European funding of robotics research: current activities and perspectives

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1 European funding of robotics research: current activities and perspectives Assessing economic impact of Emerging Robot Technologies and competitiveness of the EU ICT industry, CEROBOT Anne Bajart,, Project Officer Unit E5 - Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics DG Information Society and Media European Commission 1

2 EU Research Aims The Lisbon Treaty Chapter on Research and Technological Development Article 179 The Union shall have the objective of strengthening its scientific and technological bases by achieving a European research area in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely, and encouraging it to become more competitive, including in its industry, while promoting all the research activities deemed necessary by virtue of other Chapters of the Treaties. 2

3 EU Context: the 7 th Framework Programme Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research and Technology Development ICT theme accounts for over 9 billion Euro in FP7 Cooperation programme Cognitive Systems and Robotics is one of the main ICT research Challenges 3

4 Robots in a factory setting machines do what they are programmed to do although they have no understanding of what they do or why in a constrained environment this approach works well the programmer can encode the machine with sufficient knowledge about the task at hand 4

5 Robots in real world settings ~ less-constrained environments can be too nuanced, too complicated and too unpredictable to be summarised within a limited set of specifications from Prof J. Zhang, University Of Hamburg ~ there will inevitably be novel situations and the system will have gaps, conflicts or ambiguities in its own knowledge and capabilities 5

6 Future Vision: EUROP - European Technology Platform for Robotics Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) RTD strategy document developed by EUROP members in the CARE project (FP6) Industry-driven, based on extensive analysis of market development and future opportunities Commitment of all European stakeholders Short-term (2010), mid-term (2015) and long-term (2020) vision Public release in Brussels on July

7 FP7 Challenge 2 Objective 2.1.: Cognitive systems and robotics Continuity and progress: the long term focus on artificial systems which are: More robust More adaptive More effective More natural, cooperative etc Dealing with unconstrained, real world situations Important research questions: How pro-active or autonomous can / should a robot be? Can we categorise real world behaviour unambiguously through sensors? How can a robot recognise and deal with critical safety problems? How can we endow robots with high level cognitive skills? How can we make sense of raw data streams in environments not known to the sensors / robots? 7

8 Origins in FP5, FP6 FP5, FP6 Cognitive Vision Systems Cognitive Systems R&D: rethinking systems engineering FP6 Multimodal Interfaces Advanced Robotics R&D: achieving naturalness, versatility, robustness at system level from constrained to real-world environments from application-specific to general solutions from component methods to a systems approach from a monodisciplinary research effort to working across disciplines scientific foundation concepts& methods, theoretical contributions, experimental validation enabling technology - for robotics & automation, natural language understanding, HMI, etc 8

9 Short history: Cognitive Systems & Robotics over the past decade In short: over 120 projects involving more than 900 participants with an EU funding of over 400 million. Approx 90 projects still in progress (end 2009). FP5 ( ) Cognitive vision 9 projects FP6 ( ) Cognitive Systems + Advanced robotics 45 projects FP7 ( ) Cognitive systems, Interaction, Robotics Calls 1 & 3: 40 projects launched Call 4: 19 projects being launched Call 6: proposal evaluation ongoing 9

10 Cognitive systems and robotics: FP7 ICT Work Programme Work Programme Objective Call (Evaluation) Budget Projects: ACS & Robotics (total) ICT (ICT ): Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics ICT Call 1 (2007) ICT Call 3 (2008) 96 M 97 M 17 (27) 17 (23) ICT : Cognitive Systems and Robotics *) FOF.ICT : Smart Factories: ICT for Agile and Environmentally Friendly Manufacturing ICT Call 4 (2009) ICT Call 6 (2010) NMP-ICT-FoF (2010) 73 M 80 M 35 M 19? 3 (8) (TBC) ICT : Cognitive Systems and Robotics ICT Call 7 (2011) ICT Call 9 (2012) TBA TBA?? (TBC): FoF-ICT Smart Factories FoF (2012) TBA? *) No more interaction - language-based interaction in a separate objective with its own budget 10

11 FP7 CALL1 PROJECTS CLASSIFICATION Medical Rehab./Surgery ROBOCAST MIMICS Autonomous Robots Dexterous Manipulation HRI SF SPARK II REPLICATOR GRASP CHRIS DEXMART Sensor network Perception & Sensors CHIROPING EYESHOTS SEARISE PROMETHEUS CoFRIEND SCOVIS Scene understanding PASCAL 2 Cognition for Human Assistance DIPLECS CogX LIREC POETICON Cognition & Language emergence in robots SEMAINE PINVIEW CLASSIC EMIME ALEAR ITALK ROSSI Multimodal interaction Spoken language HMI Machine Learning 11

12 FP7 CALL3 PROJECTS CLASSIFICATION SCENE UNDERSTANDING (Navigation & fixed sensors) MULTI-ROBOT / SWARM UNDERWATER AERIAL URBAN SCANDLE Co3AUVs SHOAL SFLY EUROPA ACOUSTIC SCENE ANALYSIS FILOSE NAVIGATION HRI SCENE UNDERSTANDING CA in Cog Sys EUCOGII 12

13 FP7 CALL3 PROJECTS CLASSIFICATION Manipulation & Humanoid HRI MOTOR/SKILL LEARNING HUMANOID ECCEROBOT HUMOUR HUMANOBS ROSETTA IM_CLEVER STIFF HANDLE ROBOSKIN TACTILE SENSOR & PERCEPTION CONTROL ARCHITECTURE / ROBOTIC ARM ECHORD BRICS INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION /HUMANOID HAND/ ARM-HAND COOPERATION INDUSTRY/ACADEMY PLATFORM + BENCHMARK 13

14 FP7 CALL3 PROJECTS CLASSIFICATION FROM AN APPLICATION ORIENTED PERSPECTIVE INDUSTRY / MANUFACTURING BRICS MONITORING SURVEILLANCE SECURITY Co3AUVs SCANDLE FILOSE SHOAL SFLY ROSETTA ECHORD ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SEARCH & RESCUE IM_CLEVER HANDLE MANIPULATION SORTING OBJECTS ASSEMBLY ECCEROBOT MOBILE MANIPULATION PROSTHETICS SOCIAL- COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS (multimodal interaction TV-Host) SERVICE ROBOTICS & HRI EUROPA GUIDANCE DELIVERY TRANSPORT STIFF HUMOUR REHABILITATION MOTOR SKILL LEARNING HUMANOBS ROBOSKIN PROGRAMMING BY DEMO/ TOUCH-BASED SOCIAL INTERACTION 14

15 FP7 CALL4 PROJECTS CLASSIFICATION MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE BIO-INSPIRED LOCOMOTION MOTOR CONTROL HAPTICS + VISION IURO ROBOSOM RADHAR DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION AMARSI NIFTI THE AIROBOTS ALIZ-e TRIDENT HUMAVIPS GERT COGNITO FIRST-MM ROBOEARTH GARNICS TACO AUDIOVISUAL HRI MASH NAVIGATION eurobotics eurobotics VANAHEIM WWW SHARED DB: Robots actions SENSOR NETWORK/ HUMAN ACTION RECO CA in ROBOTICS 15 PERCEPTION: VISION

16 ECHORD - European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development large-scale introduction of robotic equipment into research institutions three scenarios: human-robot co-worker, hyper-flexible cells, cognitive factory technology transfer between academia and industry through the solicitation of focused, small-size scientific research projects (experiments) Experiments can be proposed by industry, academia, or both Short proposals (maximum of ~25 pages, including all administrative data) Quick evaluation and negotiation Equipment for the experiment can be bought from a list with special prices Lower the entrance barriers (industry and integrators of SME size) Reduce the fear of contact with funding organizations First call for experiments under evaluation, second call to be launched soon More info: 16

17 FP7 CALL6 & beyond «Research and development [ ] will be guided by demanding, yet pragmatic application scenarios» Some (non-exhaustive) examples: - Industrial production and manufacturing processes (flexibility!), - Professional service robotics - Domestic service robotics 17

18 THANK YOU 18