Projet ANT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Embedded Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology with immense potential to revolutionise various domains, spanning from robotics and healthcare to environmental monitoring and the Internet of Things. This Doctoral Network (DN) project ANT aims to train a network of 15 excellent Doctoral Candidates (DCs) by addressing the fundamental challenges of Embedded AI and accelerating the development of Embedded AI systems and applications through an innovative and interdisciplinary research and training program. ANT consists of four interconnected Work Packages (WPs) that encompass different aspects of Embedded AI. WP1 tackles the challenges in designing low-footprint standalone Embedded AI models under resource constraints and with diverse contexts and evolving environments. WP2 goes beyond standalone Embedded AI and designs innovative distributed and scalable learning solutions for heterogeneous Embedded AI networks under energy and bandwidth constraints. WP3 enhances the trustworthiness of Embedded AI with explainability, robustness, security, and privacy. ANT concludes in WP4 with a concerted effort to transfer fundamental research contributions to industry-relevant applications in autonomous robotics, underwater IoT, mobile healthcare, and smart farming, boosting Europe’s position in the global AI market both from a talent and a technological perspective. These interdisciplinary and inter-domain research training, along with the comprehensive soft-skills training (spanning from presentation skills to intellectual property, marketing, and economics, etc.) will make ANT’s 15 DCs highly employable in various industries, academia, or public government bodies, and will position the EU at the forefront of the emerging revolution of Embedded AI on Things.

Mots clés : embedded ai, tinyml, embedded systems, privacy, security, low footprint ai, trustworthy, autonomous robotics, underwater iot, mobile healthcare, smart farming

Participants :
- NXP (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 274370.4 €
- STMicroelectronics (Italy) (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- A5 srl (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Anvers (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Brunel University London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Anstalt für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen List (Austria) (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Trente (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 778312.8 €
- Université de Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université technique de Graz (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 270331.2 €
- Xosight b.v. (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1097481.6 €
- Université de Fribourg (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre suisse d'électronique et de microtechnique (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- ABB (Switzerland) (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 755913.6 €
- Université Charles-III de Madrid (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de technologie de Darmstadt (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260539.2 €
- Sensory-fi s.l. (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université du Massachusetts (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut de micro-électronique et composants (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 262620.0 €
- Université de Reading (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Koninklijke Philips (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €