Welcome to the fourth edition of our ‘DISCOVER THE HUMANTECH WORK’ blogs, a series in which we discuss the HumanTech work packages (WPs) with our WP Leaders!
On this occasion, we dive into our WP1 — Overall Framework Definitions, led by DFKI. It is dedicated to setting the overall project framework in terms of elicitation of concepts, processes and information flows, detailed definition of usage scenarios, design of the overall framework architecture, technical specifications and user requirements, and ethics approach.
We have spoken with Jason Rambach, HumanTech’s Project Coordinator and Senior Researcher and Team Leader in Spatial Sensing and Machine Perception at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He has shared the main activities carried out in the first project period, how this WP is linked to others and our plans for the remaining part of the project.
WP1 had a critical role early in the project: to establish a common ground and a shared understanding of the overall project objectives among the partners coming from different backgrounds (AI, robotics, civil engineering).
Therefore, significant activities such as in-person workshops during meetings and several online meetings were carried out in the first months. This led to the conclusion of the first phase of the WP, with three important deliverables that defined research requirements, a component-level architecture, and user requirements.
This work gave a significant boost to the technical WPs, mainly WP3, WP4 and WP5. A very important contribution was the definition of use cases and flow diagrams for the pilots, which proved highly valuable in the following months.
What remains to be done for WP1 is finalizing the HumanTech architectures and describing them in deliverable D1.4. For this, the task leader Hyperqlic has been monitoring all technical work packages closely over the last months and updating the architecture accordingly.
The final architecture was presented to the partners at the upcoming Executive Board Meeting in Genoa.
Take a look at our progress on WP8, focused on dissemination and communication and presented by Giulia Pastor and Andrea Torres from AUSTRALO, and stay tuned to our news and social media (LinkedIn and Twitter) to stay up to date!