The structure of the project

Project management and monitoring

The goal of this workpackage is to:

• set goals for each WP with the aim of ensuring that the agreed project objectives and deliverables are achieved
• provide a central point of communication for the project with the European Commission
• facilitate communication and co-operation between project participants
• maintain accurate records of cost and effort
• ensure quality in project work
• anticipate and manage changes related to the project Technical & Innovation Management
•  prepare and deliver periodic management reports and technical progress reports as required
• perform quality controls of the deliverables
• seek out and exploit potential market opportunities for the technical advancements
• prepare the Steering Committee meetings and the review meetings
• manage contract and consortium agreement related issues

Requirements and specifications

The goal of this workpackage is to:

• Define the requirements (functional, performance-related, hardware-related, etc.) of the OpenDR toolkit
• Define the specifications (intefaces, functionality, interoperability, etc.) of the OpenDR toolkit
• Define the requirements of deep active percepion algorithms (data collection, inteface, etc.)
• Define the requirements and specifications of the use cases (agri-food, healthcare, robotics, agile production)
• Define the requirements and specifications of the simulations that will be developed for training deep learning algorithms for the use cases
• Define the data management plan (DMP)

Deep human centric active perception and cognition

The goal of this workpackage is to provide novel, lightweight, deep learning-based approaches for a broad range of topics related to humancentric active perception and cognition:

• person/face/body part active detection/recognition and pose estimation
• person/face/body part tracking and human activity recognition
• social signal analysis and recognition
• active speech and biosignal analysis
• active multi-modal humancentric perception and cognition
• human intention prediction

Deep environment active perception and cognition

The goal of this workpackage is to provide lightweight deep learning methods for deep environment active perception and cognition namely:

• object detection/recognition, semantic scene segmentation and understanding, pose estimation
• 2D/3D object localization and tracking
• SLAM and 3D scene reconstruction
• robust/redundant multi-modal sensor fusion

Deep robot action and decision making

The goal of this workpackage is to provide lightweight deep learning methods for deep robot action and decision making, namely:

• deep reinforcement learning and related control methods
• deep planning and navigation methods that can be trained in end-to-end fashion
• enable robots to decide on actions based on observations in WP3, as well as to learn from observations
• enable efficient and effective human robot interaction
  

Simulation environments and data

The goal of this workpackage is to:

• provide a simulation framework for generating sensor and actuator data aimed at training OpenDR tools
• integrate the OpenDR framework in the Webots robot simulator to provide a quick prototyping tool to robotics developers willing to use OpenDR

Integration

The goal of this workpackage is to:

• integrate OpenDR toolkit in simulation environment and to ensure its portability across various systems
  
• integrate OpenDR toolkit
  

Evaluation

The goal of this workpackage is to:

• evaluate the developed toolkit under different application scenarios using datasets, simulation environments and real world applications
• evaluate the developed toolkit in the specific use cases in real world conditions
  

Dissemination and Exploitation

The goal of this workpackage is to:

• monitor the project achievements and compare to the state of the art
• monitor the transmitter market and respective business models in order to align OpenDR
• disseminate research results
• collaborate with established initiatives, active on the same theme
• establish links with robotics DIHs
• Co-ordinate the intellectual property rights generated within the project

Ethics requirements

The goal of this workpackage is to ensure compliance with the ‘ethics requirements’.