SESAME: Secure and Safe Multi-Robot Systems
- Project title: Secure and Safe Multi-Robot Systems
- Project acronym: SESAME
- Funding source: Horizon 2020
- Funding scheme: ICT-46
- Project id: 101017258
- Project starting date: 01 Jan. 2021
- Project duration: 36 months
- Funded amount: 6 999 786,25
- Project role: Lead Postdoctoral Researcher
Abstract:
European strategy and research roadmap documents emphasize the significant societal and economic benefits coming from robotic and autonomous systems. Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) comprise distributed and interconnected robotic teams that can carry out tasks beyond the competency of a single robot. Although MRS offer improved scalability and performance, increased robustness, and mission enablement, the lack of a systematic engineering methodology, covering the complete lifecycle of MRS, results in solutions that fail because of fragile design and unrealistic assumptions. SESAME addresses these problems through an open, modular, model-based approach for the systematic engineering of dependable MRS. SESAME is underpinned by public meta-models, components and configuration tools supporting the dependable MRS operation in uncertain settings characterized by emergent behaviours and possible cyber-attacks. To demonstrate this timely and ambitious goal, SESAME combines five enduser- led use-cases (in the domains of healthcare, agile manufacturing, agri-food, and inspection and maintenance) with R&D competences of partners that have a long track-record in conducting cutting-edge research on robotics, modelbased safety, security analysis, validation, and verification, towards the actual delivery of research results characterized by widely-used, sustainable and industrial-strength open-source software. An advisory board of world-class experts guides the development of SESAME.Related Research: