2017

Title	PANTHEON – Precision Farming of Hazelnut Orchards
Project ID	774571
Funding Agency	European Commission
Call	H2020-SFS-2017-1
Topic(s)	SFS-05-2017 – Robotics Advances for Precision Farming
Funding Scheme	RIA – Research and Innovation action
EU Funding	EUR 3.144.452,50
Abstract	The goal of PANtHEOn is to develop the agricultural equivalent of an industrial Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to be used for the precision farming of large orchards of hazelnut. Our objective is to design an integrated system where unmanned robotics components move within the orchards to collect data and perform some of the most common farming operations. The information will be stored in a central unit that will integrate the data coming from the different robotic units to perform automatic feedback actions and to support the decisions of agronomists and farmers.
Keywords	Robotics, Control, Precision Farming, Remote Sensing, Big-Data.
Duration	48 months  (01/11/2017 – 31/10/2021)
Scientific Coordinator	Andrea Gasparri
Consortium	Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy), Ferrero Trading Lux S.A. (Luxemburg), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Italy), Universität Trier (Germany), and Sigma Consulting Srl. (Italy)
Roma Tre Unit Leader	Andrea Gasparri
Roma Tre Unit Members	Andrea Gasparri, Giovanni Ulivi, Stefano Panzieri, Riccardo Torlone, Renzo Carpio
Roma Tre Funding	EUR 960.893,75

2010

Title	NECTAR – NEtworked Cooperative Teams of Autonomous Robots
Project ID	RBFR08QWUV (Linea d’intervento 1)
Funding Agency	Italian Ministry of University and Research
Call	FIRB – Futuro in Ricerca 2008
Funding	EUR 431.000,00
Abstract	The NECTAR project is focused on control issues for networked robotic systems. In particular, the NECTAR project wants to investigate and develop innovative techniques for the control of networked and cooperative robotic systems, i.e., teams of autonomous vehicles that, in order to achieve a common goal, cooperate by exchanging information via a wireless communication. The project activities will be focused on the development of motion control techniques for a team of mobile robots that has to carry out coordinated missions both in an environment lacking of a communication infrastructure (or sensor network) and in an environment where these infrastructure are available.
Keywords	Multi-robot systems, Networked Robots, Coordinated motion control, Sensor and Communication Networks
Duration	48 months  (01/12/2010 – 01/12/2014)
Coordinator	Filippo Arrichiello
Consortium	Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale (Italy) and Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy)
Roma Tre Unit Leader	Andrea Gasparri
Roma Tre Unit Members	Andrea Gasparri, Attilio Priolo, Donato Di Paola
Roma Tre Funding	EUR 215.500,00