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PROPOSAL AT A GLANCE
Proposal name:
ROB-ASSIST: A cognitive robot for assistance and personal companion
Subject:
The objective of ROB-ASSIST is to develop a domestic robot for private use with the following abilities: home security, automatic supervision of the person’s state, and entertainment and education services. The underlying technology consists of an advanced cognitive system where a set of qualitative spatio-temporal reasoning models, a cognitive vision process, a qualitative sensor integration process and a cognitive learning activity will be included in order to build an intelligent robot system which operates in human environments, cooperates with people through intuitive multimodal interfaces, and automatically adapts to new environments.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Proposal Outline:
The main activities of ROB-ASSIT will be the following:
1. Development of Advanced Cognitive Robot Systems which includes reasoning and learning (bio-inspired) processes. This will endow the robot with high performance efficiency and an advanced decision-making process based on the construction of an internal model where objectives, temporal timetable and physical capabilities are included.
2. Development of Advanced Perception Capabilities which includes cognitive vision and sensor integration. This will allow the robot to overcome any uncertainty related with sensors, automatically adapt to new environments and recover itself from unforeseen events, by means of knowledge acquisition based on the construction of an environment model by a qualitative sensor integration which predicts the state of the environment and updates the model with changes.
3. Development of multimodal interfaces for robot-human interaction for intuitive communication which includes sound, vision and touch through autonomous adaptation to user needs, intentions and emotions.
4. Development and integration of quantitative robot systems and perception capabilities. New ways of combining probabilistic paradigms of dealing with the uncertainty provided by robot sensors or traditional methods of artificial vision with cognitive processes should be explored.
5. Advanced Modular Integration of different abilities through behaviour based modelling: reasoning with spatio-temporal aspects, learning, adaptation to the family’s environment, etc.
6. Development of new robotic platform and components for the robot to be able to coordinate their activities with other services and systems, being embedded into ubiquitous sensor networks to become agents of physical actions at home.
7. Development of a System Integration Platform for the integration of cognitive processes, sensors and other networking information technologies. It will be based on an integrated advance modular system and a networking-centric robotic system embedded into the robot which will allow the robot to co-ordinate and interact with smart IT infrastructure adapted to user’s needs.
8. New Business Paradigms for “ROB-ASSIST”: We will implement New Business Models for European robotic services and capabilities in order to increase consumer choice, enable informed decisions and improve operator and network efficiencies, involving all stakeholders to evaluate priorities for market introduction and to consider funding schemes, including public-private partnership. Service quality, affordability, increased accessibility and equity are prerequisites in ROB-ASSIST.
1. Development of Advanced Cognitive Robot Systems which includes reasoning and learning (bio-inspired) processes. This will endow the robot with high performance efficiency and an advanced decision-making process based on the construction of an internal model where objectives, temporal timetable and physical capabilities are included.
2. Development of Advanced Perception Capabilities which includes cognitive vision and sensor integration. This will allow the robot to overcome any uncertainty related with sensors, automatically adapt to new environments and recover itself from unforeseen events, by means of knowledge acquisition based on the construction of an environment model by a qualitative sensor integration which predicts the state of the environment and updates the model with changes.
3. Development of multimodal interfaces for robot-human interaction for intuitive communication which includes sound, vision and touch through autonomous adaptation to user needs, intentions and emotions.
4. Development and integration of quantitative robot systems and perception capabilities. New ways of combining probabilistic paradigms of dealing with the uncertainty provided by robot sensors or traditional methods of artificial vision with cognitive processes should be explored.
5. Advanced Modular Integration of different abilities through behaviour based modelling: reasoning with spatio-temporal aspects, learning, adaptation to the family’s environment, etc.
6. Development of new robotic platform and components for the robot to be able to coordinate their activities with other services and systems, being embedded into ubiquitous sensor networks to become agents of physical actions at home.
7. Development of a System Integration Platform for the integration of cognitive processes, sensors and other networking information technologies. It will be based on an integrated advance modular system and a networking-centric robotic system embedded into the robot which will allow the robot to co-ordinate and interact with smart IT infrastructure adapted to user’s needs.
8. New Business Paradigms for “ROB-ASSIST”: We will implement New Business Models for European robotic services and capabilities in order to increase consumer choice, enable informed decisions and improve operator and network efficiencies, involving all stakeholders to evaluate priorities for market introduction and to consider funding schemes, including public-private partnership. Service quality, affordability, increased accessibility and equity are prerequisites in ROB-ASSIST.
Keywords:
Cognitive Systems, Qualitative Reasoning, Cognitive Learning, Service Robots, Sensor Web Enablement
PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT
Required skills and Expertise:
Partner A: We search for a research group at a University or Research Center expert in intuitive multi-modal interfaces and interpersonal communication systems providing personalised interactivity in real-world environment in sound, vision and touch by addressin user needs, intentions and emotions.
Partner B: We also search for a research group at a University or Research Center expert in the development and integration of quatitative (probabilistics, etc.) robot systems and perception capabilities.
Partner B: We also search for a research group at a University or Research Center expert in the development and integration of quatitative (probabilistics, etc.) robot systems and perception capabilities.
Description of work to be carried out by the partner(s) sought:
Partner A should contribute to the definition of the WS related with the intuitive multimodal interfaces, to the project requirements definition, be involved in the research and development of the intuitive multimodal interfaces, contribute in the integration to the final robotic platform, and the dissemination of the project results.
Partner B should contribute to the definition of the WS related with the development of numerical robot systems and perception capabilities, to the project requirements definition, be involved in the research and development of the numerical robot systems, contribute in the integration to the final robotic platform, and the dissemination of the project results.
Partner B should contribute to the definition of the WS related with the development of numerical robot systems and perception capabilities, to the project requirements definition, be involved in the research and development of the numerical robot systems, contribute in the integration to the final robotic platform, and the dissemination of the project results.
Type of partner(s) sought:
Research groups at Universities of Research Centers.
The Proposer is looking for a Coordinator:
No
PROPOSER INFORMATION
Organisation:
U. Jaume I
Department:
Ingeniería y Ciencia de los Computadores
Type of Organisation:
University
Country:
Spain
