Welcome to TACO
The TACO (Three-dimensional Adaptive Camera with Object Detection and Foveation) project aims at enhancing the abilities of service robots by improving the sensing system with real 3D foveation properties and to increase their ability to interact with their natural environment in a more natural and human-like way.
Project details:
| Start date: 2010-02-01 | End date: 2013-07-31 |
| Duration: 42 months |
Project reference: 248623 |
| Project cost: 4.791.835,- EURO |
Project funding: 3.572.000,- EURO |
| Programme acronym: FP7-ICT-2009-4 | Programme type: Seventh Framework Programme |
| Subprogramme area: Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics |
Contract type: Collaborative Project |
About TACO:
TACO is co-financed by the European Commission under EU Framework Programme 7. The project is running for 3.5 years, from February 2010 until July 2013. The consortium of this project consists of seven European organizations from four different countries(Austria, United Kingdom, Germany and Norway). The TACO consortium has RTD partners and industrial end users: Fraunhofer IPMS (micro mirror scanning device), Fraunhofer IPM (3D range sensors), CTR (Electronics), SINTEF (3D foveation software), TU Wien (benchmarking with state of-the-art 3D sensing methods), Shadow Robotics (application towards robot grippers) and Oxford Technologies (application towards robots for harsh environments).
