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| Project No. |
Acronym - Title |
| RE4005 |
DYNACORE - Dynamical Configurable Remote Experiment Monitoring & Control System |
| Lead Sector |
Other Sectors |
Start |
End |
Project Duration |
| RESEARCH |
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1 Apr 1998 |
31 Mar 2000 |
24 months |
Project Objectives, Summary Description and Anticipated Results:
The increasing costs of experimental facilities in many research fields is powering a concentration of such facilities in a few selected places, sometimes driven also by environmental conditions. Two such fields are Astronomy (requiring larger telescopes and special observation conditions) and Plasma Physics (using very expensive fusion laboratories). The combination of computer technologies and electronic communications can compensate the drawbacks from this concentration, significantly increasing the productivity of the researchers and reducing the cost of using remote facilities.
DYNACORE proposes to build an application to allow scientists to access remote experiment laboratories in (almost) the same way they would do it locally, by allowing them to control and monitor the systems in real time, and to access the information, often multimedia, sufficiently fast as to allow them to react and make decisions also in real time.
Two prototypes will be built, one for each of the communities mentioned, in order to validate the application and show its flexibility in servicing two very different application domains, and also to allow real users from the two communities to validate the concept of teleoperating remote facilities in their respective fields.
Major Validation Sites:
| Organisation |
City/Town + Postal Code |
Region |
Country |
| TCP Sistemas e Ingeniería S.L |
Madrid 28050 |
ES |
ES |
| Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) |
Madrid 28040 |
ES |
ES | |
| Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) |
La Laguna |
ES7 |
ES |
| Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT) |
Trieste 34131 |
IT33 |
IT |
| Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental (LAEFF) |
Villafranca 28080 |
ES3 |
ES |
| Universiteit Utrecht (UU) |
Utrecht 3584 |
NL31 |
NL |
| Forschungszentrum Juelich GMBH (FZJ) |
Juelich 52425 |
DEA2 |
DE |
Other Characteristics of the Project:
Users involved
European users from 5 astro institutes and 2 in plasma physics will be involved, 3 of them integrating laboratories in demonstrators (and 2 partially), all of them working in the requirement definition and in the validation. |
Technologies and/or approach used
Distributed technologies will be used to build the demonstrators, based partly on CORBA standards and on WWW technologies. Object oriented software development techniques will allow for flexibility and reusability. |
Expected benefits for the citizens
Larger output and productivity from the investments made in scientific and research facilities and institutes. Easy access for students to high end scientific premises. |
Expected benefits for the users of the application
Users will be allowed to combine on-site experimentation with remote access, optimising the scientific return from expensive facilities located in distant and often inaccessible locations, and reducing associated costs. |
Expected benefits for the European Industries
Teleoperation has also important applications in industry (systems in inaccessible or hazardous places). The spread of teleoperation and CSCW systems in scientific environments will also propel this markets. |
Contribution to EU-policies
Increasing work efficiency by using CSCW systems reducing costs by concentrating expensive premises while keeping local benefits and national identity. Maintain equal capabilities for disabled and elderly scientists. |
Coordinator:
| Name of Organisation |
City/Town + Postal Code |
Region |
Country |
| TCP Sistemas e Ingeniería S.L |
Madrid 28050 |
ES |
ES |
Contact Person from the Coordinating Contractor:
| Title, Forename, Surname |
Enrique García Alcázar |
| Address |
María Tubau, 5-6º floor, 28050 Madrid, Spain |
| Telephone |
+34 1 358 98 46 |
| Fax |
+34 1 358 93 45 |
| E-mail 1 |
tcpsi@servicom.es |
| E-mail 2 |
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Other Contractors:
| Code |
Name of Organisation |
City/Town + Postal Code |
Region |
Country |
| C2 |
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) |
Madrid 28040 |
ES |
ES |
| C3 |
Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias (IAC) |
La Laguna 38200 |
ES7 |
ES |
| C4 |
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT) |
Trieste 34131 |
IT33 |
IT |
| C5 |
Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) |
Torrejón de Ardoz 28850 |
ES3 |
ES |
| C6 |
Universite Louis Pasteur Strasbourg I (ULP) |
Strasbourg 67000 |
FR42 |
FR |
| C7 |
Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association (NOTSA) |
Finland 21500 |
FI |
FI |
| C8 |
Universiteit Utrecht (UU) |
Utrecht 3584 |
NL31 |
NL |
| C9 |
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (FZJ) |
Juelich 52425 |
DEA2 |
DE |
Updated: 30 July 2000 - telematics@terena.nl
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