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Silicon Carbide Power Technology for Energy Eficient Devices (SPEED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Highly efficient Power Electronics (PE) employed in power generation, transmission, and distribution is the prerequisite for the Europe-wide penetration of renewable energies; improves the energy efficiency; increases the power quality and enables continuous voltage regulation, reactive power compensation and automated distribution. It also facilitates the integration of distributed resources lik ...
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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser ...
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Dense Cooperative Wireless Cloud Network (DIWINE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

DIWINE considers wireless communication in a dense relay/node scenario where WNC (Wireless Network Coding) messages are flooded via dense massively air-interacting nodes in the self-contained cloud while the PHY air-interface between the terminals (sources/destinations) and the cloud is simple and uniform. A complex infrastructure cloud creates an equivalent air-interface to the terminal, which is ...
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SUstainable PREdictive Maintenance for manufacturing Equipment (SUPREME)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Productivity improvements have major impact on EU economy and competitiveness. Industrial maintenance contributes largely to this competitiveness through reliability and availability of production equipments. The EU market of industrial maintenance can be estimated at 32 Bn€/year, in which outsourced maintenance represents 1/3. In continuous production industries (energy, chemical, food, cement or ...
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SUstainable and PERsuasive Human Users moBility in future cities (SUPERHUB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The SUPERHUB project aims at realizing a new services mobility framework supporting an integrated and eco-efficient use of multi-modal mobility systems in an urban setting.SUPERHUB provides a user-centric, integrated approach to multi-modal smart urban mobility systems, through an open platform able to consider in real time various mobility offers and provide a set of mobility services able to add ...
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Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions To achieve Embedded Accessibility DesignS (VERITAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

VERITAS aims to develop, validate and assess an open framework for built-in accessibility support at all stages of ICT and non-ICT product development, including specification, design, development and testing. The goal is to introduce simulation-based and VR testing at all stages of product design and development into the automotive, smart living spaces, workplace, infotainment and personal health ...
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Natural human-robot cooperation in dynamic environments (NIFTi)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description Working together to assess real-life urban disaster sites NIFTi investigates how natural behavior in human-robot cooperation can arise. The project operationalizes natural cooperation as balancing operational and cooperation demands in a cognitive architecture (CA), to minimize human c ...
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interactIVe

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The interactIVe project addresses the development and evaluation of next-generation safety systems for Intelligent Vehicles, based on active intervention. Safety technologies have shown outstanding capabilities for supporting the driver in hazardous situations. Despite their effectiveness, currently available systems are typically implemented as independent functions. This results in multiple expe ...
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Robotic Evolutionary Self-Programming and Self-Assembling Organisms (REPLICATOR)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Description Super-large-scale swarm of small autonomous mobile micro-robots The REPLICATOR project focuses on the development of an advanced robotic system, consisting of a super-large-scale swarm of small autonomous mobile micro-robots that are capable of self-assembling into large artificial org ...
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Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms (SYMBRION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

The main focus of this project is to investigate and develop novel principles of adaptation and evolution for symbiotic multi-robot organisms based on bio-inspired approaches and modern computing paradigms. Such robot organisms will consist of super-large-scale swarms of robots, which can dock with each other and symbiotically share energy and computational resources within a single artificial-lif ...
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Massive Sets of Heuristics for Machine Learning (MASH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Description New tools for the collaborative development of very complex machine learning systems. The MASH project aims at creating new tools for the collaborative development of very complex machine learning systems. Machine learning is concerned with the design of software able to learn from exa ...
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Humanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces (HUMAVIPS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Description Endowing robots with social skills Humanoids expected to collaborate with people should be able to interact with them in the most natural way. This involves significant perceptual, communication, and motor processes, operating in a coordinated fashion. The objective of HUMAVIPS is to e ...
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Development of a flexible and energy-efficient pressurised microwave heating process to produce 3D-shaped renewable bio-polymer foams for a novel generation of transportation packaging (REBIOFOAM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), Polyurethane (EPU), Polyethylene (EPE) and Polypropylene (EPP) represent the most popular moulded cushion packaging materials applied for transport packaging applications. However, despite of their functionality, the widespread use of these polymer foams of synthetic origin implies considerable environmental concerns. The depletion of non-renewable fossil raw material r ...
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Planetary Robotics Vision Scout (ProViScout)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

ProViScout will demonstrate the combination of vision-based autonomous sample identification & sample selection with terrain hazard analysis for a long range scouting/exploration mission on a terrestrial planet. It brings together major European groups currently working on planetary robotic vision, supported by NASA-JPL from USA. Most robotic planetary space missions performing in situ exploration ...
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Efficient Painting & Enhancement of Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations (ToonPaint)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The aim of ToonPaint project is to develop practically usable tool that will make the traditional cartoon animation production pipeline less tedious and so cost effective. In addition to that it will also develop a new enhancement technique to increase visual richness of resulting imagery while retain the look of hand-drawn animation.The project has two main research objectives: (1) develop an eff ...
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Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards (AEGIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The ÆGIS project seeks to determine whether 3rd generation access techniques will provide a more accessible, more exploitable and deeply embeddable approach in mainstream ICT (desktop, rich Internet and mobile applications). We develop and explore this approach with the Open Accessibility Framework (OAF) through which we address aspects of the design, development and deployment of accessible mains ...
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Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing (PRoVisG)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

PROVISG will build a framework for planetary robotic vision ground processing - develop the technology to better process and visualise existing & future data from planetary missions to maximize value-adedd exploitation of the data for research, technology and education - increase public awareness of such missions and the EC contribution to their scientific evaluation.We define robotic planetary sp ...
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Semi-supervised Structured Output Learning from Partially Labeled Data (SEMISOL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

"Learning classifiers automatically from examples is subject to themultidisciplinary field of machine learning.The structured output learning (SOL) is concerned with thelearning of classifiers for prediction of multipleinterdependent variables exhibiting some structure dependence.Recent progress in SOL focuses mainly on supervised methodsthat require labeled examples. A high cost of labeled exampl ...
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Coordinating the Antenna Research in Europe (CARE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The European antenna research received great benefits from the structuring efforts provided by the Network of Excellence ACE (2004-2007). The ACE NoE produced a long list of outstanding results, such as the Antenna Expert Groups (AEG), the European School of Antennas (ESoA), the European Conferences on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), the Antenna Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) and the Europea ...
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Integrated European Industrial Risk Reduction System (IRIS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Current practices in risk assessment and management for industrial systems are characterized by its methodical diversity and fragmented approaches. In retrospect these risk and safety paradigms resulted from diverse industries driven and limited by available knowledge and technologies. A change based on industry driven R&D work is needed. At present the European Industry recognised their obligatio ...
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Femtocell-based netwoRk Enhancement by intErference managEment and coorDination of infOrmation for seaMless connectivity (FREEDOM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Currently, femtocells and macrocells are seen as isolated networks, competing for the resources available in the common spectrum band, at the cost of injecting interference to the whole system. FREEDOM project will face key technical and industrial concerns about the foreseen mid-term massive deployment of femtocells by adopting a new approach based on cooperative/coordination paradigms, enabled b ...
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Learning Texture Descriptors (LearnTex)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

We aim to develop novel computational models for describing image textures. By image textures, we mean patterns which arise when many similar structures co-occur. Humans find no difficulties in recognizing thousands of different textures, whether they are natural (grass, sand, sea waves) or artificial (textiles, manufactured surface finishes). The basic goal of this project is to develop novel alg ...
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Vital Mind (VM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

Cognitive decline in aging people can often be accompanied by mental, physical and social hardship. Cognitive training and, in particular computerized training in executive functioning, memory and speed of processing is associated with prolonging personal autonomy in these three life domains. However, many among the elderly are computer illiterate, and cannot benefit from the growing number of com ...
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Dynamic Interactive Perception-action LEarning in Cognitive Systems (DIPLECS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

The DIPLECS project aims at designing an Artificial Cognitive System architecture that allows for learning and adapting hierarchical perception-action cycles in dynamic and interactive real-world scenarios. The architectural progress will be evaluated within the scenario of a driver assistance system that continuously improves its capabilities by observing the human driver, the car data, and the e ...
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Reconfigurable OFDMA-based Cooperative NetworKs Enabled by Agile SpecTrum Use (ROCKET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

The project aims at provisioning a ubiquitous wireless solution to reach bit rates higher than 100Mbps with peak throughputs higher than 1Gbps, based on Reconfigurable OFDMA Cooperative Networks enabled by agile spectrum use (ROCKET). While increasing peak rates is a natural must-do for new standards, providing homogeneous high rate coverage is equally important as it guarantees a constant user ex ...
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Entwicklung von Landnutzungskonzepten zur nachhaltigen Verbesserung der Wassergüte und des Erosionsschutzes im grenzüberschreitenden Einzugsgebiet der Neiße

Da die Wasserkontamination in dieser Region zu den höchsten in Sachsen und Tschechien gehört, soll die grenzüberschreitende Untersuchung des Einflusses derLandnutzung auf Abfluss, Abtrag chemischer Stoffe und Wassergüte helfen, den jetzigen Zustand zu verbessern und das Ziel der EU-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie zu erfüllen.
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