ENACT Project Plenary Meeting – Athens – 18-19 February 2025

It is good news that Nadia likes Athens because she had to board the plane to Athens once again and attend the plenary meeting for ENACT project.

Our plenary hosts from FDI made everyone welcome with some small gestures like the lovely personal tags as shown below:

Nadia presented the latest work of the DS4 team on our Security Risk Assessment tool.  The demo showed how the tool creates an automatic system model, displays the uploaded model in a dashboard and auto-validates the model.  Nadia also led the Data Management Plan workshop covering topics related to FAIR Data Principles, Ethical and Legal Considerations as well as Data Security.

Thank you Nadia 😊 In addition to participating in the productive plenary days, we hope you managed to enjoy a little bit of beautiful Athens before you had to board the plane again.

RoBétArmé Project – First Technical Integration Meeting – CEAS, Copenhagen – January 2025

It was so exciting this week at the CEAS premises in Copenhagen to see the first RoBétArmé project robot in action: moving, scanning, welding …

Those of you who follow our RoBétArmé project will know that we started the project journey about 30 months ago. Now it was time for the project partners to get together for a week-long work on integration of the technical tools and components.

The successful technical work was followed by a user engagement workshop which was led by our DS4 team. 

We presented the participants with a scenario for a repair project requiring structural reinforcement in a degraded area, where additive manufacturing is considered as an optimal solution for precision metal reinforcement, integrated with shotcreting.  A new construction project involving shotcreting has also been discussed.

Thank you partners for participating and providing your comments verbally as well in the formative evaluation questionnaire which you completed diligently.  Your responses will help us to further improve the system.

And last but not least, Zhilber, please be careful; do not spill this coffee and definitely DO NOT TOUCH THE ROBOT!!!

Another October Week – Another Project Plenary

Straight after Larnaca (see previous blog post) the DS4 team had to re-direct its attention to the upcoming first plenary meeting of the ENACT project.  The host of this event was our partners from Innovalia Association in the beautiful city of Bilbao.

All partners presented the status of their tasks after the first 9 months of the project with a focus on the technical development, state of the art and innovation. 

As a Task Leader, we presented our progress in developing the tool for assessing the risk of distributed deployment of applications while maintaining confidentiality, integrity and availability of the resources deployed in different environments.

We are taking the opportunity to thank our research associate Nadia and our development team for putting in a lot of hard work in the conceptual modelling of dynamic graph data in the risk assessment tool.

Work continues with the aim to provide risk assessment and recommendation for each deployment pilot configuration by the spring next year.

RoBétArmé Project – End-Users Workshop – BYCN, Paris – July 2024

The above workshop was held at the BYCN Headquarters in Paris which is a hugely impressive site.

Our hosts suggested that we should arrive early and they gave us a tour around their amazing buildings before we got down to business.  They even ordered the perfect weather for us 🌞

We cannot thank enough Bruno, Matthieu, Morgane and Vincent for their wonderful hospitality and attention to detail.

Most of all, they provided a room-full of their colleagues who are specialists in various areas of building and construction including people in charge of planning, choice and maintenance of equipment, choice of materials, choice of technique, quality control, specialising in the areas of tunnels, robotics, research and development.

In addition to our DS4 team who presented a general overview of the RoBétArmé project and system and led the discussions, our partners from DTT, ICE and MORE, presented their latest project work in the areas of Digital Twins, Decision Support System and training requirements respectively. 

Thank you BYCN team for providing many valuable comments and suggestions; we will feed those to our project partners to influence the project development.  We look forward to working with you again at the next stages of the project 😊

RoBétArmé Project – Plenary Meeting – Lausanne – 18-20 June 2024

While it was time to say goodbye to the partners from another project (see previous blog post), our IT Project Manager Zhilber Baev attended the 5^th Plenary meeting of the RoBétArmé project in Lausanne.  Although Zhilber has contributed on this project for the past 6 months or so, it was his first opportunity to attend a plenary meeting at project level and meet up face-to-face with all other partners.

Zhilber reported on the progress of our user engagement work and plans for further collaboration with the technical partners and use cases.

See below the photos Zhilber provided; they demonstrate some serious discussions during the meeting and smiles during the breaks 😊

ENACT Project Technical Meeting – May 2024

The beautiful coastline of Lisbon – Costa Caparica hosted the first ENACT project technical meeting this week.  Our Research Associate Nadia participated face-to-face and presented the DS4 team’s vision for contributing to the technical requirements of the project, reported on the status of our component development and answered the partners’ questions at this stage. Thank you Nadia!

Thank you also to Tiago and the Unparallel team for taking such good care of all partners 😊

Onwards and upwards from here 😊

RoBétArmé Project – Workshop with End-Users – December 2023

This workshop was a joint collaboration between the DS4, MORE and UNI teams held in Copenhagen.

We demonstrated some prototypes of the software systems and robotic platforms and then conducted a fruitful discussion with the end-users from CEAS and ARUP and gathered their feedback on what has already been proposed and developed in the first 18 months of the RoBétArmé project.  There was also a productive discussion about the learning materials and training courses that will be developed for the employees in construction and robotic industries.

Thank you CEAS for your wonderful hospitality yet again  and Merry Christmas to you all!

iHelp Project – 9th General Assembly Meeting – June 2023

It was a pleasure for the DS4 team to take part in the recent 9^th General Assembly meeting.  The day spent at the hospital in Dénia in addition to the meetings in València provided a valuable experience at the Spanish pilot site. 

The event marked an important milestone to the project with live demonstrations by the technical partners that facilitated pilot partners scenarios.

Thank you Salva, Oscar and your teams for this memorable visit 😊