Final Report Summary - PURESAFE (Preventing hUman intervention for incREased<br/>SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation)
PURESAFE is an Initial Training Network (ITN) for the training of young researchers, funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme Marie Curie Actions.
The network of PURESAFE – “Preventing hUman intervention for incrREased SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation”, aimed at enhancing career development and training of 15 Early-Stage Researchers (ESR) in the field of systems engineering. The program trained young researchers from multidisciplinary fields, such as mechanical engineering, software engineering, robotics and radiation protection for the purpose of cost-efficient life-cycle management of facilities generating ionizing radiation.
The network was lead by Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland, a world-leading training organization in the engineering of complex systems and remote handling of scientific infrastructures. The network including CERN and GSI followed the priorities defined in the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) report, where GSI/FAIR is listed of great scientific importance; and the European Strategy for Particle Physics of the CERN Council, where the upgrade of Large Hadron Collider (sLHC) have been defined as a priority to keep the existing high energy physics facilities and expertise at the world-class level for decades to come.The PURESAFE consortium consisted of universities, international research organizations and industrial partners, together providing a stimulating environment for a high-quality education for young scientists.
The network aimed to answer to the increasing need of skilled and well trained researchers possessing a holistic system understanding of scientific, complex knowledge intensive products and energy generation facilities. The trained researchers have thus received excellent career prospects on demanding RTD of scientific facilities, knowledge intensive products and services, most of them being recruited right after completing their projects. Moreover, 6 PhD theses have been publically defended by the end of the PURESAFE, and the number is expected to increase by the end of 2015.
An important conclusion of PURESAFE was also to initiate the first steps towards actual implementation of multi-level telerobotics in CERN facilities. From the CERN side, their facilities were seen as an excellent test platform for service and complex environment robotics, and future R&D initiatives were welcomed.
PURESAFE started on 1st February 2011, and the first ESR was recruited on 14th March 2011. By the Kick-off meeting organized in September 2011 in Tampere Finland, an international recruitment process had resulted in hiring 13 highly qualified ESRs. The remaining two ESR positions were filled in the early 2012. The gender balance of 13.3% women ESRs was lower than the targeted 40%, but the branch of the program is known to be overall even more male-dominant. 7 fellows held European nationalities (British, Belgian, French, Finnish and Spanish), 3 came from Iran, 3 from India, 1 from Pakistan and 1 from Mexico.
The Mid-Term review took place at CERN in France/Switzerland during 20th-21st November 2012. Having reached most of the objectives and technical goals for the first period, PURESAFE received a good review. After the review, the main focus inside the network was set to tighten the collaboration and networking even further. Based on the received, valuable feedback, common goals were set and monitored towards demonstrating the collaborative research results in the PURESAFE Final Conference at CERN.
Related to the systems engineering (SE) approach implemented in PURESAFE, the common goal and final deliverable of the PURESAFE ITN was set to consist of a systems engineering (SE) framework suited to scientific facilities and systems (SFS) that are subject to ionizing radiations. The framework was designed to incorporate three characteristics: participative environments, lean thinking and open source, and every ESR contributed to this final objective. The PURESAFE Lean Systems Engineering Framework was released in the PURESAFE Final Conference in a form of OpenSE. A printed booklet "OpenSE v1.0" was given to every registered participant, and the OpenSE Framework can be currently accessed on-line from the link below:
http://opense.web.cern.ch/
PURESAFE network organised the 1st International Workshop in Telerobotics and Systems Engineering for Scientific Facilities in October 2012, in Madrid Spain. The workshop was also attended by invited speakers outside the network. Presentations were given by, for example, EURATOM-CIEMAT, F4E, ITER, TECNATOM Ltd and DLR Germany. Moreover, a poster session included presentations from another PhD program, EFDA GOT RH, concerning remote handling (RH) research.
The second PURESAFE International Workshop in Radiation Protection was organized on 23rd September 2013 at GSI/FAIR in Germany. The workshop was again also attended by invited speakers, and presentations were given by the experts fron GSI/FAIR, CERN and Siempelkamp GmbH. The workshop included also a guided tour for the participants in the GSI/FAIR facilities.
The PURESAFE Final Conference was the closing event of the project. It took place at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland on 19th-23rd January 2015. One and a half days was dedicated to systems engineering aspects and two and a half days to telerobotics. Visits to CERN’s impressive scientific facilities were also part of this event, including LHCb experiment. The objectives of the conference were threefold: presenting to the systems engineering and telerobotics communities the outcomes of the 15 PURESAFE research projects; offering other young researchers in these fields the possibility to present the outcomes of their on-going research work; and last but not least bringing together researchers and practitioners to exchange and share their experiences and research results in all aspects of systems engineering and telerobotics applied to scientific facilities subject to ionizing radiation and other hazards. An impressive list of invited speakers gave lectures in the conference, and nearly 100 registered, invited participants attended the event. More information, as well as an open access to the lecture materials can be found in the link below:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/346833/
The research results of PURESAFE have been disseminated in various journals, workshops and conferences. For a more comprehensive outlook on the research inside the PURESAFE network, with an agreement between InTech and guest editors (M. Ferre (UPM), J. Mattila (TUT), P. Bonnal (CERN), and B. Siciliano (University of Naples)), a special issue including 15 reviewed articles was published covering PURESAFE contributions. The issue was released at the PURESAFE Final Conference, being also promoted in the publisher's website.
http://www.intechopen.com/journals/author/international_journal_of_advanced_robotic_systems/news
The publication is focused on promoting telerobotics technologies and its integration with system engineering. This integration is particularly relevant in scientific facilities such as CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and GSI-FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), where the complexity of components require analyzing, how telerobotics interact with the whole system. The main objective is to show the current state of the art of telerobotics, and to discuss the main challenges in the application of telerobotics in scientific facilities, where methods of system engineering become the most suitable way in integrating robotics, in order to manage these facilities properly. This special issue is freely available for reading and download from the publisher's website:
http://cdn.intechopen.com/public/docs/Telerobotics_And_Systems_Engineering_For_Scientific_Facilities.pdf
For complete details, and the PURESAFE promotional video, please, visit our website:
http://www.iha.tut.fi/puresafe/
The PURESAFE Coordinator can be reached at: jouni.mattila@tut.fi
The network of PURESAFE – “Preventing hUman intervention for incrREased SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation”, aimed at enhancing career development and training of 15 Early-Stage Researchers (ESR) in the field of systems engineering. The program trained young researchers from multidisciplinary fields, such as mechanical engineering, software engineering, robotics and radiation protection for the purpose of cost-efficient life-cycle management of facilities generating ionizing radiation.
The network was lead by Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland, a world-leading training organization in the engineering of complex systems and remote handling of scientific infrastructures. The network including CERN and GSI followed the priorities defined in the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) report, where GSI/FAIR is listed of great scientific importance; and the European Strategy for Particle Physics of the CERN Council, where the upgrade of Large Hadron Collider (sLHC) have been defined as a priority to keep the existing high energy physics facilities and expertise at the world-class level for decades to come.The PURESAFE consortium consisted of universities, international research organizations and industrial partners, together providing a stimulating environment for a high-quality education for young scientists.
The network aimed to answer to the increasing need of skilled and well trained researchers possessing a holistic system understanding of scientific, complex knowledge intensive products and energy generation facilities. The trained researchers have thus received excellent career prospects on demanding RTD of scientific facilities, knowledge intensive products and services, most of them being recruited right after completing their projects. Moreover, 6 PhD theses have been publically defended by the end of the PURESAFE, and the number is expected to increase by the end of 2015.
An important conclusion of PURESAFE was also to initiate the first steps towards actual implementation of multi-level telerobotics in CERN facilities. From the CERN side, their facilities were seen as an excellent test platform for service and complex environment robotics, and future R&D initiatives were welcomed.
PURESAFE started on 1st February 2011, and the first ESR was recruited on 14th March 2011. By the Kick-off meeting organized in September 2011 in Tampere Finland, an international recruitment process had resulted in hiring 13 highly qualified ESRs. The remaining two ESR positions were filled in the early 2012. The gender balance of 13.3% women ESRs was lower than the targeted 40%, but the branch of the program is known to be overall even more male-dominant. 7 fellows held European nationalities (British, Belgian, French, Finnish and Spanish), 3 came from Iran, 3 from India, 1 from Pakistan and 1 from Mexico.
The Mid-Term review took place at CERN in France/Switzerland during 20th-21st November 2012. Having reached most of the objectives and technical goals for the first period, PURESAFE received a good review. After the review, the main focus inside the network was set to tighten the collaboration and networking even further. Based on the received, valuable feedback, common goals were set and monitored towards demonstrating the collaborative research results in the PURESAFE Final Conference at CERN.
Related to the systems engineering (SE) approach implemented in PURESAFE, the common goal and final deliverable of the PURESAFE ITN was set to consist of a systems engineering (SE) framework suited to scientific facilities and systems (SFS) that are subject to ionizing radiations. The framework was designed to incorporate three characteristics: participative environments, lean thinking and open source, and every ESR contributed to this final objective. The PURESAFE Lean Systems Engineering Framework was released in the PURESAFE Final Conference in a form of OpenSE. A printed booklet "OpenSE v1.0" was given to every registered participant, and the OpenSE Framework can be currently accessed on-line from the link below:
http://opense.web.cern.ch/
PURESAFE network organised the 1st International Workshop in Telerobotics and Systems Engineering for Scientific Facilities in October 2012, in Madrid Spain. The workshop was also attended by invited speakers outside the network. Presentations were given by, for example, EURATOM-CIEMAT, F4E, ITER, TECNATOM Ltd and DLR Germany. Moreover, a poster session included presentations from another PhD program, EFDA GOT RH, concerning remote handling (RH) research.
The second PURESAFE International Workshop in Radiation Protection was organized on 23rd September 2013 at GSI/FAIR in Germany. The workshop was again also attended by invited speakers, and presentations were given by the experts fron GSI/FAIR, CERN and Siempelkamp GmbH. The workshop included also a guided tour for the participants in the GSI/FAIR facilities.
The PURESAFE Final Conference was the closing event of the project. It took place at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland on 19th-23rd January 2015. One and a half days was dedicated to systems engineering aspects and two and a half days to telerobotics. Visits to CERN’s impressive scientific facilities were also part of this event, including LHCb experiment. The objectives of the conference were threefold: presenting to the systems engineering and telerobotics communities the outcomes of the 15 PURESAFE research projects; offering other young researchers in these fields the possibility to present the outcomes of their on-going research work; and last but not least bringing together researchers and practitioners to exchange and share their experiences and research results in all aspects of systems engineering and telerobotics applied to scientific facilities subject to ionizing radiation and other hazards. An impressive list of invited speakers gave lectures in the conference, and nearly 100 registered, invited participants attended the event. More information, as well as an open access to the lecture materials can be found in the link below:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/346833/
The research results of PURESAFE have been disseminated in various journals, workshops and conferences. For a more comprehensive outlook on the research inside the PURESAFE network, with an agreement between InTech and guest editors (M. Ferre (UPM), J. Mattila (TUT), P. Bonnal (CERN), and B. Siciliano (University of Naples)), a special issue including 15 reviewed articles was published covering PURESAFE contributions. The issue was released at the PURESAFE Final Conference, being also promoted in the publisher's website.
http://www.intechopen.com/journals/author/international_journal_of_advanced_robotic_systems/news
The publication is focused on promoting telerobotics technologies and its integration with system engineering. This integration is particularly relevant in scientific facilities such as CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and GSI-FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), where the complexity of components require analyzing, how telerobotics interact with the whole system. The main objective is to show the current state of the art of telerobotics, and to discuss the main challenges in the application of telerobotics in scientific facilities, where methods of system engineering become the most suitable way in integrating robotics, in order to manage these facilities properly. This special issue is freely available for reading and download from the publisher's website:
http://cdn.intechopen.com/public/docs/Telerobotics_And_Systems_Engineering_For_Scientific_Facilities.pdf
For complete details, and the PURESAFE promotional video, please, visit our website:
http://www.iha.tut.fi/puresafe/
The PURESAFE Coordinator can be reached at: jouni.mattila@tut.fi