Pro2Future - Products and Production Systems of the Future

Funding period 1: 01.04.2017-31.03.2021 Funding period 2: 01.04.2021-31.03.2025; The Pro2Future initiative builds on top of the consortiums expertise in mechatronic systems, networked embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, smart/pervasive/ubiquitous systems, systems of systems, big data analytics and data-driven predictive models, semantic and intelligent systems, and will explore innovative ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) for production systems and future products. The main emphasis is on cognitive systems. Pro2Future attempts for next generation products and manufacturing machinery (holistically combining batch and continuous process industries), with embedded cognitive capabilities so as to perceive, understand, interpret, learn, reason and deduce, and act in an autonomous, self-organized way together with humans. This includes three major scientific areas, each taken from foundational and goal-oriented research disciplines related to cognitive systems, namely (i) Perception and Aware Systems, (ii) Cognitive Robotics and Shop Floors and (iii) Cognitive Decision Making, ultimately delivering the technological underpinning of (iv) Cognitive Products and (v) Cognitive Production Systems.