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PERSEO · European Training Network on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2021-01-01 → 2024-12-31
EU contribution
€4,067,850
Participants
12
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

European Training Network on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications

The ETN on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications - PERSEO - aims to train a new generation of research and professional figures to face the research challenges of the market of personal robots. The personal robotics domain faces challenges in personalizing robot behavior to individual needs, requiring deeper analysis by companies and the development of an interdisciplinary research community in academia to enable adaptive, cost-effective, and easily configurable robotic systems. The development of personalizable robots is accelerating. However, only a small amount of such robots is deployed in society, tackling very specific tasks in well-controlled environments. In PERSEO three scenarios will serve as integration milestones to assess the Early Stage Researchers (ESR) research progression and to evaluate the benefit of the service-oriented approach for the integration of the research projects: Personal Robots as Companions for Elderly People, Personal Robots for Physical Rehabilitation and Assistance, and Personal Robots for Edutainment. PERSEO's research program is divided into three themes focusing on robot personalization at the "Physical," "Cognitive," and "Social" levels, requiring expertise across fields like computer science, AI, automation, ethics, and psychology. ESRs developed specialized knowledge through individual research projects, interdisciplinary training, and secondments, while also addressing the social, legal, and ethical challenges of personal robots to ensure alignment with European values.

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Project objective

The ETN on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications - PERSEO - aims at training a new generation of research and professional figures able to face the research challenges of the market of personal robots. The personal robotics domain presents several research challenges mainly related to the need for a high degree of personalization of the robot behaviour with respect to the specific user’s needs and preferences. Companies need to build solutions rooted in a deeper analysis of humans’ specificities before developing products for people. At the same time, academia needs to nurture the development of an extended research community with a set of interdisciplinary skills to investigate different robot’s capabilities for understanding and modelling the interaction with human beings, for adapting the robot’s behaviour to the context, and software integration mechanisms that allow an easy personalized configuration approach to limit the static and costly customization processes of a novel robotic system. The PERSEO’s research program is organized into three Research Themes aimed at investigating personalization of robot capabilities at different levels of possible human-robot interaction, namely “Physical”, “Cognitive”, and “Social”. This requires a set of research skills ranging from computer science and AI to automation, ethics, and psychology. Fellows will deepen their knowledge in projects covering a specific research theme but, through training events, secondments, and peer collaborations will gain extensive knowledge in other areas so leading to a multidisciplinary research programme and the integration with other projects to achieve the proposed Integration Milestones. The project also aims at training Early Stage Researchers to address social, legal, and ethical issues that arise by the uptake of personal robots, as such skills are fundamental to achieve technological innovation which aligns with European social, ethical al legal values.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · NapoliCoordinatorItaly
  • NOOSWARE BV · EindhovenNetherlands
  • ORTELIO LTD · COVENTRYUnited Kingdom
  • PAL ROBOTICS SLU · BARCELONASpain
  • SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA · PisaItaly
  • SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY · SheffieldUnited Kingdom
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · MuenchenGermany
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · WienAustria
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · ManchesterUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA · ModenaItaly
  • UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD · BielefeldGermany
  • UNIVERSITAT WIEN · WienAustria

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union