Category: Robotics

CompletedRobotics

ADACORSA

Provide technologies to render drones as a safe and efficient component of the mobility mix, with differentiated, safe and reliable capabilities in extended beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations.

Duration: 05/2020 – 05/2023  Funding: HORIZON 2020, ESCEL JU                                     

Partners: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG ,RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM, FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR, FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH, esc Aerospace GmbH, OSTBAYERISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULEAMBERG-WEIDEN, UNIVERSITAET DER BUNDESWEHR MUENCHEN, Syrphus GmbH, BAUHAUS LUFTFAHRT EV, SysGo AG, Aviontek GmbH, Human Factors Consult GmbH, NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NETHERLANDS BV, ALMENDE BV, ANYWI TECHNOLOGY BV, Innatera Nanosystems B.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT , ELFT, TECHNOLUTION BV, Celestia Technology Group B.V., STICHTING NATIONAAL LUCHT- EN , UIMTEVAARTLABORATORIUM, AVULAR BV, INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG, TTTECH , OMPUTERTECHNIK AG, FREQUENTIS AG, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ, Kompetenzzentrum – Das Virtuelle Fahrzeug, Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, UNIVERSITAET KLAGENFURT, CISC SEMICONDUCTOR GMBH, COMMISSARIAT A L’ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, Lund University, ERICSSON AB, Katam Technologies AB, INTERNET OF THINGS APPLICATIONS ANDMULTI LAYER DEVELOPMENT LTD, ALTUS LSA COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING SA, HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY, UAB METIS BALTIC, INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO, AIRHOLDING SA (EMBRAER), FORD OTOMOTIV SANAYI ANONIM SIRKETI TUSAS-TURK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII AS, TURKCELL TEKNOLOJI ARASTIRMA VE GELISTIRME ANONIM SIRKETI, TURKIYE BILIMSEL VE TEKNOLOJIK ARASTIRMA KURUMU, SMART, ROBONIK, INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES ITALIA SRL, CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LA NANOELETTRONICA, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA, NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR, CROSSCONTROL

ADACORSA

Project’s ambition is to provide European technology to render drones as a safe and efficient component of the mobility mix, with differentiated, safe and reliable capabilities in extended beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations. BVLOS demands levels of autonomy and collaboration that have hitherto only been seen in the autonomous vehicle market. It is expected that technologies developed for those markets can be exploited for drone application. Technology can, however, only enable the compliance of operations with the regulatory framework which must also be defined. Fortunately, that process is already in flow with U-Space, building and testing the operational and regulatory framework that enables this new dawn from a regulatory and compliance perspective. ADACORSA will inform these regulatory initiatives about technical capabilities and constraints, based on development and prototype experimentation by partners from both within and outside of today’s aerospace community.

PROJECT WEBSITE

Contribution

Almende will develop a distributed simulation framework in which drone components, systems and to some extend architectures can be tested. The framework shall be based on ROS and Gazebo and allow for in the loop testing of both software and hardware. Almende will create a simulated environment to test algorithms in a close-to-real-time simulation and multiple possibilities within this environment.

Results

The results of the project are relevant for DoBots, a Almende spin-off. DoBots is focused on software used to make machinery fully automated and synergetic with its surroundings. We expect that many of the software elements related to sensor data fusion, positioning and detect and avoid systems implementation, can be re-used for other applications and projects run by DoBots. 

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Need specific information regarding the project? Please contact our senior consultant for more information.

Jan Kraaijeveld

Senior consultant

+31 (0)10 404 9444

jan@almende.com

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Kevin Keijzer 17-11-2020 0
CompletedRobotics

REPLICATOR

Robotic Evolutionary Self-Programming and Self-Assembling Organisms

Duration: 3/2008 – 9/2013  Funding: FP7

Partners: UniversitÃĪt Stuttgart, Graz University, Karsruher Institut FÞr Technologie, Sheffield Hallam University, Scuola Superior Sant’Anna, Czech Technical University Prague, Fraunhofer, IMA, Ubisense

REPLICATOR

The Replicator project focuses on the development of an advanced robotic system, consisting of a super-large-scale swarm of small autonomous mobile micro-robots that are capable of self-assembling into large artificial organisms. These robotic organisms posses common energy and information buses as well as reliable legged, wheeled or climbing locomotion, based om modular sub-systems which can be autonomously reconfigured. Thanks to the heterogeneity of the elementary robots and their capability to share resources and communicate, the robotic organisms are able to achieve a large computational power, and rich close-and far-range sensing. The energy is autonomously harvested from external power sources.

The main goal of the project is to develop novel principles underlying these robotic organisms, such as self-configuration, self-adjustment, and self learning. The bio-inspired evolutionary approach and evolvable hardware structure adopted in this project enable the robotic organisms to emerge new functionalities, to develop their own cognitive and control structures and, finally, to work autonomously in uncertain situations without human supervision. Ultimately, these robotic organisms, which are extremely adaptive, robust, scalable and rich in sensing and actuating capabilities, will be used to build autonomous sensor networks, capable of self-spreading and self-maintaining in open-ended, even hazardous, environments.

PROJECT WEBSITE

Contribution

Almende was primarily responsible for the cognition of robotic organisms through sensor fusion, as well as creating the control schemes which enabled robotic organisms to exhibit self-organized control based on sensory inputs and their own operational settings, as well as testing and optimizing the aforementioned in the provided test settings.

Results

The project contributed to our robotics expertise, and was one of the first projects where we experimented with distributed control of robots to create artificial, self-organized 'organisms' that were able to operate with a limited sense of autonomy.

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Jan Kraaijeveld

Senior consultant

+31 (0)10 404 9444

jan@almende.com

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Kevin Keijzer 29-04-2020 0
CompletedIoTRobotics

COMP4DRONES

Framework of key enabling technologies for safe and autonomous drones’ applications

Duration: 9/2019 – 8/2022  Funding: ECSEL, H2020

Partners: Indra Sistemas SA, Austrian Institute of Technology, Forschung Burgenland, Weinbau Martin Moravitz, Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum, Brno University of Technology, University of West Bohemia, Honeywell, Andarta Robotics, Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), Siemens, Eurogiciel, École nationale supÃĐrieure de mÃĐcanique et d’aÃĐrotechnique, Abinsula, University of Bologna, Università degli Studi del Sannio di Benevento, Università degli Studi di Sassari, University of Aquila, Tekne, Topview, University of Latvia – Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Latvia – Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Anywi Technology, Stichting IMEC Nederland, Thales Nederland, Skyability, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, ISEP – Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Acciona Construction, Acorde Technologies, Hemav Technology, HI Iberia, Ikerlan, Commissariat à l’ÃĐnergie atomique et aux ÃĐnergies alternatives, University of Cantabria, Aitek, SmartMotion, Atechsys Engineering, Airobot, Ubimet, Technische Universiteit Delft, DEMCON unmanned systems, Ud’Anet, Sherpa Engineering, Aitronik, LMT – Latvijas Mobilais Telefons, RO Technology, Modis Consulting, Infineon Technologies Austria, Masarykova University, Total, Altran Technologies

COMP4DRONES

Drones can perform air operations that manned aircrafts struggle with, and their use brings significant economic savings and environmental benefits while reducing the risk to human life. However, drone-based service and product innovation, as driven by increased levels of connectivity and automation, is limited by the growing dependence on poorly interoperable proprietary technologies and the risks posed to people, to other vehicles and to property. COMP4DRONES aims to create a holistically designed ecosystem ranging from application to electronic components, realized as a tightly integrated multi-vendor and compositional drone embedded architecture solution and a tool chain complementing the compositional architecture principles.

The ecosystem aims at supporting (1) efficient customization and incremental assurance of drone embedded platforms, (2) safe autonomous decision making concerning individual or cooperative missions, (3) trustworthy drone-to-drone and drone-to ground communications even in presence of malicious attackers and under the intrinsic platform constraints, and (4) agile and cost-effective compositional design and assurance of drone modules and systems. COMP4DRONES will also build an open sustainable ecosystem around public, royalty-free and goal-driven software platform standards that will ease the development of new drone functionalities for multiple application domains. Lead applications driving ecosystem development and benchmarking on the fields of transport, inspection, logistic, precision agriculture, parcel delivery.

PROJECT WEBSITE

Contribution

Almende will develop software that performs sensor fusion, and creates a multi-agent framework for safe path planning, as well as a real-time interference engine for path exploration. Finally, Almende will develop a visual analytics module designed for ground-based mission control.

Results

The results of the project are highly relevant for DoBots, a spin-off venture from Almende that focuses on autonomous robotic devices, and we expect that many of the software elements, specifically related to sensor fusion and agent-based planning, can be re-used for other applications and projects run by DoBots.

More info?

Need specific information regarding the project? Please contact our senior consultant for more information.

Jan Kraaijeveld

Senior consultant

+31 (0)10 404 9444

jan@almende.com

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Kevin Keijzer 29-04-2020 0