Funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - Societal Challenge 1 (DG CONNECT/H) under grant agreement No 643555

UNCAP delivers a platform based on open industrial standards able to create new care & assistance paradigms

The result will be an open source, scalable and privacy-savvy ecosystem ready to help aging people live independently

UNCAP (“Ubiquitous iNteroperable Care for Ageing People “) will make use of solutions and technologies developed in previous research projects to develop an open, scalable and privacy-savvy ICT infrastructure designed to help aging people live independently while maintaining and improving their lifestyle. The final solution will consist of real products that will be made available on the market. The project is co-financed by the EU through the Horizon 2020 programme, and it involves 23 partners (including several pilot user partners) from 9 European countries (IT, UK, SI, RO, EL, DE, SE, ES, MK).

More details at: www.uncap.eu

Funded by NATO Science for peace and security programme under grant agreement No ISEG.EAP.SFPP 984753

SIARS is about modelling, developing and integration with selected existing Information Systems of a new state-of-the-art telemedical Information Systems that will allow saving more injured patients and lessen the death-rate on the battle fields. The system will be consisted of mobile device that will help the life-savers on the battlefield, gather and organize the medical data of the injured patient, use the satellite connection to transfer the data to the designated medical facility that will take medical care of the injured person.

Specifically, implementing SIARS in multinational environment will positively influence on achieving NATO’s strategic objectives, which refers to human and social aspects of security. Consequently, it will increase the level of saving people’s lives (VIP, solders, civilians, etc.) in NATO–led operations and missions. The modules in SIARS (video-streaming of the injured person, constant monitoring and recording health condition of the patient during transportation, etc.) are initial steps, which will be used for accomplishing security goals in terms of human and social aspects of security.

More details at: siars-nato.finki.ukim.mk

Funded by University Goce Delchev Science Fund - grant agreement No. 0307-252/24

The application of robotics in agriculture is part of the recent trends of automating the tasks and the activities of people, which are characterized by increased physical effort. Recent robotics trends are also including automation of processes that can be harmful to human health. On the other hand, cooperation and coordination are modern concepts in the development of robotics systems. Coopration means information exchange between the robots regarding their condition and their position measurements, exchange of contextual information such as weather, temperature, wind, atmospheric humidity, etc, exchange of contextual information on the presence of certain kinds of pests on field, protection measures to be taken, etc.
A typical example of cooperation between the robots is a mobile robot on the ground and in the air. Such a robot system is characterized by complementarity. The information that the mobile robot on the ground is unable to gather, are available from the aerial vehicle and vice versa, the details regarding the state of the field with a certain plant, are provided by the mobile robot on the ground. Coordination includes coordinated planning of the flying trajectory for the aerial vehicle and the movement trajectory for the mobile robot on the ground. Coordination should enable limiting of the error in determination of the navigation parameters (position, velocity and orientation) of the aerial vehicle and the mobile robot on the ground.
This project foresees usage of field mobile robot and aerial vehicle.
The development of techniques for cooperative localization and mapping will be directed towards research in the following areas:

1. Computer vision and work with a single video camera for 3D mapping of the environment

2. Working with the camera images in near infrared range for the yield estimation ie amount of production

3. Sensor fusion of measurements from the aerial vehicle and the mobile robot for estimation of their position, speed and orientation.

4. Communication limitations and errors that occur in the exchange of information between robots and their impact on the position, speed and orientation

More details at: Project web page

Funded by University Goce Delchev Science Fund - grant agreement No. 0307-252/28

Recent technologies advances open planty of possibilities to improve the quality of life of people, especially of elderly and those with emotional, physical and cognitive impairements. In this context the project aims to create an adaptive and integrated system, which will provide:

- continuous monitoring of elderly persons’ healthcare parameters and their environment with the least possible intrusive equipment;

- sense of presence of their family, friends, caregivers and health care personnel.

The system will assure that the elderly people will received personalized assistance and support and will maintain their social connections.
The main goals of the proposed system are to early detect symptoms that predict decline of healthcare conditions and prolong the period that patients can remain safely cared out of the hospital. The platform supports carers, patients, clinicians and other service providers in efficiently planning, managing and monitoring the patients’ health status, primarily to avoid emergencies.
The realized system will have not only a direct impact on the quality of life of the patients and their carers, but it might also have a significant impact on the national healthcare system, allowing for the reduction of costs resulting from the delayed institutionalisation of the patients.

More details at: Project web page