Description du projet
De petits robots alimentés par l’IA pour un nouvel avenir
Les machines et les robots couramment utilisés dans les processus industriels sont généralement grands, lourds et difficiles à utiliser, ce qui rend difficile la prise en charge d’un large éventail d’applications à de plus petites échelles. Le projet REGO, financé par l’UE, relèvera ce défi en lançant un nouvel ensemble de robots de petite taille alimentés par l’IA. La modularité et l’adaptabilité des essaims de ces robots sont uniques, et ils sont capables d’effectuer des tâches complexes à l’instar d’une équipe coordonnée. Citons par exemple les interventions médicales et le traitement de l’eau, qui nécessitent à la fois une surveillance attentive et une grande efficacité. Des opérateurs humains spécialisés peuvent contrôler les actions de ces équipes robotiques à l’aide de consoles intuitives et de retours d’informations naturels.
Objectif
Robots are still often regarded as large machines with links, gears, and electric motors, autonomously interacting with the surrounding environment. Despite the great research efforts in robotics and human-robot interaction (HRI), the way we design, use, and control robots has not fundamentally changed in the past 20 years. We see in small-scale wireless multi-robot systems and cognitive HRI a revolutionary answer to nowadays robots limitations. Instead of large, tethered machines, that are difficult for the human user to control, REGO proposes an innovative set of AI-powered, modular, microsized swarms of robots. They are wirelessly steered by electromagnetic fields as well as able to react to other external stimuli, and then naturally controlled by humans through intuitive dexterous interfaces and interaction techniques. Taking advantage of AI multi-robot control strategies, these robots can team up and collaborate to fulfill complex tasks in a robust and unprecedented flexible way. By exploiting multisensory interaction techniques and cognitive shared control, the operator will achieve an unparalleled level of seamless interaction and continuous collaboration with the robotic team. According to the application at hand, the robotic team will feature different task-specific characteristics (e.g. biocompatibility for medical procedures, biodenitrification for cleaning water, ability to carry drugs to fight infections) and be dispatched through various delivery systems, including a stimuli-responsive milli-scale wireless robotic carrier developed within the project. To achieve this revolution, REGO will develop magnetic multi-robot motion control systems, autonomous swarm control techniques for micro-sized robots, human-robot haptic-centered interfaces, and cognitive shared-control techniques. REGO enables the next generation of AI-powered interactive small-size multi-robots systems, with increased capabilities to work with each other and their human operators.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicselectromagnetism
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticscognitive robots
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology
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