Section: Other Grants and Activities

European actions

European Project: Roboswarm

• Title: Robot Swarms

• Proposal/contract no: 045255

• Tallinna Tehnikaulikool- Estonie, ELIKO Tehnoloogia Arenduskeskus- Estonie, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique- UR Rennes, TEKNILLINEN KORKEAKOULU- Finlande, OULUN YLIOPISTO- Finlande, FUNDACION FATRONIK- Espagne, KTH - Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan Royal Institute of Technology- Sweden, IDMIND-ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS, LDA -Portugal, Universita degli Studi di Genova -Italie

• Starting: November 2006, ending: April 2009

Roboswarm is an EU project that started in November 2006 in which ACES is a participant. The goal of the project is to develop an open knowledge environment for self-configurable, low-cost and robust robot swarms usable in everyday applications. Advances in the state-of-the art of networked robotics are proposed through introduction of a local and global knowledge base for ad hoc communication within a low-cost swarm of autonomous robots operating in the surrounding smart IT infrastructure. The ACES group was invited into this consortium due to its experience with ad hoc (ambient) network environments.

Smartmuseum

• Title: Smartmuseum

• Partners: Competence Centre of Electronics-, Info- and Communication Technologies, ELIKO (Estonia), Helsinki University of Technology TKK (Finland) Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan KTH (Sweden), Webgate JSC, (Bulgaria), Heritage Malta, (Malta), Institute and Museum of the History of Science, (Italy), Apprise, (Estonia).

• Starting: end of 2007; ending: December 2010

The general objective of the SMARTMUSEUM project is developing solution and IT services for user interest dependent (profiled) access to digitalized cultural information that is relevant in particular physical location. The activities of the project are addressing personalised approach to cultural exploration, including cultural tourism. The future smart museum IT infrastructure and services, which are capable of increasing bidirectional interaction between multilingual European citizens and cultural heritage objects taking full benefit of the multi source digitalized cultural information. By doing this, priorities are set on: Improving structured and user competence dependent access to the vast repository of cultural heritage, Improving the meaning and individual experience people receive from cultural and scientific resources, Bringing personalized cultural experience closer to non-expert community, Making real reuse of experiences related with cultural heritage access for variety of interest groups.

NoE Resist

• Title: Resilence and Survability for IST

• Head: LAAS

• Starting: beginning of 2006; ending: March 2009

The NoE ReSIST (Resilence and Survability for IST) will focus on the following four objectives in addressing the scalability of dependability and security via resilience:

• Integration of teams of researchers so that the fundamental topics concerning scalably resilient ubiquitous systems are addressed by a critical mass of co-operative, multi-disciplinary research.

• Identification, in an international context, of the key research directions induced on the supporting ubiquitous systems by the requirement for trust and confidence in AmI.

• Production of significant research results that pave the way for scalably resilient ubiquitous systems.

• Promotion and propagation of a resilience culture in university curricula and in engineering best practices.

Michel Banâtre is the scientific leader of the Work Package 2, which is the "more research oriented" work package of the RESIST NoE.