D6.1SIROM Dissemination Plan-M25 - University of Strathclyde · This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730035.

SIROM

Dissemination Plan – M25

Doc. No.: D6.1 Dissemination Plan Revision: Date: 12/10/2018 Grant Agreement No.: 730035

Name Company Date

Written Youhua LI

The University of Strathclyde (US)

12/10/2018

Checked Gwenole Henry

Xiu T Yan

The University of Strathclyde (US)

22/10/2018

Accepted Xiu T Yan The University of Strathclyde (US)

28/10/2018

Authorised Javier Vinals SENER 13/12/2018

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4. 10/04/2018 2.3.1 page 10 Report on IEEE Aerospace Conference and 5 new publications added

5 12/07/2018 2.1 page 7 Summary of the updated contents of the website

5 12/07/2018 2.3.1 page 10-11 Significant update on the published papers.

5 12/07/2018 2.4 page 13-14 An industrial and international dissemination event

6 23/10/2018 2.1 Page 8 Summary of the updated contents of the website

6 23/10/2018 2.3.1 page 13-14 Significant update on the published papers.

6 23/10/2018 2.3.2 page 14 Update future dissemination plan

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................................... 4 2. DISSEMINATION TOOLS AND CHANNELS ...................................................................... 5

2.1 Project Website ............................................................................................................. 5 2.2 Project Leaflet ............................................................................................................... 7 2.3 Publications on international journals, international conference ................................... 9

2.3.1 Current publication results ........................................................................................ 9 2.3.2 Future dissemination plan: ..................................................................................... 12

3. ACRONYMS LIST ............................................................................................................. 20


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1. OBJECTIVES

SIROM project aims to develop a key component for future space robotics and realize a first-of-its-kind standard, multi-functional intelligent interface (IF) for space robotics between APMs in both orbital and planetary environments. The project is very ambitious and its positive outcome will have strong impacts in the next few generations of spacecrafts. The project will also intend to build on the impact to space robotics within consortium and expand this potential impacts to other players in robotics beyond the consortium. For this reason the consortium is very proud of the project and will do its best to disseminate the results to the widest audience.

The objective of dissemination will be both progresses and final outcome of the project. One of the scopes of the consortium is to strengthen the International and European visibility of the project through effective dissemination of projects results, and share the scientific knowledge and understanding gained from the project research work, with the European scientific and industrial community and other stake holders, as well as international organisations with an interests in IF. To reach this goal, several Tools and Channels has been designed and will be used to achieve dissemination objectives, targeting policy makers, general public, robotic companies and technical audience.

This report provides updates of the dissemination plan and associated activities produced on 25th of July 2018.


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2. DISSEMINATION TOOLS AND CHANNELS

2.1 Project Website

The SIROM project website (http://www.h2020-sirom.eu/) is the gateway to SIROM research activities and outcomes of the project so far. This will be a main location where both public information and private information within the project partners will be stored. Due to relative short duration of the project and the focus of the project is and should be on the actual research development, it is decided that the project website should be kept informative, concise, attractive and easy-to-access and contain project information both intended for the general public in public access area and private information for the partners to access in the members only space. The project website will also be the main site to release all project information and research findings.

As the University of Strathclyde is responsible for the Dissemination and Exploitation work package of the project, the project website is hosted at the University of Strathclyde to make the maintenance and updating of the project information much easier and effective. In order to comply with all partners’ requirements of data protection, a formal procedure has been developed relating to requesting information, obtaining approval of any information to be released onto SIROM project website by all project partners. This procedure is defined in a document detailing the creation of the SIROM project website and the document includes the structure and initial contents to be used for the construction of SIROM project. This document has been sent to the project partners for reviewing, consultation, inputting and approval. After the approval of the project partners, the project’s website is designed and is live now. Below is a screen capture of the project website.

To achieve the aim of promoting the project to a wider research and end-user communities and disseminate the results of the SIROM project and at the same time serving the purpose of facilitating project partners to work effectively on the project by having one central location for all project information and accessing these shared working documents, the SIROM project website has been designed to have a public section and a member only area.

In the project website, the public section is where project public information is available. The project home page includes project title, project summary, project logo, European Union logo, project related pictures, all partners logos and project contacts. The project information section includes project objective, project vision, project innovation, project consortium, project dissemination, work plan, news and event. The project website also creates links to other OGs


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and PERASPERA to illustrate the scope of European Strategic Research Cluster on Space Robotics Technologies. Additional categories of information of the project, such as publications, etc. will be updated.

The Member only area has been designed to support project partner members of the project to access to common working files. “Strathcloud” system –a web-based system that has security function and can be accessible from most places is used to achieve this purpose. It includes the project common files, work package related files, working papers to be published and dissemination event information. A new folder-All deliverables has been created and deliverables for 6 working packages has been uploaded。 Password and user names have been created and provided to all project partners. The following is a screen print of the information seen in private space in members only area.

It is worth to highlight that the member only area has been designed to support members of the project working in each work package where partners working on a specific work package can access to common working files of that work package. A project common workspace has also created to store all project level information, including the project proposal files, report/presentation template. To promote effective dissemination a workspace has been created to encourage project partners to co-author and share working papers to be published. Separate work spaces have also been created for each of the work packages of the project to store work package specific working files.

SIROM project website has been update to reflect the project recent activities and results as follows.

In SIROM Dissemination section, the following subsections have been created:

Dissemination Announcements: This section publicises the various announcements of the project dissemination activities

Dissemination Activities: This section includes publications and Conferences papers published; Public engagement activities are also reported here;


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Dissemination and project result documents: This section explains the SIROM Design Definition File (DDF) and SIROM Interface Control Document which have been uploaded for public access.

Multidisciplinary design and modelling (PDF) and Reviews Data Package WP2 (PDF) have been uploaded for public access.

SIROM News and Events section has been updated with the latest project management reports.

Over the last quarter of the project implementation, the project website has been updated with additional newsletters for external publicity and added files for paper production for IAC papers for members only access.

SIROM Dissemination and project result section has been updated for public access by adding the following.

D2.17 OG5-D2_User Manual and D3.14 OG5-D2_User Manual has been uploaded for public access.

SIROM Dissemination Activities - Publications and Conferences section has been updated with information of newly published papers.

In addition, the project website has been updated with two additional newsletters for external publicity, SIROM TRR Documentation and added newly published papers for members only access.

2.2 Project Leaflet

A project leaflet has been designed to promote the project and make public aware of this exciting project. It contains the project’s general information, such as project title, project funder, project partners, etc. It includes the project summary, project vision and project innovation as well. The project leaflet is available for download by the public in PDF format from the website. Printed copies are available to distribute to the project events planned and also to external conferences where project partners plan to attend.

2.2.1 Project Newsletters

Six project newsletters have been prepared and published on the project website to report the project progresses and promote the project dissemination activities. The Newsletters are available for download for further information by the public in PDF format from the website. Below are some examples.


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2.3 Publications on international journals, international conference

2.3.1 Current publication results

To spreading the knowledge among scientific and technical communities in Europe and worldwide, relevant innovative research outcomes and findings through planned activities will be presented at targeted international conferences. High impact and high quality journal papers will be submitted for publication in dedicated peer-reviewed international journals. Six papers are planned to be published through a collaborative effort among project partners. A member only area has been created within SIROM project website, where project partners can share their paper writing tasks, share draft version of the working paper in order to create an effective and efficient paper publication process.

In order to publish quickly the project preliminary findings, members of the consortium will be encouraged to submit short and quick papers and attend relevant international conferences to present the rapid and recent research finding and the project progress made on various aspects of the project.

Important conferences which will be considered for such dissemination are:

a. Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA)

b. International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i- SAIRAS)

c. International Astronautical Congress (IAC).

Paper publications are regularly being discussed with relevant project partners led by the SMeSTech Lab of the University of Strathclyde.

Three initial abstracts have been accepted by International Astronautical Congress (IAC), which was held on 25-29 September, 2017, Australia. The abstract details are:

a. “Toward a multifunctional interface for future planetary and orbital missions”

b. “The development and design of a lightweight robotic arm”

c. “A methodology for design of lightweight parts in harsh environments

Mechanical, thermal, data and power transfer types for robotic space interfaces for orbital and planetary missions – A technical review” was accepted to Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA), which will be held on 20-22 June, 2017, Netherlands.

One paper has been submitted to Frontier in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence journal for consideration of publication.

The following full papers has been accepted and presented at ASTRA conference and International Astronautical Congress (IAC).

A full paper has been accepted by ASTRA conference organisers, entitled “Mechanical, thermal, data and power transfer types for robotic space interfaces for orbital and planetary missions – A technical review”. The paper was submitted to and presented at Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA), which was held on 20-22 June, 2017, Netherlands. The full paper and presentation file can be found at: https://robotics.estec.esa.int/ASTRA/Astra2017/


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Four full papers have been accepted by and submitted to International Astronautical Congress (IAC) following the abstract submission, which was held on 25-29 September, 2017, Australia. Three presentations were given during the conference. The four full paper details are:

a. Palazzetti, Roberto, Wenzel, Wiebke, Bartsch, Donaldson, Karen, Sebastian, Yan, Xiu-Tian, “Toward a multifunctional interface for future planetary and orbital missions”, IAC-17.C2.2.7,

b. Thomas McMaster, Xiu T Yan, “The design of a lightweight robotic arm link using functionally graded materials: a case study”, IAC-17.C2.IP.40.

c. McMaster, Thomas, Xiu T Yan “A methodology for design of lightweight parts in harsh environments”, IAC-17.C2.9.5

d. Scott Brady, Xiu T Yan, “Lightweight Means of Actuation for Use in Space-Based Robotics”, IAC-17.C2.7.4.

Based on these work, a journal paper, entitled “Technical Possibilities: Mechanical, thermal, data and power transfer types for robotic space interfaces for orbital and planetary missions” was submitted to Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics.

Two further papers have been submitted and accepted with the following details:

Jankovic M., Wenzel W., Palazzetti R., Bartsch S., Yan X. T ."Concepts of active payload modules and end-effectors suitable for Standard Interface for Robotic Manipulation of Payloads in Future Space Missions (SIROM) interface” has been accepted at the 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, Montana, USA, 3-10 March 2018.

Brinkmann, W. and Roehr, T. M. and Natarjan, S. and Cordes, F. and Sonsalla, R. U. and Szczuka, R. and Bartsch, S. and Kirchner, F, “Design and Evaluation of an End-Effector for a Reconfigurable Multi-Robot System for Future Planetary Missions”, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference. The 2018 conference was the 39th in the series and it took place at the Yellowstone Conference Center in Big Sky, Montana, USA in the first week of March 2018. It was attended by Marko Jankovic and Wiebke Brinkmann, from the Robotics Innovation Center (RIC), DFKI, Bremen, Germany, where they presented two papers related to the SIROM project entitled: "Concepts of active payload modules and end-effectors suitable for Standard Interface for Robotic Manipulation of Payloads in Future Space Missions (SIROM) interface" and "Design and Evaluation of an End-Effector for a Reconfigurable Multi-Robot System for Future Planetary Missions", respectively. The presented papers reflect results/ideas from the work performed by the DFKI Bremen and University of Strathclyde during the preliminary design and modelling phase of the SIROM project that was performed from February till July 2017. The presented results and insights were positively accepted by the conference attendees and have sparked interesting after-presentation discussions that led to networking opportunities and information exchanges.

The presented papers will be published in the near future in the IEEE Xplore digital library further promoting the dissemination of the SIROM project and making the project even more visible to the non-European professionals.


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One poster has be submitted to and published at The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS 2018), taking place at Madrid, Spain on 4-6 June 2018 .

Three abstracts/papers have been submitted to the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018) and one to Mechatronics 2018 with the following details:

Javier Vinals, Eduardo Urgoiti, Gonzalo Guerra, Ignacio Valiente, Judit Esnoz-Larraya, Michel Ilzkovitz, Dogu Cetin, Pierre Letier, Xiu-Tian Yan, Gwenole Henry, Albino Quaranta, Wiebke Brinkmann, Marko Jankovic, Sebastian Bartsch, Vangelis Kollias, Nikos Pogkas, “Systems and Infrastructures to Implement Future Building Blocks in Space Exploration and Development - future space missions with reconfigurable modular payload modules and standard interface - an overview of the SIROM project”, submitted to the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018), October 1-5, Bremen, Germany, International Astronautical Federation (IAF), 2018.

Javier Vinals, Eduardo Urgoiti, Gonzalo Guerra, Ignacio Valiente, Judit Esnoz-Larraya, Michel Ilzkovitz, Dogu Cetin, Pierre Letier, Xiu-Tian Yan, Gwenole Henry, Albino Quaranta, Wiebke Brinkmann, Marko Jankovic, Sebastian Bartsch, Vangelis Kollias, Nikos Pogkas, “Systems and Infrastructures to Implement Future Building Blocks in Space Exploration and Development - multi-functional interface for payload interconnection of robotic systems in space”, , submitted to the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018), October 1-5, Bremen, Germany, International Astronautical Federation (IAF), 2018. W. Brinkmann, M. Jankovic, C. Stoeffler, M. Ubierna, E. Urgoiti, J. Vinals, S. Bartsch “Modular Active Payload Modules for Robotic Handlings in Future Orbital Missions”, submitted to the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018), October 1-5, Bremen, Germany, International Astronautical Federation (IAF, 2018).

All these three abstracts have been accepted for presentation. The paper with a revised title of MULTI-FUNCTIONAL INTERFACE FOR FLEXIBILITY AND RECONFIGURABILITY OF FUTURE EUROPEAN SPACE ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, has been accepted as a paper for an interactive presentation session which is a key feature of this session of IAC conference. Furthermore, this paper has been invited to be submitted for the consideration of a journal paper in the Special Issue of the IAC journal. The consortium worked meticulously on this full paper and the paper has been accepted and selected by the IPC Steering Group for publication in the special issue of the IAC journal.

In addition, a journal paper submitted to Frontier in Robotics and AI entitled Integrated Mechanical, Thermal, Data, and Power Transfer Interfaces for Future Space Robotics, has been published in Frontier in Robotics and AI with following publication details: Xiu-Tian Yan, Wiebke Brinkmann, Roberto Palazzetti, Craig Melville, Youhua Li, Sebastian Bartsch and Frank Kirchner, 5:64.doi: 10.3389/frobt.2018.00064.

Two conference abstracts have been submitted to Reinventing Mechatronics International Conference 2018 with the following details:

Scott Brady and Xiu T Yan, “An engineering design tool capable of nurturing the development of new mechatronic actuators”, submitted to Mechatronics 2018, Glasgow.

Thomas McMaster and Xiu Yan, “Development of a heat flow code to simulate production of a functionally graded material robotic gripper using the additive manufacture process”, submitted to Mechatronics 2018, Glasgow.

All three abstracts plus one from a PhD student submitted to IAC2018 have been accepted and at the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018) conference, SIROM team has achieved a great success in producing one journal paper and three conference papers which


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have all been published in a special issue on Advanced in Astronautics Science and Technology by Springer and the IAC 2018 conference proceedings with the following details:

1. Javier Vinals, Eduardo Urgoiti, Gonzalo Guerra, Ignacio Valiente, Judit Esnoz-Larraya,ꞏ Michel Ilzkovitz,ꞏMario Fran´ceski, Pierre Letier, Xiu-Tian Yan, Gwenole Henry, Albino Quaranta, Wiebke Brinkmann, Marko Jankovic, Sebastian Bartsch, Alessandro Fumagalli, Manfred Doermer “Multi-functional interface for flexibility and reconfigurability of Future European Space Robotic Systems”, Advanced in Astronautics Science and Technology – Special Issue with Selected Papers from IAC-2018, Springer, page 119-133, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42423-018-0009-1, published online: 6 September 2018.

2. Wiebke Brinkmann, Marko Jankovic, Christoph Stoeffler, Gonzalo Guerra, Eduardo Urgoiti, Javier Vinals, Sebastian Bartsch, “Modular Active Payload Modules for Robotic Handlings in Future Orbital Missions”, IAC-18-D1.6.5. In Proceedings of the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018), October 1-5, Bremen, Germany, International Astronautical Federation (IAF), 2018

3. Javier Vinals, Eduardo Urgoiti, Gonzalo Guerra, Ignacio Valiente, Judit Esnoz-Larraya, Michel Ilzkovitz, Mario Franćeski, Pierre Letier, Xiu-Tian Yan, Gwenole Henry, Albino Quaranta, Wiebke Brinkmann, Marko Jankovic, Sebastian Bartsch, Vangelis Kollias, Nikos Pogkas, Alessandro Fumagalli, Alessandro Pilati, Manfred Doermer, “Future space missions with reconfigurable modular payload modules and Standard interface – an overview of the sirom project”, IAC-18-D3.2: 45699. In Proceedings of the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018), October 1-5, Bremen, Germany, International Astronautical Federation (IAF), 2018.

4. Alessandro. Tringalia, Silvio. Cocuzza ,Xiu-Tian Yan, “Predictive control of a space manipulator through error and kinetic energy expectation”, IAC-18,D1,IP,26,x48010. In Proceedings of the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018), October 1-5, Bremen, Germany, International Astronautical Federation (IAF), 2018.

At Mechatronics 2018 conference, 3 conference papers have been accepted and presented with the following details:

1. Scott Brady and Xiu T Yan, “An engineering design tool capable of nurturing the development of new mechatronic actuators”.

2. Thomas McMaster and Xiu Yan, “Development of a heat flow code to simulate production of a functionally graded material robotic gripper using the additive manufacture process”.

3. Xiu T. Yan, Mark A. Post, Alessandro Bianco, Cong Niu, Roberto Palazzetti, Ying Lu, Craig Melville, Aron Kisdi and Wayne Tubby, “The AgriRover: a Mechatronic Platform from Space Robotics for Precision Farming”.

The SIROM project team has produced a total of two journal papers and nineteen conference papers.

2.3.2 Future dissemination plan:

Further paper will be submitted to targeted journals for consideration of publication.

In order to further disseminate the project results and findings, and based on the PERASPERA idea, the SIROM consortium agreed that the consortium should take the advantage of wider international participation and the opportunity of the exhibition that the International


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Astronautical Congress 2018 offers and based on the current distribution of work within the consortium, a proposal from DFKI was well received by the Consortium members with the following ideas for possible publications and partners involvement with partner’s inputs:

Paper about the design and implementation of the planetary end-effector where the design and implementation of the planetary end-effector of the SIROM project could be described. The paper could be based on the one to be presented at the Aerospace Conference 2018 and could include as background the end-effector of the SherpaTT rover. Proposed authors: LEONARDO (as lead), TELETEL and DFKI and maybe SENER (because of the SIROM interface on the end-effector).

Paper (or papers) about the orbital/planetary APMs where the detailed design and implementation of APMs could be described. The paper could be based on the one to be presented at the Aerospace Conference 2018 and on the papers already published by DFKI on its own payload-items presented at the last consortium meeting in Bremen. Proposed authors: DFKI (as lead), SAS and SENER (in case of two distinct papers, i.e. one for orbital and one for planetary we would propose SAS as lead for the paper dealing with planetary APMs).

Paper about the overall SIROM project where an overall overview of the project could be made. Proposed authors: all partners with SENER as lead.

Paper about the SIROM interfaces itself where the overall development, design and implementation of the interface could be made. Proposed authors: SENER (as lead) with DFKI and Strathclyde as co-authors for the sections introduction and related works.

Space Applications Services suggest that they consider leading a paper on Planetary APMs, SIROM controller and CAN bus.

In addition, Xiu T Yan of Strathclyde and Dr. Gianfranco Visentin have jointly proposed a book with a title: Space Robotics - The State Of Art And Future Trends. It is planned to invite colleagues from relevant OGs to contribute to this book, aiming to inspire younger generations to study space robotics or space related science, engineering, technology and mathematics. Invitation letters are being issued to invited authors to write this book to be published by Springer.

The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS 2018) took place in Madrid, Spain on 4-6 June 2018. The symposium is devoted to the technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Robotics and their application in space. SENER planed and organised a technical tour at SENER and gave the SIROM presentation.

Colleagues from MAGSOAR presented the thermal test set-ups for both high and lower power interfaces. They were accepted by PSA and it is anticipated the tests will produce results on thermal performance of SIROM and it was agreed to explore the possibilities of using these results along with simulation results for a journal paper publication.

Space for Inspiration will be held in Bilbao from 29th-31st October, 2018. It is an international conference organised by the European Space Agency (ESA) for everyone curious about space exploration and why it matters. SIROM project team will provide a short view of SIROM in the robotics event of the second day. As a result of this event, a news article will be produced and uploaded to the website. 2.4 SIROM events

In order to increase the impact and the focus of the research work presentations, the project plans to organise two workshops. One is on space applications for space industry. The other is on generic robotic connector for generic robotic industrial system developers and end-users. These workshops will provide a focused thematic platform for the SIROM project partners to


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present, discuss and showcase project outcomes to space industry and wider industry, other academic/research institutions, stakeholders, end users, media and politicians.

At a recent project management meeting, all project partners presented their recent work on the system specification of SIROM and initial design of the SIROM. Several conceptual SIROM solutions were presented at this combined seminar and project management workshop. Colleagues from SENER presented their latest SIROM concept, whereas Strathclyde also presented their alternative concept, so did DFKI with their connector concept and a prototype data connector. Other project partners presented more SIROM disciplinary related design work of SIROM, including a control architecture for SIROM from Space Application Services, Airbus UK on review and justification for data communication using space wire. Colleagues from MAG SOAR SL presented their initial design work on thermal connection of the SIROM. Colleagues from Teletel presented their idea on how the final prototype system could be tested in data communication. Thales Alenia Space presented their work and conceptual solution for a static thermal connection in contrast to MAG SOAR SL’s active thermal connection conceptual solution. Colleagues from Leonardo presented their power connection conceptual work for discussion.

To support the full SIROM design, the whole consortium partners went through in a great detail the SIROM system design specifications, covering all aspects of the final design requirements. It is found that a combined project management meeting with sufficient technical presentations make a very effective technical seminar and it is planned to continue to operate these seminars in this way.

A seminar was planned to be organised on confirmation of research requirements and initial design concepts at month 12 which has already been held successfully in Milan in March 2017. A more formal seminar on demonstration of the connector designs will be organised at month 23. The SIROM project partners will present, discuss their findings to all partners involved in all 6 projects finally funded under the European Commissions under European Commission Horizon 2020 COMPET 4 2016: Strategic Research Cluster on Space Robotics Technologies call. There is the opportunity to exploit the technology.

One exhibition, in collaboration with other Operational Grants is planned and will be organised at IAC 2018 in the form of a display booth along with other OGs. This will provide a platform to present the project results and to promote the developed technology to the market and to gain feedback from end-users and operational companies at an early stage.

The UK Robotics, Autonomous Systems Special Interest Group(RAS-SIG) in collaboration with Robotics and Mechatronics TPN of the Institution of Engineering and Technology of which Prof. Xiu Yan Chairs, organise annual UK Robotics Week. It is planned to offer an SIROM exhibition poster at this annual robotic week.

Prof. Yan has been invited by the Mechatronics, Informatics and Control Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) to deliver a prestige Mechatronics Lecture at the Headquarters of IMechE in London. He has used this platform to promote the research work undertaken within SIROM. There were 67 registrations for the event and it was very well received.

At this Prestige lecture, Prof. Yan disseminated and introduced the preliminary SIROM project outcomes, space exploration challenges in both planetary missions and in-orbit servicing. He then briefly introduced the European Commission funded six major projects in strategic robotics research. In the lecture he provided an overview of SIROM project and the progress made so far. Further in-depth content on SIROM project on standard robotic interface, which is intended to be a building block to the future of space robotics research. Finally he discussed future space


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robotic challenges. More details can be found at: https://events.imeche.org/ViewEvent?code=TLE6541

University of Strathclyde, with the support of IET Robotics & Mechatronics TPN and IMechE will organise 16th Mechatronics Forum International Conference- MECHATRONICS 2018: Reinventing Mechatronics in Sept, 2018. The preparation of the conference is going well. A special session will be arranged for SIROM project as well as other OGs as a platform to disseminate the research findings.

In support European wide space robotic dissemination activities, SIROM consortium has agreed to support and participate by manning a stand at a booth exhibition led by DFKI to be shown at the International Astronautical Congress 2018 in Bremen. This booth is intended to showcase all six Operational Grant projects.

In addition, with support of the SIROM coordinator SENER, Strathclyde has initiated a proposal to exploit the support from the European Commission with a view to create a Common Dissemination Booster and this proposal was reviewed favourably by the programme Manager Dr. Christos AMPATZIS. As a result this was distributed to all Operational Grant Coordinators for consideration as minimum of two projects are required to apply for such a Booster. In the end all other OGs felt the projects have already started and each OG project partners are already working on the dissemination. If this opportunity appeared earlier at the project implementation stage, most OGs felt it would be more useful to apply for such a booster.

Finally, SIROM project coordinator SENER has organised an Industrial and International Engagement and dissemination event in Madrid on 6th June 2018. SIROM has attracted a wider audience interests from over 100 international delegates attending The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS 2018). The symposium is devoted to the technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Robotics and their application in space.

The delegates were divided into three groups and visited SENER to learn more about the company and the SIROM project. A partially assembled prototype system has been on display for delegates to view the future European space robotic connector. This event truly promoted the SIROM to international experts from USA, Europe, Japan, China and other space nations.


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Figure 1 International delegate attending one of the three talks at SENER

During the visit, SIROM project Coordinator Mr. Javier Vinals and the Manager Mr Eduardo Urgoiti gave an extensive talk on both the company and the SIROM project. Several project consortium members also attended this industrial and international engagement event and promoted the SIROM to a much wider and targeted audiences. At the event, SIROM components and their sub-assembles were shown to all international delegates and these have attracted much interests from these delegates.

The 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) was held at Bremen, Germany, from 1-5 OCT 2018. A well-represented SIROM consortium team supported and participated the conference by manning a stand at a booth exhibition led by DFKI, which showcase all six Operational Grant projects. SIROM team joined PERSPEARA team and other Operational Grant (OG) teams to promote the research and development outcomes of all six OG’s achievements so far in a dedicated exhibition booth. This exhibition booth has attracted a lot of interests from both IAC delegates and general public on Germany’s national holiday on Wednesday 3rd Oct 2018. The whole team’s effort received appreciation from the Programmer Officer Dr. Christos AMPATZIS with a thumb up in the photo below.


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Photo 1. Team photo of PSA members and representatives from all OGs manning the booth for five days.

Mr. Javier Vinals gave an overview of SIROM project by presenting a paper entitled Future space missions with reconfigurable modular payload modules and standard interface - an overview of the SIROM project. His presentation was well received and appreciated by audience.


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Photo 2 Mr. Vinals is presenting a paper entitled Future space missions with reconfigurable modular payload modules and standard interface - an overview of the SIROM project

Mr. Gonzalo Guerra Franco delivered the interactive presentation on Multi-functional interface for flexibility and reconfigurability of Future European Space Robotic Systems. A number of questions were asked and a really good interaction took place during this presentation using the state of the art presentation facilities, including videos, animations and audio and more importantly live presentation. The interactive presentation paper has also received a nomination as one of the three finalists shortlisted as a finalist for the best paper award in Category D Infrastructure. It is unfortunate that in the end our paper was not selected to be the best paper prize, however this nomination nevertheless represents a very good achievement of the SIROM team and received an appreciation from the organizing Committee and the Prize and Award Committee. This is a result of selection process in which 341 entries were received and 69 interactive presentations have been shortlisted, and finally SIROM paper was shortlisted as one of the three finalists for the award.


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Photo 3. Interactive Presentation for paper entitled future space missions with reconfigurable modular payload modules and standard interface – an overview of the SIROM project

Mechatronics 2018 : Reinventing Mechatronics , was held successfully in Sept, 2018. The conference was organised by University of Strathclyde, with the support of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and Intuition of Engineering and Technology (IET) Robotics & Mechatronics TPN.

The three days conference was attended by around 60 delegates. Delegates are from Europe, USA, China, South Korea, and middle east. One e-book entitled REINVENTING MECHATRONICS Proceedings of MECHATRONICS 2018 with an ISBN number: 978-1-909522-37-4 (e-Book) was published. Another book is to be published by Springer based on selected papers with extended and new materials in 2019. SIROM project was discussed among the delegates.


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3. ACRONYMS LIST

Acronyms Meaning

SENER SENER INGENIERIA Y SISTEMAS S.A.

ADS-UK Airbus Defence and Space Limited

ADS-D AIRBUS DS GmbH

TAS Thales Alenia Space

FNM FINMECCANICA S.p.A

US The University of Strathclyde

DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz

TEL TELETEL

SAS Space Applications Services

MS MAG SOAR SL

SMeSTech Space Mechatronic Systems Technology Laboratory

TIC Technology and Innovation Centre

RIC DFKI Robotics Innovation Center

ESTEC European Space Technological Centre

EAC European Astronaut Training Centre

ASTRA Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics

and Automation

i-SAIRAS International Symposium on Artificial

Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space

IAC International Astronautical Congress

IAF International Astronautical Federation

Table 1-1 Acronyms list

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