Research Objective

Research Objective1. What are you looking for?CALL1 – ICT 23 – 2014: ROBOTICS ICT 23.a Research and Innovation Action: R&D

Advance robotics abilities + key technologies and their combination Market domains: manufacturing, commercial, civil, agriculture Demonstrate increased TRL (Technology Readiness Level) relevant for the

market domains Research results must be validated in real-world setting, demonstrating

progress in abilities/technologies RELEVANT to these market domains100% funding -> Focus on RTD, not innovationFrom basic research to more applied research (depending on TRL)REFER TO Strategic Research Agenda and Multi-Annual Roadmap*

- Detailed definition of Market domains and Technology Combinations

- Technology/ability gaps for specific applications –> need for TRL steps*This roadmap is publicly available on the euRobotics AISBL website; its content results from continuous consultation of the whole European robotics community. The prioritisation of the topics follows a formal

procedure established by the euRobotics AISBL, whose membership is open to all European stakeholders in Robotics – http://www.eu-robotics.net/ppp .

Research Objective1. What are you looking for?CALL1 – ICT 23 – 2014: ROBOTICS ICT 23.a Research and Innovation Actions: HORIZONTAL SUPPORT ACTIVITIES System development processes, techniques and technologies applicable across markets Shared resources and assessment

Sharing of resources (including Hardware / Software) Mechanisms for sharing (incl. sharing of HW and engineering support for developing demonstrators)

Harmonisation of system design practice

Definition of standards

High quality validation, maintenance and documentation (Optimise re-use)

Performance evaluation and benchmarking

OBJECTIVES

Optimise quality, efficiency, sharing and re-use of results

Demonstrate and support continuous progress

Research Objective

1. What are you looking for?CALL1 – ICT 23 – 2014: ROBOTICS ICT 23.b INNOVATION ACTIONS: Technology transfer – Robotics use cases Proposals focusing on transferring latest research results from the lab to the

industry/users

the expertise covering the complete lifecycle must be present in proposal (from research to integration to users).

concrete plan to reach impact carefully explained

business case made

user driven proposals and not technology push

Research Objective

1. What are you looking for?CALL1 – ICT 23 – 2014: ROBOTICS ICT 23.c INNOVATION ACTIONS: Pre-Commercial procurement in robotics Application Areas: Public safety, environment and infrastructure monitoring

Gathering public procurers with common needs One large project (up to 5m€) including 2 major components

- Refining requirements; organizing the selection of suppliers and evaluation of progress

- RTD work to be procured

Frequently Asked Questions on PCP: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/pcp/faq_en.html

Research Objective

1. What are you looking for?CALL2 – ICT 24 – 2015: RoboticsICT 24.a R&I Actions to advance key technologies relevant for industrial and service robotics Idem ICT 23.a but in Market domains: healthcare, consumer, transport

ICT 24.b Innovation Actions: Technology transfer – Industry-Academia cross-fertilisation1 or 2 Large project (s)

may include open calls for small scale Industry-Academia experiments with industrial platforms

Share infrastructure, define joint industrially relevant scenarios, cluster activities

Research Objective1. What are you looking for?CALL2 – ICT 24 – 2015: RoboticsICT 24.c Innovation Actions: Technology transfer – Robotics use cases Idem 23.b

ICT 24.d Pre-Commercial procurement in robotics Application Area: Healthcare

ICT 24.e Coordination Actions: Community building and Robotic competitions Supporting the European robotics community:

- Networking, education, outreach, public awareness, technology watch, standardisation, and industry-academia collaboration, links to national programmes and initiatives.

- Ethical, legal, societal and economical aspects

International cooperation Coordinating on the next generation of cognitive systems and robotics Robotic Competitions: towards smarter robots.

What are you looking for? OVERVIEWCHALLENGE 5: ROBOTICSRoadmap-based R&D&I in Robotics 1st CallPublication: 11 December 2013Deadline: 23 April 2014

74M€

ICT23.a PRIORITY: Market domains: manufacturing, commercial, civil, agriculture RTD to advance key technologies relevant for industrial and service robotics, including shared resources and assessment

57 M€

ICT23.b - Technology transfer - Robotics use casesIndustrial and service sectors 12 M€

ICT23.c - Pre-commercial procurement in roboticsPublic safety and monitoring of environment and infrastructure

5 M€

1. What are you looking for? OVERVIEW

Robotics ICT24.a 50ICT24.b 12ICT24.c 12ICT24.d 5ICT24.e 4

BuRobotics ICT23.a 57 M€  

ICT23.b 12 M€  ICT23.c 5  

CHALLENGE 5: ROBOTICSRoadmap-based R&D&I in Robotics - 2st CallPublication: July 2014Deadline: 20 January 2015

83M€

ICT24.a – PRIORITY: healthcare, consumer, transportRTD to advance key technologies relevant for industrial and service robotics

50M€

ICT24.b - Technology transfer - Industry-academia cross-fertilisation

12M€

ICT23.c - Technology transfer - Robotics use cases 12M€

ICT23.d - Pre-commercial procurement in robotics: healthcare 5M€ICT23.e - Community building and Robotic competitions 4M€

What are you looking for? OVERVIEW

Research Objective2. Is this new or has it been called before? eg. How is it new /

different from previous calls

ICT 23.a/ICT 24.a: While the robotics technologies and abilities that still are to be advanced are not very different from the previous research efforts, they now have to be advanced in the context of some market domains prioritized in the call and progress have to be demonstrated in real-life setup relevant for these market

ICT 23.b/ICT 24.c: use-cases – similar to CALL10 – but relatively recent – proposers must understand the focus on technology transfer as opposed to R&D

ICT 23.c/ICT 24.d: PcP in Monitoring and safety

– first time called in robotics

– a concept of PcP (PcP Pilot) exists in ECHORD++

– relevant projects: SMART@FIRE http://www.smartatfire.eu/, SILVER http://www.silverpcp.eu/

ICT CT 24.d: Technology transfer - Industry-academia cross-fertilisation– similar to ECHORD http://www.echord.info/ and ECHORD ++, however, with a different administrative mechanism - possibility to include third parties as opposed to add partners)

Research Objective2. Is this new or has it been called before?Are there any ongoing projects that are serving as a “bridge” between FP7 and H2020

- Yes, the use cases called in ICT-10 robotics started an initiative to foster technology transfer

PcP concept has been tested in other areas but also relevant for robotics (SMART@FIRE http://www.smartatfire.eu/, SILVER http://www.silverpcp.eu/)

- ECHORD++ (http://www.echord.info/)and EUROC (European Robotics Challenges) propose a shared infrastructure (transition to ICT 23.a – shared resources)

- BRICS (http://www.best-of-robotics.org/) proposed a support activity "BEST PRACTICE IN ROBOTICS": structure and formalize the robot development, provide tools, models, and functional libraries.

- ECHORD ++: includes PcP pilots (transition to ICT 23.c / ICT 24.d)

3. Current project portfoliohttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/robotics/

Research Objective4. What do you NOT want?- ICT 23 a)/ICT 24 a) Research not connected to the

prioritised market domains- ICT 23 b) & ICT 24 c)

- Major research components in the tech transfer projects- Use cases without users: Pure technology push use cases

Research Objective - Key actors

5. Who are the leading players?The European Robotics PPP, represented by the euRobotics AISBL

- http://www.eu-robotics.net/ppp

- involves major stakeholders

- open: strongly encourage participation of robotics stakeholdersNote that the PPP is not exhaustive and end users are typically not highly represented

System integrators are not present either

Public body/ procurers for the PcP not (yet) in the PPP

- the PPP partners are not favored in the selection process

6. Is there a key group of actors or ETP driving this?European Robotics PPP - http://www.eu-robotics.net/ppp .

Research Objective7. Are there any additional / background documents?

1. Q&A document will be posted in due time Current url: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/robotics/

2. Essential reading for proposers, providing detailed definitions of technologies and abilities and illustrative examples of the selected priorities. Strategic research agenda from the European Robotics PPP Multi Annual Roadmap from the European Robotics PPP

These documents are publicly available on the euRobotics AISBL website; the roadmap content results from continuous consultation of the whole European robotics community: http://www.eu-robotics.net/ppp .

CONTACT8. Contact: Call coordinator

Cécile HUET, PhD

Directorate-General CONNECT - Unit Robotics – A2

Rue Alcide de Gasperi, EUFO 2260 - L-2920 Luxembourg

[email protected] - Website : http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/robotics/ (current URL)