Project description Cognitive Systems, Interaction, RoboticsDevelopment of an advanced multi-robot system for underwater environmentsAutonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) represent one of the most challenging frontiers for robotics research. AUVs work in an unstructured environment and face unique perception, decision, control and communications difficulties. Currently, the state of the art is dominated by single AUVs limited to open-sea, preplanned trajectories with offline postprocessing of the data gathered during the mission. The use of multiple AUVs as explored in this project is still in a very early research phase. Some of the research issues addressed in this project are even completely uncharted territory, especially the development of functionalities to seamlessly monitor critical underwater infrastructures and detect anomalous situations (e.g. missions related to harbour safety and security) and, also, the study of advanced AUVs capable of interacting with humans to perform such functions as companion/support platforms during scientific and commercial dives. The aim of the Co3-AUVs project is to develop, implement and test advanced cognitive systems for coordination and cooperative control of multiple AUVs. Several aspects will be investigated including 3D perception and mapping, cooperative situation awareness, deliberation and navigation as well as behavioral control strictly linked with the underwater communication challenges. As a result, the team of AUVs will cooperate in challenging scenarios in the execution of missions where all data is processed online. In doing so, the team will be robust with respect to failures and environmental changes. These key features will be tested in a harbour scenario, where additional difficulties arise, compared to open sea applications and in a human diver assistance scenario that also illustrates human robot interaction issues. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) represent one of the most challenging frontiers for robotics research. AUVs work in an unstructured environment and face unique perception, decision, control and communications difficulties. Currently, the state of the art is dominated by single AUVs limited to open-sea preplanned trajectories with offline postprocessing of the data gathered during the mission. The use of multiple AUVs as propagated in this project is still in a very early research phase. Some of the research issues addressed in this project are even completely uncharted territory, especially the development of functionalities to seamlessly monitor critical underwater infrastructures and to detect anomalous situations (e.g. missions related to harbour safety and security) and the study of advanced AUVs capable of interacting with humans to perform such functions as companion/support platforms during scientific and commercial dives. The aim of the Co3-AUVs project is to develop, implement and test advanced cognitive systems for coordination and cooperative control of multiple AUVs. Several aspects will be investigated including 3D perception and mapping, cooperative situation awareness, deliberation and navigation as well as behavioral control strictly linked with the underwater communication challenges. As a result, the team of AUVs will cooperate in challenging scenarios in the execution of missions where all data is online processed. In doing so, the team will be robust with respect to failures and environmental changes. These key features will be tested in a harbor scenario where additional difficulties with respect to open sea applications arise and in a human diver assistance scenario that also illustrates human robot interaction issues. Fields of science engineering and technologycivil engineeringtransportation engineeringport and harbor engineering Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.2.2 - Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator Contact Andreas BIRK Prof.Dr. Coordinator CONSTRUCTOR UNIVERSITY BREMEN GGMBH EU contribution € 929 660,00 Address CAMPUS RING 1 28725 Bremen Germany See on map Region Bremen Bremen Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ronald Kieschnick (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all GRAAL TECH SRL Italy EU contribution € 548 500,00 Address VIA EGIDIO TAGLIOLINI 26 16152 Genova See on map Region Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Andrea Caffaz (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA Italy EU contribution € 140 936,00 Address VIA BALBI 5 16126 Genova See on map Region Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Cinzia Leone (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO Portugal EU contribution € 530 586,00 Address AVENIDA ROVISCO PAIS 1 1049 001 Lisboa See on map Region Continente Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Antonio Pascoal (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DI PISA Italy EU contribution € 96 400,00 Address LUNGARNO PACINOTTI 43/44 56126 Pisa See on map Region Centro (IT) Toscana Pisa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact IMMACOLATA VIVA (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEL SALENTO Italy EU contribution € 90 000,00 Address PIAZZA TANCREDI 7 73100 Lecce See on map Region Sud Puglia Lecce Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact PAOLA SOLOMBRINO (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CASSINO E DEL LAZIO MERIDIONALE Italy EU contribution € 213 564,00 Address VIALE DELL UNIVERSITA CAMPUS FOLCARA 03043 Cassino See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Frosinone Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact CARMINE NICOLO (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data