Project description DEENESFRITPL Innovative AI-Powered Manipulation System for Smart robots Creating machines capable of directly interacting with the environment is a critical challenge in robotics. Research on robot manipulation aiming to produce machines capable of directly and autonomously interacting with the environment has increased in the last decades. Learning will be pivotal to such autonomous systems. The EU-funded IntelliMan project will focus on how a robot can efficiently learn to manipulate in a purposeful and highly performant way. The project will develop an innovative AI-Powered Manipulation System with persistent learning capabilities, able to perceive characteristics and features of the environment through a heterogeneous set of sensors, decide how to execute a task autonomously, detect failures in the task execution, and request new knowledge. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. On the other hand, robot manipulation is central to achieve the promise of robotics, since the definition of robot requires that it has actuators that it can use to change the world.In the last decades, a substantial growth has been observed in research on the problem of robot manipulation, which aims to exploit the increasing availability of affordable robot arms and grippers to create machines capable of directly and autonomously interacting with the world to implement useful applications. Learning will be central to such autonomous systems, as the real world contains too many variations for a robot to have an accurate model of human requests and behaviour, of the surrounding environment, the objects in it, or the skills required to manipulate them, in advance. The main objective of the IntelliMan project is focusing on the question of “How a robot can efficiently learn to manipulate in a purposeful and highly performant way”. IntelliMan will range from learning individual manipulation skills from human demonstration, to learning abstract descriptions of a manipulation task suitable for high-level planning, to discovering an object’s functionality by interacting with it, to guarantee performance and safety. IntelliMan aims at developing a novel AI-Powered Manipulation System with persistent learning capabilities, able to perceive the main characteristics and features of its surrounding by means of a heterogeneous set of sensors, able to decide how to execute a task in an autonomous way and able to detect failures in the task execution in order to request new knowledge through the interaction with humans and the environment. IntelliMan further investigates how such AI-powered manipulation systems are perceived by the users and what factors enhance human acceptability. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsmedical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologyimplants Keywords Robotic manipulation Transfer learning Reinforcement learning Safe-guaranteed AI Explainable task structures Prosthetics Manipulation of deformable objects Food handling Flexible manufacturing Programme(s) HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme HORIZON.2.4.5 - Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Topic(s) HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-11 - Pushing the limit of robotics cognition (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA) Call for proposal HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action Coordinator ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Net EU contribution € 861 453,00 Address Via zamboni 33 40126 Bologna Italy See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Bologna Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV Germany Net EU contribution € 504 810,00 Address Linder hohe 51147 Koln See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG Germany Net EU contribution € 467 426,00 Address Schlossplatz 4 91054 Erlangen See on map Region Bayern Mittelfranken Erlangen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA Spain Net EU contribution € 454 595,00 Address Calle jordi girona 31 08034 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA Italy Net EU contribution € 480 625,00 Address Via balbi 5 16126 Genova See on map Region Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI Italy Net EU contribution € 501 354,00 Address Viale abramo lincoln 5 81100 Caserta See on map Region Sud Campania Caserta Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FUNDACIO EURECAT Spain Net EU contribution € 450 875,00 Address Avenida universitat autonoma 23 08290 Cerdanyola del valles (barcelona) See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 ISTITUTO NAZIONALE ASSICURAZIONE INFORTUNI SUL LAVORO INAIL Italy Net EU contribution € 232 270,00 Address Via iv novembre 144 00187 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 ELVEZ, PROIZVODNJA KABELSKE KONFEKCIJE IN PREDELAVA PLASTICNIH MAS DOO Slovenia Net EU contribution € 293 950,00 Address Ulica antona tomsica 35 1294 Visnja gora See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. 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