Projects
Projects – Khalifa University – Principal Investigator/Coordinator
European International Projects – Coordinator
European International Projects – As Principal Investigator from UC team
National Projects – Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator of Cooperation and Research Exchange Projects
Researcher Member for the Research and Development Projects
Projects – Khalifa University – Principal Investigator/Coordinator
| 1 | Caps-Sim: Software Packages Development for Active Endoscopic Capsules (EX2018-038): Duration: 1st Jan. 2019 – 31st Dec. 2020, Sponsor ADEK Award – 292,060 AED |
| 2 | Automated Nutplate Installation in Aerospace Manufacturing, PI: Prof. Jorge Dias, Co-PIs: Prof. Cesare Stefanini, Dr. Dongming Gan. 4 Million AED. 1/1/2016 – 31/12/2017, ARIC – Aerospace Research and Innovation Center, Khalifa University. |
| 3 | A Semi-Autonomous Mobile Robotic C4ISR System for Urban Search and Rescue. PI: Dr. Hassan Obaid Al-Muhairi. Co-PI: Prof. Jorge Dias. Co-PI: Prof. Lakmal Seneviratne. Investigators: Dr. Tarek Taha, Hend Al-Tair, Reem Al Ashour. 1600K AED, 1/1/2016 – 31/12/2017, ICT -Research Fund. |
| 4 | Towards a computer-aided diagnostic system for early detection of prostate cancer using diffusion wieghted magnetic resonance imaging, PI Naoufel Werghi, Co-PI Jorge Dias, 300 K AED, 1/1/2017 – 31/12/2018, Al Jalila Foundation. |
European International Projects – Coordinator
| 3 | Project Name: Bio-inspired Technologies for a Sustainable Marine Ecosystem Ecology, Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, multi agent systems, Intelligent robotics, cybernetics, Sensor networks, embedded systems, hardware platforms, Biomimetics. |
| Ref.: 824043 Project Acronym: ECOBOTICS.SEA – Project Number: 824043 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 | |
| Budget: € 404 800 | |
| Summary: ECOBOTICS.SEA is a future-oriented 4-year research project with a research-driven human-resources training network in its center. ECOBOTICS.SEA focuses on the research of underwater robotics and biomimetics concepts and technology, targeting problems and needs in the real world that are related to the study of biospheres, species and ecosystems and their preservation. 8 Early-Stage Research Projects (ESRP) compose the research plan. The research to be carried out in these 8 ESRP is organized into 5 scientific work packages. The core of the research activities is constituted by 88 months of secondments within the partner network which are essential for ensuring the required knowledge and know-how transfer between the partners. The partner network is composed by 3 universities and R&D institutes and 3 companies located in European member states, plus 1 R&D in Third Countries. The consortium is highly interdisciplinary, aggregating excellence from various domains, including robotics,biomimetics for water/underwater systems, automation, biology, ecosystem preservation, entrepreneurship and anthropology applied to species preservation. Workshops, summer schools and international conferences serve as complementary measures, not only for further stimulating the exchange of knowledge and providing training, namely to the ESRs, but also for achieving the 4 scientific objectives as specified in the proposal. ECOBOTICS.SEA also incorporates a detailed and well defined career and risk management and training towards application-oriented R&D. Finally, the project is planned to establish an open community that will grow over time and enlarge its impact during and beyond the period of this project, resulting in a lasting, truly international R&D and business network beyond the project’s lifetime. | |
| Web Page: https://ecobotics.isr.uc.pt/ | |
| Duration: 48 months | |
| Starting Date: 01-01-2019 Ending Date: 31-12-2022 | |
| Partners: INSTITUTO DE SISTEMAS E ROBOTICA, UC (Coordinator) INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO IST (Portugal 1) FOBOS SOLUTIONS SL FOBOS (Spain 1) EVOLOGICS GMBH EVOLOGICS GMBH (Germany 1) TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL TUT (Estonia 1) TRIDIVISIONS, LDA Tridivisions (Portugal 1) | |
| Sponsors: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 |
| 2 | Project Name: GrowMeUp |
| Ref.: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme – Societal Challenge 1 (DG CONNECT/H) under grant agreement No 643647 | |
| Budget: € 3.415.930 | |
| Summary: GrowMeUp main aim is to increase the years of independent and active living, and the quality of life of older persons (age of 65+) with light physical or mental health problems who live alone at home and can find pleasure and relief in getting support or stimulation to carry out their daily activities over the ageing process. GrowMeUp will provide an affordable service robotic system able to learn the older persons needs and habits over time and enhance (‘grow up’/scale up) its functionality to compensate for the elder’s degradation of abilities, to support, encourage and engage the older persons to stay longer active, independent and socially involved, in carrying out their daily life at home. State of the art cloud computing technologies and machine learning mechanisms will be used, enabling the GrowMeUp robot to extend and increase its knowledge continuously over time. Robots will share and distribute their knowledge through the cloud, so that other “connected” robots can learn from each other’s experience, increasing thus their functionality/competencies and simultaneously reduce learning effort. Implicit daily activities support will be provided in a human like way characterized by behaviour and emotional understanding, intelligent dialoguing and personalized services provision. GrowMeUp will be introduced early enough to the elder person, creating thus a positive long-term relationship between the elder and the robot, considering persons as active collaborators with whom the robot can interact, so as to increase its knowledge about their personalized needs. Furthermore, the robot will be connected to a virtual care network that will provide for continuous care, but also motivation and education to the older persons of how to best use the platform. A group of relevant stakeholders will use the system over a nine month pilot period. The goal is to achieve global leadership in advanced solutions supporting active and healthy ageing. | |
| Web Page: http://www.growmeup.eu/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: 01-02-2015 Ending Date: 31-01-2018 | |
| Partners: University of Coimbra (coordinator); University of Cyprus; University of Geneva; Probayes SA; PAL Robotics SA.; Citard Lda; Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra; Zuyderland; | |
| Sponsors: H2020-PHC-2014-single-stage |
| 1 | Project Name: Social Robot |
| Project funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme FP7, by People Programme, Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP), under grant agreement 285870. | |
| Budget: € 1.039.198,00 | |
| Summary: The main goal of the proposed project is to provide an answer to the demographic change challenge, through knowledge transfer and the creation of strategic synergies between the project’s participating academia and industry regarding the development of an integrated Social Robotics system (SocialRobot) for “Ageing Well”. The work focuses on bringing together the Robotic and Computer Science fields by integrating state of the art Robotic and Virtual Social Care Communities technologies and services to provide solutions to key issues of relevance for improved independent living and quality of life of elderly people and efficiency of care. The SocialRobot development will be based on a “human centred approach” in which the elderly individual needs and requirements are met. The project will give the opportunity to participating SMEs with excellent credit in their domain and peripheral European regions, to reach excellence and compete with innovative products in the elderly care market, at European and International level. The major challenges to be addressed in the project include the adaptation of state of the art robotic mobile platforms and their integration with a virtual collaborative social network to provide: Detection of individual needs and requirements related to ageing (e.g. physical mobility limitations or/and cognitive decline), and provision of support through timely involvement of care teams, consisting of different groups of people (family members, neighbours, friends) that collaborate dynamically and virtually; means independently of time and their physical locations; behaviour analysis to adapt social relationships and contexts of the elderly people as they age; Navigate indoors and unstructured environments and provide affective and empathetic user-robotic interaction, taking into account the capabilities of and acceptance by elderly users. | |
| Web Page: http://mrl.isr.uc.pt/projects/socialrobot/. Duration: 48 months Web Page: http://www.grupoisis.uma.es/visor/ Duration: 12 months | |
| Starting Date: September 2005 Ending Date: September 2006 | |
| Partners: Ingeniería de Sistemas Integrados – Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica Universidad de Málaga (Spain) Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: EUropean RObotics research Network – EURON |
European International Projects – As Principal Investigator from UC team
| 10 | Project Name: LIFEBOTS Exchange – creating a new reality of care and welfare through the inclusion of socialrobots. Cognitive psychology, learning, cognition, Intelligent robotics, cybernetics, Healthservices, health care research, Cognitive modelling, cognitive engineering, cognitivesciences. Social robots, health and care, home care, Socially-Aware Navigation; DialogueManagement; Distributed Cognitive Robotics; domestication of social robots |
| Ref.: 824047 Project Acronym: LIFEBOTS Exchange – Project Number: 824047 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 | |
| Budget: € 740 600 | |
| Summary: The project aims enhancing cross-sector, international and interdisciplinary collaboration in the area of social roboticstechnology for care. Are robots ready for society, and is society ready for robots? How can social robots can beincluded in people’s lives? Robots are increasingly being used in the healthcare sector as a potential solution to thecurrent and future challenges faced by the healthcare sector. Due to the global population ageing, by 2035 the worldis projected to lack 12.9 million healthcare professionals (WHO: 2013). Social robots may benefit the quality life andwellbeing of patients, their families and healthcare professionals. Evidence and much of the needed knowledge arestill lacking. Strong interdisciplinarity and cross-sectorial research and innovation activity is needed. A knowledge hubfor social robotics will be created with a threefold aim: (1) To enhance the competencies of involved staff members,refining and focusing their skills; (2) To build a tri-sectoral network involving academia, industry and users oftechnology, and (3) to create an enduring network that will outlive the grant funding. The core of the project includessome of the strongest actors in international research, SMEs and user organisations, focusing on three activity lines:technological, sociological, care-and-welfare. To be able to understand the impact of introducing social robots incare, the three areas that will be affected by this technical evolution will be researched: (1) care provided as medicalpractice; this is the care given to patients in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centres and other medical facilities. (2)residential care – this area refers to all care institutions accepting patient/clients as residents: elderly homes, nursinghomes, special needs schools for children or adults, etc. (3) family care, investigating how social robots can beimplemented in the home, and as a part of domestic life. | |
| Web Page: https://lifebots.eu/ | |
| Duration: 48 months | |
| Starting Date: 01-04-2019 Ending Date: 31-03-2023 | |
| Partners: NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU (Coordinator) (Norway) INSTITUTO DE SISTEMAS E ROBOTICA, ISR-UC (Portugal) INSTITUTO PEDRO NUNES, IPN (Portugal) COMPEXIN SA (Romania) CARITAS DIOCESANA DE COIMBRA (Portugal) IDMIND – ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS LDA (Portugal) TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V KOSICIACH (Slovakia) UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE (Switzerland) CO-ROBOTICS SRL (Italy) ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (Greece) UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUSET NORD-NORGE HF (Norway) EUROPEAN HEALTH TELEMATICS ASSOCIATION (Belgium) | |
| Sponsors: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 |
| 9 | Project Name: BAMBI- Bottom-up Approaches to Machines dedicated to Bayesian Inference |
| The BAMBI project is a EU collaborative FET Project ( FP7-ICT-2013-C, project number 618024) | |
| Budget: € 2.520.176,00 | |
| Summary: We propose a theory and a hardware implementation of probabilistic computation inspired by biochemical cell signalling. We will study probabilistic computation following three axes: algebra, biology, and hardware. In each case, we will develop a bottom-up hierarchical approach starting from the elementary components, and study how to combine them to build more complex systems. We propose Bayesian gates operating on probability distributions on binary variables as the building blocks of our probabilistic algebra. These Bayesian gates can be seen as a generalisation of logical operators in Boolean algebra. We propose to interpret elementary cell signalling pathways as biological implementation of these probabilistic gates. In turn, the key features of biochemical processes give new insights for innovative probabilistic hardware implementation. We propose to associate conventional electronics and novel stochastic nano-devices to build the required hardware elements. Combining them will lead to new artificial information processing systems, which could, in the future, outperform classical computers in tasks involving a direct interaction with the physical world. For these purposes, the BAMBI project associates research in Bayesian probability theory, molecular biology, nanophysics, computer science and electronics. | |
| Web Page: http://mrl.isr.uc.pt/projects/bambi/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: 01-01-2014 Ending Date: 31-01-2018 | |
| Partners: CdF, ISIR – UPMC; LIG; CNRS/Thales : UMphi; IEF; ISR-UC; ULG; HUJI; PROBAYES. | |
| Sponsors: FET Project – FP7-ICT-2013-C |
| 8 | Project Name: (Co-LIVING) Virtual Collaborative Social Living Community for Elderly |
| Ref.: AAL/0011/2009 Collaborative project funded by the European Commission within the Programme Ambient Assistive Living (AAL). | |
| Budget: € 182.212,00 | |
| Summary: The main goal of the proposed project is the development of an ICT-based Virtual Collaborative Social Living Community for Elderly (Co-LIVING) people, aiming to stimulate and prolong their independent and active living in an outward environment through an advancement in elderly people social interaction, contributing thus positively to their wellbeing. Co-LIVING is based on an innovative Social Community network (SoCo-net), integrating different mobile wireless ICT based services addressing the elderly social interaction context categories of Care and Wellness, Guidance and Mobility monitoring. The aim of choosing the specific target group is to prevent, or reduce the risk, that these people are spending most of their time at home as they get older for a variety of accumulated (physical, psychological, psycho-social and cultural) reasons. Two well selected use cases, where elderly people can live with the greatest possible independence and activity are considered in Co-LIVING: a Living Village and the (physical) neighborhood of their home environment in a local community. Two pilots, in the Netherlands and Norway, representing the two different use cases, will be carried out in which the Co-LIVING solution will be assessed and validated by considering its social, economical and psychological dimensions. | |
| Web Page: http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/co-living/ | |
| Duration: 24 months | |
| Starting Date: October 2011 Ending Date: October 2013 | |
| Partners: Orbis Medical & Care Group ORBIS Royal Philips Electronics SINTEF University of Cyprus Instituto Pedro Nunes Inova+, S.A Andago (SME). Citard (SME). Municipality of Trondheim. | |
| Sponsors: Seventh Framework Programme – People Program, European Commission |
| 7 | Project Name: Handle – Developmental Pathway towards Autonomy and Dexterity in Robot In-Hand Manipulation |
| Ref.: 231640-7th Framework Programme – Priority 2 – Information Society Technologies | |
| Budget: € 621.000 | |
| Summary: The HANDLE project aims at understanding how humans perform the manipulation of objects in order to replicate grasping and skilled in-hand movements with an anthropomorphic artificial hand, and thereby move robot grippers from current best practice towards more autonomous, natural and effective articulated hands. This project will focus on technological developments and, in addition, research fundamental multidisciplinary research aspects in order to endow the proposed robotic hand with advanced perception capabilities, high level feedback control and elements of intelligence that allow recognition of objects and context, reasoning about actions and a high degree of recovery from failure during the execution of dexterous tasks. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/handle/ | |
| Duration: 48 months | |
| Starting Date: 02-02-2009 Ending Date: 01-02-2013 | |
| Partners: University Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris, FR Shadow Robot Company LTD, UK Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SP Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra – Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, PT King’s College of London, UK Oerebro University, SW Universitaet Hamburg, GER Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, FR Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, PT | |
| Sponsors: Seventh Framework Programme – European Commission |
| 6 | Project Name: PROMETHEUS- Prediction and interpretation of human behaviour based on probabilistic structures and heterogeneous sensors |
| Ref.:Seventh Framework Programme Theme ICT-1.2.1-GA:214901 | |
| Budget: € 285.960 | |
| Summary: The project intends to establish a link between fundamental sensing tasks and automated cognition processes that concern the understanding a short-term prediction of human behaviour as well as complex human interaction. The analysis of human behaviour is unrestricted environments, including localization and tracking of multiple people and recognition of their activities, currently constitutes a topic of intensive research in the signal processing and computer vision communities. This research is driven by different important applications, including unattended surveillance and intelligent space monitoring. The overall goal of the project is the development of principled methods to link fundamental sensing tasks using multiple modalities, and automated cognition regarding the understanding of human behaviour in complex indoor environments, at both individual and collective levels. Given the two above principles, the consortium will conduct research on three core scientific and technological objectives: 1) Sensor modeling and information fusion from multiple, heterogeneous perceptual modalities 2) Modeling, localization, and tracking of multiple people 3) Modeling, recognition, and short-term prediction of continuous complex human behavior | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/projects/prometheus | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: August 2008 Ending Date: August 2011 | |
| Partners: Swedish Defence Research Agency – FOI – Sweden ProBayes SAS – France, Speech & Language Technology group, University of Patras – Greece MARAC Electronics, S.A – Greece Technische Universitaet Muenchen – Germany Institute for Human-Machine Communications – Germany Technical Educational Institute of Crete – Greece Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | |
| Sponsors: Seventh Framework Programme – European Commission |
| 5 | Project Name: IRPS – Intelligent Robotic Porter System |
| Ref.:FP6-IST-045048 | |
| Budget: € 415.000 | |
| Summary: The purpose of the project is to provide mobile robotics platforms with advanced mapping and navigation systems based on a very accurate positioning and 3D measurement technology. The 3D measurement technology, named LIMS (LIDAR Imaging and Measurement System) is based on an innovative concept of real time measurement of position in presence of sparse regular objects. The measurement technology principles based on three eye-safe laser systems were originated in IAILahav and are patent pending. Project goals: The main objective of the project is to develop and integrate an accurate 3D sensing system as a modular component for robotics platforms, enabling fast dense mapping of large areas, populated with sparse objects. The project will develop and demonstrate the LIMS on high demanding application as an Intelligent Robotic Porter System (IRPS) to help porting & guiding the public in airport areas. | |
| Web Page: http://www.irps-project.net/ | |
| Duration: 48 months | |
| Starting Date: January 2007 Ending Date: January 2011 | |
| Partners: Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements, Poland (PIAP) Scisys, United Kingdom Israeli Aerospace Industries,Israel Parallel Geometry Inc,Canada ANA-Aeroportos de Portugal, SA, Portugal CCIT- Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, France Institute Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra -Portugal | |
| Sponsors: Sixth Framework Programme – European Commission |
| 4 | Project Name: BACS – Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems |
| Ref.: 027140 – Integrated Project – FP6-IST | |
| Budget: € 437.000 | |
| Summary: In this project we investigate and apply Bayesian models and approaches in order to develop artificial cognitive systems that can carry out complex tasks in real world environments. We will take inspiration from the brains of mammals including humans and apply our findings to the developments of cognitive systems. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/bacs/ | |
| Duration: 48 months | |
| Starting Date: January 2006 Ending Date: February 2010 | |
| Partners: Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.v. Fondation de L’Institut Dalle Molle D’Intelligence Artificielle Perception Les Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra Probayes Bluebotics SA Electricité de France Service National Institute Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra | |
| Sponsors: Sixth Framework Programme – European Commission |
| 3 | Project Name: (VISOR) Visual Perception System for a Social Robot  |
| Ref.:NA | |
| Budget: € 70.000 | |
| Summary: This project is a Topical Research Studies (TRS), and his main goal is to generate in-depth knowledge of the visual human oriented perception system for a social robot. This is a fundamental key in the development of a socially interactive robot. If most human-oriented perception is based on passive sensing (artificial vision and auditory), the vision system is the responsible of solve the problems of identifying faces, measuring head and hands poses, capturing human motion, recognizing gestures and reading facial expressions to emulate human social perception. This information permit that the robot be able to identify who the human is, what the human is doing, how the human is doing it and even to imitate the human motion. | |
| Web Page: http://www.grupoisis.uma.es/visor/ | |
| Duration: 12 months | |
| Starting Date: September 2005 Ending Date: September 2006 | |
| Partners: Ingeniería de Sistemas Integrados – Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica Universidad de Málaga (Spain) Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: EUropean RObotics research Network – EURON |
| 2 | Project Name: CyberMove |
| EC-RTD Project, EVK4 – 2001 – 00050 /Shared Cost RTD Environment and Sustainable Development Programme – EC | |
| Budget: € 77.974 | |
| Summary: Implementation of novel transportation technologies for electricity-driven vehicles and promotion of their use in urban environments. | |
| Web Page: | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: December 2001 Ending Date: December 2004 | |
| Partners: INRIA, France Centro Ricerche Fiat, Italy Frog Navigation Systems (FNS), the Netherlands YME, Yamaha Motor Europe N.V., the Netherlands GEA – Groupe d’Etudes en Amenagement, Switzerland RUF, Denmark Robosoft SA, France CN Serpentine SA, Switzerland University of Bristol, Advanced Transport Research Centre, United Kingdom TNO, Netherlands TRG – Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton, United Kingdom TRI – Transportation Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology IPN – Instituto Pedro Nunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal DITS – Dipartimento Idraulica Trasporti e Strade, University of Roma, “La Sapienza”, Italy Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: Fiveth Framework Programme – European Commission |
| 1 | Project Name: EURON – European Robotics Research Network |
| Ref.:CEC/DGIS/Cont.No IST-2000-26048 | |
| Budget: € 17.000 | |
| Summary: This project aims to achieve and maintain a European network of excellence in the area of robotics with the objectives of coordinating the research, teaching, education and collaboration between academia and industry, the level of Europe. The major objective of the project is to catalyze the development of robotics, so that Europe play a world stage in this field. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/projects/euron/ | |
| Duration: 12 months | |
| Starting Date: December 2000 Ending date – December 2001 | |
| Partners: 100 Institutions in Europe Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: EUropean RObotics research Network – EURON |
National Projects – Principal Investigator
| 13 | Project Name: TICE.Mobility – User-Centered Mobility System |
| Project funded by the European Commission within the Programme Ambient Assistive Living (AAL). Cofinanciado por COMPETE 2020; PORTUGAL 202. | |
| Budget: €579 531,14 | |
| Summary: The TICE.Mobility project aims to provide mobility products and services through the internet and thereby converging to the availability of such solutions on the market. The area of mobility has been considered a priority in social and economic European politics (the European economy loses annually about 100 billion euros, or 1% of EU GDP, due to mobility problems), and TICE.PT elected the “MOBILITY” as one of its key areas. The consortia will develop an IT platform for mobility services, called “One.Stop.Transport”, in PPS # 1 (first sub-project) and products and mobility services in the other sub-projects, which will be marketed on that platform, but also other channels according to each business model. The consortia complementarities can be analyzed by participants in this project, with 16 companies, 12 R&D institutions and 10 end-users. It should be noted that TICE.Mobility has agreed with the “Pole of Competitiveness and Technology Industry for Mobility” a continuous collaboration between R&D projects from each other and support to the consortia internationalization strategies. | |
| Web Page: http://tice.mobilidade.ipn.pt/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: 08-01-2011 Ending Date: 01-07-2014 | |
| Partners: METICUBE – Sistemas de Informação, Comunicação e Multimédia; Move Mile, SA; OPT – Otimização e Planeamento de Transportes, SA; MEDIAPRIMER – Tecnologias e Sistemas Multimédia, Lda.; AMI – Tecnologias para Transportes, SA; Centro de Computação Gráfica; Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra; Ubiwhere, Lda.; Ponto C – Desenvolvimento de Sistemas de Informação, Lda.; MICRO I/O – Serviços de Eletrónica, Lda.; Universidade de Aveiro; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; INEGI – Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial; Reusable IT, Lda; PROCESS.NET – Sistemas de Informação, Lda. (Cooperação); Instituto Pedro Nunes; INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO – Instituto de Novas Tecnologias; INESC Porto – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e ,Computadores do Porto; Universidade do Minho; AMBISIG – Ambiente e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, SA; ISA – Intelligent Sensing Anywhere; SMARTMOVE – Serviços de Mobilidade, S.A.; I2S Informática – Sistemas e Serviços, S.A.; Critical Software SA; EFACEC Sistemas de Eletrónica S.A.; CEIIA – Centro para a Excelência e Inovação na Indústria Automóvel; Inteli – Inteligência em Inovação – Centro de Inovação; Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra; Monitar, Lda | |
| Sponsors: Agência de Inovação (AdI) |
| 12 | Project Name: TICE.Healthy – Health and Quality of Life Systems |
| Reference: Compete-13842 | |
| Budget: € 385 690,00 | |
| Summary: TICE.Healthy will develop new products and services for the “Health and Quality of Life” markets using the internet as the infrastructure’s support. This will be achieved through 4 actions lines: 1) We.Can: platform for delivering “Health and Quality of Life” products and services (PPS # 1). 2) We.Can Connect: Interoperability between health and quality of life systems (PPS # 2). 3) Products and Services Health and Quality of Life: the other PSP’s. 4) Support business models development (Task across all PPS’s). This line is structured around an ICT platform named WE.CAN, which will be a products/services delivery channel and a tool to build an and ecosystems around sellers, users and stakeholders The project has a diverse and complementary partnership, with 30 co-sponsors (20 companies and 10 institutions for R & D and Technology Transfer) and about 10 partners (user entities and other stakeholders), and is coordinated with the PCT “HCP – Health Cluster Portugal” in sharing knowledge and opportunities and supporting its various members in reaching global markets. | |
| Web Page: tice-healthy.clusters.ipn.pt | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: 08-01-2011 Ending Date: 01-07-2014 | |
| Partners: HIS – e-Health Innovation Systems, Lda Instituto Pedro Nunes Universidade de Coimbra Meticube – Sistemas de Informação, Comunicação e Multimédia, Lda INOVAMAIS Serviços de Consultadoria em Inovação Tecnológica , S.A. Universidade de Aveiro I.Zone Knowledge Systems Blueworks – Medical Expert Diagnosis, Lda MediaPrimer – Tecnologias e Sistemas Multimédia, Lda Instituto de Telecomunicações Plux, Wireless Biosignals, S.A. TEGIS – Tecnologias e Gestão da Informação em Saúde, Lda Maisis – Information Systems, Lda Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto First Solutions, S.A. Take The Wind, Lda. Biosurfit, S.A. CRIAVISION, Lda Universidade do Minho Exatronic – Engenharia Electrónica, Lda Universidade da Beira Interior Sinfic – Sistemas de Informação Industriais e Consultoria, S.A. INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO – Instituto de Novas Tecnologias | |
| Sponsors: Compete-QREN |
| 11 | Project Name: RAC Robótica Académica de Coimbra |
| Ref.:POSI/ROBO/43890/2002 | |
| Budget: € 18.000 | |
| Summary: Construction of robots for teams of students to participate in football competitions in robotic Small Size League RoboCup competition. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/rac/ | |
| Duration: 24 months | |
| Starting Date: October 2003 Ending Date: June 2005 | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – MCES (Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education) |
| 10 | Project Name: Traffic Surveillance: Sistema Avançado de Vigilância de Tráfego Rodoviário |
| Ref.:FCT–MCT–PRAXIS/EEI/11218/1998 | |
| Budget: $ 9.662,000 | |
| Summary: The authors propose to build an automatic traffic surveillance system which will learn by observation the rules drivers use to control their vehicles. The system will be able to assess a driver’s performance relative to that of his/her peers and to diagnose the reasons for any discrepancy. The system will consist of a number of stationary surveillance cameras connected to ordinary personal computers. The computers will track any vehicles in and feed the results of the tracking into an established machine learning program. By assuming that any acceleration of a car (i.e. speeding up, slowing down or turning) indicates a control input to the car the learning program will be able to associate the driver’s actions with the car’s current situation (i.e, the state of any nearby vehicles, etc.). The proposed project will produce a car tracker with capabilities significantly in advance of those presently available. Cars will be tracked with multiple cameras and over large areas with a tracker able to detect the cars’ signal lights The emphasis has been on increasing the reliability, robustness and range of applicability of the tracker. Real-time performance of the trackers would be a welcome capability, and one to aim at eventually, but the system goals can all be met by slower off-line processing. The results of the tracking will be compared to independently measured data in order to validate the tracker. An inertial sensor for robot navigation has been developed and will be available to this project, and an agreement in principle from the Coimbra traffic police to use their doppler-radar equipped surveillance cameras as been achieved. The proposed project will deliver a software system able to track cars over large areas using multiple communicating trackers and learn the rules used by the drivers of those vehicles. The cars turn and brake signals will be recovered and tracking will be possible in a greater range of weather conditions than possible at present. It is anticipated that the models learnt by the system will be usable to assess and diagnose the performance of either individual or groups of drivers. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/webdocs/ats.htm | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: 1999 Ending Date: 2002 | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – MCES (Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Eduication) |
| 9 | Project Name: TELE 3D – Um Scanner 3D para tele-colaboração |
| FCT – MCT – CERN/P/EEI/40121/2000 | |
| Budget: $4.800,000 | |
| Summary: Three-dimensional surface reconstruction from twodimensional images is a process with great potential for use on different fields of research, commerce and industrial production. This project comprises the study and development of systems which implement the aforementioned process, with potential application in tele-colaboration and tele-manipulation applications. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/Tele3DWeb/ | |
| Duration: 12 months | |
| Starting Date: July 2001 Ending Date: July2002 | |
| Partners: HUC – Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra Institute Systems and Robotics | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – MCES (Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education) |
| 8 | Project Name: Mapas Multimodais para Robótica Móvel |
| PRAXIS XXI | |
| Budget: | |
| Summary: Multisensor fusion algorithms for moving sensors. These sensors are mounted on mobile platforms in the interior of buildings. | |
| Web Page: | |
| Duration: 24 months | |
| Starting Date: October1999 Ending Date: September 2001 | |
| Partners: | |
| Sponsors: PRAXIS XXI |
| 7 | Project Name: CROM – Célula Robótica de Montagem (Projecto STRIDE) |
| Ref.: NA | |
| Budget: NA | |
| Summary: Development of a distributed processing structure of multi-sensory (including vision) for control of a flexible assembly cell. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: NA | |
| Starting Date: NA | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: Innovation Support Program (1993 -1996) (STRIDE) – Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |
| 6 | Project Name: VARMA – Visão Activa para Robótica Móvel Autónoma (Projecto STRIDE) |
| Ref.: NA | |
| Budget:NA | |
| Summary: Development of a vision system able to control the position of sensors in space and the vision based on principles of active vision. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: NA | |
| Starting Date: NA | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: Innovation Support Program (1993 -1996) (STRIDE) – Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |
| 5 | Project Name: FSAR– Fusão Sensorial Para Aplicações de Robótica |
| Ref.: NA | |
| Budget:NA | |
| Summary: Development of techniques for combination of sensory information to applications of robotics. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: NA | |
| Starting Date: NA | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: National Board of Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT) Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |
| 4 | Project Name: SIRMA – Sistema Inercial para Robótica Móvel Autónoma |
| Ref.:FCT-PBICT/C/TPR/2545/95 | |
| Budget: $4.500,000 | |
| Summary: Held at the Institute for Systems and Robotics University of Coimbra. Within the modern methods of production are the flexible production processes that normally involve the use of manipulators, mobile robots and AGV’s. Currently most cases using mobile robots and AGV’s are based on systems that run sequences previously programmed with a limited degree of interaction with the environment. This type of approach presents the problem of programming the devices to meet the geometry of the site. In applications where there is a site known geometry is necessary that the robot has the ability to locate and perception for proper navigation. This type of applications to be implemented independently, involve the use of sensors for proper execution of movements. Using the information provided by inertial sensors such as accelerometers or gyroscopes, it is possible to construct an inertial navigation system based on direct measures made with the sensor and inside the vehicle. These systems have interesting properties because the measures taken are independent of information about where the vehicle is, how to contact the wheels with the ground and do not use measures on the radiant energy of the place or emit energy to carry out measures. Such a system can be easily used in other applications involving measures of speed or acceleration of a body in motion. | |
| Web Page:http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: 1995 Ending Date: 1998 | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)- MCES (Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education) |
| 3 | Project Name: Tri-Dimensional Scanning of the Human Retina – Quantification of vascular Central Area |
| Ref.: FCT – MCT – PBCI/C/SAU/1576/92 | |
| Budget: $7.500,000 | |
| Summary: Due to sabbatical leave of the investigator in charge, Prof. Helder Araújo, was the manager in the last year of the project. The project was conducted within the scientific exchange with the Institute for Biomedical Research of Light and Image, University of Coimbra – 1992. The project has the objective to develop a system of direct purchase and processing of computerized image of the central avascular area (AAC) of the human retina in fluorescein angiography, to quantify the retinal macular ischaemia. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: 48 months | |
| Starting Date: 1992 Ending Date: 1996 | |
| Partners: AIBILI- Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT – UC | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)-MCES (Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education) |
| 2 | Project Name: Structure-function imaging for quantitative phenotyping of retinal degenerations |
| Ref.:POSI/EEA-SRI/60716/2004 | |
| Budget:€ 96.000 | |
| Summary: Following previous work on the field of medical imaging on the topic of ophthalmology, new opportunities and needs for data integration have emerged. The topic is now broader and follows the global direction of modern medicine. This multidisciplinary project aims to understand how patterns of degeneration in the adult human retina are related to the organization of its functional mosaics. It is important to establish new quantitative strategies that can explore structure-function relations in the retina, which may help clarify why retinal degenerations exhibit considerable inter and intra-familial variation in their expression. The goal is to better understand the normal function of different retinal pathways and apply this knowledge to the improvement of quantitative phenotyping. This is only possible by taking into consideration the possibility of data integration, i.e., by merging information from the structure and function, and therefore a new toolbox will have to be provided to the medical community. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: January 2004 | |
| Partners: Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem (AIBILI) Faculty of Medicine of University of Coimbra (FM/UC) Research unit – Instituto Biomédico de Investigação de Luz e Imagem (IBILI/FM/UC) Host institution – Instituto Biomédico de Investigação de Luz e Imagem (IBILI/FM/UC) Institute Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – MCES (Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education) |
| 1 | Project Name: SIVA – System for Active Surveillance |
| Ref.:PRAXIS/2/2.1/TPAR/2074/95 | |
| Budget: $6.750,000 | |
| Summary: Development of an autonomous system able to perform surveillance tasks in a structured environment. The system as a whole is made up of several mobile platforms. Each platform is equipped with a vision system, odometry and wireless Ethernet. The environment map is known “a priori” and both natural and artificial landmarks are used for localization. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/projectinformation.php?ID=33 | |
| Duration:36 months | |
| Starting Date: 1992 | |
| Partners: Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica – FCT – UC | |
| Sponsors: PRAXIS XXI Program – Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |
Principal Investigator of Cooperation and Research Exchange Projects
| 5 | Project Name: APSUBA – Active Perception for Scene Understanding and Behaviour Analysis (APSUBA): An application for Social Robotic |
| CRUP n.º E-8/08 | |
| Budget: € | |
| Summary: The aim of the presented project is to develop an active perception system of the environment, acting as an agent inside a heterogeneous sensor network, for scene understanding and behaviour analysis. The proposed perception system is composed of two different mechanisms: an active visual perception system and a metric perception system acting inside a network of heterogeneous sensor such as 3D laser scanner, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and camera. Both two systems will be calibrated. The sensorial fusion allows detecting the regions of interest using active vision (e.g. changes in the scene, human-robot interaction, human/robot motion, etc). Metric information will be used for later segmentation and 3D modelled stages. Moreover, data fusion will be applied for both heterogeneous sensor calibration and perception. Finally, the models will be used for scene recognition and behaviour understanding. In order to obtain the relevant elements in the scene, a perception-based grouping process will be employed, which is performed by a hierarchical irregular pyramid. Using the information given by the visual mechanism, the metric perception system will provide 3D information of the interest sector, through developing a multi-layer homography-based reconstruction approach. The segmentation in large datasets will be achieved using clusters provided by Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM). These segments will be modelled using high level geometric features (superquadric surfaces), which will be used for the last stage of the system: scene understanding and behaviour analysis using Bayesian rules. The proposed project will provide contributions in different topics like mobile-structure sensor network, heterogeneous sensor calibration, localization, scene recognition, 3D reconstruction, active perception, sensorial fusion or human behaviour understanding. The results of this project are also interesting in other research fields (e.g. smart environment) | |
| Web Page: robolab.unex.es/wikiApsuba/index.php/Main_Page | |
| Duration: 24 months | |
| Starting Date: January 2011 Ending Date: December 2012 | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC Ingenieria de Sistemas Integrados – Málaga University University of Estramadura, Spain | |
| Sponsors: CRUP n.º E-8/08 |
| 4 | Project Name: Scientific and Technical Cooperation Portugal – Málaga |
| CRUP n.º E-8/08 | |
| Summary: The collaboration between the ISR-Institute of Systems and Robotics and ISIS-Ingenieria de Sistemas Integrados, involves the development of Visual-based interface for robots and intelligent environments project. This project will permit to estabilish an open forum of discussion between two research teams. The main objective of this project will be to estabilish a scenario where two research groups can discuss and analyse the development of a visual based interface for human computer interaction. A goal for interface developers should be the creation of interfaces that are “humane”. The high level image processing has two main goals, the first is related to estimation of the human movements, and the second is the recognition of objects in the environment. | |
| Exchanges:NA Duration: 12 months Starting Date: 2008 | |
| Partners: Ingenieria de Sistemas Integrados – Málaga University Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: CRUP |
| 3 | Project Name: Scientific and Technical Cooperation Portugal – Brasil |
| Summary: This co-operation project “Architectures of Information Systems and Autonomy in Robotic Air – SISROB,” comes from the junction of several additional contexts and multidisciplinary common in Brazil and Portugal, a collaboration initiated in 1998 and which remains active and productive since then. In this context, involving the ISR / UC, IDMEC / IST, DRVC / CenPRA and DCC / UFMG, this project aims to support, for the next biennium, joint actions of research and scientific and technological development, training and guidance of students cross the undergraduate and graduate level. The main objective is joint development of capabilities that allow for autonomous operation of robotic aerial vehicles, particularly for robotic airships, to conduct inspection missions of air and environmental monitoring. The platforms in the air DIVA, AURORA, and SiDeVAAN form the basis for the development, implementation and testing in this work plan. Considering the scope and complexity of topics, which are located on the border of the state of the art in the world, and the goals of implementation and experimental validation, it is now a posteriori continuity of cooperation, through request for renewal or new submissions bodies to promote the two countries. | |
| Exchanges:NA Duration: 24 months Starting Date: April 2007 | |
| Partners: IDMEC/IST – Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica do Instituto Superior Técnico DRVC/CenPRA – Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer – Campinas DCC/UFMG – Laboratório de Visão Computacional e Robótica do Departamento de Ciência da Computação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: GRICES Program – Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |
| 2 | Project Name: Scientific and Technical Cooperation Portugal – France |
| Summary: Vision-based Human-Robot Interaction.The large scale development of a new generation of robots (humanoid, pet animals or assistants) to share our daily lives and our environment requires the formulation of new paradigms of human-robot interaction. This interaction poses several problems that must be considered carefully, not only at the technical level but also psychological and social. The aim is the joint development partners for a navigation system with a natural interface. | |
| Exchanges number:NA Duration: 12 months Starting Date: 2006 | |
| Partners: LAAS – Laboratoire Automatic et Systèmes – Université Paul Sabatier Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: GRICES Program – Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |
| 1 | Project Name: Scientific and Technical Cooperation Portugal – France |
| Summary: NA | |
| Exchanges number:NA Duration: NA Starting Date: NA | |
| Partners: LAAS Laboratoire Automatic et Systèmes – Université Paul Sabatier Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: GRICES Program – Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |
Researcher Member for the Research and Development Projects
| 11 | Project Name: CASIR Coordinated Attention for Social Interaction with Robots |
| FCT Contract PTDC/EEI-AUT/3010/2012 | |
| Budget: €72 488,00 | |
| Summary: When interacting in socially-relevant applications, robots are expected to engage with humans while displaying attentional behaviours that resemble those of their interlocutors; as a matter of fact, they are supposed to be able to assess intentionality and to be, themselves, intentional agents. Several solutions have been proposed for providing social robots with the ability of engaging in joint attention, the ability to share attention with another agent towards the same object or event, one of the most primal of social interactions. However, they have yet to appropriately capture some of the most crucial skills involved, such as the multisensory nature of active perception and attention, its inherent uncertainty, or the processes responsible for the emergence of an intentional stance. Consequently, social robots have only been able to instil a sense of intentionality and reciprocity for very specific and constrained social scenarios. We therefore propose to research an integrated probabilistic framework to deal with the endogenous and exogenous coordinated control of stimulus-driven and goal-directed multisensory attention within the context of social interaction. | |
| Web Page: http://mrl.isr.uc.pt/projects/casir/ | |
| Duration:24 months | |
| Starting Date: April 2013 Ending Date: April 2015 | |
| Partners: ISR-UC | |
| Sponsors: COMPETE – Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade e do Quadro de Referência Estratégica Nacional – QREN |
| 10 | Project Name: MODERN – MObility, Development and Energy use ReductioN |
| Ref.: 219041-FP7-SST-2007-TREN-1_28June | |
| Budget: € 159.300 | |
| Summary: The project outlines a bold package of integrated measures in all the cities of the Consortium, and cover all the areas required by the Civitas + Programme. The project shows ambitious goals which will have a substantial impact on the state of the mobility in the cities and a good visibility at the European level, mixing measures with large scale application actions based in existing and commercially available technologies, and measures with more advanced trials and methodologies. The project has common main targets: · To increase the quality and the effectiveness of the public transport system (from the environmental and from the service point of view), increasing the number of users · To limit the waste of energy and to support the diffusion of the use of clean fuels among the citizens · To support the effort of improvement of public transport through a series of measure capable of limiting the circulation of private cars · To give value at alternative “sweet” mobility modes improving safety and liveability for their users. · To lower the number of accidents on the roads. · To increase the technological endowment of the cities as a support to more and more intelligent mobility management policies and as a service to citizens. · To diffuse as much as possible the culture of an environmental sustainable mobility among citizens and to increase the social awareness of the vital importance of these themes. The project has 49 different measures within 5 middle-size cities: Craiova (Project Coordinator) (Rumania), Brescia (Italy), Vitoria Gasteiz (Spain), Coimbra (Portugal), and Ostrava (Czech Republic) and 24 partners with all the Municipalities and local P T Companies. Another crucial target is to assess a wide communication and debate among the cities at the level of political decision makers and important stakeholders, and a strong cooperation among scientists and technicians of the European team to circulate experiences and best practice. | |
| Web Page: http://www.modern.ipacv.ro/ | |
| Duration: 48 months | |
| Starting Date: October 2008 | |
| Partners: PRIMARIA MUNICIPIULUI CRAIOVA – Romania REGIA AUTONOMA DE TRANSPORT CRAIOVA, Romania SC IPA SA – R&D, Engineering and Manufacturing for Automation Equipments and Systems, Romania Comune di Brescia, Italy Brescia Mobilità S.p.A., Italy Brescia Trasporti S.p.A., Italy Università degli Studi di Brescia – DICATA, Italy Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Transportes Urbanos de Vitoria-Gasteiz, S.A., Spain Centro de Estudios Ambientales, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain ENTE VASCO DE LA ENERGÍA, Bilbao, Spain Real Automovil Club Vasco Navarro, San Sebastian, Spain Câmara Municipal de Coimbra, Portugal Serviços Municipalizados de Transportes Urbanos de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Critical Software, S.A., Portugal Prodeso-Ensino Profissional, Lda, Portugal PERFORM ENERGIA Lda., Portugal Magistrat mesta Ostravy, Czech Republic Ostravske komunikace, a.s., Czech Republic Dopravní podnik Ostrava, a.s., Czech Republic Vysoka skola banska – Technicka univerzita Ostrava, Czech Republic Istituto di Studi per l’Integrazione dei Sistemi, Italy Mo.Ve Mobility Venice AISBL, Belgium | |
| Sponsors: Seventh Framework Programme – European Commission |
| 9 | Project Name: DIVA – Dirigível Instrumentado para Vigilância Aérea |
| Ref.:POSI/SRI/45040/2002 | |
| Budget: € 60.222 | |
| Summary: This project aims to develop an autonomous airship for surveillance operations. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/projects/diva/ | |
| Duration: 24 months | |
| Starting Date: January 2004 Ending Date: January 2006 | |
| Partners: IDMEC/IST – Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica do Instituto Superior Técnico University of Minho ISR – Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica – FCT-UC | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) Air Liquide |
| 8 | Project Name: Multi-Modality Medical Image Registration for Eye Diagnosis |
| POSI/SRI/45151/2002 | |
| Budget: | |
| Summary: Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of legal blindness in developed countries. Ten percent of the EU population are expected to develop diabetes by the year 2010 while in the USA there are, currently 100.000 new cases each year. With the incidence of diabetic retinopathy among the diabetic population, a large socio-economic impact is expected. Each method of diagnosis focuses on a particular feature of the retina. This gives a partial view of the changes occurring in the retina in a given time whereas an entire overview is essential for a better diagnosis and to understand the changes that are occurring and are expected to occur in the near future. In order to achieve a broader overview of the changes occurring in the retina, it is necessary to correlate several complementary examinations: fluorescein angiography, confocal scanning laser angiography, retinal blood flow, retinal thickness and retinal leakage. Registration of the modalities involved has to be automatic so that it can be used in the daily practice in the clinical environment. Differences in scale, resolution, distortions, rotation and translations must be taken in account. Registration methods are classified as feature or intensity based. The former is based on the segmentation of homologous geometric landmarks present in the images while intensity based registration searches a space transformation for the maximum of a given measure based on a particular criteria of evaluation of similarity. This similarity is classified as: identity relationship; affine relationship; functional relationship; and statistical relationship. A physical model will be established so that the knowledge on structures being measured can be incorporated in the process. Whereas the image corresponds to light coming from a layer of given depth (different at each point), for retinography the information gathered from the same retina with retinal flowmeter takes into account a light from different layers due to the confocality of the system. This is to say that different entities are being measured with different methodologies. A physical model will be established to provide information on what to expect from each modality, its relation with the whole reality, and what to extent the information is related and in which aspects. The approach to be taken in this project is to test several registration techniques for each modality. The techniques to be tested are the ones that most likely shown any relation to the physical model previously developed. In order to address all the above-mentioned problem the physical model will be established incorporating the knowledge of the physical eye and the acquisition technology, as well as its statistical properties. | |
| Web Page: | |
| Duration: 24 months | |
| Starting Date: February 2004 Ending Date: June 2006 | |
| Partners: | |
| Sponsors: POSI/SRI/45151/2002 |
| 7 | Project Name: Multi-Modality Medical Image Registration for Eye Diagnosis |
| Ref.: POSI/SRI/45151/2002 | |
| Budget: € 77.298 | |
| Summary: Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of legal blindness in developed countries. Vision of the retina is necessary to correlate several additional tests such as fluorescein angiography, fluorescein angiography-based scanning laser ophthalmoscope confocais; measures of circulatory flow in the retina, and measures of leakage of fluorescein to the vitreous. To apply this concept of the daily clinical practice, the record of how involved will be automatic and must take into account differences in scale, resolution, distortions, rotations, translations, etc. The methods of registration can be classified as based on features and intensities. In the first case, the method is based on the targeting of homologous features in both images. In the second case, the record is based on the intensities of the images. It searches in the area of processing up to a measure for a criterion for evaluating the similarity between images, which is similarly classified as: relationships of identity, relations of affinity, functional relationships, and relationship statistics. A physical model is established to incorporate the process knowledge of the structures to be measured/displayed. As in the case of a retinography the light is collected from a given depth of the retina (variable from point to point), the information collected from the same retinal flow with measures of the effect of Doppler optical take into account information from depths different given the co-focal system. The physical model created should contain not only the physical characteristics of the human eye, but their statistical properties. | |
| Web Page:http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting date: February 2002 | |
| Partners: Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem – AIBILI Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – MCES (Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education) |
| 6 | Project Name: Recovering Three-dimensional Structure of Human Coroid |
| Ref.: FCT – MCT – PECS/C/SAU/205/95 | |
| Budget: 4.500 Contos | |
| Summary: Conducted within the scientific exchange with the Institute for Biomedical Research of Light and Image, University of Coimbra. The main objective of the project is the development of a computerized image analysis system for the study of choroidal circulation. A three-dimensional visualization of stereo images obtained from indocyanine green angiography, performed with a video-angiography system, will be performed. Software to be developed will allow a three-dimensional visualization of the human choroidal circulation, the identification of the choriocapillaris structure and an extraction of choriocapillaris hemodynamic data from indocyanine green angiograms. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: December 1995 | |
| Partners: AIBILI- Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology JNICT (FCT) |
| 5 | Project Name: ARMMA-Autonomous Robotics Methodologies for Multidisciplinary Applications |
| Ref.: PRAXIS/3/3.1/TR/23/94 | |
| Budget: 15.000 contos | |
| Summary: In this project intended to develop general techniques for use of robotics in different types of applications | |
| Web page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: January 1994 | |
| Partners: Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica – FCT – UC | |
| Sponsors: National Board of Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT) Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |
| 4 | Project Name: PO-ROBOT NATO Science for Stability |
| Ref.: NATO/ Science for Stability Program/ PO-ROBOT/93-99 | |
| Budget: $25.000,000 | |
| Summary: The pole of Coimbra Institute of Systems and Robotics used to project NATO Science for Stability – PO-ROBOT had the responsibility to coordinate the team during the second phase of the project. The project involved teams of poles of Lisbon (IST-UNL) and Porto (FEUP) of the Institute for Systems and Robotics. In the first phase of this project were developed the techniques necessary to manufacture, in Portugal, a mobile robot. In the second phase have been developed techniques for performing a mobile robot with some degree of autonomy (automatic path planning and ability to avoid obstacles) to operate in industrial environment. | |
| Web Page: http://www.isr.uc.pt/~paulo/POROBOT/ | |
| Duration: 36 months | |
| Starting Date: May 1993 | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – IST-UTL Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC Institute Systems and Robotics – FE-UP | |
| Sponsors: NATO / Science for Stability Program / PO-ROBOT / 93-99 |
| 3 | Project Name: ESPRIT Basic Research Action |
| Ref.: 3278 | |
| Budget: NA | |
| Summary: Field of vision for three-dimensional applications in robotics and in which were studied technical integration of three-dimensional information in robotics. | |
| Web Page:http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: NA | |
| Starting date: NA | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: ESPRIT – co-funded within the Leonardo da Vinci Programme Multilateral Projects on the Transfer of Innovation, European Comission |
| 2 | Project Name: ESPRIT Exploratory Action |
| Ref.:5673 | |
| Budget: NA | |
| Summary: Area Multi-Sensory. In which we studied aspects of integration of multi-sensory information. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: NA | |
| Starting Date: NA | |
| Partners: Institute Systems and Robotics – FCT- UC | |
| Sponsors: ESPRIT – co-funded within the Leonardo da Vinci Programme Multilateral Projects on the Transfer of Innovation, European Comission |
| 1 | Project Name: Multi-Modality Maps for Mobile Robotics |
| Ref.:NA | |
| Budget: $6.240,000 | |
| Summary: This project aims to develop algorithms for fusion of information obtained by sensors in motion. These sensors are carried on mobile platforms and interior of buildings. | |
| Web Page: http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/projects/cprojects/ | |
| Duration: 24 months | |
| Starting Date: NA | |
| Partners: Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica – FCT – UC | |
| Sponsors: PRAXIS XXI Program – Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) |