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D8.2 – Dissemination Plan and Plan for the Use of the Foreground (Draft)

Public Copyright ROBINSPECT

Contract N. 611145

Project co-funded by the European Commission under the

7th Framework Programme

7th

Framework Programme

FP7-ICT-2013-10 N.611145

Dissemination Plan

Deliverable n. D8.2 Dissemination Plan and Plan for the

Use of the Foreground (Draft)

Workpackage WP8 Dissemination of Activities and Exploitation of

Results

Editor(s) Stefanos Camarinopoulos (RISA) and Philippe Chrobocinski (CAS)

Status Final

Issue date 06/06/2014 Creation date 17/02/2014



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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................................................ 3

LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................................................... 3

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................................................. 4

REVISION CHART AND HISTORY LOG ................................................................................................................ 5

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................... 6

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 7

PART I: DISSEMINATION PLAN ......................................................................................................................... 8

1. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY .................................................................................................................... 8

1.1 OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................................................. 8 1.2 TARGET GROUPS ........................................................................................................................................... 8 1.3 DISSEMINATION CHANNELS .............................................................................................................................. 8 1.3.1 WEBSITE ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.3.2 NEWSLETTER ................................................................................................................................................ 9 1.3.3 CONFERENCES .............................................................................................................................................. 9 1.3.4 SPECIAL SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS ORGANISED BY THE PARTNERS ...................................................................... 9 1.3.5 GROUP OF EXPERTS ....................................................................................................................................... 9 1.4 DISSEMINATION ROADMAP ............................................................................................................................. 11 1.4.1 FIRST YEAR ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................................. 11 1.4.2 SECOND YEAR ACTIVITIES .............................................................................................................................. 11 1.4.3 THIRD YEAR ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................................. 12 1.4.4 AFTER THE END OF THE PROJECT ................................................................................................................... 12

2. DISSEMINATION RESPONSIBILITIES. TIMING OF THE DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES .................................13

3. DISSEMINATION PROCEDURES ..............................................................................................................15

3.1 DISSEMINATION REQUEST PROCEDURE ............................................................................................................. 15 3.2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT ..................................................................................................................................... 15 3.3 OPEN ACCESS FOR PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES IN JOURNALS OR CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ....................................... 15

4. ACTIVITIES PERFORMED SO FAR ............................................................................................................17

5. PART II. PLAN FOR THE USE OF FOREGROUND .....................................................................................19

5.1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................ 19 5.2 BUSINESS CASE ............................................................................................................................................ 19 5.2.1 MARKET ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE ............................................................................................................... 19 5.2.2 GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................... 20 5.2.3 EUROPEAN MARKET OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................. 20 5.2.4 ADJACENT DOMAINS ................................................................................................................................. 21 5.3 ROBINSPECT EXPECTED CHANGES ................................................................................................................. 22

6. IDENTIFICATION OF THE FOREGROUND .................................................................................................23

7. EXPLOITATION PLAN ..............................................................................................................................24

7.1 ROADMAP .................................................................................................................................................. 24 7.2 CONSORTIUM EXPLOITATION PLAN ................................................................................................................... 24 7.3 INDIVIDUAL EXPLOITATION PLAN ...................................................................................................................... 24

8. CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................................................................................27

9. REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................................28



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ANNEXES ........................................................................................................................................................29

ANNEX I - WEB SITE, LINKEDIN AND TWEETER ........................................................................................................... 29 ANNEX II – 1ST NEWSLETTER ................................................................................................................................... 31 ANNEX III - LIST OF 2014 CONFERENCES .................................................................................................................. 37 ANNEX IV - PRESS RELEASE ................................................................................................................................. 38 ANNEX V - DISSEMINATION REQUEST FORMS ............................................................................................................ 42

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. The main communication media and the corresponding target groups ................................................. 10 Table 2. Responsibilities and Timing for Each Dissemination Activity ................................................................... 13 Table 3. ROBINSPECT Benefits to particular Sectors ............................................................................................. 21 Table 4. Individual Exploitation Plans per Partner ................................................................................................ 25

LIST OF FIGURES

Fig 1: Annual Sales and status of industrial robotics (source: IFR World Robotics, IPA) ....................................... 21



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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ABBREVIATION DESCRIPTION

COSUF Committee on Operational Safety of Underground Facilities

DM Dissemination Manager

IAARC International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction

IST Information Society Technologies

ITA International Tunnelling and underground Association

SC Steering Committee

TRIP Transport Research and Innovation Portal



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REVISION CHART AND HISTORY LOG

DATE REASON EDITOR

21/2/14 Initiation Stefanos Camarinopoulos (RISA)

10/4/14 Additions Philippe Chrobocinski (CAS)

15/5/14 Exploitation plan addition Philippe Chrobocinski (CAS)

5/6/14 Consolidation of inputs from partners Philippe Chrobocinski (CAS)

6/6/14 Quality Reviewing and Final version Stefanos Camarinopoulos (RISA),

Philippe Chrobocinski (CAS)



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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This document describes the Dissemination and Exploitation Plan activities within the ROBINSPECT project.

The aim of the Dissemination plan and Activities are to:

Prepare industrial exploitation of the results

Prepare and organise the dissemination activities to be performed in order to promote and difuse the

ROBINSPECT concepts and results among the potential users and beneficieries and to monitor the

performance of these actions

Maximise awareness of ROBINSPECT in the general public

Design, implement and maintain the project website

Some actions were done from the very beginning of the project. For example, in month 2 the Guality

Management Report (D9.1) describes the processes for dissemination activities, in month no 3 the web site and

Twitter and LinkedIn tools were available, while a sample press release to make the public aware of the project

was distributed to the partners in month number 3 and so far nine sources of public information in Spain and

11 sources of public information in Greece have published press releases related to ROBINSPECT.

The exploitation plan describes the approach defined by the consortium to exploit the results of the project. It

comprises the following sections:

Business case, first in the core domain of ROBINSPECT and then in adjacent domains;

Identification of the foreground, both at consortium level and at partner level;

Roadmap towards industrialisation;

Business models;

Exploitation strategy, both at consortium level and at partners levels.

The ROBINSPECT dissemination plan and use of the foreground document are living documents that will be

updated during the lifespan of the project to include new actions or strategies resulting from the evaluation of

the implemented actions.



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INTRODUCTION

Part I of this document presents the strategy and means of dissemination so that the ROBINSPECT consortium

reach effectively specified stakeholders.

Chapter 1 presents the project dissemination strategy. It covers the identified target groups and the

instruments for dissemination to each of these groups. Also the dissemination strategy includes the project

dissemination objectives, dissemination roadmap (including all year respective activities) and also the available

dissemination material. This chapter also provides a description of the project's web site, the workshops and

special sesions in conferences that will be organised by the partners and the establishment of a group of

experts from among the project participants to communicate with similar experts outside the consortium in

order to discuss the validity of the results, challenges, promotiion of the work to potential users,

standardisation, benchmarking, economic and legal issues.

Chapter 2 covers the dissemination responsibilities of the partners and the timing of the dissemination

activities composing the ROBINSPECT dissemination procedures.

Chapter 4 includes the procedures followed for dissemination up to M7 of the project activities.

Part II of the report (and chapter 5), is the draft plan for the use of foreground as defined in the first 7 months

of the project execution. This document will be further updated during the project duration. The expected

technology readiness level (TRL) of ROBINSPECT system at the end of the project should be around 5 to 6. This

means that the industrialisation effort to reach a product is not expected to be so huge. The exploitation plan is

therefore not limited to further research developments but also targets an important aspect towards the

commercialisation of the project outputs.

Chapter 6 describes the foreground of ROBINSPECT and the particular modules included.

Chapter 7 includes the exploitation plan of the project including the exploitation roadmap and the consortium

and individual exploitation plans per partner.

The report closes with chapter 8 and 9 that compose the conclusions and references of this document.

The report annexes include the project website, linkedin and tweeter tools, the 1st

newsletter, list of

conferences, press release template and dissemination request forms.



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PART I: DISSEMINATION PLAN

1. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY

The ROBINSPECT dissemination strategy is focused on the provision of information about the project existence and achievements to specific target groups. It consists of defining the goals to be achieved, the target groups, the dissemination channels for each target group and the roadmap for dissemination.

1.1 Objectives

Prepare industrial exploitation of the results

Prepare and organise the dissemination activities to be performed in order to promote and difuse the

ROBINSPECT concepts and results among the potential users and beneficieries and to monitor the

performance of these actions

Maximise awareness of ROBINSPECT in the general public

Design, implement and maintain the project website

1.2 Target Groups The main target groups are:

The robotics industry and end users

The scientific community

The general public The main emphasis will be on end users and the robotics industry. Major end users are operators of large metro lines such as, London Underground in UK and RATP in France, Highway and Railway Departments in the various European countries and concessionaires of major railways or roadways (e.g., Egnatia Motorways). The needs of the targeted audiences will be identified so that information will be provided to them that is tailored to their needs.

1.3 Dissemination Channels A combination of different dissemination channels is already implemented to reach each of the specified target groups. The use of each dissemination channel depends upon the specific target group that is selected to reach and each stage of project’s progress. The most important channels are listed in this section (as well as in the DOW). The list of dissemination channels of course may be updated as new opportunities emerge.

1.3.1 Website A website has been created in order to disseminate the project results. It is available at: www.robinspect.com

and www.robinspect.eu.

It contains information on the objectives, challenges, impact, methodology, work packages and partners in the

project.

http://www.robinspect.com/

http://www.robinspect.eu/



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Step by step, publications, public deliverables, all the materials that will be produced for presentation of the

Robinspect system to potential users, newsletter and information on technological achievements (when

approved by the dissemination manager) will be available for download to any interested stakeholder.

To attract the general public, this site will also include a presentation of the project that is short, simple, clear

and to the point accompanied with visual gimmicks.

The structure of the web site can be seen in ANNEX I.

1.3.2 Newsletter The Robinspect newsletter will be produced periodically every 6 months under the supervision of RISA. It will target end users, the robotics industry and the scientific community. The first issue has already been produced and is described in section 6.

1.3.3 Conferences A list of 2014 conferences including deadlines for submission has been already created and send to the partners in order to plan their participation to disseminate the project work. This list, which appears in ANNEX II, will be regularly updated and partners will be informed about dissemination opportunities during the whole project runtime.

Some dissemination activities have been already scheduled even from the beginning of the project duration. For example the Robinspect project will be described in the key note speech of C. Balaguer (UC3M) during the ISARC 2014 conference. The title of the speech is 'Towards Fully Automated Tunnel Inspection: A Survey and Future Needs.' More information for the conference can be found here: www.isarc2014.org/

1.3.4 Special Sessions and Workshops Organised by the Partners In addition, two project events will be organised during the project runtime to diffuse project basic messages and results. The first it is planned to be held in the beginning of the third year of the project runtime focusing on 'Robots for the Inspection of the Civil. The second will be organised at the end of the project duration (M35), focusing on 'Automated Tunnel Inspection and Assessment'. During this workshop partners will present the Robinspect main findings through technical presentations and various demonstrations. Presently, Robinspect is organising a special session at the 2015 World Tunnel Congress in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on "Emerging Technologies for Tunnel Inspection.'

1.3.5 Group of Experts

A group of experts is being established from among the project participants to communicate with similar

experts outside the consortium in order to discuss the validity of the results, challenges, promotion of the work

to potential users, standardisation, benchmarking, economic and legal issues.

The following outside experts have accepted to participate in the group so far:

Evaggelos Pergantis, head of structural studies, Attico metro, will communicate with Dr D. Bairaktaris

(DBA).

Avi Kak,Perdue University (https://engineering.perdue.edu/kak/),



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Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hebert/)

Frank Dellaert, Georgia Tech

(https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert/frankdellaert/frank_dellaert/frank_dellaert.html) will

communicate with Professor N. Paragios (ENPC).

Dr Ashwin Seshia, Cambridge University that has a strong background in sensors and sensor

applications for structural health monitoring will communicate with Dr Roncaglia (CNR).

The abovementioned Group of experts, as well as, the additional channels that will be used in order to disseminate the project to specific target groups can be seen in Table 1. that follows. The effectiveness of the diffusion of the project’s information to the specific target groups through the selected dissemination channels will be regularly evaluated by the dissemination manager.

Table 1. The main communication media and the corresponding target groups

Medium End Users, Robotics Industry

Scientific Community

General Public

Website x x x

Newsletter x x

Social networks (Twitter and LinkedIn)

x x x

Youtube x

Poster/leaflets x x

Publications x x

Presentations in conferences and workshops organised by others

x x

Workshops and special sessions orginised by the partners

x x

Use of the CASSIDIAN Simulation Platform to demonstrate the ROBINSPECT system

x x

European Robotics Week x x

Information Society Technologies (IST) info days

x

Computer vision competitions x

Press articles x

Lectures to the public x

Seminars and teaching x

Memberships in ETPs, Networks and associations

x

Direct communication via email/telephone

x

Advertisement through research*eu results at cordis, Alpha Galileo, Ascribe, Int. Assoc. for Automation and Robotics in Construction(IAARC),

x



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The Transport Research and Innovation Portal (TRIP) and ITA -COSUF

Establishment of a group of experts

x x

1.4 Dissemination Roadmap Following below are the dissemination activities planned to take place in every phase of the project implementation. The same information together with the responsible partner can be seen in Table 2.

1.4.1 First Year Activities During the first year partners are expected to accomplish the following:

Develop and maintain the project website;

Establish a user forum through Twitter and LinkedIn. This forum will be regularly updated with the main project news.

Send press releases to make the public aware of the project basic concept, objectives and expected impact.

Establish the group of outside experts that will communicate with experts from the consortium in order to discuss the validity of the results, challenges, promotion of the work to potential users, standardisation, benchmarking, economic and legal issues.

Present the project in conferences and other events through technical presentations, posters, organisation of special sessions, distribution of dissemination material etc.

Publish their work in scientific and trade journals

Produce the project brochure, poster and leaflet. The project leaflets will be distributed by the partners on every opportunity.

Publish two issues of the Robinspect newsletter. One can see in section 6 the status of the above.

1.4.2 Second Year Activities During the second year of the work the partners expect to accomplish the following:

Continuously update the project website with all project news and findings.

Produce two additional newsletters;

Promote the work through Twitter and LinkedIn.


Present project work in conferences and other relevant events through technical presentations, posters and distribution of dissemination material.

Keep sending press releases to the press announcing the project evolutions.

Promote Robinspect through membership in ETPs, Networks and Associations

Organise a special session at the World Tunnel Congress 2015

Communicate with the National Tunnelling Societies/Associations and the National Technological Platforms in Construction in all European countries in order to provide them with information on ROBINSPECT



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Communicate with the National Associations in Automation and Robotics in all European countries in order to provide them with information on ROBINSPECT

Communicate with the National Associations in Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Machine Vision in all European countries in order to provide them with information on ROBINSPECT

Advertise the project through research*eu results at cordis, Alpha Galileo, Ascribe, IAARC, TRIP and ITA-COSUF

1.4.3 Third Year Activities During the third year of the work the partners expect to accomplish the following:

Enrich the project website including public deliverables, project presentartions, and project news and events.

Produce two additional newsletters

Promote the work through Twitter and LinkedIn


Present project work in conferences

Press releases for diffuse the project results to the general public.

Promote Robinspect through membership in ETPs, Networks and Associations

Communicate with the National Tunnelling Societies/Associations and the National Technological Platforms in Construction in all European countries

Communicate with the National Associations in Automation and Robotics in all European countries

Communicate with the National Associations in Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Machine Vision in all European countries

Advertise the project through research*eu results at cordis, Alpha Galileo, Ascribe, IAARC, TRIP and ITA-COSUF

Organise a workshop in Switzerland

Organisation of an International Workshop at the end of the project


Present Robinspect at the European Robotics Week, Information Society Technologies info days and computer vision competitions

Give lectures to the public on Robinspect

Present the work in Robinspect in seminars and teaching

1.4.4 After the End of the Project After the end of the project the partners will:

Keep the website for at least five more years


Present their work in conferences

Present the work in Robinspect in seminars and teaching



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2. DISSEMINATION RESPONSIBILITIES. TIMING OF THE DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

The management and the coordination of the dissemination activities and policies are carried out by the Dissemination Manager (DM) Mr Maximilian Wietek of VSH and Mr. Stefanos Camarinopoulos of RISA. The DM is responsible for:

The production of the dissemination plan;

Identifying conferences, workshops, exhibits, scientific and trade journals where the results achieved can be presented

Making recommendations to the Steering Committee on which information is suitable for dissemination

Monitoring, controlling and recording all project presentations and publications

Resolving any conflicts raised by the submission of papers in cooperation with the steering committee Following below are the responsible partners and timing for each dissemination activity.

Table 2. Responsibilities and Timing for Each Dissemination Activity

Dissemination Activity Responsible Partner

Timing of the Activity (months)

Website RISA 3-96

Newsletter RISA Every 6 months

Social networks (Twitter and LinkedIn) UC3M 3-36

Youtube UC3M 18-36

Poster/leaflets RISA 6

Publications RISA 6-36

Presentations in conferences and workshops organised by others

RISA 6-36

Organisation of a special session at the World Tunnel Congress

VSH 20

Organisation of a workshop in Switzerland VSH, RISA 30

Organisation of an International Workshop at the end of the project

CAS 35


CAS 30-36

European Robotics Week UC3M 24-36

Information Society Technologies (IST) info days All 24-36

Computer vision competitions ICCS 24-36

Press articles UC3M, RISA, TECNIC, ICCS

4-36

Lectures to the public UC3M, ENPC 24-36

Seminars and teaching ICCS, UC3M, ENPC 24-36

Memberships in ETPs, Networks and associations All 13-36

Communication with the National Tunnelling Societies/Associations and the National Technological Platforms in Construction in all European countries

TECNIC 18-36



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Communication with the National Associations in Automation and Robotics in all European countries

UC3M 18-36

Communication with the National Associations in Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Machine Vision in all European countries

ICCS 18-36

Advertisement through research*eu results at cordis, Alpha Galileo, Ascribe, and IAARC

UC3M 18-36

Advertisement through TRIP TECNIC 18-36

Advertisement through ITA-COSUF VSH 18-36

Establishment of a group of experts UC3M 6-36



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3. DISSEMINATION PROCEDURES

3.1 Dissemination request procedure

A defined dissemination procedure will be followed during the whole project duration in order for the partners

to know how to proceed and to be better able to meet the dissemination deadlines. This procedure is

described in details in the Quality management plan. The Step by step procedure is shortly described below:

For any dissemination activity the following process should be followed:

1. The partner intending to perform a dissemination action completes the “Dissemination Request” form and

sends it to the Dissemination Manager (DM) at least 2 weeks before submission to the external actor.

2. The DM circulates the form to the Coordinator and the members of the Steering Committee (SC) and

asking for approval/comments.

3. The SC has five working days to react negatively or positively to this activity. No response is assumed as

being positive; the DM informs the dissemination activity lead partner to proceed and records the

dissemination activity into the main registry of dissemination actions.

4. If there is even a single negative response then the issue is being discussed among the coordinator, the DM

and the involved partners;

3.2 Acknowledgment

The ROBINSPECT, FP7 logo and the EC flag should be used in each publication (whenever possible) and the

following acknowledgment should be added to each publication:

“The research leading to these results has received funding from the EC FP7 project ROBINSPECT (Contract

N.611145). Authors would like to thank all partners within the ROBINSPECT consortium”

3.3 Open Access for Peer-Reviewed Articles in Journals or Conference Proceedings It is a contractual obligation that partners should make every effort so that their work will be freely available over the internet. This is what is defined as 'open access'. For this, two basic models are currently available:

Open access publishing: the costs of publishing are covered by the authors (in practice by the EC) instead of readers paying via subscriptions.

Self-archiving: authors deposit their peer-reviewed manuscripts of their articles in repositories (also called open archives), to be available in open access mode, sometimes after an embargo period of no more than 6 months in order to allow publishers to recoup their investment.

The FP7 open access pilot is based on the self-archiving open access. Either one of the documents described below should be deposited in an online repository:



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1. Final published article: publisher's final version of the paper, including all modifications from the peer review process, editing and stylistic edits, and formatting changes (usually a PDF document). It is expected that a publication in an open access journal will result in a final published article being deposited and available upon publication. or 2. Final peer reviewed manuscript: final manuscript of a peer-reviewed paper accepted for journal publication, including all modifications from the peer review process, but not formatted by the publisher (also referred to as 'post-print' version). It is expected that a publication in a non-open access (usually subscription-based) journal will result in a final peer-reviewed manuscript being deposited within six months. When articles are to be published in non-open access journals, authors should ascertain that the selected journal will allow for the manuscript to be made open access within six months after publication. Where this is not the case, authors should be able to prove that they made their best efforts to negotiate with the publishers in order to comply with the open access pilot. Authors should deposit final articles or manuscripts into the institutional repository of the research institution with which they are affiliated. If this is not possible, they should identify an appropriate subject based thematic repository. Based on the above, partners should make every effort so that ROBINSPECT articles or manuscripts will be available (open access) immediately, if the scientific publication is published 'open access,' i.e. if an electronic version is also available free of charge via the publisher, or within six months of publication.



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4. ACTIVITIES PERFORMED SO FAR

Even form the beginning of the project duration efforts to finalise the project graphical identity and to disseminate the project concept and basic objectives have been already made. The following acitivties took place during the 1

st project months:

1. The project Logo has been finalised and used in every project documentation 2. The dissemination procedure has been set up in the Quality Management Plan 3. The project website has been developed including information on the project challenges, objectives, expected impact, scientific methodology, work packages and glossary of civil engineering terms of civil engineering terms. 4. A sample for a press release to make the public aware of the project has been sent to all partners (see Annex). So far: (a) the following nine sources in Spain have published the press release:

1. http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Un-nuevo-robot-europeo-para-la-inspeccion-de-tuneles

2. http://www.presspeople.com/nota/nuevo-robot-europeo-inspeccion-tuneles

3. http://portalvasco.com/blog/?p=8792

4. http://www.tecnocarreteras.es/web/items/1/978/investigadores-espanoles-participan-en-el-

desarrollo-de-un-robot-para-la-inspeccion-automatizada-de-tuneles

5. http://www.ateneadigital.es/revistaatenea/revista/articulos/GestionNoticias_15680_ESP.asp

6. http://www.mundodigital.net/robinspect-un-robot-que-inspecciona-tuneles/

7. http://www.rdipress.com/tag/robinspect/

8. http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/actualidad_cientifica/noticias/Robinspect

9. http://noticias.universia.es/ciencia-nn-tt/noticia/2013/11/19/1064011/disenan-robot-inspeccion-

tuneles.html

(b) the following eight sources in Greece have published the press release

1. http://www.michanikos-online.gr/news.php?aID=11746

2. http://www.gizmag.com/robinspect-tunnel-inspecting-robot/29825/

3. http://www.e-diseis.gr/articles/128691/To-ROBINSPECT-upo-ton-suntonismo-tou-EMP.html

4. http://www.blog.gr/articles/249142/To-ROBINSPECT-upo-ton-suntonismo-tou-EMP.html

5. http://www.dou.gr/article.php?a=7985879

6. http://www.newspile.gr/61938/2014-02/robinspect-programma-gia-ti-dimiourgia-rompot-

epithewrisis-siraggwn.html

7. http://tipos.gr/arthro/1030500-robinspect-

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8. http://www.sarc.gr/readmore.php?id=2040011&grp=923730

http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Un-nuevo-robot-europeo-para-la-inspeccion-de-tuneles

http://www.presspeople.com/nota/nuevo-robot-europeo-inspeccion-tuneles

http://portalvasco.com/blog/?p=8792

http://www.tecnocarreteras.es/web/items/1/978/investigadores-espanoles-participan-en-el-desarrollo-de-un-robot-para-la-inspeccion-automatizada-de-tuneles

http://www.tecnocarreteras.es/web/items/1/978/investigadores-espanoles-participan-en-el-desarrollo-de-un-robot-para-la-inspeccion-automatizada-de-tuneles

http://www.ateneadigital.es/revistaatenea/revista/articulos/GestionNoticias_15680_ESP.asp

http://www.mundodigital.net/robinspect-un-robot-que-inspecciona-tuneles/

http://www.rdipress.com/tag/robinspect/

http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/actualidad_cientifica/noticias/Robinspect

http://noticias.universia.es/ciencia-nn-tt/noticia/2013/11/19/1064011/disenan-robot-inspeccion-tuneles.html

http://noticias.universia.es/ciencia-nn-tt/noticia/2013/11/19/1064011/disenan-robot-inspeccion-tuneles.html

http://www.michanikos-online.gr/news.php?aID=11746

http://www.gizmag.com/robinspect-tunnel-inspecting-robot/29825/

http://www.e-diseis.gr/articles/128691/To-ROBINSPECT-upo-ton-suntonismo-tou-EMP.html

http://www.blog.gr/articles/249142/To-ROBINSPECT-upo-ton-suntonismo-tou-EMP.html

http://www.dou.gr/article.php?a=7985879

http://www.newspile.gr/61938/2014-02/robinspect-programma-gia-ti-dimiourgia-rompot-epithewrisis-siraggwn.html

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5. The first project newsletter has been produced. Inside this issue the reader can find what are the tunnel inspection problems that this project attempts to solve, what the end users need from Robinspect, an overview of the Robinspect robotic system and partners' participation in conferences and workshops. 6. A user forum through Twitter and LinkedIn has been established The Twitter account is https://twitter.com/robinspect while the LinkedIn group that has been established is named ROBINSPECT and can be found under the link http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=7445986. The links to the social media are available in all website pages.

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5. PART II. PLAN FOR THE USE OF FOREGROUND

This part is a preliminary approach for the exploitation plan (plan for the use of the foreground) of ROBINSPECT

project. It describes the initial approach defined by the consortium to exploit the results of the project. The

final exploitation plan will be structured in the following way:

Business case, first in the core domain of ROBINSPECT and then in adjacent domains;

Identification of the foreground, both at consortium level and at partner level;

Roadmap towards industrialisation;

Business models;

Exploitation strategy, both at consortium level and at partners levels.

At the current stage of the project, the foreground is of course not clearly defined and the present chapter

will mainly focus on the business case approach.

5.1 Introduction The expected technology readiness level (TRL) of ROBINSPECT system at the end of the project should be around 7. This means that the industrialisation effort to reach a product is not so huge. The exploitation plan is therefore not limited to further research developments but also targets an important aspect towards the commercialisation of the project outputs. The targeted market is mainly the domain of tunnels inspection. However, it can be extended to the inspection of roads and infrastructures.

5.2 Business Case

5.2.1 Market Orders of magnitude The market that is targeted by ROBINSPECT solutions encompasses any type of transportation tunnels and underground works of engineering (concrete). Taking the example of France, we have:

Railways tunnels: 1855 active tunnels,

Motorways tunnels: ca 12500,

Paris metro: 200km in underground. Taking an average length of 100 m per tunnel, that gives an order of magnitude of between 1500 and 2000 km of tunnels in France. Let’s then take a basis of 100 000km accessible in the world. For motorways tunnels, studies (French transport ministry) have computed that for simple tunnels an average of 3 permanent technicians per km were needed (beside intervention teams). This number can reach 6 to 9 for complex long bi-directional tunnels in the Alps (cross-border tunnels with heavy traffic). Taking the lower range of salaries, it will therefore reach a magnitude of 200 k€ per km/per annum. And it only encompasses salaries. This make a global accessible market in the order of magnitude of 30 billion euros per year. If we stay on the very modest side, we can expect to address 1 per cent of the market. That makes 300 M€ per year. A big market then for ROBINSPECT solution and clearly a valid business case. For the cost of ROBINSPECT solution, at this stage of the project, the Rough Order of Magnitude can be computed in the following way (integrating the cost of software development): to develop ROBINSPECT system, the budget is 4.77 M€, not considering the cost of the background. If we consider the development part in it (including WP1 to WP7 in that), that is around 4M. With EC funding, the consortium investment would



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be 1.4M that we want to be paid off with a batch of 100 robots. We assume 10k per robot. The purchase cost of the robot should integrate the material costs of robot and arm, the sensors, GCS and coms solution. I would be 40k (to be confirmed). So, we have a purchase cost of 50k. Considering an amortisation plan of 3 years, it makes roughly 20k per year including the maintenance. An inspection will need 3 to 4 hours as an average (including the time to bring, install and remove the system) with 2 persons, so we consider 4 hours per 100m. The cost of an inspection of 100 m of tunnel will be in the vicinity of 150 euros with ROBINSPECT solution, which makes it particularly attractive and warrants a quick return on investment (ROI).

5.2.2 Global Market Overview The global market is therefore in a ROM of 30 B€. The repartition on the continents is of course not homogeneous as it depends on the density of the transportation networks (Western Europe and Asia and US). The interest of ROBINSPECT solution also highly depends on the level of salaries (as for all automation assets). Countries with low salaries might be less interested in procuring robots. Finally, it also depends on the local laws that define the frequency and depth of the inspections. So, the countries where ROBINSPECT solution will be more easily marketable are Western Europe, the US and Japan. In the second rank will come the countries where the salaries are increasing regularly (BRIC). .

5.2.3 European Market Overview For the specific European Market, the main interesting areas are:

- Large cities (metros, buried roads and underground facilities), - Mountainous areas (especially the Alps arch and several smaller areas with lower mountains/hills),

The customers will therefore essentially be road/motorways networks operators; railway operators and metro operators. The preliminary studies performed with the project end-users show that there is a great interest in ROBINSPECT solution, especially if the system can be operated without long closure of service in the facilities. Nowadays and worldwide, there are around 250 companies into the development, manufacturing, sales and distribution of service robot systems and relevant modules. There is a large data base of companies that is now expanding. Today about 300 product ideas exist including demonstrators, prototypes and products in service robotics for almost any kind of (physical) tasks. These service robot types are systematized into a service robot classification scheme which has been under development since the year 1999[2]. It is widely known that Europe has developed a worldwide successful robotics market and industry, focusing mainly in industrial robotics and currently hold up to a 30% of the market share[2]. The industrial sector is strongly relevant to ROBINSPECT aiming a TRL (technology readiness level) of 6-7 (following some demonstration and piloting activities) whereas industrial robots form an essential part of Europe’s industrial manufacturing sector. The table that follows indicates the annual sales figures in industrial robotics per region of origin as included in the European Robotics Coordination Action - Market survey on European Service Robots [2].



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Fig 1: Annual Sales and status of industrial robotics (source: IFR World Robotics, IPA)

5.2.4 Adjacent domains If ROBINSPECT system is optimised for the search and identification of anomalies/cracks in tunnels with concrete lining, it could also be used for other types of inspections (bridges, buildings, etc.) provided some modifications/adaptations are made to the sensors and/or the system processing. It enlarges the system use cases by a huge factor compared to the relatively low cost of the modifications. At first glance, the sensor configuration could be very similar, the detection algorithms should also be re-useable. The major modifications could come from the structural assessment studies as the material and structures will be different. Table 3. ROBINSPECT Benefits to particular Sectors

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Factors Potential Benefits per sector Actor Benefit

Fast and reliable Inspection and assessment of existing tunnels

Inspection industry Tunnel operators

Quicker Inspections, Decreased traffic disruption

Improved working conditions for the Inspectors

Tunnel operators Safer tunnels

Optimized frequency of inspections Tunnel operators Quicker Inspections, Decreased traffic disruption

Documenting the inspection Findings

Tunnel operators, construction companies

Quicker Inspections, Improved databases

Identifying a particular defect Tunnel operators, construction companies, Maintenance teams

Assessing the overall condition of the liner, more reliable inspections, Improved databases

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construction companies. Maintenance teams

condition of the liner, more reliable inspections, Improved databases

Automated non-destructive inspection techniques

Robotic industry, Tunnel operators, construction companies, Maintenance teams

Creation of new markets for robots through technology transfer

Knowledge transfer through a large number of dissemination events

Robotic industry, Tunnel operators

Knowledge exchange and Transfer

5.3 ROBINSPECT expected changes ROBINSPECT system has been designed to replace the technicians for terrain inspections. One ROBINSPECT system can inspect 1 km per day, which makes a certain number of persons that can be replaced by the robot. Of course, operators and maintenance costs have to be taken into account. Speed is also a major issue because inspection might necessitate the closure of a lane which might create traffic jam. The next version of the exploitation plan (D8.3) will detail the cost savings expected through the use of ROBINSPECT solution for the main end-users considered in the project (motorways operator and metro tunnel operator). From these possible cost savings, it twill be possible to establish a strategy to propose ROBINSPECT system at attractive costs for the end-users.



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6. IDENTIFICATION OF THE FOREGROUND

The Foreground of ROBINSPECT will essentially be the integrated robot system, composed of: - The robotic platform itself and its navigation system, - The articulated arm integrating the sensors (cameras, laser and ultrasound) and its control unit, - The computer vision system, - The robot Ground Control Station, - The structural assessment system.

These components are connected by COTS communication solutions which will not be considered as foreground. Since the system is being developed for a specific purpose which is to detect anomalies in concrete tunnels with high performances, the integration of all the components is very tight and it would be difficult to extract separate components to market them separately. However, the robot and the sensors could be used separately as building blocks of other systems. For the updated exploitation plan, each partner will define clearly what is their foreground and their background. From this definition, the partners and the consortium will define the conditions of commercial exploitation of the foreground, including where relevant the associated conditions to use the background of some partners that can be embedded in the system. Due to the intrinsic nature of the robotic system and its specialisation, the exploitation strategy mainly focusses on marketing the whole system, either to sell it as a turnkey solution or, if the end-users prefer this alternate solution, to propose it in operator/service mode. In this case, the business model will have to be defined so the partners have a fair return on investment.



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7. EXPLOITATION PLAN

At this stage of the project, a detailed exploitation plan cannot be established as a clear identification of the foreground is needed and that will only be available after the development phase. The exploitation plan will be composed of:

7.1 Roadmap Next steps after the project to reach marketable solutions (“industrialisation plan”). The actual steps that will be investigated towards the development of the project exploitation plan has been presented below: The ROBINSPECT industrialisation road map will address both the technical and nontechnical roadblocks. It will contain road mapping towards obtaining the required standardisations, for providing to the ROBINSPECT robotic system additional functionalities (e.g., for the inspection and assessment of the functional behaviour of concrete tunnel linings), additional coverage of tunnel lining materials (e.g., metallic segmental linings), implementation in different platforms depending on the topology and activity in the tunnel/roads and additional markets (e.g., sewer tunnels), development of processes that are more trustworthy in the difficult tunnel conditions, improved adaptability of the various types of carriers, ad-hoc wireless communications to support the robot operation, better cost/benefit or price/performance ratios and an assessment of the time dependent evolution of the involved technologies while the above are happening. Similar projections and measures in road mapping will be developed for components of the proposed robotic system (e.g., the computer vision system with minor modifications can be made appropriate for the inspection of concrete structures such as bridges or nuclear plants or for quality control in the manufacturing of precast concrete elements).

7.2 Consortium exploitation plan Strategy of the consortium to market the solution as a whole including the business model(s), prices, fees, etc. to warrant the respect of the consortium members interests.The organisation that will support the marketing of the solution needs also to be defined (single or multiple points of contact with customers, organisation of proposals, etc.)

- File for patents on the robotic system and/or specific design issues/solutions, sensor system and cognitive platform.

- Compliance with existing standards (e.g., standards for the inspection of underground transportation facilities (SBB in Switzerland, DB in Germany, etc.), the MPEG-7 visual descriptors that can be suitable for tunnels content or the MPEG-A standard for a proper application based interface for tunnels’ inspection.

- Study the business models of the targeted customers to analyse the possible solutions that will be favourable for the partners. The consortium combines Research Organisations, Academia, SME, and one large industry. These categories have different Return on Investment (ROI) models and will develop and license different types of components with different licensing policy.

- Study market in tunnel/infrastructure inspection addressing the possible markets (with possible adaptations).

- Study industrialisation roadmap(s) as well as strategies towards the market and procurement schemes.

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Table 4. Individual Exploitation Plans per Partner

Short Name

Organis. Type

Activity Preliminary exploitation strategy

ICCS Research Institute

Communications and Information Technology, Computer vision algorithms and detection

Improve skills in Computer Vision for Real Time Defect Detection. Present technological and research achievements to relevant conferences and/or workshops that is expected to expand their existence in the area. Towards these, as a non-profit research institute, ICCS will exploit the ROBINSPECT results through collaborating with other research institutions, non-profit organisations and industrial partners. This collaboration is expected to act as an enabler for exploitation opportunities.

CAS Industry Large Systems Development

Integrate ROBINSPECT solution in the integrated security/safety system offers

UC3M University Robotics Laboratory

Research in robotics Add the global intelligent robotic system controller to their portfolio and enhance skills in the domain of articulated arms

VSH Industry Development of equipment for mobile tunnel inspection

Comfort their capabilities as a test platform to assess new tools and systems

Halcrow Industry

Planning, design and management services for the civil infrastructure including inspection of tunnels

Enhance their knowledge in emerging technologies and systems to perform their missions

EOAE Public Body

Operation and maintenance of the Egnatia Motorway

Enhance their knowledge in emerging technologies and systems to perform their missions

CNR Research institute

Applied research and technology development in sensors and microsystems

Integrate the new sensor that measures the depth and width of cracks and joint openings in their portfolio. Integrate the new sensor that measures the depth and width of cracks and joint openings in their portfolio. Explore the possibility to apply the sensor system for crack monitoring by ultrasound analysis in a broader context (e.g. as a standalone system). Initiate a preliminary analysis on the industrialization of the sensor system for prospective commercialization, including possible procedures for medium-scale production that may exploit CNR fabrication facilities in conjunction with outsourcing solutions.

TECNIC SME

Civil engineering materials, rehabilitation and supervision of works office

Enhance their skills in the models for the deterministic time-dependent degradation of the tunnel

RISA SME

Software house specialising in reliability analyses and information systems

Enhance their skills in the domain of tools for Structural Assessment of Damaged Tunnels and structural reliability

DBA SME Civil engineering structural design and analysis office

Enhance the models on the deterministic structural assessment of the lining

ROB SME Mobile Robot Platform Integrate the ROBINSPECTrobotic wheeled vehicle and the crane in their



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manufacturer. Field robot and service robotics application developer.

portfolio

ENPC University Education and research

Enhance their skills in Computer Vision for Real Time Defect Detection. Present research achievements to conferences and/or workshops from the fields of computer vision/machine learning



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8. CONCLUSIONS

This document provides the dissemination plan for the ROBINSPECT project. It covers the dissemination strategy, procedures and means of dissemination, responsibilities and timing of dissemination activities and the open access pilot. This document also provides the structure defined for the exploitation plan and the first elements. This part will be refined later when the outcomes of the projects will be more precisely defined and when the business case study will have been performed with the end-users associated with the project.

In the annexes that follow the project website, newsletter, list of identified conferences, press release form and also the dissemination request forms can be found.



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9. REFERENCES

[1]: ROBINSPECT Description of Work. [2]: euRobotics - The European Robotics Coordination Action - Market survey on European Service Robots. [3]: EURON - European Robotics Research Network Network of Excellence - Information Society Technologies Priority DR.12.6 - Contribution to statistics/forecasts/foresights in annual publications, such as World Robotics 2006.



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ANNEXES

ANNEX I - Web site, LinkedIn and Tweeter

Following the best practice guidelines for EU project websites, the structure of the website which is presented

as a main horizontal menu that is visible in all website pages, is:

Homepage

Project Overview

Consortium and Management Structure

Scientific Methodology and Work Packages

Deliverables and Publications

Events

Media centre

Glossary

For more details please refer to deliverable D8.1.



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ANNEX III - List of 2014 conferences 1. Robotics Automatica 2014: June 3-6 in Munich, Germany. It will cost 6,000 - 8,000 €/project for rent and booth construction, supply of water and electricity, entrance fees, catering, etc. IEEE-IROS 2014 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems): Sept. 14-18 Chicago, US. Deadline for paper submission Feb. 5, 2014 ISARC 2014 International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Sydney, July 9-11 Deadline for submission Dec. 1, 2013 Carlos Balaguer, UC3M, will present the key note speech with special reference to ROBINSPECT 2. Computer Vision IEEE-ICIP 2014 ( International Conference on Image Processing): Oct. 23-30 in Paris Deadline for submission of papers is January 31, 2014. ACCV 2014 Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Nov 1 - 5 Singapore Submission deadline: June 15, 2014 ECCV 2014 European Conference on Computer Vision, Zurich Sept. 6-12 Submission deadline: March 7, 2014 Photogrammetric Computer Vision PCV 2014, Sept 5-7 Zurich Full paper submission deadline April 13, 2014 NIPS 2014 - neural Information Processing Systems - Dec. 1-4 in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, US Deadline for submission to be announced ISPRS- PCV 2014 (Photogrammetric Computer Vision): September 5-7, 2014 in Zurich Deadline for paper submission is April 13, 2014. BMVA- BMVC (British Machine Vision Conference): September 1-5, 2014 in Nottingham Deadline for paper submission is May 2, 2014.

ACM- SISGRAPPH 2014 (International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques): August 10-14, 2014 in Vancouver Deadline for paper submission is January 20, 2014.

IAPR- ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition): August 24-28, 2014 in Stockholm Deadline for paper submission is December 20, 2013.

IEEE- IV'14 (Intelligent Vehicles Symposium): June 8-11, 2014 in Dearborn, Michigan Deadline for paper submission is January 10, 2014.

Vision trade-fair (exhibition.): 4-6 November 2014 in Stuttgart

ICISP2014 (International Conference on Image and Signal Processing): June 30-July 2, 2014, Cherbourg,

Normandy, France.

Papers submitted until February, 8, 2014

http://www.igp.ethz.ch/photogrammetry/pcv2014/submission.html

http://bmvc2014.cs.nott.ac.uk/

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

http://www.siggraph.org/attend/events/siggraph-2014

http://www.icpr2014.org/

http://www.ieeeiv.net/

http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/en/vision/

http://www.stlo.unicaen.fr/icisp/2014/



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S+SSPR2014 (Statistical and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition Workshop ), August 20-22, 2014, Stockholm, Sweden. Papers until March 31, 2014 SIGMAP2014 (11th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications) August 28-30, 2014, Vienna, Austria Papers until April 15, 2014 EUSIPCO2014 (The 22nd European Signal Processing Conference), September 1-5, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal Papers until February 17, 2014 3. Structural Health Monitoring IACSM 2014 6th World Conference for Structural Control and Monitoring, July 15-17, Barcelona, Spain. Deadline for submission: Dec. 31, 2013 EWSHM 2014 European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, July 8-11, Nantes, France Deadline for submission Dec.31, 2013 Panagiotis Panetsos, EOAE, has submitted an abstract TRA2014 Transport Research Arena, Paris France, April 14-17, 2014 Deadline for submission: Nov.30, 2013 Panagiotis Panetsos, EOAE, has sent an abstract

ANNEX IV - Press Release Follows on next page.

http://cs.uef.fi/ssspr2014/

http://www.sigmap.icete.org/

http://www.eusipco2014.org/

Partner logo

For immediate release or For release <time>, <Day>, <Date dd/mm/yyyy> dd/mm/yyyy>

Contact: <name of lead partner> Company: <company name> Tel.: <tel. number> Email: <e-mail address>

<Place>, <date dd/mm/yyyy>

Press Release

ROBotic System with Intelligent Vision and Control for Tunnel

Structural INSPECTion and Evaluation (ROBINSPECT)

One of the greatest challenges facing engineers today is the inspection, assessment, maintenance and

safe operation of the existing civil infrastructure such as, tunnels, bridges, roads, and much more. Due

to ageing, environmental factors, increased loading, change in use, damages caused by human/natural

factors, inadequate or poor maintenance and deferred repairs, civil infrastructure is progressively

deteriorating, urgently needing inspection, assessment and repair work. Nowhere is this need more

apparent than in underground transportation tunnels, a large number of which have been in operation

for more than half a century and there are widespread signs of deterioration, evidenced by an increase

in the proportion of budgets spent on inspection and assessment. Things are bad to the point that there

have been a number of collapses in tunnels in recent years which highlighted the need for better ways

to inspect and assess tunnel stability of in service tunnels.

Presently, structural tunnel inspection is predominantly performed through tunnel-wide visual

observations by inspectors. This process is slow, labour intensive, expensive, subjective and often

requires lane shutdown during inspection. In this frame, the ROBINSPECT project is aiming to provide an

automated robotic system that in one pass will provide speedily and reliably tunnel inspection and

structural assessment.

ROBINSPECT is a project co-funded by the European Commission under FP7 that launched its activities in

October 2013 with the organisation of the consortium kick-off meeting that was held in Athens, Greece

and hosted by the project coordinator, the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (http://i-

sense.iccs.gr). The main objective of ROBINSPECT is to provide an automated, faster (that does not, or

only minimally interfere with tunnel traffic) and reliable tunnel inspection and assessment solution that

can combine in one pass both inspection and detailed structural assessment. The proposed robotic

system will be evaluated at the research infrastructure of VSH in Switzerland, at London Underground and

at the tunnels of Egnatia Motorway in Greece.



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ROBINSPECT is expected to:

increase the speed and reliability of tunnel inspections

provide assessment in addition to inspection

minimize use of scarce tunnel inspectors while improve the working conditions of such inspectors

decrease inspection and assessment cost

increase the safety of passengers

decrease the time when tunnels are closed for inspection

Additional paragraph (no more than 5-6 sentences): (Name of the partner) is participating in the WP(no) and its main responsibilities are………



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Project Fact Sheet:

Duration: October 1, 2013 - September 30, 2016

Total cost: 4,592,196 €

EC contribution: 3.306,599 €

Coordinator: Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

Partners:

Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, Greece

CASSIDIAN, France

University Carlos III, Madrid, Dpt. de Ingeniera de Sistemas y Automatica, Robotics Lab. Spain

Egnatia Motorway S.A. Greece

Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche, Italy

RISA GmbH

TECNIC S.p.A.

D. Bairaktaris and Associates Ltd. Greece

Ecole des Ponts-Paris Tech, France

ROBOTNIK, Spain website: http://www.robinspect.com (to be available by the end of DEcember 2013) More info:

Dr. Angelos Amditis

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems

Email: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



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ANNEX V - Dissemination Request Forms

In case of a scientific Publication (Journal, Conference)

Title of publication:

Authors in order of appearance:

Title of the periodical or conference series

Volume Number, date or

Dissemination Activity Form

Relation to ROBINSPECT:

Simple Reference ROBINSPECT work

ROBINSPECT work or concept description

Key paper presenting ROBINSPECT work

Main Leader (name, organisation)

...

Type of dissemination activity

Publication

Conference

Workshops

Websites/applications

Press release

Flyers

Articles published in the popular press

Videos

Media briefings

Presentations

Exhibitions

Thesis

Interviews

Films

TV clips

Posters

Other please specify:



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frequency, relevant pages

Publisher

Date/location of publication:

Abstract:

Full paper submission

Attached to this form:

Will be submitted: by (date)

Permanent identifiers (if available)1:

Is/Will open access2 provided to this publication?

Additional info:

1 A permanent identifier should be a persistent link to the published version full text if open access or abstract if article is pay per

view or to the final manuscript accepted for publication (link to article in repository).

2 Open Access is defined as free of charge access for anyone via Internet. Please answer "yes" if the open access to the

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In case of Presentation to an event

Title of presentation :

Authors :

Title of event:

Date and place of event realisation:

Abstract:

Type of audience

Scientific community (higher education, research)

Industry

Civil society

Policy makers

Media

Size of audience

Countries addressed

In case of a ROBINSPECT event

Proposing Company:

Title of event :

Place of event realization:

Organiser:

URL:

Event Short Description:

Type of Event:

National

International

Conference

Workshop

Other:

If other specify:

Other Comments:

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