AIPlan4EU is centred around 6 ambitious objectives:
– Making planning accessible to practitioners and innovators
– Facilitate the integration of planning and other ICT technologies
– Making planning relevant in a wide range of application sectors
– Seamlessly integrate planning within the AI4EU platform
– Facilitate learning of planning for up- and reskilling and lower the access barrier
– Standardize and drive academic research towards applications
AI planning technologies for space, agriculture, manufacturing, logistics, autonomous driving, automated experimentation, subsea robotics
Open call #2 for innovators features three different tracks, distinguishing three different kinds of contributions :
– Track A : Track A is for innovators who want to contribute planning technology to the AIPlan4EU ecosystem. We seek all kinds of software tool/library/technology related to planning. Examples include (but are not limited to): plan generation tools (e.g. automated planners),validation procedures (e.g. plan validators), visualization tools (e.g. plan animators), problem transformation utilities (e.g. grounders and compilations). Each project will receive up to EUR 60K and have a duration of 7 months.
– Track B : Track B is intended for a consortia of two partners who together want to solve a planning use-case, exploiting the capabilities of the unified planning framework. The framework is a software library developed by the AIPlan4EU project. One consortium partner will be a use-case provider, who wants to explore the benefit of planning for their specific use-case. The other partner will typically have expertise in planning and/or software development and will realize a “Technology-Specific Bridge” (TSB) that connects the technology/software from the use-case with the unified planning framework.
Examples include (but are not limited to): adding planning capabilities to simulators (i.e. extend plan simulation tools with plan generation capabilities so that generated plans can then be simulated), integration of automated planning in logistics tools (e.g. gather data from Warehouse Management Systems to form a planning query and report the generated plan to the user), visualization tools (e.g. plan animators, plan simulators), integration of planning in existing software ecosystems (e.g. wrap the unified planning framework for robotic operating systems), translating from existing formalisms/software libraries for decision making into planning problems and mapping-back the results.
The winning consortium will receive up to EUR 90K to carry out their 7-month project.
Track C : Track C is intended for companies and organizations that have expertise in software development and/or planning and want to integrate an existing use-case with the unified planning framework, a software library developed by the AIPlan4EU project.
Each funded project will realize a “Technology-Specific Bridge” (TSB) that connects the technology/software from a use-case with the unified planning framework. Both entities, the TSB provider and the use-case owner, will work together and validate the results.
Each TSB provider will receive up to EUR 60K. All use-cases of Track C are available here : https://www.aiplan4eu-project.eu/call-for-use-cases/open-call-2-for-innovators/#call-2-for-innovators-track-C.
Track A : Innovators (researchers, experts, students,…) and organisations (SMEs, MidCaps, larger companies, universities, research institutes, labs,…)
Track B : A consortium of 2 organizations — a use-case owner and a TSB provider (SMEs, MidCaps, larger companies, universities, research institutes, labs,…)
Track C : Innovators (researchers, experts, students,…) and single organisations (SMEs, Mid-Caps, start-up, spin-off corporates, large companies, research institutes, universities, labs, NGOs, Foundations,…) that can provide a TSB for one of the given use-cases
Only Applicants legally established/resident in any of the EU Member states or H2020 associated countries are eligible.
