Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Adaptive Modular Architecture for Rich Motor Skills (AMARSI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Italy,Belgium,Germany,Italy,Germany,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9208448.0
EU funding (EUR): 6997978.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Compared to animals and humans, the motor skills of today’s robots still must be qualified as poor. Their behavioural repertoire is typically limited to a narrow set of carefully engineered motor patterns that operate a rigid mechanics and lack situated adaptivity, learnability and dynamical fusion of motor primitives into complex, task-oriented behavioural patterns. The AMARSi Integrated Project aims at a qualitative jump toward biological richness of robotic motor skills, a jump to complex, task-oriented interaction sequences between a robot and a human caretaker. It comprises leading groups from robot engineering, compliant mechanics, morphological computing, human motor research; biomechanics, theoretical biology, machine learning. The project deploys: - coordinated and simultaneous development of compliant mechanics, pervasive learning and dynamical-systems based control architectures, centered on the concept of adaptive modules; - mutually informing research in human motor behavior and robotics; - reliance on compliant mechanics and morphological computing for flexibility, computational and motoric speed, safety and damage-robust learning; - novel learning paradigms (unsupervised, reinforcement and imitation) drawing from principles of reservoir computing; - control architectures based on dynamical (neural) systems throughout, also on the higher cognitive levels. Robotic demonstration with a compliant version of the iCub robot and a compliant quadruped Cheetah platform will manifest progress. The robots will engage in an interaction with a human caretaker at the level of a young child playing open-ended in a cluttered and rough environment. Hardware and software solutions will be made publicly available as open sources. Ultimately, the naturalness of such compliant robots will let them blend into the everyday routines of human society, physically safe and psychologically acceptable.

Keywords: rich motor skills,modular architecture,learning,compliant robots,human motor behavior,motor primitive,interaction with people,robot experimentation
Open VEhiculaR SEcurE platform (OVERSEE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,Germany,Spain,Germany,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3907955.0
EU funding (EUR): 2827975.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The next generation of intelligent vehicular information and communication technology (ICT) applications for advanced traffic management, active vehicle safety, or the “green” electric car strongly depends on the availability of an ICT infrastructure combining both dependability and security attributes. Thus, future intelligent vehicles (i) have to provide an appropriate wireless access point to their onboard IT systems and in-vehicle applications, (ii) need itself in turn appropriate access to external information and applications, and (iii) have to execute multiple independent applications with different level of criticality concurrently in a trusted manner. To meet these challenges, OVERSEE will realize an open vehicular IT platform that provides a protected standardized in-vehicle runtime environment and onboard access and communication point. Therefore, the main objectives of the OVERSEE platform will be IT security and dependability that means enforcing a strong level of isolation between independent applications and ensuring that vehicle functionality and safety cannot be harmed by any OVERSEE application. OVERSEE will first carry out a requirement analysis based on a security risk and dependability analysis. It will then specify the in-vehicle platform architecture based on the following key elements: - Efficient resource virtualization that meets the stringent real-time and security requirements, - Trusted access to security services protected by a vehicular hardware security module, - Flexible trusted dynamic administration of application deployment, and - Monitoring capabilities based on a trusted point of control and observations (PCO). OVERSEE will also specify and develop the capabilities that are needed to validate future open platform implementations. This will involve assurance approach, validation tools, and run-time building blocks. Finally, OVERSEE will realize at least two novel ICT applications to proof the feasibility of the approach.

Keywords: wireless vehicle access,vehicle application deployment,dependability,security,virtualization
Road Map for Radical innovations in European Transport Services - International cooperation aspects (ROADIDEAINCO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 132002.0
EU funding (EUR): 99000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Project 215455 ROADIDEA (2007-2010) is investigating Europe’s ability to innovate new mobility services. Basic hypothesis is that effective accessibility to all kinds of useful background information combined with advanced data fusion methods and technological information platforms with high level of standardization are prerequisites for creation of innovative mobility services. The first results show that the major barriers in Europe are in the data layer: in accessibility, pricing, standardisation, and heterogeneous organisational structure of data providers in EU countries. In the USA and Canada, similar information is available openly and free of charge due to their open data policy. This study is cooperating with the federal Clarus initiative in the USA and Canada to find out the differences in data layer and in resulting methods and models, and provision of mobility services to various transport user groups.

Keywords: mobility services,road weather observations,road condition models,traffic models,data policy
Envisioning a Socio-Economic Knowledge Collider: From Computational Social Science to Social Computing (VISIONEER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 118318.0
EU funding (EUR): 105500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our economy and society are currently facing serious challenges. It would therefore be desirable, if politicians, business people and scientists could better foresee and proactively moderate the on-going systemic changes rather than having to react to them in the state of crisis. Many of the current problems result from the circumstance that economic and social systems have been driven out of equilibrium through developments like globalization, population growth, or changes in the age distribution, to mention only a few of them. For these and similar reasons, social and economic systems are subject to transformation processes. However, many policies today are still based on strategies and scientific concepts, which were primarily developed for systems in equilibrium. Hence, the development of new concepts is urgently needed in order to be able to assess and shape future economic and societal scenarios successfully. To address these challenges, this proposal wants to develop the concept of a “Social Knowledge Collider”. This shall create optimal conditions to unleash the potential of real multi-disciplinary projects involving social scientist, economists, computer scientists, physicists, biologists, system scientists, and engineers. A better, quantitative understanding of complex socio-economic systems, including systemic risks, integrative multidisciplinary research and innovation at the interface between the social and natural sciences and engineering shall be facilitated by applying new potentials of ICT systems and developing new systems. This will involve: i) large-scale socio-economic data mining and the creation of centers for crisis forecasting, ii) the development of social simulation supercomputer centers with the aim of facilitating an integrative socio-economic systems design, iii) the build-up of an innovation accelerator, and iv) the identification of grand challenges to be addressed at the interface between ICT and the socio-economic sciences

Keywords: social science supercomputing,massive socio-economic data-mining,guided self-organization,moderated self-control,mechanism design,integrative systems design,crisis forecast and management
Automatic code generation for Graphics Processing Units (AUTH-AUTOGPU)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

An interesting trend in multi-core processors is the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GPUs consist of hundreds of very simple processing units specialized in efficient parallel computations. Until the recent past, GPUs were seen and used exclusively for the computations required in the processing of ray tracing for graphical life-like scenes mostly used in computer games. But recently there is considerable interest in utilizing the GPUs for high performance numerical computation. GPUs come at a substantial cost discount with respect to attainable performance, due to the ``price subsidization&apos;&apos; by the huge and profitable market for computer games on gaming consoles and personal computers, especially when compared to the tiny market of high performance scientific computing. The dependence of high performance on a specific GPU architecture and the short life due to short product cycle, impose a very heavy burden on programmers responsible for code optimization and maintenance since it has to be redone every few months. With this work, we propose a methodology and a system we call ``AutoGPU&apos;&apos; to extend the life cycle of optimized numerical codes on GPUs by 1) defining a high-level explicit parallelism language for programming numerical algorithms in the domain of signal and image processing applications, 2) automating the code generation with the use of a special compiler, code templates and algorithm libraries and 3) automating the tuning of performance critical software components using advanced optimization and searching techniques. Despite the lack of tools, there is an explosion of effort to utilize the GPU architecture for general purpose computing tasks with very promising results. With the availability of program generators and optimizers like AutoGPU, we expect the promise of supercomputing capability on a desktop computer to become closer to reality.

Keywords: technological sciences,parallel processing,code generation,numerical algorithms
Remote Accessibility to Diabetes Management and Therapy in Operational healthcare Networks (REACTION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,Germany,Greece,Denmark,Austria,United Kingdom,Belgium,Hungary,United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16318147.0
EU funding (EUR): 11800000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The REACTION project will develop an integrated approach to improved long term management of diabetes; continuous blood glucose monitoring, clinical monitoring and intervention strategies, monitoring and predicting related disease indicators, complemented by education on life style factors such as obesity and exercise and, ultimately, automated closed-loop delivery of insulin. The REACTION platform will feature an interoperable peer-to-peer communication platform based on a (SoA) service oriented architecture – all functionalities, including devices, are represented as services and applications consisting of a series of services orchestrated to perform a desired workflow. The REACTION platform also features a Model Drive Application Development environment based on extensive use of dynamic ontologies and advanced Data Management capabilities with algorithms for clinical assessment and rule-based data processing. The intelligent, interoperable platform developed by REACTION will provide integrated, professional, management and therapy services to diabetes patients in different healthcare regimes across Europe, including 1) professional decision support for in-hospital environments, 2) safety monitoring for dosage and compliance, 3) long term management of outpatients in clinical schemes, 4) care of acute diabetic conditions and 5) support for self management and life-style changes for diabetic patients. A range of REACTION services will be developed targeted to insulin-dependent type 1 diabetic patients. The services aim to improve continuous blood glucose monitoring (CGM) and insulin therapy, by both basal dose adjustment and contextualised glycaemic control based on patient activity, nutrition, stress level, etc. Decision support will assist healthcare professionals, patients and informal carers to better manage diabetes therapy and make correct choices about e.g. good blood glucose control, nutrition and exercise.

Keywords: diabetes care management,remote monitoring,soa,interoperability,gcm,continous glucose monitoring,closed-loop feedback
Personalized Environmental Service Configuration and Delivery Orchestration (PESCADO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Finland,Germany,Italy,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3733320.0
EU funding (EUR): 2785300.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

There is an increasing need to orchestrate environmental services located on the Web to enable personalised decision support or to provide tailored environmental information. The reasons are multi-fold, for instance, there is only a partial coverage of the environmental conditions given by one provider, however, the environmental information provided must be of high-quality standard. Furthermore, there are often contractual restrictions to provide complementary external data for the top parameters. Users also face contradictory information from several sources and difficulties in information assessment for decision making. Based upon recent works and the application of innovative technologies, PESCaDO significantly advances the state-of-the-art and aims at the following five objectives: 1. Consider alternative services on the Web or the best complementary service to be chained to their own service or to be used as a decision support service. 2. Assess the confidence in the service’s data and offer reliable metrics of the degradation of data uncertainty in complex service node constellations 3. Enable dynamic selection and connection of nodes based on quality, content or the service chain configurations. 4. Integrate the user into the process of service orchestration and information delivery. 5. Treat service orchestration in connection with user decision support. PESCaDO develops environmental node discovery techniques based on advanced domain-specific Web search engines and multilingual analysis to derive the functional and qualitative coverage of the nodes. The reliability of the services and the uncertainty of the direct or propagated data will be assessed by confidence and data uncertainty metrics, among others derived from Fuzzy Theory. PESCaDO targets service orchestration, guided by the quality and content of service nodes and context criteria for decision support. Users are involved in the entire process. Their output is personalized in form and language.

Keywords: environment orchestration decision support chained services reliability confidence uncertainty domain specific web search multilingual analysis language multilingual support generation user-tailored
MyUI: Mainstreaming Accessibility through Synergistic User Modelling and Adaptability (MYUI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Hungary,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3303670.0
EU funding (EUR): 2399934.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

MyUI will foster the mainstreaming of accessible and highly individualized ICT products – a major issue for e-Inclusion. The project addresses important barriers which include developers’ lack of awareness and expertise, time and cost requirements of incorporating accessibility and missing validated approaches and infrastructures. The project’s approach goes beyond the notion of Universal Design by addressing specific user needs through adaptive personalized interfaces. An ontology-based context management infrastructure will collect user and context information in real-time during use. Sharing the collected information across several personal applications will increase efficiency and validity. The user interface will self-adapt to the evolving individual user model, in order to fit the user’s special needs and preferences. The MyUI adaptation engine will rely on empirically based design patterns for specified user and context characteristics. Providing support for developers is a key goal of the project. Accessibility guidelines, re-usable interface components and a virtual environment for illustration, training and monitoring will support the mainstreaming of accessibility in ICT products. An interface adaptation engine and simulation tools will help developers test, assess and refine their designs. MyUI technologies will be implemented in three selected ’use cases’ to demonstrate their benefit and feasibility in industrial development contexts: interactive TV device, interactive digital physiotherapy service, and interactive socialisation service. End-users and developers will be involved in all stages of the project. Empirical research will determine the design of user models, design patterns, and adaptation mechanisms. Iterative development and research cycles will ensure that the MyUI artefacts will increase accessibility and that they can be adopted efficiently by the industry. Field tests will validate the project approach in realistic environments.

Keywords: user modelling,adaptive interfaces,multimodal interaction,accessibility,assistive ict,rehabilitation
Silicon-Organic hybrid Fabrication platform for Integrated circuits (SOFI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland,Greece,Australia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3515110.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499926.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

In the SOFI project, new active optical waveguides and integrated optoelectronic circuits based on a novel silicon-organic hybrid technology are introduced. The technology is based on the low-cost CMOS process technology for fabrication of the optical waveguides - allowing for the convergence of electronics with optics. It is complemented by an organic layer that brings in new functionalities so far not available in silicon. Recent experiments have shown that such a technology can boost the signal processing in silicon far beyond 100 Gbit/s - which corresponds to a tripling of the state-of-the art bitrate. SOFI focuses on a proof-of concept implementation of ultra-fast ultra-low energy optical phase modulator waveguides such as needed in optical communications. These devices will ultimately be used to demonstrate an integrated circuit enabling the aggregation of low-bitrate electrical signals into a 100 Gbit/s OFDM data-stream having an energy consumption of only 5 fJ/bit. However, the SOFI technology is even more fundamental. By varying the characteristics of the organic layer one may also envision new sensing applications for environment and medicine. The suggested approach is practical and disruptive. It combines the silicon CMOS technology and its standardized processes with the manifold possibilities offered by novel organic materials. This way, for instance, the processing speed limitations inherent in silicon are overcome, and an order-of-magnitude improvement can be achieved. More importantly, the new technology provides the lowest power consumption so far demonstrated for devices in its class. This is supported by calculations and first initial tests. The low power consumption is attributed to the tiny dimensions of the devices and to the fact, that optical switching is performed in the highly nonlinear cladding organic material rather than in silicon.

Keywords: silicon,organic,hybrid