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Consortium

The project involves a multi-disciplinary and transnational consortium composed of six partners from Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, and Cyprus. The research teams combine different scientific and technological skills from (bio)engineers, biologists, material scientists, computer scientists, mathematicians, roboticists, and environmental scientists.

The interdisciplinary nature of the I-Seed consortium aims at increasing the links for a new community of biorobotics for the environment and at developing innovative artificial “green” solutions with a science-based approach inspired by Nature (and specifically from Plant Kingdom), dedicated to the monitoring and safeguard of our environment, as well as for a better understanding of natural phenomena.

Teams major expertises and roles

Project Coordinator

Team members major expertises:
bio-inspired robotics, soft robotics, smart and multi-functional materials

Main S&T activities:
bioengineering investigations of natural seeds for bioinspired robotic design; design and development of seed-inspired soft robots based on multi-functional materials

Website:
https://www.iit.it/

Principal Investigator:
Barbara Mazzolai
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Project Partner

Team members major expertises:
soft electronic materials; particles agglomeration, dispersion, stability

Main S&T activities:
materials-integrated sensors; analyte mass transport, absorption, and fluorescence response; excitation and fluorescence for LiDAR read-out

Website
https://www.leibniz-inm.de/

Principal Investigator
Tobias Kraus 
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Project Partner

Team members major expertises
environmental science and policy

Main S&T activities:
environmental scenario, validation sites, Standard Operating Protocols; data models, management and validation; policy-relevant initiatives

Website
www.cnr.it/

Principal Investigator
Nicola Pirrone 
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Project Partner

Team members major expertises:
Drones and LiDAR/laser-induced fluorescence systems

Main S&T activities:
laser-induced fluorescence system for drone operations

Website:
https://www.wur.nl/

Principal Investigator:
Lammert Kooistra
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Project Partner

Team members major expertises:
mathematical modelling of natural and artificial systems

Main S&T activities:
modelling of the mechanics of biological seeds and artificial I-Seeds

Website
https://www.santannapisa.it/

Principal Investigator
Antonio De Simone
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Project Partner

Team members major expertises
drones AI; LiDAR

Main S&T activities:
development of the embedded software for georeferencing LiDAR data; development of an Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning loopback feed for data-driven flight

Principal Investigator
Antoine Cottin
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