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The COGNIRON wiki is the project collaborative work tool. Set up in the spring of 2005 it has progressively grown. Most of its content is available to the public: information can be found there about the project integration, tools developed, as well as the project glossary.
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Other 'Beyond Robotics' Projects (IST-FET)
EURON II is a direct continuation of the original European Robotics Network (EURON). It is a network of excellence under the 6th Framework Programme (FP6), funded as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme on "Beyond Robotics". EURON's objective is to implement and maintain a Network of Excellence that allows coordination of research, teaching and education, academic-industry collaboration, and publications and conferences in the area of robotics throughout Europe. EURON will also provide a primary portal for information about European robotics to other interested parties, such as journalists, and roboticists outside Europe. Coordinator : Henrik I. Christensen, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
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The NEUROBOTICS project aims at systematically exploring the area of Hybrid Bionic Systems (HBSs), deeply investigating the theme of human augmentation and developing new integrated robotic artefacts, as much biomorphic as required to be effectively interfaced with the human body and brain. Coordinator : Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Santa Anna, Pisa, Italy |
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The I-SWARM project aims at technological advances to facilitate the mass-production of micro robots, which can then be employed as a "real" swarm consisting of up to 1,000 robot clients. These clients will all be equipped with limited, pre-rational on-board intelligence. The swarm will consist of a huge number of heterogeneous robots, differing in the type of sensors, manipulators and computational power. Such a robot swarm is expected to perform a variety of applications, including micro assembly, biological, medical or cleaning tasks. Coordinator : Joerg Seyfried, University of Karlsruhe, Germany |
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CoSy starts from the assumption that the visionary FP6 objective: "To construct physically instantiated ... systems that can perceive, understand ... and interact with their environment, and evolve in order to achieve human-like performance in activities requiring context-(situation and task) specific knowledge" is far beyond the current state of the art and will remain so for many years. However the project has devised a set of intermediate targets inspired by that vision. Achieving these targets will also provide a launch pad for further work on the long term vision. In particular CoSy aims to advance the science of cognitive systems through a multi-disciplinary investigation of requirements, design options and trade-offs for human-like, autonomous, integrated, physical (e.g. robot) systems, including requirements for architectures, for forms of representation, for perceptual mechanisms, for learning, motivation, action, and communication. The results of the investigation will provide the basis for a succession of increasingly ambitious working systems to test and demonstrate the ideas. Coordinator : Henrik I. Christensen, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
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The main goal of the RobotCub project is to study cognition through the implementation of real robotic artifacts. This is an open project in many different ways: it will distribute its platform openly, it will develop software open-source, and we are open to including new partners and form collaboration worldwide. Coordinator : Giulio Sandini, University of Genoa, Italy |
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Based on the Treaty establishing the European Union, the EU's Framework Programmes are serving two main objectives: strengthening the scientific and technological basis of industry and encourage its international competitiveness while promoting research activities in support of other EU policies.
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CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) is the European Union's official information service on research and innovation. |
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This service offers a step-by-step approach to help understand all activities as well as participation in European funding opportunities, for which 17.5 billion euro has been earmarked. |
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The objectives of IST (the Information Society Technologies) Priorityin FP6 are to ensure European leadership in generic and applied technologies at the heart of the knowledge economy. It aims to increase innova tion and competitiveness in European businesses and industry and to contribute to greater benefits for all European citizens. |
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FET is the IST programme nursery of novel and emer ging scientific ideas. Its mission is to promote re search that is of a long-term nature or involves particu larly high risks, compensated by the potential of a significant societal or industrial impact. |
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The 'Beyond Robotics' initiative is a proactive branch of the Future and Emerging Technologies programme. It more specifically addresses the development of physical mobile artefacts that could serve as companions to humans, function as bionic parts augmenting human capabilities, or act as autonomous microrobot groups. Four projects are funded within the frame of the Beyond Robotics Initiative : COGNIRON (IP), I-SWARM (IP), NEUROBOTICS (IP) and EURON (NoE). All four projects started in 2004. |
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