H2020 Call – Technologies for Digitising European Industry

You can apply for 2 topics under the “Technologies for Digitising European Industry ” priority, as part of the “Horizon 2020 – Information and Communication Technologies” programme.

The Digitising European Industry initiative aims to establish next generation digital platforms and re-build the underlying digital supply chain on which all economic sectors are dependent. The initiative should enable all sector and application areas to adapt, transform and benefit from digitisation, notably by allowing also smaller players to capture value.

 

Topic #1: Robotics in Application Areas.

Type of action:  Research and Innovation action

Deadline: 28 March 2019 17:00:00 Brussels time

Specific Challenge

Robots are often faced with new technical and non-technical challenges. The purpose of this topic is to address such issues in a modular and open way, and reduce the barriers that prevent a more widespread adoption of robots. Four Priority Areas (PAs) are targeted: healthcare, inspection and maintenance of infrastructure, agri-food, and agile production.

Scope

a) Research and Innovation boosting promising robotics applications

Proposals are expected to enable substantially improved solutions to challenging technical issues, with a view of take-up in applications with high socio-economic impact. The call is open to all robotics-related research topics and to all new application areas.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between €3 million and €5 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately.

b) Innovation Actions – Robotics for infrastructure inspection and maintenance

Through large-scale pilots, proposals are expected to make a significant step forward in platform development in the area of infrastructure inspection and maintenance. They are expected to: consider utilising existing infrastructure and links to other European, national or private fundingsources; identify the long-term sustainability of the pilot; develop scalable technical solutions capable of meeting performance targets; develop metrics and performance measures for the pilot; engage relevant industry stakeholders, including SMEs, in the provision and operation
of the pilot.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between €7 million and €9 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately.

c) Robotics Competitions

Competitions aims at reducing technical and commercial risks by allowing commercial and technical performance data to be gathered and assessed. They provide a real or near-real operating environment for long-term trials and the testing of deployment strategies.

Expected Impact

a) Research and Innovation boosting promising robotics applications

  • Strengthening European excellence in Robotics S&T
  • Boosting the use of robotics in promising application areas

 

b) Innovation Actions – Robotics for infrastructure inspection and maintenance

  • Demonstration of the potential for robotics to impact at scale in the chosen application areas prioritised in this call (infrastructure inspection and maintenance).
  • Reduction of technical and commercial risk in the deployment of services based on robotic actors within the selected application area.

 

c) Robotics Competitions

  • Greater public exposure to actual robotics capability.
  • Greater engagement with competitions from commercial organisations in the four prioritised application areas: Healthcare, Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance, Agri-Food and Agile Production.

 

 

Topic #2: Robotics Core Technology.

Type of action: Research and Innovation action

Deadline: 28 March 2019 17:00:00 Brussels time

Specific Challenge

Autonomy in robotic systems is built on a combination of four core technologies:

AI and Cognition: AI provides tools to make systems cognitive. Cognition equips robots with the ability to interact with people and environments, to learn and to categorise, to make decisions and to derive knowledge.

Cognitive Mechatronics: Mechatronic systems where sensing and actuation are closely coupled with cognitive systems are expected to deliver improved control, motion, interaction, adaptation and learning, and safer systems.

Socially cooperative human-robot interaction: Cooperative human-robot interaction is critical in many work environments from collaborative support, e.g. passing tools to a worker, to the design of exo-skeletons able to provide motion that is sympathetic to the user.

Model-based design and configuration tools: Deploying robotics at scale in application areas where tasks need to be defined by the user requires easy-to-use configuration tools.

Scope

Proposals should address one of the four core technologies and target the development of core technology modules and tool kits for use in deployable system platforms that meet the requirements of applications in the following four prioritised application areas: Healthcare, Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance, AgriFood and Agile Production.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between €5 million and €10 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately.

Expected Impact
  • Improved technical capability in each of the core technologies over the current state of
    the art.
  • A greater range of applications in the prioritised application areas that can be
    demonstrated at TRL 3 and above.
  • The lowering of technical barriers within the prioritised applications areas.

Source: H2020 Work programme Information and Communication Technologies

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