other and which can balance tasks (interactions between/within swarms). These tasks are: ecological monitoring, searching, maintaining, exploring and harvesting resources in underwater habitats. The swarm will maintain swarm integrity under conditions of dynamically changing environments and will therefore require robustness and flexibility. This will be achieved by letting the AUVs interact with each other and exchange information, resulting in a cognitive system that is aware of its environment, of local individual goals and threats and of global swarm-level goals and threats. Our consortium consists of both, biological and technical institutions and is therefore optimally qualified to achieve this goal.nBy a combination of locally acting and globally acting self-organizing mechanisms, information from the global level flows into the local level and influences the behaviour of individual AUVs. Such a cognitive-based scheme creates a very fast reaction of the whole collective system when optimizing the global performance. As shown by natural swimming fish swarms, such mechanisms are also flexible and scalable. The usage of cognition-generating algorithms can even allow robotic swarms to mimic each other's behaviour and to learn from each other adequate reactions to environmental changes. In addition, we plan to investigate the emergence of artificial collective pre-consciousness, which leads to self-identification and further improvement of collective performance. In this way we explore several general principles of swarm-level cognition and can assess their importance in real-world applications. This can be exploited for improving the robustness, flexibility and efficiency of other technical applications in the field of ICT.