Socially-Acceptable and Trustworthy Human-Robot Teaming for Agile Industries

制造业、建筑业和农业是欧洲经济和繁荣的主要驱动力。保持其在这些领域的竞争力需要高效和灵活的流程，而这可以通过数字化来实现。可以与人类并肩部署并能够操作和适应动态环境的新型智能机器人能力可以加速这一进程。然而，现有的机器人系统不能很好地适应这样的环境，因为它们不够通用和灵活，不足以自动执行某些任务，不能在开放和动态的环境中与人类安全协作，也不能轻松和经济地适应变化。女高音项目结合了人-机器人协作和智能多代理系统方面的多学科研究和创新，渴望设计下一代制造车间、建筑工地和农业食品生产，在那里人类和智能机器将无缝合作。它建议将协作从单一的人类-代理二元组扩展到多个互联的具有不同物理和认知属性的机器人系统之间的基于对等的协同，支持与人类工人、机器人和其他代理协作的各种任务。Soprano将在三个针对大型工业和中小型企业的新颖和开放获取的用例中验证技术产品，为欧盟关键部门增加价值，并在欧盟工业生态系统中围绕开源技术进行社区建设。在计划进行期间，我们亦会透过公开招聘会，让外来的中小型企业和初创企业受惠于计划的技术，从而建立使用女高音技术的示范机构，为他们的产品和服务开拓新的市场机会。

Manufacturing, construction, and agriculture are major driving forces for the European economy and prosperity. Maintaining its competitiveness in these sectors demands highly efficient and flexible processes, and this can be achieved through digitization. Novel intelligent robotic capabilities that can be deployed side-by-side with humans and can operate and adapt to dynamic environments can accelerate this process. However, existing robotic systems cannot fit well into such settings as they are not versatile and flexible enough to automate certain tasks, cannot collaborate safely with humans in open and dynamic environments, nor are they easily and economically adaptable to process changes. The SOPRANO project coalesces multidisciplinary research and innovation in human-robot collaboration and intelligent multi-agent systems, aspiring to design the next generation of manufacturing floors, construction sites, and agri-food production, where humans and intelligent machines will seamlessly work together. It proposes to scale collaboration from the single human-agent dyad to a peer-based synergy between multiple interconnected robotic systems featuring different physical and cognitive properties, supporting various tasks in collaboration with human workers, robotics and other agents. SOPRANO will validate the technological offering in three novel and open-access use cases addressing both large-scale industries and small to medium enterprises, adding value to EU key sectors and instrumenting community building surrounding the open-source technologies in the EU industrial ecosystem. During the project, we will also enable external SMEs and start-ups to benefit from the project technologies via an open call, which will enable the building of demonstrators using SOPRANO technologies that will open new market opportunities for their products and services.