Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Automotive Tested High-voltage Embedded Non-volatile memory Integrated SoC (ATHENIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Austria,Italy,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8084966.0
EU funding (EUR): 5150000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

More than 20% of the value of each car already comes from embedded electronics. Keeping costs and space for additional functionality low requires further integration of electronic components such as low and high voltage devices and memory on a single System-on-Chip (SoC). SoC technologies for segments with lower reliability requirements are already available. However, there are no cost-effective technologies yet combining all of the harshest automotive reliability requirements for full SoC integration of powertrain ICs for engines, starters, alternators, etc. This barrier to powertrain IC SoC integration inhibits cost reduction and introduction of more fuel efficient cars. The purpose of ATHENIS is to provide proof of concept for the industry’s first SoC technology platform that can surmount these integration barriers. The ATHENIS SoC technology platform is intended to be the first in meeting the combination of all of the harshest requirements including full reverse polarity capability at the low cost of CMOS, application voltages up to 120V, currents up to 10A, temperatures up to 200°C, embedded non-volatile memory, chip-level ESD up to =8kV HBM, and high logic gate densities. This will be achieved by combining HVCMOS technology from austriamicrosystems AG with MEMS-based “Nanomech” embedded Non-Volatile Memory (eNVM) technology from Cavendish Kinetics. Innovative (patent pending) add-on technology modules such as reverse polarity HVCMOS and =8kV ESD structures for HVCMOS as well as automotive extensions for Nanomech will be developed. An alternator-like demonstrator with and without eNVM is selected for a worst case proof of concept. eNVM will enable “flexibility” to software-configure alternator systems for multiple car platforms. Valeo Electrical Systems will provide system specifications, system development and system evaluation. The other research partners contribute the required novel characterization, reliability, test, and simulation methodology.

Keywords: automotive,high voltage,embedded,memory,system-on-chip,reliability
Self-Configurable Cognitive Video Supervision (SCOVIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Austria,Switzerland,Spain,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3793030.0
EU funding (EUR): 2750000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

SCOVIS will investigate weakly supervised learning algorithms and self-adaptation strategies for analysis of visually observable procedures. SCOVIS research directly affects ease of deployment and minimises effort of operation of monitoring systems and is unique in the sense that it links object learning using low-level object descriptors and procedure learning with adaptation mechanisms and active camera network coordination. SCOVIS advocates a synergistic approach that combines largely unsupervised learning and model evolution in a bootstrapping process; it involves continuous learning from visual content in order to enrich the models and, inversely, the direct use of these models to enhance the extraction. In the SCOVIS application scenario user interaction will be significantly reduced compared to current methods. The system will be able to calculate the camera spatial relations automatically (self-configuration) for coupled, uncoupled and active cameras. The user will define a set of objects and procedures of interest during a very short supervised learning phase, while the associations with low-level descriptors will be automatically learnt. The resulting models will be significantly enhanced through online data acquisition and unsupervised learning (adaptation). The enhanced models will be able to be verified and potentially adapted through relevance feedback. The main measurable objective of SCOVIS will be to significantly improve the versatility and the performance of current monitoring systems. The resulting technology will enable the easy installation of intelligent supervision systems, which has not been possible so far, due to the prohibitively high manual effort and the inability to model complex visual processes. The produced technology will be evaluated through realistic scenarios related to industry and public infrastructure. The proposed research will be performed with absolute respect to privacy and personal data of monitored individuals.

Keywords: procedure monitoring,behaviour understanding,camera network,self configuration,adaptation
A Brain-Chip Interface for High-resolution Bi-directional Communication (CYBERRAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2547019.0
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

We intend to create an innovative interface between a semiconductor chip or an ensemble of semiconductor chips and the brain of a living rat. Small CMOS chips featuring stimulation and recording sites integrated at high-density (1000 elements spaced only 5-10 micrometers) will be implanted in several brain areas, either independently or simultaneously, thus obtaining an unprecedented control of neuronal activity in the mammalian brain. Thanks to high-density integration, functional electrical imaging and stimulation of neuronal networks within the brain cortex and deep nuclei will be performed at a spatial resolution close to the single neuron and at a temporal resolution of a few tens of microseconds. Obtaining such high spatiotemporal resolution will enable for the first time to explore and control brain information processing with unprecedented detail. The project will focus on sensory-motor circuits regulating coordinated voluntary movement. By exploring interfacing with the main cortical and nuclear structures of the brain, the choice of this neurobiological context ensures that the approach will have a general applicability to several other brain circuits such as those underlying vision, hearing and attention.

Keywords: brain chip interface implant transistor
Personal Information Navigator Adapting Through Viewing (PINVIEW)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,France,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3676137.0
EU funding (EUR): 2550000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Simple search engines have turned out to be successful in text retrieval. This is partly due to advances in algorithms, but additionally because the typical tasks are relatively straightforward as it is possible to come up with a good list of keywords with a reasonable effort. All information needs cannot however be solved with such searches. For the more and more commonly available audio-visual data people are not able to specify efficient non-textual search keys. Moreover, if the information needs of the user are tacit it is very laborious to create a query. We develop new information retrieval principles needed for replacing or complementing explicit queries. The new techniques will be applied to construct prototypes of proactive information navigators, the next generation systems able to adapt to the user and her tacit information needs. During browsing and searching with a task-dependent interface, the goals of the user will be inferred from implicit feedback signals and interaction, complemented with social filtering. New advanced machine learning methods are needed for inferring the implicit topic of interest and the sense in which it is interesting. We will augment the standard two-valued relevance feedback from the user by richer feedback derived from point-and-click and point-and-speak interfaces and gaze patterns over items that include texts, images and movies. Eye tracking technology is rapidly maturing to be usable on a massive scale. Our consortium combines pioneering application expertise with solid machine learning background. We have built a top content-based image retrieval system and used eye tracking in information retrieval. Our machine learning expertise is suited for the core issues of learning the comparison metrics and solving the exploration-exploitation problem. Proactive information navigators will bring up a new spectrum of application areas; the system will be tested in a set of targeted applications by two industry partners.

Keywords: analysis of eye movements,proactive information navigation,content-based information retrieval,relevance feedback,user modelling
Scalable Multi-tasking Baseband for Mobile Communications (MULTI-BASE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4942018.0
EU funding (EUR): 3248301.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In order to strengthen Europe’s leading position in high-speed, end-to-end, mobile network systems technology, the Multi-Base consortium has identified three main areas where research will have a major impact on the advancement of state-of-the-art technology and the emergence of a sound competitive and innovative environment for the European communications and services industry: A) multi-tasking radio B) scalable reconfigurable multi processor technology (MPSOC frameworks) and C) algorithm/architecture co-design for maximum energy efficiency. The Multi-Base project objectives target the elimination of key technical and commercial barriers to ubiquitous broadband access by enabling efficient and sustainable disposition of operation and production factors as spectrum, power engineering cost and silicon process technology. Drawing on project research in these three areas, the Multi-Base consortium will demonstrate new handset baseband architectures that enable end-to-end interconnection of humans and devices, with ability to support tenfold scaling in the number of interoperating connectivity links at the same cost and power consumption as today’s technology. For more information please see www.multibase-project.eu.

Keywords: reconfigurable,digital baseband,multi-tasking,multi-threading,scalable,multi-core,interoperability,programmable,algorithm/architecture co-design,real-time,connectivity
Adaptivity and Control of Resources in Embedded Systems (ACTORS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3412454.0
EU funding (EUR): 2479215.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

ACTORS addresses design of resource-constrained software-intensive embedded systems with high requirements on adaptivity and efficiency. Three techniques will be combined: virtualization, feedback-based resource scheduling, and data-flow programming models. Virtualization techniques such as reservation-based scheduling provide spatial and temporal separation of concerns and enforce dependability and predictability. Reservations can be composed, are easier to develop and test, and provide security support. Using feedback-based resource management, the resource allocation is based on a comparison of the actual resource utilization of, e.g., a set of activities or tasks, with the desired resource utilization. The difference is used for deciding how the resources should be dynamically allocated. Feedback control makes it possible to deal with uncertainties and variations in a controlled way and provides adaptivity to on-line changes in objectives, external conditions and use cases. By combining feedback control with resource reservations it is possible to handle incorrect reservations, reclaim and redistribute unused resources, and adjust to dynamic changes in resource requirements. Execution efficiency and development efficiency require abstractions on a higher level than what is provided with C and threads/priorities. Data-flow models such as actor models provide the proper foundation for implementation of efficient, component based, and adaptive algorithms for both multimedia applications in consumer electronics and industrial control systems and signal processing applications. In ACTORS a design methodology will be developed that combines virtualization, feedback-scheduling and actor programming. Two demonstrators will be used: multimedia processing on cellular phone terminals and embedded control. The ACTORS project contains the ideal mix of large companies, SMEs, and universities required to fulfil these objectives.

Keywords: embedded systems,adaptivity,data-flow,reservation-based scheduling,feedback,resource management
Model-based Generation of Tests for Dependable Embedded Systems (MOGENTES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Hungary,Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Sweden,Sweden,Hungary,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4436511.0
EU funding (EUR): 3099991.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

MOGENTES aims at significantly enhancing testing and verification of dependable embedded systems by means of automated generation of test-cases relying on development of new approaches as well as innovative integration of state-of-the-art techniques. Driven by the needs of its industrial partners, it will address both testing of non-functional issues like reliability, by e.g. system stress and overload tests, and functional safety tests, meeting the requirements of standards such as IEC 61508, ISO WD 26262, or AUTOSAR. MOGENTES will demonstrate that different domains with a wide variety of requirements can significantly benefit from a common model-based approach for achieving automated generation of efficient test-cases and for verifying system safety correctness using formal methods and fault injection, as this approach increases system development productivity while achieving predictable system dependability properties. For that purpose, proof-of-concept demonstrations will show the applicability of the developed technologies in two application domains: railway and automotive. In particular, MOGENTES aims at the application of these technologies in large industrial systems, simultaneously enabling application domain experts (with rather little knowledge and experience in usage of formal methods) to use them with minimal learning effort. All in all, MOGENTES will increase knowledge and develop new techniques and tools in the area of verification and validation of dependable embedded systems which can be applied in model-based development processes also by non-experts in formal methods.

Keywords: model-based testcase generation embedded systems functional safety non-functional properties testing temporal behaviour testing
RElay based WIreless Network and standarD- REWIND (REWIND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Israel,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5641275.0
EU funding (EUR): 4000902.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

REWIND focuses on one of the most important concepts in wireless network infrastructure that will revolutionize the level of wireless broadband services in terms of network capacity and coverage while reducing operational expenditures. This concept, the Relay based Wireless Network, will create through proliferation of low-cost, easy to install Relay Stations providing the necessary capacity and coverage to support new wireless applications with similar QoS currently available only through wired broadband service (e.g. DSL). At the same time the Relay Station receiving its capacity from its own access network through an efficient backhauling mechanism will maximize utilization of the infrastructure capacity and spectrum reuse, without the need for additional CAPEX or OPEX associated with dedicated backhaul. As REWIND is looking to develop state-of-the-art technology, products and network that will have effect on the network of the future in the coming years, it will be based on WiMAX, the most advanced, yet available and standardized broadband wireless technology. REWIND has two main objectives: •Creation of a complete WiMAX relay based beta network including: -Network operator requirements and business case analysis -Network architecture and system specification -Development of relay technology and algorithms over a System on Chip (SoC) platform -Development of WiMAX relay beta prototype -System integration and interoperability of the developed relay product with standard WiMAX base station and subscriber station equipment -Lab and field performance testing of the integrated beta prototype relay system To provide support and directions to WiMAX relay standardization by providing inputs through participation and contributions on the aspects developed in the creation of the beta network. The REWIND partners form a balanced and complete group including all the ingredients required for the creation of the beta prototype network.

Keywords: wimax relay station,802.16j,broadband wireless coverage and capacity,in-building solutions,smart antenna,mimo,beam forming,aas,pico base station,wimax interoperability,wimax backhaul
Grid-friendly software licensing for location independent application execution (SMARTLM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Spain,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4031433.0
EU funding (EUR): 2696044.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The existing licensing models for commercial applications are focusing on software used on compute resources within an administrative domain. A problem occurs when we want to use this software in a distributed service oriented infrastructure where the resources are often not in the same administrative domain that hosts the license server which is authorizing the application use. Today licenses usually are bound to hardware within the domain of the user and do not allow access from outside thus enforcing local use of the protected applications only. The Grid approach in contrary is about using distributed resources from different domains. The experience made in many recent projects trying to use commercial applications in Grid systems clearly indicates a technological barrier of current licensing mechanisms that must be overcome before the Grid becomes a fully commercial productive environment. SMARTLM solution is to implement licenses as Grid services thus providing platform-independent access just like other Grid resources. Service Level Agreements based on evolving standards will then govern licenses. Depending on the level of trust signed or encrypted, agreements will be used to transport licenses through the Grid to the resource to which a user has been granted access to execute his application tasks. The agreement on a license and the conditions of use for an application will be reached through negotiation between service providers and service customers. SMARTLM will provide new generic licensing virtualization technology based on standards as WS-Agreement and WS-Negotiation and integrate it in the major Grid middlewares. The project will also identify new service-oriented business models for this approach. A number of widely-used license-protected commercial applications will be adapted to be executed under control of the new licensing mechanisms and will become part of a highly quality show-case to convince more code-owners to adapt their applications.

Keywords: service architecture,virtualization,grid-based licensing system
Coordination and Support Action for Global RFID-related Activities and Standardisation (CASAGRAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Korea, Republic of,France,United Kingdom,Japan,China,United Kingdom,Germany,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-10-31
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 533706.0
EU funding (EUR): 533703.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Standardisation, and associated regulations, in respect of RFID is of critical importance in realising open systems applications of global significance, such as supply chain traceability and logistics. Of parallel significance is the numbering and identification coding required to facilitate global systems applications. While much of the emphasis of European attentions to RFID focuses upon electronic product code (EPC) and associated EPC-compliant data carriers it has to be recognised that other numbering systems exist and are being promoted for global applications. The ubiquitous identification (UID) system being promoted widely within the Asia-Pacific regions of the world. There is a need to resolve the global numbering requirements and the means whereby these numbers can be freely issued, managed and maintained. The European emphasis upon EPC also extends to a disproportionate attention to EPCglobal designated standards in contrast to ISO/IEC standards and promotion of the Internet of Things as an aspirational objective for RFID and alignment with the European research framework in respect of ubiquitous computing and networks. Again there is a need to identify and consider the components that distinguish a global framework for RFID regulation, standardisation and developments with respect to RFID. A support action programme is proposed in which this broader framework can be recognised and used as a basis for providing a more incisive reference platform for European usage of RFID and a more informative foundation for European regulatory decisions. The team assembled for the support action benefits from involvement in two UK Government funded Global Watch missions on RFID, one to the USA and one to Japan. It also includes experts on ISO/IEC standardisation and regulatory issues.

Keywords: rfid,standards,global,sensor,technical,applications,conformance