Application Overview 

The company develops control centres, cockpits and robotic systems including:

• multi national distributed control centres,
• exoskeletons with haptic feedback,
• knowledge management solutions,
• natural interfaces (language, AR, VR, BCI) giving access to large data sets,
• wearable computing solutions (with localisation and HMD).

These existing developments can be used as application testbeds or demonstrators. 

Application domains include science, engineering, medicine/surgery, aerospace, training, crisis response, corporate and scientific knowledge management.

Research Overview

The company performs RTD with national and EU funding along the following threads:

• Natural multi modal interfaces,
• Knowledge management, semantics, data sharing, interoperability,
• Multi modal cognitive robot control systems,
• Automation,
• Space exploration applications.

Target 

a) Robotic systems operating in real-world environmentsd
d) Fostering communication and co-operation between robotics and cognitive systems research communities

Interests

• Integration of haptic, vision, audio in the control of robots in real environments with and without human intervention - multi modal cognitive robot controller 

• Sensoric Arm Master with haptic control (Exoskeleton)
• Distributed Human-Robot System for Chemical Incident Management (DHRS-CIM)
• INTeractive RObotics Research Network (INTRO)
• Mind Controlled Orthosis and Virtual Reality Training Environment for Walk Empowering (MINDWALKER)
• Group of Unmanned Assistant Robots Deployed In Aggregative Navigation supported by Scent detection (GUARDIANS)
• Vision and Chemiresistor Equipped Web-connected Finding Robots (VIEWFINDER)
• Advanced Robotic Systems in future Collaborative Working Environments (Robot@CWE) 

Theme 3: ICT Challenge 4-Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
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SME initiative on Digital Content and Languages (Call SME-DCL 2011) Language Technologies

Target 

a) Multilingual content processing (for ontology population and multi domain QA)
c) Natural spoken interaction

Interests

• Multi lingual ontology design and population/natural language interfaces
• Natural spoken interaction in team working environments 

• Combining and Uniting Business Intelligence and Semantic Technologies (CUBIST)
• Large Scale Indexation of Multimedia Objects (LINDO) 

Theme 6: ENVIRONMENT
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Target 

ENV.2011.1.1.3-1 Vulnerability of Arctic Permafrost to climate change and implications…ENV.2011.1.3.4-1 Capacity building in natural hazards risk reduction
ENV.2011.4.1.1-1 Integration and Optimization of information for building GCOS
ENV.2011.4.1.3-1 Interoperable integration of shared Earth Observation in Global Context
ENV.2011.4.1.4-1 Developing Increased EO Capacity for better agriculture…….
ENV.2011.4.2.2-1 Knowledge brokerage activities for engaging in beyond GDP society 

Interests 

• Data federation, integration, semantic and knowledge management  technology/applications
• EO data and product integration and access 

• Distributed Information Acquisition and Decision-Making for Environmental Management (DIADEM) Joint SEC/ENV Call
• Application of Topic Maps for Earth Observation Data Access (SATOPI)

Theme 9: SPACE
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Target 

SPA.2011.1.5-01/02 Prototype Operational Continuity of GMES services Marine/Atmosphere
SPA.2011.2.1-01/02 Exploitation of science and exploration data/research and Development for Space Exploration

Interests 

• Enabling access to GMES/EO products that precisely meet user/public needs in a natural manner
• Exploration robotics, vision and automation applications

Recent & Current Research

• Natural user interfaces and Semantic Access to Earth Observation Data (SATOPI+others)
• Digital Signal Processing for Space Applications (DSPACE)
• USOCs KnowLedge Integration and dissemination for Space Science Experimentation (ULISSE) 
• Advanced Robotic Systems in future Collaborative Working Environments (Planetary Exploration) (Robot@CWE) 

Theme 10: SECURITY
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Target 

SEC-2011.1.3-3 Comprehensive tool box for humanitarian clearing of large civil areas from antipersonnel mines……..
SEC-2011.3.4-1 Security of Biometric data and travel documents
SEC-2011.4.1-1 Crisis Management Modelling tool
SEC-2011.4.1-2 Psycho social support for crisis management
SEC-2011.4.2.1 Post crisis lessons learned exercise
SEC-2011.4.2.2 Unmanned search and rescue solutions
SEC-2011.5.3-1/2/3/4 Interoperability

Interests 

• Knowledge, information, video management and standards for interoperability and exchange
• Robotics and automation technology         

• Sea Border Surveillance (SEABILLA)
• CRitical Incident management training System using an Interactive Simulation environment (CRISIS) 
• Distributed Information Acquisition and Decision-Making for Environmental Management (DIADEM) Joint SEC/ENV Call 

Marie Curie ITN/IAPP Project Interests
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Interests 

• Development of unobtrusive wearable computer systems providing high accuracy geolocalisation, natural interfaces and multi-modal interaction
• Complex event processing in process control
• Visual analytics for crisis response centres, control centres and cockpits
• Advanced training systems addressing knowledge maintenance and update