Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
RoboEarth: robots sharing a knowledge base for world modelling and learning of actions (ROBOEARTH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5613559.0
EU funding (EUR): 3958000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The RoboEarth-project exploits a new approach towards endowing robots with advanced perception and action capabilities, thus enabling robots to carrying out useful tasks autonomously. The core of the innovation involves a world-wide web-style database: RoboEarth. RoboEarth will allow robots to share any reusable knowledge independent from their hardware and configuration. When a robot starts performing a task, it is able to download available high-level knowledge on both task and environment; next, it can use and translate this knowledge to its hardware specifications and its configuration and will improve it by learning during the task. Finally, it will upload its knowledge to RoboEarth again. As a result of the proposed project, major innovations are expected in the fields of: 3D sensing, control strategies and learning. Next to these, RoboEarth will contribute to a more modular design of robotic systems; robot hardware with a hardware abstraction layer for RoboEarth will be enough to build a functional robot. A series of six demonstrators will show the contributions of the project. The Action Recipe demonstrator will show robots creating/uploading and downloading/executing action recipes (abstract behaviour or algorithm descriptions in the RoboEarth database) to and from RoboEarth. The Ask Meal demonstrator will present meal options to a patient in a hospital room. The Serve Drink demonstrator will integrate 3D-sensing in the task by presenting a drink to the patient. The Screw Cap demonstrator will add improvement of the task by learning to remove the screw cap from a bottle. The Family Visit demonstrator focuses on the integration of dynamic object tracking into RoboEarth. Finally, the A Week In The Hospital demonstrator will show that history data from RoboEarth will enable a robot to improve its performance. The research and technological development the RoboEarth consortium proposes to undertake will pave the way for completely new markets.

Keywords: 3d sensing,world modelling,action recognition,situation recognition,machine learning,world wide web application,computer language
Artificial Wet Neuronal Networks from Compartmentalised Excitable Chemical Media (NEUNEU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2339498.0
EU funding (EUR): 1780000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This research programme will be concerned with the development of mass-producible chemical information processing components and their interconnection into functional architectures. The project has three complementary objectives. The first is to engineer lipid-coated water droplets, inspired by biological cells, containing an excitable chemical medium and to connect the droplets into networks in which they can communicate through chemical signals. The second objective is to design architectures based on the droplets and to demonstrate purposeful information processing in droplet architectures. The third objective is to explore and establish the potential and the limitations of droplet architectures, both from a theoretical perspective and with laboratory prototypes. We expect that this collaboration among computer-scientists, bio-physicists, chemical-physicists, biochemists, chemical-biologists, and electrical engineers will develop a flexible and efficient substrate for molecular information technology.

Keywords: rection-diffusion computing,excitable media,chemical computing,artificial chemistry
Coordinated approacH to the EurOpean effoRt on aUdio-visual Search engines (CHORUS +)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France,Greece,Italy,Austria,Switzerland,France,European organisations area
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1371619.0
EU funding (EUR): 1061004.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

CHORUS+ creates the conditions for mutual information exchange and cross fertilization between the FP7 projects in the Search Engine domain and the national and international initiatives running in this area. The CHORUS+ project aims to foster timely discussion and avoid fragmentation. Discussion groups with selected experts and representatives from industry, academia, and research organizations are planned, including the organisation of focused workshops and conferences. The outcomes of these discussions are deliverables that address the interests, needs and challenges of technology producers, content owners and consumers. Specifically CHORUS+ links together on-going FP7 projects such as I-SEARCH, COAST, GLOCAL, LIVINGKNOWLEDGE, SocialSensor, UBRIK, InEvent, HBB-NEXT, TOSCA-MP, SMART, MIReS (Roadmap for Music Information ReSearch), 3D-LIFE, COMET, ENVISION but also with specific initiatives or national projects like NEM (The Network&Electronic Media Technology Platform), FIA, THESEUS, QUAERO. This co-ordination action allows setting concrete strategies and industrial objectives for multimedia search in Europe.

Keywords: mulit media search engines,r&d and industrial objectives
Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures (ERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Greece,Italy,Sweden,United Kingdom,Israel,Brazil,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4014515.0
EU funding (EUR): 2800000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In a scenario where the complexity and diversity of embedded systems is rising and causing extra pressure in the demand for performance at the lowest possible power budget, designers face the challenge brought by the power and memory walls in the production of embedded platforms. The focus of the ERA project is to investigate and propose new methodologies in both tools and hardware design to break through these walls and help design next-generation embedded systems platforms. The proposed strategy is to utilize adaptive hardware to provide the highest possible performance with limited power budgets. The envisioned adaptive platform employs a structured design approach that allows integration of varying computing elements, networking elements, and memory elements. For computing elements, we will utilize a mixture of commercially available off-the-shelf processor cores, industry-owned IP cores, and application-specific/dedicated cores, and we will dynamically adapt their composition, organization, and even instruction-set architectures to provide the best possible performance/power trade-offs. Similarly, the choice of the most-suited network elements and topology and the adaptation of the hierarchy and organization of the memory elements can be determined at design-time or at run-time. Furthermore, the envisioned adaptive platform must be supported by and/or made visible to the application(s), run-time system, operating system, and compiler exploiting the synchronicities between software and hardware. We strongly believe that having the complete freedom to flexibly tune the hardware elements will allow for a much higher level of efficiency (e.g., riding the trade-off curve between performance and power) compared to the state of the art. Finally, an additional goal of the adaptive platform is to serve as a quick prototyping platform in embedded systems design.

Keywords: reconfigurable embedded processor,dynamic memory hierarchies,monitoring,adaptive platform,embedded os,adaptivity-aware compilers,reconfigurable on-chip network,power-aware embedded processing
Molecular and cellular mechanisms in phagocytosis of apoptotic cells (AC REMOVAL MECHANISM)

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: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proper elimination of unwanted or aberrant cells through apoptosis and subsequent phagocytosis plays a crucial role in metazoan development and tissue homeostasis. Inefficient or defective removal of apoptotic cells leads to inflammation and autoimmune diseases. Given that in vertebrates phagocytosis is a complex and highly redundant process, we are using the Drosophila model, which permits comprehensive in vivo studies and provides complement to medical and applied approaches in the field. We previously identified and characterized a novel phagocytic receptor, named Six Microns Under (Simu), which strongly binds to apoptotic cells and is required for their recognition and engulfment by glia in the nervous system and by macrophages elsewhere. However, the mode of SIMU’s action is, like of many other phagocytic receptors, still unknown. The goal of the proposed research is to elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the recognition of apoptotic cells by phagocytes and subsequent signaling for engulfment. We will further characterize SIMU’s function by finding its physical interaction partners, both its ligand on the apoptotic cell and its presumptive co-receptor on the phagocyte. Then we will focus on the mechanisms of their action and interaction. Based on two independent genetic screens we will test candidates with presumed or known function in phagocytosis in order to explore novel pathways in apoptotic cell clearance. By studying factors involved in different pathways we will address the redundancy issue in the phagocytosis process. Accomplishment of our research goal will shed light on the general mechanisms of receptor binding, clustering and signaling in phagocytosis, which will provide novel and important insight into a key biological process with potential translation into equivalent studies in mammalian systems and medical applications in the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases.

Keywords: cell biology
ELectric Vehicle communication to Infrastructure, Road services and Electricity supply (ELVIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Germany,France,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Belgium,Spain,Israel,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9241628.0
EU funding (EUR): 5192756.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

For E.V.s, the development of an interactive electric energy ICT & Service interface between the vehicle and its electricity infrastructure is of utmost importance, next to creating effective business models. The rationale of this project is to contribute significantly to neutralize the driver’s "range anxiety" and encourage the customers to embark the fully electric road transport. Therefore the objective of “ELVIRE” is to develop an on-board electric energy communication & service platform for realistic use-cases including the relevant external communication and services. For this purpose the following actions will be taken: • select representative use-cases according to realistic scenarios and business-models • identify & develop those off-board ICT & services needed to comply with the use cases • develop “Prototypes” for the on-board Communication and E-energy service unit • verify all integrated sub-systems on prototype level and demonstrate the proof of concept. Great emphasis is placed on the “openness of the Electricity-service platform” granting access to multiple players maintaining the customers’ choice. ELVIRE is structured into 5 work packages, with: • WP 1000 covering the project administration, legal aspects and dissemination and the inclusion of complementary RTD • WP 2000 defines relevant mission data for the use case in consideration of technical and commercial aspects • WP 3000 addresses the external E-Service provision and the necessary E-IC instruments • WP 4000 develops the e-communication device and the OEM-neutral universal on-board E-communication and service platform • WP 5000 conducts integration and usability tests and the overall system validation. ELVIRE will become crucial to future electric road transport by closing the gap between vehicle technology and the off-board E-ICT and service environment. ELVIRE will have strong impact by strengthening competitiveness, energy efficiency and reduce emissions and improve by promoting electrification.

Keywords: ict for clean and efficient mobility for further improving energy efficiency,on-board systems and co-operative infrastructure,electric vehicles in the grid
Fully-Converged Quintuple-Play Integrated Optical-Wireless Access Architectures (FIVER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,France,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Poland,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4477709.0
EU funding (EUR): 2968406.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

FIVER project proposes and develops a novel integrated access network architecture employing only OFDM signals for the provision of quintuple play services (Internet, phone/voice, HDTV, wireless -WiMAX, UWB and LTE femtocell- and home security/control). FIVER architecture is completely integrated: The optical access FTTH, the in-home optical distribution network and the final radio link become part of the access network. This permits a streamlined network architecture avoiding most of the conversion stages and proving cost, space and energy savings. FIVER is a fully OFDM based network. This permits cost effective, fully centralised network architecture where the transmission impairment (both optical and radio) compensation and network management is done in only at the Central Office. No further compensation, regeneration or format conversion is required along the network giving a streamlined network architecture capable of handling future services of interest. FIVER services are fully converged: Both baseband (Gigabit-Ethernet provision) and standard wireless (WiMAX, UWB and LTE) radio-over-fibre signals are transmitted in radio-over-fibre through the FTTH, the in-building optical infrastructure and also the final user radio link. The use of full-standard wireless signals for optical and radio transmission gives two advantages: Fully standard receiver equipment can be used by the customer, and no ad hoc detection, re modulation or frequency conversion is required. All the transmission compensation algorithms, electro optical subsystems and network management are developed by FIVER consortium. FIVER architecture is future-proof. The project demonstrates HDTV service provision in the 60 GHz radio band at the last stage. Other wireless services operation in other bands can be included in the FIVER network architecture as long as they are OFDM.-based. This is due to the powerful transmission impairment compensation algorithms developed in the project.

Keywords: ftth,optical-wireless intregration,quintuple-play networks,ofdm optical,wimax,uwb,lte femtocell,60 ghz radio
Genetic Mechanisms of Muscle Fibre Variation (GENETMUSCLEFIBREVAR)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-02
End date: 2013-05-01
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 87500.0
EU funding (EUR): 87500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A loss of muscle mass and strength with aging or disease leads to a compromised quality of life. Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms underlying muscle function. The present proposal will shed light on largely unknown mechanisms underlying the effects of genetic variation on important properties of muscle fibres (i.e., their number, size, type) which in turn contribute to muscle mass and contractility. A multi-pronged approach will be used to explore soleus and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle fiber properties in a variety of genetic contexts: in six inbred mouse strains, A/J, BALB/cByJ, C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, DBA/2J, PWD/PhJ (Specific Aim 1); in two congenic strains, Psl1.H3 and Psl1.E, and the C57BL/6J host that have been used to fine map the Skmw11 locus, which influences muscle weight, (Specific Aim 2); and in two segregating populations, F2 and F34, derived from the inbred strains (LG/J and SM/J) selected for differences in body weight (and which differ markedly in muscle weight) and that have been extensively genotyped (Specific Aim 3). The following outcomes are expected: Specific Aim 1 will identify strains contrasting in fibre properties. This information will help us select strains for mapping genes underlying the differences. Specific Aim 2 will explore the role of the Skmw11 locus on fibre properties and we may be able to map genes affecting fibre properties to the congenic regions. Specific Aim 3 will permit us to map and refine quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting muscle fibre properties in a population of mice derived from parents with large differences in muscle weight.

Keywords: skeletal muscle,soleus,edl,fibre type,mouse,inbred,cengenic,strain,quantitative trait locus,bioinformatics,health sciences
A photometric and spectral survey of young stars in nearby star-forming regions: towards a revised evolutionary sequence based on quantitative accretion/ejection diagnostics (PROTOSTARS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 30000.0
EU funding (EUR): 30000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research project proposes to obtain the first unbiased survey on a large flux-limited sample of young stellar objects (YSOs) in 6 different molecular clouds. This study makes use of a huge dataset, namely various photometric maps from 0.6 μm up to 850 μm (including data from the Spitzer and the Herschel Space Telescope), and spectra (between 0.6 and 2.4 μm) of several YSOs in these clouds. The immediate aim of this proposal is to catalogue all the YSOs in the selected star forming regions, getting quantitative information on their accretion and ejection activity. In particular, line luminosities and ratios will be obtained from spectra to measure the fraction of source luminosity due to accretion, and the mass accretion and ejection rates in the late YSOs (Class I, II and III). Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) will be constructed from the photometric data to classify the objects, and to estimate the accretion luminosity and the mass accretion rate for early YSOs (Class 0). Mass ejection rates will be inferred from the YSO outflows. The final goal is then to redefine the YSO evolutionary classification, traditionally based on the SED alone, by means of diagnostic emission lines and the mass accretion rates. This will also allow us to derive the YSO lifetime in the various stages. Additionally, the proposed survey will provide the largest available catalogue of SEDs and spectra from YSOs, which will be fundamental for the selection of promising targets to be observed by highly oversubscribed instrumentation, such as the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope.

Keywords: astronomy,astrophysics,star formation,protostars,spectroscopy: photometry
Laboratory study of in-cloud reactions of isoprene oxidation products with sulphate radical-anions by mass-spectrometric and kinetic analysis (ISOMASSKIN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims to explain the formation of several components of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), which constitutes a significant fraction of the fine aerosol in the atmosphere, and largely contributes to aerosol effects that influence climate, weather, air quality, human health and condition of the biosphere. The analytical and predictive modelling of this influence requires the detailed understanding of numerous chemical reactions that contribute to the formation and further transformation of SOA in the gaseous, heterogeneous and aqueous atmospheric systems. Models that contain all possible reactants and reactions are too large to be solved, hence have to be reduced based on a thorough understanding of the underlying chemistry and kinetics. By now, only a small fraction of the possible reactions has been explained, and roughly 20% of SOA has been identified. One of the most important precursors of SOA is isoprene – a dominant non-methane volatile organic compound emitted to the atmosphere mostly from biogenic sources. In the atmosphere, isoprene is oxidised to a vast variety of products. The proposed project focuses on the aqueous-phase reactions of isoprene oxidation products – methacrolein, methyl vinyl ketone and methacrylic acid – with sulphate radical-anions, which produce SOA relevant compounds, including organosulphates, and occur in cloud droplets. Sulphate radical-anions are reactive intermediates generated in cloud water during the autoxidation of sulphur dioxide or inorganic sulphites catalysed by transition metal ions. Products, rate constants and mechanisms of these reactions will be studied in laboratory experiments by advanced organic mass spectrometry, kinetic analysis and computer simulation. The expected results will extend the knowledge on the formation of recently discovered compounds, such as organosulphates, in cloud water and SOA particles, and can be used for description of multiphase and aerosol chemistry in atmospheric models.

Keywords: atmospheric chemistry,mass spectrometry,kinetics,aerosols,clouds,sulphate radical,isoprene,methacrolein,methyl vinyl ketone,methacroleic acid,organosulphates