Ongoing Projects

EuroAGE+ : International Network for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer to Promote Active Ageing

PI: Rui P. Rocha

Reference: POCTEP-0124_EUROAGE_MAS_4_E, Interreg VI-A España – Portugal (POCTEP 2021-2027)

Website: https://euroageplus.unex.es/

Funding Entity: European Commission

Funding: Interreg VI-A España – Portugal (POCTEP 2021-2027)

Partners: Universidad de Extremadura (Coordinator) Universidad de Valladolid Centro de Cirugía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón Junta de Extremadura Cluster Salud Instituto Politécnico da Guarda Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco ISR - Universidade de Coimbra

Duration of the Project: 2023-07-01 - 2026-06-30


PRR-GreenAuto: Collaborative robotic systems for the assembly line

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: PRR

Funding Entity: PRR

Funding: 470 226.31 €

Partners: FFonseca, Universidade de Coimbra, Peugeot Citro ?en Automóveis Portugal, S.A.

Duration of the Project: 2022-07-01 - 2025-12-31


PRR-GreenAuto: Neural network systems for robots.

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: PRR

Funding Entity: PRR

Funding: 415 494.76 €

Partners: Enartin, Universidade de Coimbra, Peugeot Citroen Automóveis Portugal, S.A.

Duration of the Project: 2022-07-01 - 2025-12-31


PRR-GreenAuto: Automated control systems for high-precision part handling

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: PRR

Funding Entity: PRR

Funding: 449 364.02 €

Partners: ISO&CTAG, Universidade de Coimbra, Peugeot Citroen Automóveis Portugal, S.A

Duration of the Project: 2022-07-01 - 2025-12-31


LIFEBOTS Exchange - creating a new reality of care and welfare through the inclusion of social robots

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018-824047

Website: https://lifebots.eu/

Funding Entity: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange, European Comission

Funding: 740 600 Euros

Partners: Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet NTNU - Norway, Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Pedro Nunes, Compenzin S.A - Romania, Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra, IDMind - Engenharia de Sistemas Lda, Technicka Univerzita v Kosiciach TUKE - Slovenia, Universit ?e de Geneve - Switzerland, CO-Robotics s.r.l, - Italy, Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis - Greece, Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge HF - Norway, European Health Telematics Association EHTEL , Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Duration of the Project: 2019-04-01 - 2025-03-31


SEEDS - Sharing Exchanging and Experimenting Digital Skills

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: ERASMUS+

Funding Entity: Europe

Funding: 202 592.00€

Partners: Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse II, France; Ostfalia Hochschule Fuer Angewandte Wissenschaften Hochschule Braunschweig Wolfenbuttel, Wolfenbuttel, Germany; Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland

Duration of the Project: 2022-02-01 - 2024-07-31



Past Projects

Move4ASD - Multimodal Motion Analysis Using Machine Learning-based Techniques for Autism Spectrum Disorder Characterization

PI: João Luís Ruivo Carvalho Paulo

Reference: ISR

Funding Entity: ISR

Funding: 25 000.00€

Duration of the Project: 2022-07-01 - 2024-01-31


POLIBOT: Intelligent Collaborative Robotics for Steel Mold Polishing

PI: Rui Pedro Duarte Cortesão

Reference: Polibot

Funding Entity: ANI

Partners: Norcam (li?der), TJ Ac?os, ISR - Instituto de Sistemas e Robo?tica - Universidade de Coimbra e CENTIMFE – Centro Tecnolo?gico da Indu?stria de Moldes Ferramentas Especiais e Pla?sticos.

Duration of the Project: 2021-01-01 - 2023-12-31


A4A - Audiology for All

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-04708317/SI/2019

Funding Entity: Compete

Funding: 426 383.25€

Partners: Sensing Evolution Lda, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Coimbra, Universidade de Coimbra

Duration of the Project: 2020-04-01 - 2023-06-30


ActiVas - Ambientes Construídos para uma Vida Ativa, Segura e Saudável

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: ActiVas

Partners: KENTRA Technologies Lda, Intellicare - Intelligent Sensing In Healthcare Lda., IKEA INDUSTRY PORTUGAL S.A., Concexec – Arquitetura LDA, Sonae Arauco Portugal S.A, NOS Comunicações S.A, Aleluia-Cerâmicas S.A, Glintt - Healthcare Solutions S.A, Ubiwhere Lda., Digitalwind Lda., Neuroinova Lda., Inova+ - Innovation Services S.A, CeNTI - Centre of Nanotechnology and Smart Materials, Instituto Pedro Nunes- Associação Para A Inovação e Desenvolvimento Em Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade de Aveiro, CTCV - Centro Tecnológico da Cerâmica e do Vidro, Universidade de Coimbra, Caritas Diocesana de Coimbra, Associação Plataforma para a Construção Sustentável, Pólo das Tecnologias de Informação, Comunicação e Electrónica.

Duration of the Project: 2020-07-01 - 2023-06-30


O Eu e o Nós das Emoções

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: CG

Funding Entity: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Partners: Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique (Leader), Agrupamento de Escolas Gaia Nascente

Duration of the Project: 2020-09-01 - 2022-08-31


iACT with Pain: an ICT-delivered intervention for self-management of chronic pain.

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: PTDC/PSI-GER/28829/2017

Website: iact.isr.uc.pt

Funding Entity: FCT

Funding: 239 957.56€

Partners: Faculdade de Psicologia U. Coimbra - Project Leader : Paula Castilho

Duration of the Project: 2018-07-26 - 2022-04-25


TOOLING4G/PP5 - Digital Industry: Collaborative Robotics and Augmented Reality

PI: Rui Pedro Duarte Cortesão

Reference: TOOLING4G/2016/24516

Funding Entity: co-financing by the “Portugal 2020” (PT2020), in the framework of the “Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Programme” (COMPETE 2020), and Lisbon Regional Operational Program 2014/2020 (LISBOA2020), and by EC

Duration of the Project: 2018-03-01 - 2021-10-31


Developing brain-machine interface for dynamic human-robot cooperation

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: UC-POS-COVID-DIS

Funding Entity: University of Coimbra

Funding: 20000€

Partners: CINEICC (Leader)

Duration of the Project: 2020-09-01 - 2020-12-31


BioHab – a biofeedback solution for cognitive training systems

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: UC-POS-COVID-HEALTH

Funding Entity: University of Coimbra

Funding: 20000€

Partners: CIBITAS(Leader)

Duration of the Project: 2020-09-01 - 2020-12-31


ROSE – RObot Sensing for tele-Ecography

PI: Rui Pedro Duarte Cortesão

Reference: CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-017958

Funding Entity: PT2020

Funding: 1 046 273€

Partners: Sensing Future, Imacentro (Industry), UC, IPN

Duration of the Project: 2017-01-01 - 2019-12-31


EuroAGE - Innovative Initiatives for the Promotion of Active Ageing in the EuroACE Region

PI: Rui P. Rocha

Reference: POCTEP-0043_EUROAGE_4_E

Website: http://www.euroage.eu

Funding Entity: The EuroAGE project is co-financed at 75% by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the INTERREG V-A Spain-Portugal Program (POCTEP) 2014-2020. Total Grant: 1.225.459,09 EUR. ERDF Funding: 919.094,34 EUR . UC Grant: 144.062,99 EUR.

Funding: Total = 1 225 459,08 € ; UC = 144 062,99 €

Partners: Centro de Cirugía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón (Spain, Coordinator) http://www.ccmijesususon.com Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (Portugal) http://www.ipcb.pt/ ISR – University of Coimbra (Portugal) http://ap.isr.uc.pt Cluster Sociosanitario de Extremadura (Spain) http://www.clustersalud.es Universidad de Extremadura (Spain) https://www.unex.es Instituto Politécnico da Guarda (Portugal) http://www.ipg.pt/website

Duration of the Project: 2015-10-01 - 2019-12-31


EVOLLU - Experiências Auditivas Melhoradas

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: PT2020

Website: https://www.evollu.com

Funding Entity: PT2020-Fundos Europeus Estruturais e de Investimento da União Europeia

Partners: Evollu, ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE TECNOLOGIA DA SAÚDE DE COIMBRA, INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE LEIRIA.

Duration of the Project: 2017-07-15 - 2019-07-14


Project GrowMeUp (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - Societal Challenge 1 (DG CONNECT/H) under grant agreement No 643647)

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: DG CONNECT/H

Funding Entity: H2020-PHC-2014

Funding: 3.415.930 €

Partners: University of Coimbra (coordinator); University of Cyprus; University of Geneva; Probayes SA; PAL Robotics SA.; Citard Lda; Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra; Zuyderland.

Duration of the Project: 2015-02-01 - 2018-01-31


Social Robot

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: EU FP7 – People – Ref.ª285870

Website: mrl.isr.uc.pt/projects/socialrobot/

Funding Entity: EC FP7

Funding: €

Partners: UC, CITARD, IDmind, Univ. Cyrus

Duration of the Project: 2011-11-01 - 2015-10-30


FRIeND - Facial expRession analysis for INteraction and Demency detection

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: Programa Pessoa P 441.00

Funding Entity: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Partners: Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique - University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Duration of the Project: 2013-04-09 - 2015-04-09


CHOPIN - Cooperation between Human and rObotic teams in catastroPhic INcidents

PI: Rui P. Rocha

Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/119000/2010

Website: chopin.isr.uc.pt

Funding Entity: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

Funding: 94,840 €

Partners: Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra (ISR-UC); Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC); Portuguese Civil Defense Authority (ANPC)

Duration of the Project: 2012-04-01 - 2015-03-31


Optical Modelling of the Human Retina in Health and Disease: from structure to function

PI: Paulo Menezes

Reference: PTDC/SAU-ENB/119132/2010

Website: http://www.aibili.pt/engbiomed/119132/index.php

Funding Entity: FCT

Funding: € 114,167.00

Duration of the Project: 2012-04-01 - 2015-03-31


TICE.Mobility – User-Centered Mobility System

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: QREN-COMPETE-13843

Website: tice-mobilidade.clusters.ipn.pt

Funding Entity: Agência de Inovação (AdI)

Funding: 511,534 €

Partners: METICUBE - Sistemas de Informação, Comunicação e Multimédia; Move Mile, SA; OPT - Otimização e Planeamento de Transportes, SA; MEDIAPRIMER - Tecnologias e Sistemas Multimédia, Lda.; AMI - Tecnologias para Transportes, SA; Centro de Computação Gráfica; Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra; Ubiwhere, Lda.; Ponto C - Desenvolvimento de Sistemas de Informação, Lda.; MICRO I/O - Serviços de Eletrónica, Lda.; Universidade de Aveiro; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; INEGI - Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial; Reusable IT, Lda; PROCESS.NET - Sistemas de Informação, Lda. (Cooperação); Instituto Pedro Nunes; INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias; INESC Porto - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e ,Computadores do Porto; Universidade do Minho; AMBISIG - Ambiente e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, SA; ISA - Intelligent Sensing Anywhere; SMARTMOVE - Serviços de Mobilidade, S.A.; I2S Informática - Sistemas e Serviços, S.A.; Critical Software SA; EFACEC Sistemas de Eletrónica S.A.; CEIIA - Centro para a Excelência e Inovação na Indústria Automóvel; Inteli - Inteligência em Inovação - Centro de Inovação; Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra; Monitar, Lda

Duration of the Project: 2011-01-08 - 2014-07-01


TICE.Healthy - Health and Quality of Life Systems

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: Compete-13842

Website: tice-healthy.clusters.ipn.pt

Funding Entity: Compete-QREN

Funding: 414,979 €

Duration of the Project: 2011-01-08 - 2014-07-01


HANDLE - Developmental pathway towards autonomy and dextery in robot-hand manipulation

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: FP7-ICT-2008-1-231640

Website: www.handle-project.eu/

Funding Entity: EC FP7

Funding: 621,000 €

Partners: UPMC (France), Shadow (UK), UC3M (Spain), FCTUC (Portugal), KCL (UK), ORU (Sweden), UHAM (Germany), CEA (France), IST (Portugal)

Duration of the Project: 2009-02-02 - 2013-02-01


APSUBA - Active Perception for Scene Understanding and Behaviour Analysis (APSUBA): An application for Social Robotic

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: APSUBA

Website: robolab.unex.es/wikiApsuba/index.php/Main_Page

Funding Entity: CRUP

Funding: €

Duration of the Project: 2011-01-03 - 2012-12-03


ArthroNav

PI: João Pedro Barreto

Reference: PTDC/EEA-ACR/68887/2006

Website: arthronav.isr.uc.pt

Funding Entity: FCT

Funding: 103 000 €

Partners: FCTUC, CHUC

Duration of the Project: 2008-12-30 - 2011-12-30


PROMETHEUS - Prediction and interpretation of human behaviour based on probabilistic structures and heterogeneous sensors

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: EU FP7-ICT-2007-1-214901

Website: www.paloma.isr.uc.pt/projects/prometheus/

Funding Entity: EC FP7

Partners: FOI - Swedish Defense Research Agency, FCTUC; Univ. of Patras; Technische Universitaet Muenchen; ProBayes SAS; MARAC Electronics, S.A; Technical Educational Institute of Crete.

Duration of the Project: 2008-08-01 - 2011-08-01


BACS - Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: FP7-ICT-247624

Website: www.bacs.ethz.ch/

Funding Entity: EC FP7

Partners: ETH-Zurich; INRIA; CNRS-LPPA-CdF; CNRS-LSCP: CNRS-Grenoble; MPS; HUG; FCTUC; BlueBotics; Probayes; EDF; Aeroscout; EPFL.

Duration of the Project: 2006-01-08 - 2010-02-08


IRPS - Intelligent Robotic Porter System

PI: Jorge Dias

Reference: FP6-IST-45048

Website: paloma.isr.uc.pt/projects/IRPS

Funding Entity: EC FP6

Funding: 415k€

Partners: SCISYS UK; FCTUC Portugal; Israel Aircraft Industries; Chambre De Commerce Et D'industrie De Toulouse, France; Ana - Aeroportos De Portugal; Parallele Geometrie, Canada; Przemyslowy Instytut Automatyki I Pomiarow, Poland.

Duration of the Project: 2007-01-01 - 2009-12-31