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European Initiatives
FP7 & H2020 Projects
"ENABLE" Ecsel Project
ENABLE-S3 means "European Initiative to Enable Validation for Highly Automated Safe and Secure Systems". It is a H2020 Ecsel project.
ENABLE-S3 is industry-driven and therefore aims to foster the leading role of the European industry. This is also reflected in its use case driven approach. The main technical objectives are extracted from the use cases defined by the industrial partners, in order to validate the success of the developed methods and tools.
Recent scientific publications from the automotive domain predict that more than 100 Mio km of road driving is required for the thorough validation of a fully automated vehicle. Only if this extensive test is done, it is statistically proven that the automated vehicle is as safe as a manually driven car. Taking further into account the high number of vehicle variants and software versions, one can easily understand that new validation approaches are required to validate new Electronics, Components and Systems (ECS) for automated vehicles within a reasonable time period at reasonable costs. The same characteristic hold for other transportation domains such as aeronautics, maritime or rail.
The ENABLE-S3 project will provide European industry with leading-edge technologies that support the development of reliable, safe and secure functions for highly automated and/or autonomously operating systems by enabling the validation and verification at reduced time and costs.
Enables-S3 is a large European consortium, involving a French consortium leaded by Valeo, and including Thales, Renault and Inria. The project will start in March-April 2016 and will have a duration of 3 years.
Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7 & H2020
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Project title: Multi-Agent Coordination in Robotic Exploration and Reconnaissance Missions
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Abstract: The main objective of the project is to develop a distributed planning framework for efficient task-allocation planning in exploration and reconnaissance missions by a group of mobile robots operating in an unknown environment with considering communication constraints and uncertainty in localization of the individual team members. One main challenge is to decentralize the decision, in order to scaling up with large fleet of robots (existing solutions are centralized or depend on full communication).
Collaborations with Major European Organizations
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Robotics and Perception Group: University of Zurich (Switzerland)
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Subject: Vision and IMU data Fusion for 3D navigation in GPS denied environment.
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Subject: Embedded Perception & Autonomous Driving (visits, projects submissions, and book chapter in the new edition of the Handbook of Robotics).
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Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering: University of Thrace, Xanthi (GREECE)
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Subject: 3D coverage based on Stochastic Optimization algorithms