Events in Physics
19th October deadine for registration, 26th October deadline for full applications - 12 noon.
Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invite registrations for their robotics and autonomous systems competition. Funding enables the development of successful robotic and autonomous system products, services or processes in areas such as service robotics, demanding environment, agriculture, healthcare, mobile production and logistics. Projects should aim to develop, integrate and validate robotics and autonomous systems technologies and applications from across the following topics:
•system and system-of-systems engineering;
•system verification, validation and certification;
•design and manufacturing of robotic systems;
•multi-sensor system integration, data fusion and perception;
•control systems for remotely controlled or unmanned system operation;
•cognitive systems for autonomous system behaviour;
•human-robot interaction;
•robot-robot interaction;
•dependability, longevity and safety;
•actuation and locomotion;
•navigation, task and motion planning;
•software systems, architectures and tools.
Projects may focus on technical feasibility, industrial research or experimental development depending on the challenge.
Projects must be led by a UK-based businesses and involve at least one SME. Those with eligible costs of up to £100,000 may be undertaken either alone or in collaboration with other businesses or research institutions. Projects with eligible cost of £100,000 or more must involve at least one SME and may also involve other organisations.
The total budget is £5 million. Projects are expected to last between six and 15 months and range in size from £50,000 to £500,000. Small businesses may receive up to 70 per cent of the total eligible costs, medium-sized businesses may receive 60 per cent and large businesses may receive 50 per cent for technical feasibility studies and industrial research. Small businesses may receive up to 45 per cent of the total eligible costs, medium-sized businesses may receive 35 per cent and large businesses may receive 25 per cent for experimental development projects which are nearer to market