Engineering Trustworthy Learning-enabled Autonomous Systems
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27 Nov. 2015

Current Projects

• FOCETA - H2020 project research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 956123, Oct. 2020 - Oct. 2023. FOCETA gathers prominent academic groups and leading industrial partners to develop foundations for continuous engineering of trusworthy learning-enabled autonomous systems. The target scientific breakthrough lies within the convergence of "data-driven" and "model-based" engineering where this convergence is further complicated by the need to apply verification and validation incrementally and avoid complete re-verification and re-validation efforts.
  
• Brain-IoT - This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement no 780089, Feb. 2018 - March 2021. BRAIN-IoT aims at establishing a framework and methodology that supports smart autonomous and cooperative behaviors of populations of heterogeneous IoT platforms that are also closely interacting with Cyber-Physical systems (CPS). BRAIN-IoT will employ highly dynamic federations of heterogeneous IoT platforms, mechanisms enforcing privacy and data ownership policies as well as open semantic models enabling interoperable operations and exchange of data and control features. Brain-IoT will also offer model-based tools easing the development of innovative, tightly integrated IoT and CPS solutions.
  
• CPS4EU - CPS4EU is a project funded from the H2020-ECSEL-2018-IA call – Grant Agreement number: 826276, June 2019 - June 2022 CPS4EU proposes to address technical issues and organizational issues in an integrated way. Hence, CPS4EU promotes a high level of sharing, so that an operational ecosystem, with adequate skills and expertise all along the value chain can enable, at the end of the project, the European industry to lead strategic markets based on CPS technologies. The ultimate objective of CPS4EU is to strengthen the CPS value chain by creating world class European SMEs and by providing CPS technologies that in turn will sustain the leadership of the large European groups in key economy sectors and, in this way will stimulate innovative products to support the massive digitization increasingly integrated into our everyday environment.
  Following above statement, ADE proposal is built around the following key aspects:
• ADE - This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 821988, Feb. 2019 - Feb. 2022. The overall objective of the Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) in Space Robotics Technologies is to deliver by 2023/2024 key technologies at a significant scale suitable for two major application domains: orbital and surface exploration. More specifically this 2016 SRC assumes as reference/target scenarios in-orbit servicing and planetary rover autonomous exploration.
  This project, ADE (Autonomous DEcision Making in very long traverses) is targeting the tenth operational Grant (OG10) of the 2018 call. The specific objective of ADE is then to deliver to combine the building blocks from previous PERASPERA projects (OG1 to OG4) in order to test them in a rover planetary application in which all these capabilities will be put in place. In order to achieve this challenging objective, the ADE team has been settled such to guarantee strong background both in robotics in general and operational autonomous space robotic missions, as well as state of the art expertise in each of the previous PERASPERA projects (from Og1-to Og4).
  

Past Projects

• ArrowHead - ARTEMIS AIPP, European, 2013-2017 Arrowhead is addressing efficiency and flexibility at the global scale by means of collaborative automation for five application verticals. That means production (manufacturing, process, energy), smart buildings and infrastructures, electro-mobility and virtual market of energy.
  
• CITADEL - H2020-DS-2015-1 Research and Innovation Framework Programme, 2016-2019. The project expects to achieve in its final phase the demonstration of the capabilities of the adaptive MILS technology in several industrial contexts and application scenarios, and lay the technical foundations for a certification framework for the use of adaptive MILS components and systems in critical infrastructure applications.
  
• Transatlantic CPS Summit CT-2014-1c, Coordination & Support Action, European, 2014-2016 Facilitating and promoting EU-US strategic research cooperation in the area of engineering Cyber-Physical Systems.
  
• CPSE Labs - H2020-CPS Engineering Labs Innovation Experiment, 2015-2016. Rigorous framework for developing and validating robotic applications. One objective of this project is to allow verification and validation of robotic systems at different design levels and thus reach a high degree of maturity at as low as possible cost. Early discovery of bugs can play a crucial part in reducing design costs for robotic application. Another objective is to provide rigorous software engineering techniques and tools for correct-­‐by-­‐construction development of robotic applications.
  
• ESRoCOS - H2020 project funded by European Commission within Strategic Research Cluster on Space Robotics Technologies. The goal of the ESROCOS project is to provide an open source framework, which can assist in the development of flight software for space robots. By providing an open standard, which can be used by research labs and industry, it is expected thXSat the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) can be made raised more efficiently, and vendor lock-in through proprietary environments can be reduced. Current state-of-the-art robotic frameworks are already addressing some of these key aspects, but mostly fail to deliver the degree of quality expected in the space environment. In the industrial robotics world, manufacturers of robots realise their RCOS by complementing commercial real-time operating systems, with proprietary libraries implementing the extra functions. While this serves the scope of selling robotic systems and applications, it does not provide for a standard for integration of systems and algorithms across multiple vendors. Other open-source frameworks do not have sufficient RAMS properties (e.g. ROS, Orocos, Rock, and Genom) for its use in space missions.
• ERGO - H2020 project funded by European Commission within Strategic Research Cluster on Space Robotics Technologies. The overall objective of the Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) in Space Robotics Technologies is to deliver by 2023/2024 key technologies at a significant scale suitable for two major application domains: orbital and surface exploration. More specifically this 2016 SRC assumes as reference/target scenarios in-orbit servicing and planetary rover autonomous exploration.
• SUCCESS (NEW) CHIST-ERA project-SecUre aCCESSibility for the internet of things. The core idea of SUCCESS is to use methods and tools with a proven track record to provide more transparency of security risks for people in given IoT scenarios. Our core scientific innovation will consist on the extension of well-known industry-strength methods in our priority areas. Our technological innovation will provide adequate tools to address risk assessment and adaptavity within IoT in healthcare environments and an open source repository to foster future reuse, extension and progress in this area. Our project will validate the scientific and technological innovation through pilots, one of which will be in collaboration with a hospital and will allow all stakeholders (e.g. physicians, hospital technicians, patients and relatives) to enjoy a safer system capable to appropriately handle highly sensitive information on vulnerable people while making security and privacy risks understandable and secure solutions accessible.
• MoSATT-CMP - ESA ITT 1-ITT 1-7646/13/NL/JK, 2014-2016. Model-based Schedulability Analysis Techniques and Tools for Cached and Multicore Processors.
  
• SARGON - ESA AO/1-8355/15/NL/SFe, 2015-2017. The objectives of SARGON are to:
  • produce an assessment of a number of the most-used Open-Source robot controller software (OSRCS) with respect to a number of space application requirements;
  • identify the most promising robot controller software (RCS);
  • implement and deliver a reference implementation of the RCS.
  
  
• ACOSE - BGLE, Invesstisment d’avenir<, 2011-2014.
  
• ACROSS - European IST, FP7, ARTEMIS JU, 2010-2013.
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• ASCENS - European IST, FP7-ICT-2009-5 project number : 257414 , 2010-2014.
  
• CERTAINTY - - European IST, FP7, 2011-2013
  
• CHAPI - FUI, 2010-2013.
  
• COMBEST - FP7 IST STREP 215543, 2008-2010.
  
• CyPhERS - European FP7, Support Action, 2013-2015.
  
• D-MILS - European STREP FP7, 2012-2015.
  
• ManycoreLabs - BGLE, Investissement d’avenir, 2012-2015.
  
• MARAE - FNRAE, 2008-2010.
  
• MIND Minalogic, 2008-2010.
  
• PRO3D - European IST, 2009-2012
  
• SMECY - European IST, FP7, ARTEMIS JU, 2010-2013.