STAMS – Long Term Stability Assessment and Monitoring of Flooded Shafts

STAMS
Long Term Stability Assessment and Monitoring of Flooded Shafts

Periodo: 2015-2017

The main objective of the EU project STAMS is to develop robotic inspection technologies to monitor and assess the stability of flooded shafts over 2 km deep during long periods of time. This objective will be achieved taking periodic and continuous measurements.

For the continuous measures, a sensor network will be installed along the shaft, and a robot for fixing the sensors will be developed. All the changes and measures will be analyzed in real time, and in situ with a software control

COGWATCH
Cognitive Rehabilitation of Apraxia and Action Disorganisation Syndrome

Periodo: 2011-2015

Neurological patients due to stroke may suffer from disrupted action due to cognitive deficits which prevent them from maintaining independent lives. CogWatch will focus on neurological patients with symptoms of Apraxia and Action Disorganisation Syndrome (AADS) who, while maintaining their motor capabilities, commit cognitive errors during every-day goal-oriented tasks which premorbidly they used to perform automatically. Most common rehabilitation ICT systems are focused on treating physiological symptoms of stroke, such as hemiparesis and are not appropriate for rehabilitation of cognitive impairments. Moreover,

HEPHESTOS
Hard Material Small-Batch Industrial Machining Robot

Periodo: 2012-2015

Hard materials machining has recently attracted great attentions from the European automotive, the aerospace and the biomedical industries. However, theexisting technology failed to cope efficiently with small-batch production of large and complex-shaped products. The project Hephestos shall give rise to a cost-efficient solution in hard materials machining for this small-batch production of highly customized products through the application of industrial robots. Hephestos will develop a paradigm to provide standard industrial robots with break-through techniques in production planning, programming and real-time control system. Human experience

TIRAMISU
Toolbox implementation for removal of anti-personnel mines, submunitions and UXO

Periodo: 2012-2016

Anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) present an important obstacle to the transition from crisis to peace for war-affected countries. They threaten post-conflict development and welfare. The objective of the TIRAMISU project is to provide the Mine Action community with a toolbox to assist in addressing the many issues related to Humanitarian Demining, thus promoting peace, national and regional security, conflict prevention, social and economic rehabilitation and post-conflict reconstruction. The tools in development are divided into three main categories:

1)    Demining

RHEA
Robots fleets for highly effective crop management in Mediterranean agriculture

Periodo: 2010-2014

RHEA is focused on the design, development, and testing of a new generation of automatic and robotic systems for both chemical and physical –mechanical and thermal– effective weed management focused on both agriculture and forestry, and covering a large variety of European products including agriculture wide row crops (processing tomato, maize, strawberry, sunflower and cotton), close row crops (winter wheat and winter barley) and forestry woody perennials (walnut trees, almond trees, olive groves and multipurpose open woodland). RHEA aims at

CROPS
Intelligent sensing and manipulation for sustainable production and harvesting of high value crops, clever robots for crops

Periodo: 2010-2014

CROPS has developed scientific know-how for a highly configurable, modular and clever carrier platform that includes modular parallel manipulators and intelligent tools (sensors, algorithms, sprayers, grippers) that can be easily installed onto the carrier and are capable of adapting to new tasks and conditions. Several technological demonstrators have been developed for high value crops like greenhouse vegetables, fruits in orchards, and grapes for premium wines. The CROPS robotic platform is capable of site-specific

ROBOSPECT
Robotic system with intelligent vision and control for tunnel structural inspection and evaluation

Periodo: 2013-2016

ROBOSPECT, driven by the tunnel inspection industry, adapts and integrates recent research results in intelligent control in robotics, computer vision tailored with semisupervised and active continuous learning and sensing, in an innovative, integrated, robotic system that automatically scans the intrados for potential defects on the surface and detects and measures radial deformation in the cross-section, distance between parallel cracks, cracks and open joints that impact tunnel stability, with mm accuracies. This permits, in one pass, both the

STAMAS

Smart technology for artificial muscle applications in space

Periodo: 2013-2016

The STAMAS consortium has identified the need for developing a new type of astronauts’ suit, a “smart-suit”. The project will utilise existing experience in sma/eap, and built upon this knowledge to develop an effective solution for usage in space.

MONARCH
Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals

Periodo: 2013-2016

The MONARCH project focus is on social robotics using networked heterogeneous robots and sensors to interact with children, staff, and visitors, engaging in edutainment activities in the pediatric infirmary at the portuguese oncology institute at lisbon (IPOL), portugal. Besides being a realistic scenario, the ethical regulations enforced by IPOL for the pediatric ward introduce important constraints on the use of some technologies, representing a challenging research opportunity. Moreover, it is an environment where socially admissible interactions can be well framed and implemented within current