Consortium

KTH, Sweden

Description: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH, provides one-third of Sweden's capacity for engineering studies and technical research at post-secondary level. KTH conducts top-notch education and research of a broad spectrum, from natural science to all branches of technology. KTH will be involved in the project through both the Department of Automatic Control (AC) and the The Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS), which have been participating in several EU and national projects.

Description: The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. According to preliminary figures, its roughly 281,000 associates generated sales of 46.4 billion euros in 2013. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Automotive Technology, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its more than 360 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 50 countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. In 2013, Bosch applied for some 5,000 patents worldwide. The Bosch Groups products and services are designed to fascinate, and to improve the quality of life by providing solutions which are both innovative and beneficial. In this way, the company offers technology worldwide that is “Invented for life”. The department CR/AEY “Cognitive Systems” of the Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering is engaged with future software intensive systems. A research focus lies on socially compliant and intelligent autonomous systems building on year- long expertise in robotics, machine learning, and user technologies.

Description: National Technical University of Athens, NTUA, the oldest & largest engineering institution in Greece, participates with the Control System Lab (CSL) of the Mech. Eng. Dept. NTUA. The NTUA/Control Systems Laboratory is internationally recognized for R & D in robotics and automation technologies, with international contacts in industry, government and the EU. It is a team of 3 faculty and 6 permanent engineers with prior experience in leading EU, US & Canada based organizations and interests in robotics, mechatronics & automation technologies. More info can be found here. Its expertise in design, modeling and control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems obtained mainly by previous research projects, will greatly contribute to the smooth handling of the project.

Description: PAL Robotics provides robotic products and services which can become an integral part people's daily life, as well as research platforms as base for further innovation. It builds robot parts, personalised robot platforms, and robots for different service industries. The company also offers a range of robotic components - including actuation modules, robotic arms and mobile bases along with software i.e. navigation and manipulation software. Currently PAL Robotics has more than 30 employees specialised in different disciplines such as mechanical and electronic design, software HRI, movement control, vision, navigation among others. PAL Robotics’ short-term goals are to introduce global best practices and solutions that help our customers adapt and succeed in today's ever changing business environment, as well as promote sustainable growth through partnerships with companies that work in varied niche markets.

Description: The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), established in 1983, is one of the largest research centres in Greece. The Institute of Computer Science ICS-FORTH, one of the seven institutes of FORTH, has a long history and recognized tradition, since its establishment in 1983, in conducting basic and applied research, developing applications and products, providing services, and playing a leading role in Greece and internationally, in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies. FORTH-ICS participates in Co4Robots with its Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory (CVRL). Established in 1985, the group's activities emphasize research and development in the areas of computer vision and autonomous mobile robots with intelligent behaviour. Efforts at CVRL are balanced between basic and applied research, resulting in the development of novel, robust vision and robotic systems for multiple application domains. More specifically, the research efforts are directed towards visual perception of static and dynamic characteristics of the 3-D world (depth, shape, color, motion), object tracking, robot navigation and behaviour modelling.

Description: The University of Gothenburg (UGOT) has approximately 37,000 students and 5,900 employees, which make it the fourth largest in Sweden and one of the most popular universities in the Nordic countries. UGOT is unusually comprehensive, with cutting-edge research in a number of dynamic research areas. Cooperation with other higher-education institutions, as well as society at large, and trade and industry has been consistently strengthened and intensified over recent years, as have international contacts and collaborative projects with partners abroad. UGOT will be represented by the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department, which is a joint department fully shared between UGOT and Chalmers University of Technology the other main university in the city of Gothenburg and one of the top technical schools in Europe. The division of Software Engineering has a broad expertise in a wide array of subjects related to software development, from software engineering to security research, from empirical techniques to formal modeling and verification; and have a consolidated experience of collaboration with companies in Sweden and abroad.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731869.