ANGELS
Anguilliform robot with electric sense
| Coordinatore | ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS - ARMINES
Organization address
address: BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL 60 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | France [FR] |
| Totale costo | 4˙034˙076 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙100˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-02-01 - 2012-01-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS - ARMINES
Organization address
address: BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL 60 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Organization address
address: Rue Michel-Ange 3 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES TECHNIQUES INDUSTRIELLES ET DES MINES DE NANTES
Organization address
address: DEPARTEMENT INFORMATIQUE contact info |
FR (NANTES) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 | ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE | CH | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION Y CULTURA
Organization address
address: RECONQUISTA 535 contact info |
UY (MONTEVIDEO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAET BONN
Organization address
address: Regina Pacis Weg 3 contact info |
DE (BONN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 | SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA | IT | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPUBLICA
Organization address
address: Avenida 18 de julio 1824 contact info |
UY (MONTEVIDEO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 | UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART | DE | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
The aim of the ANGELS project is to design and build a prototype of a reconfigurable Anguilliform swimming robot able to split into smaller agents (and vice-versa), each equipped with a bio-inspired 'electric sense' used both for recognition of objects and communication between agents. This mode of active perception, present in some fish, is based on the polarisation of certain regions of their body, so generating an electric field flowing through an electroreceptive skin.
The robot will exploit both 'mechanical re-configurability', by changing body topology, and a new concept of 'electric re-configurability' that will allow the robots to self-adapt their perception to their environment by changing the location of emitters and receptors on the robot boundaries. The electric field generated around the robots can be considered as an 'electric-body' shaped through electric reconfigurations. ANGELS will explore the range of abilities conferred by different mechanical and electric morphologies, from the shaping of the common electric body shared by the agents navigating in formation, to design of behavioural cooperative rules inspired by fish for improving multi-agent perception through emergent collective behaviours.
Thus the intelligence encoded in the animals' morphology will be applied to the design of a new generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles able to adapt to their environment and suited to a wide spectrum of uses, in particular in situations where vision cannot be used. To achieve these goals, the ANGELS will form a multidisciplinary team combining the complementary expertise of biologists, roboticians, image-processing specialists and nuclear physicists specialised in the design of particle detectors.