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IAAC Campus in Valldaura Self-Sufficent Labs hosted last week a working session for the ROMI EU project together with IAAC’s partner Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris to set the starting point and the development plan of this H2020 project.

The main goal of the project, which will be carried on at Valldaura Labs under the direction of Jonantan Minchin, is to develop an open and lightweight robotics platform for micro-farms. After a week of work and sharing, the team analysed and collected data to plan the next steps of the project and the next meetings.

Throughout the week, Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris team in collaboration with the IAAC , Fab Lab BCN Experts and the support of Noumena team, build and test the first Rover ROMI. The Rover (land robot) acquires detailed information on sample plants and will be coupled with drones that acquire detailed and global information of the crop development and the overall harvest. As a first objective, and proof of concept, the purpose of developing the Rover is to assist in the mechanical control of weeds.

The project is coordinated by the Fab City research lab and brings together subjects such as plant modelling, adaptive learning, and high-performance computing. This research is funded by Horizon 2020is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years, which promises breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.


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Dr. Michael R. Macedonia is the Assistant Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Deputy Director for the UCF Applied Research Institute, and Co-Principal Investigator of the Defense Intelligence Agency-sponsored Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (ICCAE).

Host: ETA International
When: Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 6:00 pm
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Demographic, social, climatic, economic, technological and geopolitical trends will shape the future strategic security environment (SSE). These trends are expected to create a world that is even more complex than confronting the military today. The talk defines five major Operational Environment changes that extend from the SSE and will profoundly influence the character of future warfare for the Army and joint military forces in the 2030-2050 timeframe:
  • Conflict Extends to Cognitive Domain - where competition for will moves from primarily kinetic to increasingly non-kinetic.
  • Domain Supremacy Contested- where the U.S. is moving from supremacy in most domains to more lethal and contested in all domains.
  • Transparent War – where the U.S. military is moving from limited, stove-piped military, command, control, communications and computer intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) to continuous and pervasive commercial C4ISR.
  • Battlespace Reconfiguration – moving from maneuvering primarily in open terrain and contiguous areas of operation to maneuvering in dense urban areas and dispersed, noncontiguous areas of operation.
  • Contested Expeditionary Operations – moving from power projection at will to continuously contested from alert to employment.
The military will need to rise to the challenge of placing big bets on modernization within this complex but uncertain environment. This challenge is complicated by the abundance of options available for new systems and capabilities resulting from an explosion of potentially disruptive technologies entering the exponential growth phases of development (e.g., RAS, AI, commercial ISR and communications, and human enhancement). Choices must be made among many viable options because of constraints that the United States faces in the development, acquisition, deployment and use of new systems.

About the Keynote Speaker: Macedonia is a computer scientist and an expert on simulation technologies. Prior to joining UCF, which is the largest university in the United States and the largest producer of engineering graduates for the US aerospace industry, he was a Vice President and Technical Fellow at SAIC, and a General Manager for a virtual world software startup. Previously, he was a member of the Senior Executive Service and Director of the Disruptive Technology Office (now IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in Washington, DC. IARPA is the U.S. intelligence community’s centrally funded research activity for advanced technology. Prior to DTO, he was the Chief Technology Officer for PEO STRI (formerly STRICOM) in Orlando, FL and was responsible for the technology strategy of the U.S. Army’s lead simulation and training system development organization. During this time, Dr. Macedonia was the STRICOM lead in developing the Institute for Creative Technology (ICT).
Before coming to Orlando, Dr. Macedonia was Vice President for Research at the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics in Providence, RI, which developed breakthrough telemedicine technology for DARPA. He also served as an Army officer in infantry and intelligence positions and as a member of the Uniformed Army Scientist Corps.
He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the Naval Postgraduate School, a MS in Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh, and BS in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Association of Computing Machinery and the Army Science Board.

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