Open Call 2

Call identifier: RobMoSys-SROC

Call title: Second RobMoSys Open Call

Call opening: 01.02.2019

Submission Deadline: see below (depending on instrument)

Expected duration of participation: see below (depending on instrument)

Indicative total budget for the call: €2,550,000

Maximum funding request per proposal: see below (depending on instrument)

Submission language: English

E-mail: opencalls@robmosys.eu

Web address of open call platform: https://opencalls.robmosys.eu/all_calls

Instrument	Instrument #1	Instrument #2	Instrument #3
Expected runtime	Max 6 months	Max 12 months	Max 6 months
Total Indicative Budget	720 kEUR	1,6 MEUR	230 kEUR
Max Funding per Proposal	60 kEUR	300 kEUR	20 kEUR
Cut-off dates	April 30, 2019 October 30, 2019	April 30, 2019	April 30, 2019 October 30, 2019

Project RobMoSys, co-funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732410, foresees as an eligible activity the provision of financial support to third parties, as a means to achieve its own objectives.

RobMoSys’s main goal is to create and consolidate an EU Digital Industrial Platform for Robotics to establish a common methodology for model-based software development, improve tools and foster interoperability by model interchange and composability. The Open Calls for Contributions to RobMoSys is one of the means implemented to achieve this goal.

The First RobMoSys Open Call, which was open from July 2017 to October 2017, has funded six Integrated Technical Projects (ITPs) with a focus on strengthening the RobMoSys platform with better metamodels, tools and models.

The Second RobMoSys Open Call focuses on the following aspects:

• Industry-Driven Ecosystem. RobMoSys defines a model-based ecosystem of assets and services to help the robotics industry to improve their software/system engineering practice. We look for proposals joining us in our effort to create this ecosystem and to demonstrate with real industrial cases your own success story.
• Towards a Strong RobMoSys Community. We call for expert groups willing to be coached by members of the RobMoSys core consortium, in order to implement the RobMoSys concepts. Successful applicants must be ready to advance the RobMoSys way of thinking, and to go for real world examples in line with the RobMoSys industrial pilots (developed by the RobMoSys core consortium).

The second call for proposals in RobMoSys embraces three (3) different Instruments. An instrument is a type of RobMoSys third-party contract characterized by a profile of contributions, a funding scheme, distinctive expected results and hence different evaluation criteria.

More information and the full call documents, including the guides for applicants and an electronic submission system are offered below.

Find snapshot of the Wiki on the opening day of the call.

Instrument #1: Fast Adoption

With this instrument, RobMoSys wants to boost a fast adoption of the RobMoSys approach in industry. It focuses on SMEs and small teams in large industrial companies, target groups ranging from software component suppliers to robotics system builders. The funded ITPs must develop RobMoSys-conformant pilots (industrial case studies) based on existing assets (software and tools from the RobMoSys ecosystem), or provide software components conformant to the RobMoSys pilots.

 

Call for Instrument #2: Ecosystem Challenges – is C L O S E D

This instrument aims at strengthening the RobMoSys ecosystem with in-depth developments on the RobMoSys baseline (models, tools, components, architectural patterns). Submissions of ITPs must fit one or more of the following technical topics:

• Topic 1: ROS 2 and Model-Driven Software Development
• Topic 2: Functional composition inside components
• Topic 3: System level composition / safety
• Topic 4: System level predictability of properties, Navigation
• Topic 5: System level predictability of properties, Manipulation
• Topic 6: OPC UA Robotics
• Topic 7: Open topic

Further details on each of these topics will follow soon.

 

Instrument #3: Innovation Expert Intake

This instrument looks for proposals from legal entities offering expert services in order to push innovation and strengthen the RobMoSys community. Applications can focus on supporting the RobMoSys Academy or the RobMoSys technology. Herewith, experts must be willing to familiarize themselves with the RobMoSys approach, to actively participate in technical workshops, to meet with RobMoSys partners in their labs, to contribute to the RobMoSys community building, or involvement in specific ITPs.

Experts with the following background could make a valuable contribution to the RobMoSys project:

• experts solely involved in the ROS-ecosystem so far, but wanting to get actively involved in RobMoSys now
• experts in real-time embedded systems willing to link their concepts to RobMoSys
• deep software engineering experts wanting to identify how to overcome deficiencies in model-driven tooling workbenches
• experts in automotive software engineering wanting to push forward a link to their resource management

Applicants with other expertise relevant for RobMoSys are also welcome.

 

We recommend to use our pre-proposal check service, available until September 30th.

 

Summary of main information per instrument

Instrument	Instrument #1	Instrument #2	Instrument #3
Expected runtime	Max 6 months	Max 12 months	Max 6 months
Total Indicative Budget	720 kEUR	1,6 MEUR	230 kEUR
Max Funding per Proposal	60 kEUR	300 KEUR	20 kEUR
Cut-off dates	May 7, 2019 October 31, 2019	May 7, 2019	May 7, 2019 October 31, 2019

 

More information and the full call documents, including the guides for applicants and an electronic submission system are offered below.

Apply directly via the open call platform:

For Instrument #1 Fast Adoption:

https://opencalls.robmosys.eu/call/instrument-1-fast-adoption-2ndcut-off

For Instrument #3 Innovation Expert Intake:

https://opencalls.robmosys.eu/call/instrument-3-innovation-expert-intake-2ndcut-off

Please note that all questions regarding to the open calls need to be send to opencalls@robmosys.eu in order to comply with the obligations from the European Commission for a closed loop.

To exchange with the RobMoSys community please use: our  Discourse Forum  as well.

Open Call Documents:

Pilots:

Siemens

CEA

PAL robotics

HSU

Comau

Call 2

• • Announcement of Call 2 in January 2019
  • Opening 1st Feburary 2019
  • Cut-off dates for Instruments #1, #3: 30th April 2019 and 31st October 2019 -> EXTENDED to 13th November
    
  • Cut-off date for Instrument #2: 30th April 2019

The RobMoSys Wiki (https://robmosys.eu/wiki/) provides technical details on the RobMoSys approach and on technical topics. A reading guide to the wiki which is focused on the Second Open Call is available at https://robmosys.eu/wiki/open-call-2.

Results of the Second Open Call – First Cut-Off Date for RobMoSys contributions (call ID RobMoSys – SROC)

 

Project acronym: RobMoSys

Project grant agreement number:  732410

Project full name:  Composable Models and Software for Robotics Systems

 

Project RobMoSys, co-funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732410, launched an second open call (call ID RobMoSys-SROC) for RobMoSys contributions.

The call closed on May 7th, 2019 at 17:00, Brussels time.

 

A total of 25 eligible proposals were received for this call:

• 4 proposals for Instrument #1,
• 20 proposals for Instrument #2,
• 1 proposal for Instrument #3.

11 proposals:

• 1 in Instrument #1,
• 9 in Instrument #2,
• 1 in Instrument #3,

will receive funding for a total amount of 2,131,819.63 EUR.

 

The evaluation and selection has been completed. All proposers have been informed about the evaluation results for their proposal for financial support.

 

Call information

The call was published on the RobMoSys website (https://robmosys.eu/) and on the Horizon 2020 Participants Portal (https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/) on February 1st, 2019.  Full call details were published at http://https://robmosys.eu/open-call-2/

 

Response to the call in detail

	Number of proposals	Funding requested
Proposals received	26
Eligible proposals	25	4,981,110.63 EUR
Proposals above threshold	18	3,813,608.38 EUR
Selected proposals	11	2,131,819.63 EUR

 

 

List of selected proposals

Instrument	Acronym	Organisation	Country	Funding awarded
1	AROSYS	Cyberbotics S.à r.l.	Switzerland	60,000.00 EUR
2	MROS	Delft University of Technology Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Robert Bosch GmbH IT University of Copenhagen	Netherlands Spain Spain Germany Denmark	299,999.38 EUR
2	COCORF	Markus Klotzbuecher	Germany	99,540.00 EUR
2	VeriComp	Bielefeld University Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg	Germany Germany	245,000.00 EUR
2	ForSamara	JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH TU Wien Pilz Ges.m.b.H. Sichere Automation	Austria Austria Austria	282,967.75 EUR
2	SafeCC4Robot	Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation	Spain	91,000.00 EUR
2	SCOPE	Università degli Studi di Genova Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia	Italy Italy	250,575.00 EUR
2	MIRoN	Universidad de Extremadura University of Málaga Blue Ocean Robotics	Spain Spain Denmark	291,025.00 EUR
2	RobMoSys-EGCS	University of Twente Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research TNO VIRO	Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands	275,812.50 EUR
2	CMCI	Bielefeld University Technische Universität Braunschweig	Germany Germany	221,000.00 EUR
3	SmartDDS	University of Málaga	Spain	14,900.00 EUR