Press Material

SPENCER dissemination and press material.

SPENCER Factsheet

SPENCER Q&A

SPENCER Leaflet (2013)

SPENCER project in short

• Title: Social situation-aware perception and action for cognitive robots
• Acronym: SPENCER
• Beneficiaries: 8 partners from 5 European countries:
• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
• Technische Universität München, Germany
• Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
• Örebro University, Sweden
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, France
• Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
• BlueBotics SA, Switzerland
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, The Netherlands
• Total budget: 4,274,181 €
• EC funding: 3,179,933 €
• Call: FP7 ICT 2011-9
• Project ID: 600877
• Project Type: STREP
• Duration: 1 April 2013 - 31 March 2016, 36 months

For more information about the SPENCER projcet, see Project.

SPENCER Robot specification

• Height: 193 cm
• Weight: 250 kg
• Maximal speed: 1.8 m/s
• Maximal speed at the airport: 1.3 m/s
• Sensors: two 2D laser scanners, one 3D laser scanner, four ASUS Xtion depth cameras (like MS Kinect), two cameras (stereo vision), tactile bumpers
• Interaction modalities:Head with two degrees of freedom (pan, tilt), eyes with one degree of freedom (pan), 17" touch screen, KLM boarding pass and passport reader, loudspeakers
• Payload: mountable container to carry one to two hand luggage items
• Locomotion: two wheels, differential drive kinematics
• On-board computers:two high-performance laptops (Linux), three PCs (2x Linux, 1x Windows), one motion controller (Real-time OS), ROS middleware
• Languages:The robot communicates in English (new languages can be programmed easily)

Spencer Video Spencer Images Download images: [zip] All images © 2016 KLM

Press contact

SPENCER consortium

• Kai Arras (Coordinator, ALU-FR) Email: arras AT cs DOT uni-freiburg DOT de Tel: +49 173 7390728
• Rudolph Triebel (Scientific Manager, TUM) Email: rudolph DOT triebel AT in DOT tum DOT de Tel: +49 172 75 68 740
• Vanessa Evers (UT) Email: v DOT evers AT utwente DOT nl
• Achim J. Lilienthal (ORU) Email: achim DOT lilienthal AT oru DOT se
• Mohamed Chetouani (CNRS) Email: mohamed DOT chetouani AT upmc DOT fr
• Bastian Leibe (RWTH) Email: leibe AT vision DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
• Patrick Balmer (BLUE) Email: patrick DOT balmer AT bluebotics DOT com

KLM - SCHIPHOL project members

• Ruben Albas Email: ruben DOT albas AT klm DOT com Tel: +31 61 0376515
• Laila Ben Salah Email: laila DOT bensalah AT klm DOT com Tel: +31 61 3980165
• Lisette Ebeling-Koning Email: lisette DOT ebeling-koning AT klm DOT com Tel: +31 61 0619062