Description du projet Embodied Intelligence Afficher les objectifs du projet Masquer les objectifs du projet The octopus is a marine invertebrate with amazing motor capabilities and intelligent behaviour. Its body has no rigid structures and has interesting characteristics, from an engineering viewpoint: infinite number of degrees of freedom (dof), bending in many different directions, variable and controllable stiffness, high dexterity, fine manipulation, highly distributed control. The octopus represents a biological demonstration of how effective behaviour in the real world is tightly related to the morphology of the body.The grand challenge of the OCTOPUS IP is investigating and understanding the principles that give rise to the octopus sensory-motor capabilities and at incorporating them in new design approaches and ICT and robotics technologies to build an embodied artefact, based broadly on the anatomy of the 8-arm body of an octopus, and with similar performance in water, in terms of dexterity, speed, control, flexibility, and applicability.The new technologies expected to result from the IP concern actuation (soft actuators), sensing (distributed flexible tactile sensors), control and robot architectures (distributed control, coordination of many dof), materials (variable stiffness), mechanisms (soft-bodied hydrostat structures), kinematics models.The final robotic octopus prototype will be capable of locomotion on different substrates, of squeezing into small apertures, of dextrous manipulation by coordinating the eight arms, of anchoring in order to exert forces on external environment; of controlling a flexible structure with virtually infinite dof.This IP is expected to achieve new science and new technology, demonstrated by joint publications and patents, through a truly interdisciplinary research work programme, by a consortium of engineering and biology groups, each involving diverse disciplines and all experienced in biomimetics, possessing, as a consortium, the best expertise available in Europe for pursuing the objectives of the IP. Champ scientifique medical and health sciencesbasic medicineanatomy and morphologyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Thème(s) ICT-2007.8.5 - Embodied intelligence Appel à propositions FP7-ICT-2007-3 Voir d’autres projets de cet appel Régime de financement CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinateur SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA Contribution de l’UE € 2 000 000,00 Adresse PIAZZA MARTIRI DELLA LIBERTA 33 56127 Pisa Italie Voir sur la carte Région Centro (IT) Toscana Pisa Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Cecilia Laschi (Prof.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (7) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire University of Zurich Suisse Contribution de l’UE € 956 580,00 Adresse RAMISTRASSE 71 8006 ZURICH Voir sur la carte Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Lijin Aryananda (Dr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS Grèce Contribution de l’UE € 844 459,00 Adresse N PLASTIRA STR 100 70013 Irakleio Voir sur la carte Région Νησιά Αιγαίου Κρήτη Ηράκλειο Type d’activité Research Organisations Contact administratif Dimitris Tsakiris (Dr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Israël Contribution de l’UE € 1 059 460,00 Adresse EDMOND J SAFRA CAMPUS GIVAT RAM 91904 Jerusalem Voir sur la carte Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Eran Vardi (Dr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE Israël Contribution de l’UE € 781 556,00 Adresse HERZL STREET 234 7610001 Rehovot Voir sur la carte Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Talia Tzahor (Ms.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA Italie Contribution de l’UE € 1 221 700,00 Adresse VIA MOREGO 30 16163 Genova Voir sur la carte Région Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Type d’activité Research Organisations Contact administratif SARA PITTALUGA (Ms.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE € 238 462,00 Adresse KINGSTON LANE UB8 3PH Uxbridge Voir sur la carte Région London Outer London — West and North West Harrow and Hillingdon Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Teresa Waller (Ms.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée THE UNIVERSITY OF READING Participation terminée Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE € 497 783,00 Adresse WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE RG6 6AH Reading Voir sur la carte Région South East (England) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Berkshire Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Liz Stansfield (Ms.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée