Project description Robotics, Cognitive Systems and Smart Spaces, Symbiotic Interaction Show the project objective Hide the project objective The success of future natural intuitive human-robot interaction (HRI) will critically depend on how responsive the robot will be to all forms of human expressions and how well it will be aware of its environment. With acoustic signals distinctively characterizing physical environments and speech being the most effective means of communication among humans, truly humanoid robots must be able to fully extract the rich auditory information from their environment and to use voice communication as much as humans do. While vision-based HRI is well developed, current limitations in robot audition do not allow for such an effective, natural acoustic human-robot communication in real-world environments, mainly because of the severe degradation of the desired acoustic signals due to noise, interference and reverberation when captured by the robot's microphones. To overcome these limitations, EARS will provide intelligent 'ears' with close-to-human auditory capabilities and use it for HRI in complex real-world environments. Novel microphone arrays and powerful signal processing algorithms shall be able to localise and track multiple sound sources of interest and to extract and recognize the desired signals. After fusion with robot vision, embodied robot cognition will then derive HRI actions and knowledge on the entire scenario, and feed this back to the acoustic interface for further auditory scene analysis. As a prototypical application, EARS will consider a welcoming robot in a hotel lobby offering all the above challenges. Representing a large class of generic applications, this scenario is of key interest to industry and, thus, a leading European robot manufacturer will integrate EARS's results into a robot platform for the consumer market and validate it. In addition, the provision of open-source software and an advisory board with key players from the relevant robot industry should help to make EARS a turnkey project for promoting audition in the robotics world. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processingengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsnatural sciencesphysical sciencesacoustics Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2013.2.1 - Robotics, Cognitive Systems & Smart Spaces, Symbiotic Interaction Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2013-10 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG Address Schlossplatz 4 91054 Erlangen Germany See on map Region Bayern Mittelfranken Erlangen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Franziska Müller (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 799 545,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN Germany EU contribution € 505 980,00 Address Unter den linden 6 10117 Berlin See on map Region Berlin Berlin Berlin Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Renate Ubachs (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE France EU contribution € 474 944,00 Address Domaine de voluceau rocquencourt 78153 Le chesnay cedex See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Yvelines Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Christine ZAMPAOLO (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ALDEBARAN France EU contribution € 724 192,00 Address Rue colonel pierre avia 43 75015 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Petra Koudelkova (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV Israel EU contribution € 480 593,00 Address . 84105 Beer sheva See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Tripto Daphna (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE United Kingdom EU contribution € 534 727,00 Address South kensington campus exhibition road SW7 2AZ London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Shaun Power (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
