ASSISIbf

Project name: Animal‌ and‌ robot‌ Societies‌ ‌Self-organise‌ and‌ Integrate‌ by‌ Social‌ Interaction‌ (bees‌ and‌ fish)‌
Project acronym: ASSISIbf
Dates: 01.02.2013 - 31.07.2018
Total budget: 6 Million EUR
Funding: EU-FP7
Grant Agreement number: 601074
website: zool33.uni-graz.at/artlife/assisibf


The main goal of ASSISIbf is to establish a bio-hybrid society of robots and animals (honeybees and fish). Within the project, two novel robotic systems were developed, with built-in abilities to “learn” the social language of animals, and to influence their collective behaviour.

A network of static interactive robot units called CASUs (Combined Actuator Sensor Unit) was developed, capable of producing and sensing a variety of stimuli relevant for honeybee behaviour. The robots implemented into the experimental arena are shown in the figure.

Fish CASUs are designed as mobile robots capable of performing complex dynamic movements and mimicking the intricate behaviour of small live fish species in constrained workspaces.

Distributed control methods using evolutionary computation were developed for the robotic systems, adapting robot behaviour to the observed animal behaviour, thus enabling the establishment of a self-organising bio-hybrid society of robots and animals. Such a society can then then pursue a common goal, which can be defined by human “users” of the system. One of the showcase examples is a graph theory problem solver (dominating set), where animals and robots, enhanced with a human-designed decision algorithm, together search the solution space, yielding a close-to-optimal solution in constant time.

 

This project is developed by:

  1. University of Graz – Artificial Life Lab (AT)
  2. CYBERTRONICA - Research Center of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science (CH)
  3. University of Zagreb – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, LARICS (HR)
  4. Université Paris Diderot – LIED (FR)
  5. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – LSRO (CH)
  6. FCiências.ID – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (PT)

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[^] An article on ASSISIbf published in Science Robotics Published 2019-03-30 at 11:45  ( Anamarija Miličević )
[^] Guest appearance on the Croatian National Television Published 2019-01-18 at 15:19  ( Anamarija Miličević )
[^] Prof. Stjepan Bogdan gave an interview to Lider Published 2018-10-24 at 12:31  ( Anamarija Miličević )
[^] Prof. Bogdan at the AI2FUTURE conference Published 2018-10-13 at 14:15  ( Alan Vukić )
[^] ASSISI project final review meeting Published 2018-09-25 at 14:15  ( Alan Vukić )
[^] LARICS at the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival Published 2018-09-12 at 14:00  ( Alan Vukić )
[^] ASSISI 7th General Assembly Published 2016-10-26 at 14:00  ( Alan Vukić )
[^] ASSISIbf Training FER 2015 Published 2015-12-17 at 14:00  ( Alan Vukić )
[^] ASSISI and ADORE on the Croatian television Published 2015-06-21 at 14:00  ( Alan Vukić )
[^] ASSISIbf 3rd internal training Published 2015-04-27 at 14:00  ( Alan Vukić ) Edited: 2020-06-25 at 13:18  (Barbara Arbanas Pascoal Ferreira)
[^] Karlo Griparić and Damir Arbula presented papers at IEEE SAS 2015 in Zadar, Croatia Published 2015-04-17 at 13:45  ( Alan Vukić )
[^] ASSISI_bf general assembly Published 2013-10-08 at 13:45  ( Alan Vukić ) Edited: 2020-06-25 at 13:19  (Barbara Arbanas Pascoal Ferreira)
[^] ASSISI_bf on SASO conference Published 2013-09-14 at 13:30  ( Alan Vukić ) Edited: 2020-06-25 at 13:19  (Barbara Arbanas Pascoal Ferreira)
[^] EC-SAFEMOBIL and ASSISI_bf projects presented at the EUROCON 2013 panel session Published 2013-07-03 at 13:30  ( Alan Vukić )
[^] ASSISI project presented to the Faculty Published 2013-03-22 at 13:30  ( Alan Vukić ) Edited: 2020-06-25 at 13:20  (Barbara Arbanas Pascoal Ferreira)
[^] LARICS team attends ASSISI|bf kick-off meeting Published 2013-02-21 at 13:15  ( Alan Vukić ) Edited: 2020-06-25 at 13:20  (Barbara Arbanas Pascoal Ferreira)