ENTIMENT RTD endeavors addressed three core objectives as part of implementing and promoting an effective, developer-friendly Temporal Cognition Toolbox (TCT) that facilitates the implementation of robots with human-like sense of temporality, deployed in realistic environments.
Objective 1 - Exploit time-aware cognition to improve robot skills. FORTH has carefully explored complementary aspects of human social time perception and implemented computational models that enable robots to consider subjective aspects of human time perception. In order to enhance HRI in multi-agent setups, FORTH has implemented TCT that enables robots perceive and process the short- and long-term aspects of symbiotic interaction. TCT development facilitates the interface of time perception with other cognitive modalities to facilitate the development of complex, time aware robotic systems that can successfully cope with the three main temporal views that living organisms develop on the world, namely the past, the present and the future.
Objective 2 - Technology Readiness Level (TRL) major advancement. FORTH has extensively assessed and refined the implemented modules to enable the integration of the TimeStorm cutting edge research results into the delivered toolbox. TCT provides an interface to ROS middleware, enabling users to successfully employ it without excess effort. Accordingly, the originally immature technology developed in TimeStorm has been effectively deployed and demonstrated in multiple realistic scenario and environments, thus accomplishing TRL 6.
Objective 3 - Substantiate the commercialization potential of the Temporal Cognition Toolbox. To promote TCT and substantiate its commercialization potential, FORTH has carried out extensive dissemination activities during the course of the ENTIMENT project. These included contacting leading robotic companies and robot developers in both the academia and industry, setting up meetings for informing representatives from the public sector, demonstrating the functionality and usefulness of the end software to several collaborating partners, disseminating the software through conference and workshop presentations and executing up realistic use-case scenarios, that demonstrate the application areas that TCT is relevant.
