Dextrous Assembler Robot Working with embodied INtelligence

Provider

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Programme

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Call for proposals

FP7-ICT-2009-6

Main participants

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Contest type

RP - Co-financing of EC programme

Contract ID

MSMT-1839/2013-310

Project name in Czech

Dextrous Assembler Robot Working with embodied INtelligence

Annotation in Czech

Targeting both assembly and service industry the DARWIN project aims to develop an acting, learning and reasoning assembler robot that will ultimately be capable of assembling complex objects from its constituent parts. First steps will also be taken toexplore the general reparation problem (seen as a sequence of assembly-disassembly actions). Functionally the robotic artefact will operate in three modes: a) slave, where the necessary sequence of operations will be provided by a CAD-CAM system; b) semi-autonomous, where the sequence will be provided either through demonstration by a teacher performing the same task or by describing it in a higher level language, suitable for a human operator. In this mode the systems perception will provide closure ofthe perception-action loop, so eliminating the need for detailed spatial information as in (a); c) fully autonomous mode, where an executive process will generate the necessary sequence by reasoning and mental simulation of consequences of actions on objects. Effort will be put to keep the resulting cognitive architecture domain agnostic. This directly implies that the robot should be able to effectively generalize and transfer previously gained knowledge to new tasks (or performing the same task in aslightly modified world). The objects in its world will not be known apriori. Rather, their knowledge will be built by interacting with them. Thus categorization, object affordances, accurate manipulation and discovery of the naive physics will be acquired gradually by the robot. In addition, it will also learn the solution steps for an assembly problem by observing snapshots of the assembled object during various construction phases. The reasoning system will exploit all these experiences in order to allow the robot to go beyond experience when confronted with novel situations. A series of demonstrators of increasing complexity will be developed in correlation with the maturation of the cognitive architecture.

R&D category

AP - Applied research

CEP classification - main branch

JD - Use of computers, robotics and its application

CEP - secondary branch

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CEP - another secondary branch

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OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)

20204 - Robotics and automatic control<br>20205 - Automation and control systems

Provider evaluation

U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)

Project results evaluation

Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.

Realization period - beginning

Feb 1, 2011

Realization period - end

Dec 31, 2014

Project status

U - Finished project

Latest support payment

Mar 20, 2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data delivery code

CEP15-MSM-7E-U/01:1

Data delivery date

Jul 2, 2015

Total approved costs

3,336 thou. CZK

Public financial support

3,336 thou. CZK

Other public sources

0 thou. CZK

Non public and foreign sources

0 thou. CZK