Our aim is to establish a network that can act as a Center of Excellence (COE) in Robot Manipulation of Deformables in the truest sense of the definition, as a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area. The proposed Twinning project initiative ROMANDIC (RObot MANipulation of Deformables through dynamIC actions) will provide the means to promote this novel and exciting field of research at JSI and internationally, but more importantly, facilitate and consolidate the managing and leading capabilities of JSI through knowledge transfer and exchange of best practice, so that it can indeed act as COE.
The three participating institutions have the complementary expertise required to succeed in the research aspect of ROMANDIC, and also the infrastructure and organisational experience required to create and promote best practices and lead initiatives at the national and international levels. The three institutions collaborated already in the past in several EU projects.