ACROSS is a Singular Strategic R&D Project led by Treelogic funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade
Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade
through the Plan Avanza I+D initiative. ACROSS carries out research and development activities in the field of Robotics
Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrate ...
and Cognitive Computing
Cognitive computing (CC) refers to technology platforms that, broadly speaking, are based on the scientific disciplines of artificial intelligence and signal processing. These platforms encompass machine learning, reasoning, natural languag ...
over an execution time-frame from 2009 to 2011. ACROSS project involves a number higher than 100 researchers from 13 Spanish entities.
ACROSS project objectives
ACROSS modifies the design of social robot
A social robot is an autonomous robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role. Like other robots, a social robot is physically embodied (avatars ...
ics, blocked in providing predefined services, going further by means of intelligent systems
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. These systems are able to self-reconfigure and modify their behavior autonomously through the capacity for understanding, learning and software remote access.
In order to provide an open framework for collaboration between universities, research center
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s and the Administration, ACROSS develops Open Source Services available to everybody.
Three application domains
ACROSS works in three application domain
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s:
* Autonomous living: robots are used as technological tools to help handicapped person into daily tasks.
* Psycho-Affective Disorders ( autism): robots are used to mitigate cognitive disorder
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s.
* Marketing: robots are used to interact with humans in a recreational approach.
Consortium
* Treelogic
* Alimerka
* Bizintek
* Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
* University of Deusto
The University of Deusto ( es, Universidad de Deusto; eu, Deustuko Unibertsitatea) is a Spanish private university owned by the Society of Jesus, with campuses in Bilbao and San Sebastián, and the Deusto Business School branch in Madrid. The Un ...
* European Centre for Soft Computing
* Fatronik -
* Fundació Hospital Comarcal Sant Antoni Abat
* Fundación Pública Andaluza para la Gestión de la Investigación en Salud de Sevilla, "Virgen del Rocío" University Hospitals
* m-BOT
* Omicron Electronic
Universidad de Extremadura - RoboLab
* Verbio Technologies
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.acrosspse.com
ACROSS SlideShare
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Robotics projects
Free software projects
Robotics suites
AI software
2009 in robotics
Research and development in Spain