| Funding period: | Jan. 1, 2024 to Dec. 31, 2024 |
| Agency: | transCampus |
| Part of the following collaborative project: | transCampus partnership, King's College London and Technische Universität Dresden |
We acknowledge funding by the transCampus project "Digitizing special senses: Teaching robots to smell and taste" (KCL Robots)
Designing robots to perform physical tasks and connecting them to their environment by equipping them with special senses is, by its nature, an interdisciplinary task, connecting areas like engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence. Smell and taste provide a wealth of information about our physical surroundings. Despite this important role, the digitization of both senses is still in its infancy compared to vision and hearing. The development and integration of technological solutions that will ultimately enable the electronic detection of odors as well as of molecular species in liquids is today still a highly challenging problem in research and technology.
To advance in direction of digitizing selected special senses, the overarching goal of the project, the partners at KCL and TUD possess ideally matching expertise and experience in robotics and sensor technology. The mission of CORE at KCL is to develop solutions to critical challenges faced in society by the development of robot-centric approaches. The activities include medical topics, horticulture/agriculture, manufacturing, and humanitarian demining and bring together expertise in innovative sensing and manipulation technologies, reconfigurable and flexible metamorphic robotic platforms, variable stiffness and soft-body materials, dynamic control methodologies for multi-robot teams and progressive modes of human-robot integration. With these research topics, CORE ideally complements the activities of the chair of Gianaurelio Cuniberti, the initial TUD partner, on sensor development and integration, with a special focus on digital olfaction and taste, currently still “missing senses” in technical systems. Further partners at TU Dresden will be identified and involved during the project.
Joining forces will boost the innovation potential of both partners, e.g. by developing methods and protocols for the olfactorial navigation of robots, which can be used to detect individual gases and to trace their sources in a wide range of applications in challenging environments to be found in industrial manufacturing, security technology, space applications, nuclear technology or in the health sector.
| Funding period: | Jan. 1, 2024 to Dec. 31, 2024 |
| Agency: | transCampus |
| Part of the following collaborative project: | transCampus partnership, King's College London and Technische Universität Dresden |
We acknowledge funding by the transCampus project "Digitizing special senses: Teaching robots to smell and taste" (KCL Robots)
Designing robots to perform physical tasks and connecting them to their environment by equipping them with special senses is, by its nature, an interdisciplinary task, connecting areas like engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence. Smell and taste provide a wealth of information about our physical surroundings. Despite this important role, the digitization of both senses is still in its infancy compared to vision and hearing. The development and integration of technological solutions that will ultimately enable the electronic detection of odors as well as of molecular species in liquids is today still a highly challenging problem in research and technology.
To advance in direction of digitizing selected special senses, the overarching goal of the project, the partners at KCL and TUD possess ideally matching expertise and experience in robotics and sensor technology. The mission of CORE at KCL is to develop solutions to critical challenges faced in society by the development of robot-centric approaches. The activities include medical topics, horticulture/agriculture, manufacturing, and humanitarian demining and bring together expertise in innovative sensing and manipulation technologies, reconfigurable and flexible metamorphic robotic platforms, variable stiffness and soft-body materials, dynamic control methodologies for multi-robot teams and progressive modes of human-robot integration. With these research topics, CORE ideally complements the activities of the chair of Gianaurelio Cuniberti, the initial TUD partner, on sensor development and integration, with a special focus on digital olfaction and taste, currently still “missing senses” in technical systems. Further partners at TU Dresden will be identified and involved during the project.
Joining forces will boost the innovation potential of both partners, e.g. by developing methods and protocols for the olfactorial navigation of robots, which can be used to detect individual gases and to trace their sources in a wide range of applications in challenging environments to be found in industrial manufacturing, security technology, space applications, nuclear technology or in the health sector.
