Project funded by the Future and Emergent Technologies arm of the IST Programme - FET Keyaction Life-like perception

IST-2001-34718IST-2001-34718

CICADACICADACricket Inspired PerCeption and Autonomous Cricket Inspired PerCeption and Autonomous

Decision AutomataDecision Automata

Increase the advancement of biomimetic life-like

perception systems by providing novel data and

concepts on a ‘sensing-perception-action’ chain

using highly innovative technologies.

Combine first rate European expertise in sensory ecology,

material sciences, MicroElectroMechanicalSystems

(MEMS) and living computers within the nEUro-IT

Network of excellence.

Project funded by the Future and Emergent Technologies arm of the IST Programme - FET Keyaction Life-like perception

Investigate air current perception

and escape action of crickets

responding to attacking predators

Characterize and model mechanical and

functional properties of mechanoreceptor

hairs and hair canopy

Design large arrays of MEMS sensors

Build a miniature demonstrator

using living computers

Approach

Project funded by the Future and Emergent Technologies arm of the IST Programme - FET Keyaction Life-like perception

Université Francois-Rabelais - FRANCE – Sensory Ecology The University of Reading - UNITED KINGDOM - Material science Universiteit Twente - NETHERLANDS - Nanosensors Forschungszentrum Juelich - GERMANY – Hybrid systems

Start date: 2002/06/01Duration: 36 months

Total cost: 3 067 250 EurosCommunity funding:

1 744 000 Euros

Coordinator:CASAS, JerômeUniversity of Tours +33-2-47 36 69 78 +33-2-47 36 69 66 casas@univ-tours.fr

Participants