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Project
Acronym: CADDY 
Name: Cognitive autonomous diving buddy 
Project status: From: 2014-01-01 To: 2016-12-31 (Completed)
Contract number: 611373 
Action line:  
Type (Programme): FP7 
Funding scheme: STREP 
Project cost: 4.881.057,00 EUR
Project funding: 3.680.000,00 EUR
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing 
Organisation adress: Unska 3 
Organisation country: Croatia 
Contact person name: Nikola Mišković 
Contact person email: Email 
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Organisation address: Unska 3 
Contact person name: Nikola Mišković
Contact person tel:
+38516129815  Contact person fax:  
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
Organisation nameCountry
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italy 
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO Portugal 
JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN GGMBH  Germany 
UNIVERSITAET WIEN Austria 
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE United Kingdom 
Divers Alert Network Europe Foundation Malta 
Short description of project
Divers operate in harsh and poorly monitored environments in which the slightest unexpected disturbance, technical malfunction, or lack of attention can have catastrophic consequences. They manoeuvre in complex 3D environments, carry cumbersome equipment, while performing their mission. To overcome these problems, CADDY aims to establish an innovative set-up between a diver and companion autonomous robots (underwater and surface) that exhibit cognitive behaviour through learning, interpreting, and adapting to the diver’s behaviour, physical state, and actions. The CADDY project replaces a human buddy diver with an autonomous underwater vehicle and adds a new autonomous surface vehicle to improve monitoring, assistance, and safety of the diver’s mission. The resulting system plays a threefold role similar to those that a human buddy diver should have: i) the buddy “observer” that continuously monitors the diver; ii) the buddy “slave” that is the diver's “extended hand” during underwater operations performing tasks such as “do a mosaic of that area”, “take a photo of that” or “illuminate that”; and iii) the buddy “guide” that leads the diver through the underwater environment. The envisioned threefold functionality will be realized through S&T objectives which are to be achieved within three core research themes: the “Seeing the Diver” research theme focuses on 3D reconstruction of the diver model (pose estimation and recognition of hand gestures) through remote and local sensing technologies, thus enabling behaviour interpretation; the “Understanding the  Diver” theme focuses on adaptive interpretation of the model and physiological measurements of the diver in order to determine the state of the diver; while the “Diver-Robot Cooperation and Control” theme is the link that enables diver interaction with underwater vehicles with rich sensory-motor skills, focusing on cooperative control and optimal formation keeping with the diver as an integral part of the formation.  
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
 


   

 


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