Abstract:

The CIDSACTEH project (Intelligent and Distributed Management of Three Complex Autonomous Systems Integrated in Emerging Technologies to Medical and Social Assistance and Service of Flexible Precision Manufacturing Lines) aims to improve the institutional performance of public academic research organizations with tradition in socio-economic areas of interest for Romania by supporting and developing the existing research competences at university level as well as the transfer of research results to the industry. The research staff involved in the implementation is made up of teachers and young researchers. The beneficiaries of the results are the profile companies. The project proposes an intelligent and distributed control of three complex autonomous systems (intelligent wheelchair for people with disabilities, personal robotic assistant, and multidirectional autonomous vehicle), integrated into new technologies for personal assistance, and a precision flexible manufacturing line for assembly and disassembly process. For project implementation a consotium consisting of four Romanian universities in a mesh network (University DUNAREA DE JOS of Galati, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, University VALAHIA of Targoviste, and University of Craiova) was established as a result of a national competition.

The goal of this competition is to use the academic expertise the high level research to create:
a) new products integrated into emerging technologies transferred to the industrial economic agents and
b) new research jobs supported by the program. CIDSACTEH is divided in four projects, each of them being implemented by research teams of the universities.
P1. Design, modeling and operating simulation of distributed configurations of sensors and visual servoing on complex autonomous systems for personal medical-social assistance.
P2. Modeling, simulating, and implementation of distributed configurations of sensors and visual servoing for robotic lines with autonomous systems.
P3. Driving and navigation based on sensors and visual servoing systems of three complex autonomous systems (wheelchair for people with disabilities, mobile robots, and autonomous vehicles equipped with manipulators) integrated into medical and social assistance technologies and flexible manufacturing precision lines.
P4. Modeling, simulating, and real-time control of complex autonomous systems integrated into new flexible manufacturing technologies for reusable products.

The projects use the needs oriented programming (NOP) which is geared to human needs, not to objects, events or cases, using advanced cloud architectures and standards, as well as heterogeneous and distributed computing resources to meet current user needs and resolve real issues. In view of user feedback, NOP allows for the improvement of software packages by exploiting the collaborative dimensions of software development and service delivery, creating innovative and self-adaptive Internet-based services using agile software technologies and tools for any phase of the service life. The project provides the support for strengthening the scientific and technical competencies in areas of strategic importance for the economic and social development by correlating and coordinating the activities and resources within the universities with a similar or complementary specialization profile and valorization of these competences through research results offered to the economic and social environment.

Keywords:

Education-research-industry-cooperation, complex project, visual servoing systems, complex autonomous systems, robotic lines.