SOPRANO - 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推动力。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。新的智能机器人功能可以与人类并排部署，并且可以操作和适应动态环境，可以加速这一过程。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以自动化某些任务，不能在开放和动态环境中与人类安全地协作，也不能容易地和经济地适应过程变化。SOPRANO项目结合了人机协作和智能多代理系统的多学科研究和创新，旨在设计下一代制造车间，建筑工地和农业食品生产，人类和智能机器将无缝合作。它建议将协作从单一的人类-智能体二元体扩展到具有不同物理和认知特性的多个互连机器人系统之间基于对等的协同作用，支持与人类工人，机器人和其他代理合作的各种任务。SOPRANO将在三个新颖的开放获取用例中验证技术产品，这些用例涉及大型行业和中小型企业，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。在项目期间，我们还将通过公开征集，使外部中小企业和初创企业能够从项目技术中受益，这将使使用SOPRANO技术的演示者能够为他们的产品和服务打开新的市场机会。

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 flexiblen 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 fromthe 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.