Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Probabilistic and Compositional Representations of Objects for Robotic Manipulation (PACMAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Austria,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4490320.0
EU funding (EUR): 3420000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The challenge laid out in this call for proposals is to advance technologies for, and understand the principles of cognition and control in complex systems. We will meet this challenge by advancing methods for object perception, representation and manipulation so that a robot is able to robustly manipulate objects even when those objects are unfamiliar, and even though the robot has unreliable perception and action. The proposal is founded on two assumptions. The first of these is that the representation of the object's shape in particular and of other properties in general will benefit from being compositional (or very loosely hierarchical and part based). The second is that manipulation planning and execution benefits from explicitly reasoning about uncertainty in object pose, shape etcetera; how it changes under the robot's actions, and the robot should plan actions that not only achieve the task, but gather information to make task achievement more reliable. These two assumptions are mirrored in the structure of the proposed work, as we will develop two main strands of work: i) a multi-modal compositional, probabilistic representation of object properties to support perception and manipulation, and ii) algorithms for reasoning with this representation, that will estimate object properties from visual and haptic data, and also plan how to actively gather information about shape and other object properties (frictional coefficients, mass) while achieving a task. These two strands will be combined and tested on robots performing aspects of a dishwasher loading task. The outcome will be robust manipulation (i.e. under unreliable perception and action) of unfamiliar objects from familiar categories or with familiar parts.

Keywords: robotics,manipulation,visual categorisation,compositional,probabilistic
A Demonstration of 4D Digital Avatar Infrastructure for Access of Complete Patient Information (MYHEALTHAVATAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Greece,Germany,United Kingdom,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3364588.0
EU funding (EUR): 2447000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Owing to the highly fragmented health systems in European countries, gaining access to a consistent record of individual citizens that involves cross-border activities is very difficult. MyHealthAvatar is an attempt at a proof of concept for the digital representation of patient health status. It is designed as a lifetime companion for individual citizens that will facilitate the collection of, and access to, long-term health-status information. This will be extremely valuable for clinical decisions and offer a promising approach to acquire population data to support clinical research, leading to strengthened multidisciplinary research excellence in supporting innovative medical care. MyHealthAvatar will be built on the latest ICT technology with an aim of engaging public interest to achieve its targeted outcomes. In addition to data access, it is also an interface to access integrative models and analysis tools, utilizing resources already created by the VPH community. Overall, it will contribute to individualized disease prediction and prevention and support healthy lifestyles and independent living. It is expected to exert a major influence on the reshaping of future healthcare in the handling of increased life expectancy and the ageing population in Europe. This complies with the priority and strategy of FP7 ICT for healthcare, and constitutes a preparatory action aiming at the grand challenge on a “Digital Patient”, which is currently the subject of a roadmap in the VPH community. MyHealthAvatar places a special emphasis on engaging the public. It has huge implications to the society both socially and economically. The initiative of designing a personal avatar can potentially change the way we think, communicate and search for information. Meanwhile, the acceptance of the avatars by the public will open opportunities for many industrial sectors, leading to the reinforced leadership of European industry.

Keywords: digital patients,virtual physiological human,data repository,model repository,predictive models,visual analytics,legal and ipr
Semantic Infostructure interlinking an open source Finite Element tool and libraries with a model repository for the multi-scale Modelling and 3d visualization of the inner-ear (SIFEM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Greece,United Kingdom,Sweden,Luxembourg,United Kingdom,United States,New Zealand,Germany,Serbia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3915461.0
EU funding (EUR): 2909000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The clinical evidence indicates that the number of people with all levels of hearing impairment and hearing loss is rising mainly due to a growing global population and longer life expectancies. Hearing loss caused by pathology in the cochlea or the cochlear nerve is classified as sensorineural hearing loss. The study of the normal function and pathology of the inner ear has unique difficulties as it is inaccessible during life and so, conventional techniques of pathologic studies such as biopsy and surgical excision are not feasible. SIFEM focuses on the development of a Semantic Infostructure interlinking an open source Finite Element Tool with existing data, models and new knowledge for the multi-scale modelling of the inner-ear with regard to the sensorineural hearing loss. The experts will have access to both the data (micro-CT images, histological data) and inner ear models, while the open-source developed tools and the SIFEM Conceptual Model will be contributed to the VPH toolkit enhancing their reusability. These SIFEM open source tools and services enhance and accelerate the delivery of validated and robust multi-scale models by focusing on: (i) Finite Element Models manipulation and development, (ii) cochlea reconstruction and (iii) 3D inner ear models visualization. The final outcome is the development of a functional, 3D, multi-scale and validated inner-ear model that includes details of the micromechanics, cochlea geometry, supporting structures, surrounding fluid environment and vibration patterns. In the open context that the project addresses the results can be used to better identify the mechanisms that are responsible for the highly sensitive and dynamic properties of hearing loss. These result to the description of alterations that are connected to diverse cochlear disorders and assist the experts to better assess each patient’s condition leading to more efficient treatment and rehabilitation planning and, in long-term, to personalized healthcare.

Keywords: semantics,infostructure,finite elements,multi-scale,modelling,inner-ear,open-source tools,cochlea,web services,3d visualization,coupling,bone conduction,validation,robust,sustainable,vph noe toolkit
VISUAL MODELLING USING GANGLION CELLS (VISUALISE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2167148.0
EU funding (EUR): 1669000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The processing capabilities of biological visual systems are still vastly superior in terms of performance for real-time and low-power applications compared with conventional artificial vision. There is increasing evidence that biology has evolved a multitude of cell types, including at the level of the retina, to adapt to an extensive set of dynamic visual environments. Existing bio-inspired artificial vision technology has failed to consider the utility of modelling this rich diversity of cells, despite the fact that these cells are crucial to biology’s ability to process the natural visual environment. To address this shortcoming, the VISUALISE project will create a refined understanding of retinal function in natural visual environments, enhanced models of biological signal processing in the retina and the next generation of bio-inspired asynchronous vision sensors. To achieve these objectives we will combine the efforts of physiologists, computational neuroscientists, neuromorphic electronic engineers, and roboticists, to build novel theoretical and hardware models of biological retinal ganglion cell types for dynamic vision applications. We will 1) record the activities of vertebrate retinal ganglion cells using multi-electrode arrays under dynamic natural stimulation, 2) analyse the functional response properties to expose new principles of spike encoding that bridge the gap between single cell and population information processing, 3) exploit these principles in multi-scale mathematical models which permit efficient digital circuit implementations for a next generation of real-time event-based vision sensors, and 4) evaluate their effectiveness in a challenging predator-prey high-speed robot scenario.

Keywords: retina,ganglion cell,neuronal modelling,artificial vision,event-based vision sensors
Balance Augmentation in Locomotion, through Anticipative, Natural and Cooperative control of Exoskeletons. (BALANCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5912100.0
EU funding (EUR): 4494323.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this project is to realize an exoskeletal robot that improves the balance performance of humans, targeted at users facing balance-challenging conditions or suffering from a lack of ability to walk or maintain balance during walking. The proposed exoskeleton will know the difference between the onset of a fall and an intentional change of walking pattern, such as a turn, or a step/stair and only when necessary will it act to maintain postural balance. Available exoskeletons lack the ability to correct or assist postural balance and due to size, weight and controls; they often impede balance. The proposed exoskeleton is human-cooperative in the sense that the control of the exoskeleton is complementary to the remaining human control. Depending on application it can either assist only in difficult conditions or in case of erroneous behaviour of the user, or can assist the user maximally. Supported tasks are functional standing and walking, in a clinical, real-life or work environment, including specific actions like turning or stepping on or off an elevation. The basic concept is to understand how human postural control is structured, how and why it functions and is robust in healthy humans, and to use this knowledge to mimic and enhance the postural control through the exoskeleton in a minimally obtrusive manner. BALANCE will study and implement both anticipatory and reactive balancing mechanisms, and implement a ‘sense of balance’ and ‘sense of human motion intentions’ through sensor fusion techniques and data analysis. The ultimate goal is to have the exoskeleton seamlessly cooperate with the human, both for healthy and neurologically impaired subjects. A consortium of specialists in exoskeleton hardware development, human motor control, exoskeleton control, adaptive robot control, gait mechanics, biomechanical sensing and balance assessment technology has gathered in BALANCE to achieve these objectives. The exploitation of the results will focus on applications in neurorehabilitation and worker support.

Keywords: exoskeleton control leg exoskeleton walking support postural balance control human-cooperative control human-robot interaction ambulatory motion capturing neuro-mechanics of human gait
Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics (ROCKIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-02
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2015358.0
EU funding (EUR): 1701814.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Robot competitions have proved to be an effective instrument to foster scientific research and push the state of the art in a field. Teams participating in a competition must identify best practice solutions covering a wide range of functionalities and integrate them into practical systems. These systems have to work in the real world, outside of the usual laboratory conditions. The competition experience helps to transfer the applied methods and tools to successful and high-impact real-world applications. Other effects of robot competitions are that young students are attracted to science and engineering disciplines, and that the relevance of robotics research is demonstrated to citizens. However, some limitations can emerge as competitions mature: the effort required to enter the competition grows and may present a barrier for the participation of new teams; a gap between benchmarking complete systems in competitions and benchmarking subsystems in research may develop and limit the usefulness of the competition results to industry. The goal of RoCKIn is to speed up the progress towards smarter robots through scientific competitions. Two challenges have been selected for the competitions due to their high relevance and impact on Europe’s societal and industrial needs: domestic service robots (RoCKIn@Home) and innovative robot applications in industry (RoCKIn@Work). Both challenges have been inspired by activities in the RoboCup community, but RoCKIn improves and extends them by introducing new and prevailing research topics, like natural interaction with humans or networking mobile robots with sensors in ambient environments, in addition to specifying concrete benchmark criteria for assessing progress. The RoCKIn project • designs open domain testbeds for competitions targeting the two challenges and usable by researchers worldwide, • develops methods for benchmarking through competitions that allow to assess both particular subsystems as well as the integrated system, • organizes two robot competition events, each of them based on the two challenges and testbeds, • organizes camps open to student participants, so as to help new teams getting involved in the competitions, and • executes dissemination activities to target stakeholders in industry and academia, as well as the general public.

Keywords: domestic service robots,search and rescue robots,innovative industrial robots,benchmarking,dissemination of robotics research,robot competitions,technology transfer
VPH Dementia Research Enabled by IT (VPH-DARE@IT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Finland,France,Germany,Germany,Norway,Netherlands,Switzerland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Austria,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17825284.0
EU funding (EUR): 13393565.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

The DementiA Research Enabled by IT project responds to the European Parliament’s 2011 resolution for a European Initiative on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and the EU Year of the Brain 2014 Initiative. It delivers the first patient-specific predictive models for early differential diagnosis of dementias and their evolution. Its mechanistic/phenomenological models of the ageing brain account simultaneously for the patient-specific multiscale biochemical, metabolic and biomechanical brain substrate, as well as for genetic, clinical, demographic and lifestyle determinants. It investigates the effect of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, diets, exercise, and pulmonary conditions on the ageing brain, as environmental factors influencing onset and evolution of dementias. An integrated clinical decision support platform will be validated/ tested by access to a dozen databases of international cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, including exclusive access to a population study that has tracked brain ageing in more than 10,000 individuals for over 20 years (Rotterdam Study). Enabling more objective, earlier, predictive and individualised diagnosis and prognosis of dementias will support health systems worldwide to cope with the burden of 36M patients that, due to ageing societies, will increase to 115M by 2050. Worldwide costs are estimated to €450B annually. In 2012, the WHO declared dementia a global health priority. Our consortium assembles highly recognised engineering, physical, biomedical and clinical scientists, and industrial partners experienced in exploiting VPH technologies in healthcare. Co-operation with infrastructure projects like VPH-Share, related international Physiome efforts, and other dementia research consortia is assured, allowing European researchers from different disciplines to contribute to share resources, methods and generate new knowledge.
Valorisation of EU project results in the area of access to cultural content (ECULTVALUE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,United Kingdom,France,Slovenia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 947693.0
EU funding (EUR): 850000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Cultural heritage is one of the main assets of Europe and the deployment of research results in the areas of interactive storytelling, personalization and adaptivity, coupled with mobility-enabling systems, has the potential to increase access to resources, improve user experiences and boost the ICT industries. But take-up is slow and collaboration often difficult. The aim of eCultValue is to encourage the use of new technologies that have the potential to revolutionise new ways to access cultural heritage and experiences offered by cultural resources in real and virtual environments or a mix of both. For this purpose, eCultValue will look into technologies arriving from EU funded projects (Analysis of available technologies WP1), promote these technologies to people who will apply them (Capacity building of eCult Ambassadors and validation in Living Labs, WP2) and relate technologies to use-case scenarios (eCult on-line Observatory, WP3 and eCult Dialogue Days, WP4. eCultValue will involve all stakeholders in the cultural value chain, adapting the "triple helix" approach to the cultural environment, to capture multiple reciprocal relationships between IT providers, cultural content holders and users/visitors/artists. The concrete outcome of eCultValue will be: - a Catalogue of available technologies ; - the eCult Observatory, an online-platform for knowledge exchange; - a sustainable network of trained eCult Ambassadors that support the take up of project results; - a Vademecum for take-up of results; - Real-life showcases stemming from the project's promotion activities; and - a sustainable eCult Stakeholders Community for future collaboration. The implementation will be carried out by a partnership that covers all stakeholders, from academia/research to museum networks to ICT providers and user communities.

Keywords: cultural heritage,research to market,ict solutions for museums,user involvement,summer stage,adaptive experience,virtual environment,virtual museum,cultural collection,ecult dialogue days
Hybrid Artificial and Natural Atomic Systems (HANAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Austria,Germany,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3244910.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

This project will establish a groundbreaking research program in hybrid quantum systems combining solid state and atomic components. The key elements in this project are devices based on single quantum dots and novel photon storage schemes in atomic systems. Quantum dots, also known as artificial atoms, enable photon generation in the solid state with functionalities such as tunability, high collection efficiency, radiative lifetime engineering and scalability. Atomic systems are well controlled, exhibit long coherence times and enable the implementation of robust schemes for photon storage. HANAS will demonstrate that a powerful synergy can emerge from hybrid quantum systems where the advantageous functionalities of solid state and atomic systems are combined. We will develop a new type of solid state quantum emitters optimized for coupling to atomic transitions, based on quantum dots in complex nanostructures. New schemes to efficiently couple the emission from single quantum dots with atomic transitions will also be developed and implemented. A range of new hybrid experiments will be carried out that will result in the demonstration of hybrid quantum interconnects where photons generated in a quantum dot will be stored in a rubidium vapour. Additionally, frequency locking techniques borrowed from the atomic community will be implemented in the solid state to counteract spectral diffusion of single quantum dots. To reach our ambitious goals, we bring together European leaders in atomic optics, quantum dot optics, quantum dot growth and nanoprocessing. These achievements will play crucial roles in the development of complex quantum networks.

Keywords: quantum information hybrid quantum systems quantum dots quantum networks