Project : siames
Section: Other Grants and Activities
European Actions
NoE: Intuition
We are member of the core group of Intuition : Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments Applications for Future Workspaces which is a Network of Excellence involving more than 68 european partners form 15 different countries. This project belongs to the joint call IST-NMP of the FP6 program.
INTUITION's major objective is to bring together leading experts and key actors across all major areas of VR understanding, development, testing and application in Europe, including industrial representatives and key research institutes and universities in order to overcome fragmentation and promote VE establishment within product and process design. To perform this, a number of activities will be carried out in order to establish a common view of VR technology current status, open issues and future trends.
Thus the INTUITION Network aims are:
Systematically acquire and cluster knowledge on VR concepts, methodologies and guidelines, to provide a thorough picture of the state of the art and provide a reference point for future project development;
Perform an initial review of existing and emerging VR systems and VE applications, and establish a framework of relevant problems and limitations to be overcome;
Identify user requirements and wishes and also new promising application fields for VR technologies.
To overcome fragmentation caused by high technology costs and stand-alone research effort and to structure the relevant research area, INTUITION Consortium will:
Integrate VR resources, equipment, tools and platforms and work towards their networking and common use;
Create a Joint Program of Research on VR/VE technologies and their application to Industry and Society;
Design and perform training courses both for researchers but also for key personnel on the use and development of VR technologies, application and tools;
Structure and integrate the research work on VR technologies by creating virtual complementary teams all over Europe avoiding overlaps and internal competition;
Work on interoperable solutions and suggest the ways of their possible implementations in a variety of industrial and societal applications;
Identify best practices for knowledge management in the relative scientific and research field.
Last but not least INTUITION activities are planned towards a longer-term perspective. It aims at establishing VR in the product and process design and serving as a roadmap for future evolutions and research activities in this area. This will be served by:
Designing new initiatives for future research projects;
Working towards the penetration of VR systems in the Industry, including SMEs;
Widely disseminating VR/VE to the Industry, research community and to the general public both within EU and internationally;
Supporting standardization;
Working towards the creation of a permanent, self sustaining network integrating all relevant national networks like PERF-RV, MIMOS, CONSTRUCT IT and other national research efforts;
Building synergies with partners coming from non-European countries to assign a worldwide sense to its efforts;
Working towards establishing a pan-European Association, to live on after the end of the project, thus establishing and safeguarding a lasting integration and structuring effect within this field.
Intuition's consortium members are: ICCS, Alenia, CEA, CERTH, COAT-Basel, CRF, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, FhG-IAO, UNOT, USAL, VTEC, VTT, ART, ALA, ARMINES, BARCO, CSR SRL, CLARTE, CNRS (5 laboratories), CS, Dassault Aviation, EADS, ENIB, EPFL, EDAG, EDF, ESA, ICS-FORTH, FHW, FTRD, FhG-IPK, FhG-FIT, LABEIN, HUT, ICIDO, INRS, IDG, MPITuebingen, UTBv, NNC, ONDIM, OVIDIUS, PERCRO, PUE, RTT, SNCF, SpaceApps, ETH, TUM, TECNATOM, TILS, TVP - S.A., TGS Europe, TNO, UPM, UCY, UNIGE, UMA, UniPatras, UoS, Twente, IR-UVEG, UoW, Plzen.
IP: Enthrone
We are involved in an IP european project called Enthrone bringing together several industrial and academic european partners.
The ENTHRONE project proposes to develop an integrated management solution which covers the whole audio-visual services distribution chain, including content generation, distribution across networks and the user terminals reception. The aim is not to unify or impose a strategy on each individual entity of the chain, but to harmonize their functionality, in order to support an end-to-end QoS architecture over heterogeneous networks, applied to a variety of audio-visual services, which are delivered at various user terminals. To meet its objectives, the project will rely on an efficient, distributed and open management architecture for the end-to-end delivery chain. The availability and access to resources will be clearly identified, described and controled all the way along the content distribution chain. The MPEG-21 data model will be used to provide the common support for implementing and managing the resources functionalities. ENTHRONE aims to define open interfaces based on MPEG-21 standard and XML scripts, which will enable the interoperation of systems and equipment, developed by different manufacturers, and will help developers to adapt their products to be compatible with the end-to-end QoS concept. The project's approach is not based on a centralized model but on a distributed model, where diversified QoS policy based management functions are performed in many geographically distributed environments (content generation, networks, terminals).
