Project description
Advanced robotic solutions for nuclear instrumentation
Recent advancements in robotics technology and sensors have enabled a range of innovations in automation and manufacturing. In this context, the EU-funded XS-ABILITY project aims to develop advanced robotic solutions that use sensors to cost-effectively investigate hard-to-access areas and characterise difficult-to-measure radionuclides. This project involves a consortium of experts in AI robotics and nuclear instrumentation. It will focus on developing new nuclear instrumentation and methodologies for integration into data-driven robotic platforms and fleets, as well as creating novel protocols for deploying these robot fleets. The results will significantly enhance the monitoring and maintenance of nuclear power plants. They will also be used to support dismantling and decommissioning, as well as sensor technology.
Objective
The XS-ABILITY project aims to develop advanced robotic solutions by embedding various types of sensors to address remaining challenges in D&D as remote and mobile investigation of hard-to-access areas and difficult-to-measure radionuclides characterization, in innovative, safe and cost-effective ways. The project innovations are related to nuclear instrumentation (accurate and compact sensors), their integration onto robotic platforms as well as Data-driven (through IA algorithms) robot fleet management by considering accuracy, compactness, automation, and cost-efficient aspects.
To achieve this goal, the consortium will develop all the necessary subcomponents. The demonstration will be achieved by integrating all the XS-ABILITY developments and testing (mainly in indoor environment) throughout use cases scenarios on real D&D facilities to assess in-situ performances and to acquire data in real experimental conditions.
The consortium behind XS-ABILITY is a unique combination of cross-functional experts from nuclear instrumentation, robotic and artificial intelligence (AI) fields. It consists of 8 partners from 7 EU countries, including 4 RTO (CEA, IFE, VTT, SCK), 2 SME (CAEN, FLY), 1 industrial company (SIGM) and 1 association (DEV) representative of the whole value chain. Workshops with stakeholders will be organized in order to guide the XS-ABILITY consortium during the project’s main steps.
The innovative solutions provided by the project will be exploited in Dismantling & Decommissioning, Nuclear Power Plant Monitoring & Maintenance market, sensor and CBRN-E defense markets. The enhanced knowledge generated will be disseminated to all these stakeholders according to the D&E&C measures defined. Furthermore, on the basis of the project demonstrations, guidelines covering multi-robot systems behaviour in indoor environment, data collection protocols as well as best practice harmonization will be developed showing how to effectively deploy in real D&D scenarios.
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EURATOM2027 - Euratom Research and Training Programme (EURATOM)
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EURATOM.1.1.3 - Decommissioning
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EURATOM-IA - EURATOM Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EURATOM-2023-NRT-01
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75015 Paris
France
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