Partners
The consortium is multidisciplinary with a good balance of the competencies that are needed for the project. Partners complement each other, and together cover the project needs. Each partner brings international level expertise to its assigned tasks. The partnership comprises seven partners from five countries Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom and Germany.
The 4 universities, together, cover the research and development of the artificial driver. UNITN has expertise in the design of driver assistance systems, developed the co-driver idea for the interactIVe project and is specialised in Optimal Control. HIS has significant expertise in cognitive robotics, in particular with models and implementations of internal simulation mechanisms and related mechanisms (mental imagery, mirroring, etc). USFD background is on layered control architecture with action selection in humans and robots, and also on the modelling forward emulator in the cerebellum. Lastly MU background is on Perception-Action (PA) hierarchies, and how these may be produced ab initio.
DFKI is one of the most important research centres in robotics. As such it plays the key role of linking research to applications. In fact it will provide the means and infrastructure for the training phase of the artificial driver, providing very flexible research grade vehicles and a test site. CRF is an Original Equipment Manufacturer OEM), which is involved in the race for road automation. The main role of CRF is to assess that the simulation technology developed in Dreams4Cars is exploitable and demonstrate, with a real vehicle the achievement of TRL 6. As a secondary role CRF is also interested in the Product Quality Assurance (technical) of the artificial driver, which is carried out in a resourced task WP1.4.
University of Trento
UNITN has expertise in the design of driver assistance systems, developed the co-driver idea for the interactIVe project and is specialised in Optimal Control
University of Skövde
HIS has significant expertise in cognitive robotics, in particular with models and implementations of internal simulation mechanisms and related mechanisms (mental imagery, mirroring, etc).
University of Sheffield
USFD background is on layered control architecture with action selection in humans and robots, and also on the modelling forward emulator in the cerebellum
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH
DFKI is one of the most important research centres in robotics. As such it plays the key role of linking research to applications. In fact it will provide the means and infrastructure for the training phase of the artificial driver, providing very flexible research grade vehicles and a test site
Heich Consult
HC is specialized in technical management of large international projects as well as in dissemination and communication. HC acts as technical manager and coordinates dissemination and communication
CRF
CRF is an Original Equipment Manufacturer OEM, which is involved in the race for road automation. The main role of CRF is to assess that the simulation technology developed in Dreams4Cars is exploitable and demonstrate, with a real vehicle the achievement of TRL 6. As a secondary role CRF is also interested in the Product Quality Assurance (technical) of the artificial driver
Middlesex
MU background is on Perception-Action (PA) hierarchies, and how these may be produced ab initio