ROBOT@CWE is a STREP FP6 Contract No 34002 coordinated by Prof. A. KHEDDAR, CNRS

Objectives

The prime objective of this project is to :

This objective will be met by the achievement of these subsidiary objectives:

• Analysis, research and identification of future socially acceptable and beneficial collaborative work scenarios where robotics is necessary
• User centred systems design
• Definition of the collaborative work methods and human machine interfaces for selected work scenarios
• Definition of a high level knowledge oriented interface to collaborative work with robots
• Specification of an open architecture framework for collaborative work, involving robots
• Implementation of the architecture and iterative prototyping with a number of robotic applications
• Establishing methods for quantifying the benefit of robot collaborative work by demonstration and evaluation
• Establish a feasible roadmap for overcoming technical obstacles to the establishment of ROBOT@CWE throughout Europe
• Safety issues are also to be considered when IST-robots work closely to humans, for instance when handling the same object. In particular, one should define the minimal distance necessary to achieve for a human user to be at ease.

Two major concepts

Collaborative Working Environment

Environment were robots and humans work in conjunction and in synergy. Various taxonomies are possible but we can distinguish between environments where the space is shared between human or robots, or environments where only machines and robots are present

IST-robot

Information Society Technology – Robot, this term has been invented within ROBOT@CWE to designate the evolving new category of service and personal robots that will have the potential to use ambient intelligence, interface to IT networking, or interact with humans and humans’ communication infrastructure

Workpackages

Workpackage 1
Workpackage 2
Workpackage 3
Workpackage 4