FaRADAI

An important crosscutting need for Artificial Intelligence is to create technologies for trustworthy autonomous and frugal learning, i.e. the ability of a system to adapt and learn from its environment, including from user supervision, for a reasonable cost and without intervention from expert developers nor regression. Such technologies can be highly disruptive and have high impacts for many capabilities, especially when the information to manage is highly variable or unpredictable and high adaptability is needed. These technologies can also alleviate the current need to provide data to the system developers to get improvements depending on such data, which can be critical when the data is confidential, and is thus critical for defence. They can more generally enhance technological independence. Selected actions should include the organisation of technological challenges addressing well-defined goals in order to bootstrap and drive progress toward answering identified defence needs, while leveraging civil research and generating spill over effects. Within the FaRADAI project, current advances in AI technologies will be thoroughly researched in parallel with a detailed study of the main challenges imposed by a defence system. Aiming at significant breakthroughs in AI, the models will accelerate their wider application and deployment in defence systems increasing their impact and the overall performance.

CERTH/ITI acts as the coordinator and scientific manager of the FaRADAI project. The Institute leads the development of machine learning technologies that are continuously trained by incrementally exploiting incoming and considering previously collected data. In addition, CERTH/ITI leads the developments of AI-based multimodal fusion schemes that merges outcomes of different components and modalities in a complementary manner, while it is significantly involved in the developments of frugal AI techniques by processing visual data.

Consortium

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece
BIANOR SERVICES EOOD, Belgium
BALTIJOS PAZANGIU TECHNOLOGIJU INSTITUTAS, United Kingdom
C&V CONSULTING
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI
DEFSECINTEL SOLUTIONS OU
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH “DEMOKRITOS”
FLYSIGHT SRL
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
HENSOLDT OPTRONICS GMBH
INDRA SISTEMAS SA
INDRA FACTORIA TECNOLOGICA SL
LEONARDO – SOCIETA PER AZIONI
MBDA ITALIA SPA
MBDA FRANCE
OKTAL SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT
RHEINMETALL ELECTRONICS GMBH
RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE
SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
STAM SRL
SZAMITASTECHNIKAI ES AUTOMATIZALASI KUTATOINTEZET
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
THALES
THALES SIX GTS FRANCE SAS
THALES LAS FRANCE SAS
LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
NAVAL GROUP
INSTITUT PO OTBRANA
EXUS SOFTWARE MONOPROSOPI ETAIRIA PERIORISMENIS EVTHINIS
SATWAYS-OLOKLIROMENES LYSEIS ASFALEIAS KAI AMYNAS-IDIOTIKI EPICHEIRISI PAROCHIS YPIRESION ASFALEIAS (IEPYA)-ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNIS
MARINTRAFIK OPEREISONS ANONYMI ETAIREIA PLIROFORIKIS
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
E-GEOS SPA
SKA POLSKA SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNO
INFILI TECHNOLOGIES SOCIETE ANONYME
THALES ESPANA SISTEMAS SA