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H2020Doctoral network2018–2022

ImmerSAFE · Immersive Visual Technologies for Safety-critical Applications

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2018-01-01 → 2022-11-30
EU contribution
€3,957,577
Participants
14
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

Immersive Visual Technologies for Safety-critical Applications

In safety-critical environments, Immersive Visual Technologies (IVT) are the key for providing full situational awareness to human operators to allow them making decisions with far-reaching consequences on productivity, environment, and even human lives. IVT are developed and deployed by multi-disciplinary experts, who understand the core imaging technologies and the requirements set by the safety-critical applications, and who can account for the human user in the design of related systems. ImmerSAFE trained fifteen such experts by involving them into a diverse research programme, and challenging them with the following overall objectives: • O1: Develop new robust and reliable approaches to sensing, visualisation and reliable data transmission • O2: Determine optimal implementation of IVT under challenging conditions and integration into existing frameworks in two example use cases: mobile work machines and control centres, with specific focus on interface design, embedded systems implementation, and system dependability analysis • O3: Increase knowledge on the human factors affecting the adoption and use of IVT through user experience testing, task performance metrics, and organisational level studies Throughout the project, the employed ESRs developed new methods, procedures, algorithms, and materials, as detailed in Section 2, which in their integrity fully achieved the research objectives.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

In many contexts – heavy work machines, emergency response, control centres – human operators face complex and demanding situations where their decisions can have far-reaching consequences on productivity, environment, and even human lives. In order to deal with such challenges, the operator needs full situational awareness, which can be achieved by sensing relevant visual data about the operating environment, refining it into mission-critical information, and presenting it in an immersive, intuitively comprehensible manner. This can be achieved by Immersive Visual Technologies (IVT) delivering ultra-realistic and interactive visual experience. The aim of ImmerSAFE is to train multi-disciplinary experts, who have an understanding of the core imaging technologies, the requirements set to them by the safety-critical applications and who can account for the human user in the design of such systems. We will advance the state of the art by working towards three specific objectives: (1) Develop new robust and reliable IVT; in particular novel approaches to sensing, visualisation and reliable data transmission. (2) Determine optimal implementation of IVT under challenging conditions and integration into existing frameworks in two example use cases: mobile work machines and control centres. (3) Increase knowledge on the human factors affecting the adoption and use of IVT through user experience testing, task performance metrics and organisational level studies.To achieve our ambitious goals, we have brought together a unique combination of leading academic technology and psychology experts as well as high-tech SMEs, industry and end-users. This network will bring together the critical mass of complementary expertise available in Europe to train the next generation of successful researchers able to seize the great opportunity for innovations offered by the emerging field of IVT for Europe’s high-tech industries.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · TampereCoordinatorFinland
  • ACCELOPMENT SCHWEIZ AG · ZurichSwitzerland
  • BENEQ OY · EspooFinland
  • CROSSCONTROL AB · AlftaSweden
  • FIMA Forum for Intelligent Machines ry · TampereFinland
  • Istituto Superiore Antincendi · RomaUnknown Region
  • LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI · RomaItaly
  • MALARDALENS UNIVERSITET · VASTERAASSweden
  • NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · TrondheimNorway
  • PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE · CambridgeUnited States
  • SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU FAKULTET ELEKTROTEHNIKE I RACUNARSTVA · ZAGREBCroatia
  • TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY · EspooFinland
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE · ROMAItaly
  • XYLON DOO · ZagrebCroatia

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union