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REPORT 2020

I. Project Summary

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               At this stage, both the scientific objectives corresponding to each component project and the management of the complex project as in its entirety were presented, as summarized below.

From the management activities point of view, were obtained the following results:

A)Due to the sanitary situation at national and international level, no more meetings / workshops were organized. Discussions on how to prepare documents (eg: addendum 2020, activity reports), the current status of the obtained results and how to capitalize on them, were conducted either online or by phone. IMSAR organized a workshop, discussing the ongoing experiments and their adaptation to the needs of the other partners in the consortium.

B) The website of the MultiMonD2 project in Romanian and English has been achieved and constantly updated : https://multimond.wixsite.com/multimond

,https://enmultimond2.wixsite.com/multimond2english

C) No checks were accessed at this stage.

 From the scientific activities point of view, were obtained the following results:

Project 1:Realization and preliminary testing of the dedicated sensor system for monitoring the Danube courses, integration on robotic vectors: experimental model, documentation, technical documentation, web page, ISI articles; project;

Project 2: Technical documentation, dissemination of results at national / international level;

Project 3: Estimated performance; acquisition of knowledge necessary for use, including legislation in related fields (aviation, transmissions, etc.); publication of project results;

Project 4: Preliminary laboratory studies, preliminary analysis bulletins, experimental study, working protocol, experimental model, analysis bulletins, web page, ISI articles.

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II. Indication of results and dissemination of results

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    At the  complex project, all the scientific and managerial objectives proposed in this stage were fully met.

The website of the MultiMonD2 project in Romanian and English has been  created and constantly updated and updated:https://multimond.wixsite.com/multimond,   https://enmultimond2.wixsite.com/multimond2english; All results (posters, oral presentations, articles submitted for publication) were disseminated on the site. Also, this site has been published online and through social networking sites (https://www.facebook.com/MultiMond2-33-PCCDI-289063881702953). Online meeting was organized in which: the results obtained for each component project were presented and the way in which the scientific and financial reporting of this stage should be made was discussed. At the level of each component project was followed that the expected results to be fulfilled aiming to the achieve the result indicators. Such that:

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       Project 1.

  • Estimated  results: Realization and preliminary testing of the dedicated sensor system for monitoring the Danube course, integration on robotic vectors: experimental model, documentation, technical documentation, web page, 1 ISI article;

  • Fullfilled results: i) the LIDAR system purchased on the component to reduce the costs of purchasing a complete LIDAR system has been successfully adapted, the multirotor vector being able to fly even in light wind conditions; ii) The local characteristics of the Danube course were evaluated; iii) All electronic components were executed and tested in laboratories; these components meet the requirements of light weight aerial vectors, and can be powered directly from the vector battery or the flying wing; iv) As a result of the analysis of the data obtained in the previous stages, active membranes of tin oxides were obtained by the PLD (Pulsed Laser Deposition) deposition method on SITAL substrates with gold electrodes; v) The results were disseminated by publishing 3 articles in ISI listed journals:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147464; DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147332; Romanian Reports in Physics (2020) 72, 503.

  • Indicators of fulfilled results: technical documentation corresponding to each activity, training of young researchers and maintaining the newly hired human resource; 3 ISI article;

  • Dissemination of results: 3 articles in ISI listed.

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     Project 2

  •  Estimated  results: Technical documentation, dissemination of results at national / international level;

  • Fullfilled results: i) Software modules were tested in laboratory conditions for base station communication with the air vector using QGC. The viability of LoRa communication between two nodes, one of which can be mobile, was also tested based on a report; ii)Was considered the implementation of a test platform for LTE-M / NB-IoT, based on SDR, the implementation of an open-source tool-chain for the test platform based on SDR, the solution USRP B200mini-i + Gqrx as a low cost spectral analyzer, USRP X310 and srsLTE for LTE-M / NB-IoT tests, USRP B200mini-i and srsLTE for NB-IoT study; iii) The implementation and testing of a VSLAM variant on a development board capable of leading mission vector actions was considered. The openvslam algorithm was chosen, built natively from the source on the operating system version (Raspbian 10 - Buster) of the development board. The implementation is tested after installation through two native applications of the openvslam suite: Mapping and Location. For testing, predefined simulations of a laboratory space are used; iv) To study LTE coverage in the Danube Delta, the eNodeB map of the area of interest was extracted from the CellMapper. From the obtained maps it can be seen that the LTE coverage in the Reservation area is relatively weak. The commissioning of LTE-M / NB-IoT is done through software updates on the network radio equipment. NB-IoT uses a larger number of repetitions to expand the coverage area; iv) The results were disseminated at national and international level.

  • Result indicators achieved: technical documentation corresponding to each activity, 2 ISI indexed article, 2 SPIE and ISI indexed scientific communications, maintaining and training young researchers;

  •   Dissemination of results: 2 oral presentation, 2 published articles: (DOI 10.1007/s11277-020-07235-z, https://doi.org/10.3390/s20195644);

        

       Project 3

  • Estimated results: Acquisition of knowledge necessary for use, including legislation in related fields (aviation, transmissions, etc.); publication of project results;

  • Fullfilled results: i) Tests were performed to provide the MMC2 mobile GCS system with maximum performance, reliable, intuitive use, by optimizing communication with multi-agent system and smart software interfaces, integrated in an intelligent platform for command and control of missions specific to robot vectors 3D VERO VIPRO MUTIMOND2; ii) Tests were performed for smart software interfaces for performance optimization and decision making by Neuro fuzzy (ANFIS), for performance optimization, drone trajectory control and avoidance of obstacles by genetic algorithms, particle socket optimization (PSO) and multivariate regressions, for processing video using deep convolutional neural networks and for multi-agent communication between robotic agents and the control center. The information received from the robotic systems that the GCS system commands are recorded, for the purpose of analysis and further processing; iii) An eLearning platform was implemented, with the help of which 3 operators of the GCS system were trained. The trained operators have knowledge of legislation, GCS architecture, software interfaces and use of the GCS system, in order to be able to make optimal decisions in leading the monitoring missions of the Danube course and the Danube Delta (Romanian part). These courses can be activated whenever it is necessary to train GCS operators of the MultiMonD2 system; iv) The results were disseminated through: a workshop, two scientific presentations, 4 published articles of which 3 indexed WOS, ISI; v) The major requirement of the project to train young researchers and maintain new human resources has been met.

  • Result indicators achieved: GCS test documentation (part 1), 3 trained MultiMonD2 operators, 4 published articles.

  • Dissemination of results:  i) A workshop (free discussions, experiments, demonstrations, product exhibition), two presentations at the 21st IFAC World Congress in Berlin, Germany; ii) Publication of a number of 21 articles in prestigious journals with Ack. UEFISCDI, indexed SCOPUS, B + or book chapters, of which 4 ISI journals indexed WOS with cumulative impact factor greater than 14 (doi.org/10.3390/s20102768; doi.org/10.3390/s20082393;

  •  https://doi.org/10.3390/s20133644; https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v16i08.15309); iii) book Ed. MDPI, Elvetia, https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2799; iv) Proceedings Ed. Mediamira https://ie.utcluj.ro/files/acta/2019/Number1-2/Summary%201-2-2019%20e-journal.pdf; v) Workshop online http://imsar.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/PROGRAM-FINAL-17-Sept-2020-ZOOM-SISOM-and-ACOUSTICS-Online.pdf.

   

      Project 4

  • Estimated results: Preliminary laboratory studies, preliminary analysis bulletins, experimental study, work protocol, experimental model, analysis bulletins, web page, 1 ISI article;

  • Fullfilled: i) We tested the efficiency of the decontamination of the plasma system in the decontamination of waters intentionally contaminated with different concentrations of toxic organophosphorus compounds: DMMMP, pesticides - Paration, but also of dyes: methylene blue; among the highest decontamination efficiencies we list: 99.39% for So_PT; 99.83% for Paration; 95.45% for DMMP and up to 100% for dyes; ii) Among the established optimal degradation conditions we list: the type of plasma source, working power, treatment times, gas flows and mixtures. The mixture of argon nitrogen and argon compressed air is optimal for certain pollutants; iii) The mobile plasma system was boarded in an intervention car at CBRN and ecological events (SIBCRA) equipped by the CCSACBRNE partner and demonstrations were performed both inside this car and outside the car, one of the plasma sources being able to work and at distances of 5 m from the crayfish on which portable system subassemblies are mounted by means of suitable cables / hoses; iv) Several types of water samples were taken. The best results were obtained on waters polluted with pesticides, but also in the case of waters polluted with petroleum products; v) Until now, the mobile plasma system has been embarked in an intervention car at CBRN and ecological events (SIBCRA) endowed by the partner CCSACBRNE, but also in a regular vehicle / car-tourism and transported to different locations, for demonstrations different events such as: Night researchers 2019, With small, with big… through the Universe, at the Faculty of Physics etc.

  • Result indicators achieved: study, technical documentation corresponding to each activity, consolidation of capacity for research/ new services, 4 ISI articles.

  • Diseminarea rezultatelor: The results were disseminated through 4 ISI articles: (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-020-10111-0; doi:10.3390/polym12071510; Rev. Adv. Mater. Sci. (2020) 59:306–313; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppap.201900246); an article accepted in Plasma Sources Science and Technology (September 2020) and an international conference: Experimental Researches Regarding the Decontamination of Organophosphorous Chemicals Performed through Innovative Decontamination Systems Based on Plasma Sources and Photocatalytic Materials, The 17th International Congress On Catalysis in San Diego, CA, Sunday, June 14, 2020 - Friday, June 19, 2020 (ICC2020).

All activities, objectives and result indicators have been achieved.

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     III. Presentation of the research structure  and technological services with the link on the Erris platform

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         The reserch and tehnological services have been updated and disseminated on the MultiMonD2 project website:MultiMonD2: https://multimond.wixsite.com/multimond/oferta-de-servicii

INFLPR (CO): https://erris.gov.ro/Lasers-Department and https://erris.gov.ro/Low-Temp-Plasma-Physics;

AFA (P1) : https://erris.gov.ro/Center-of-Research-and-Advan;

CCSACBRNE (P2): http://erris.gov.ro/SRCCBRNDE;

UPB (P3): https://erris.gov.ro/3CPS-UPB si https://erris.gov.ro/CAMPUS---Lab10---UPB;

IMSAR-RA (P4): The offer of research and technological services of the IMSAR teams has as main component:  Application and Research in Industrial Automation, Design and development of robotic control algorithms, inclusiv roboti aerieni, Simulation, testing and validation of robotic mechanisms, Data modelling and machine learning, Distributed and decentralised real time control of MEMS / NEMS systems. The offer includes GCS MultiMonD mobile and four intelligent interfaces for vector robots made on the 3D platform VERO VIPRO MMD2. Link:  https://erris.gov.ro/, linkErris Robotics and Mechatronics: Institute of Solid Mechanics of the Romanian Academy

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    IV. Jobs supported by the program, including the newly employed human resource

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         Through this program, the complex project 33PCCDI aims to fill 6 new vacancies: 2 places - INFLPR, 2 places - UPB and 2 places - IMSAR-RA. Currently, all new vacancies have been filled by competition, respecting the conditions imposed by the information package and contract.

Thus, INFLPR has as employees CRACIUN Cristina (scientific research assistant) who replaced Radu Alina Irina (child raising leave) and BITA Bogdan Ionut (scientific research assistant).

Within IMSAR-RA were hired for new positions: TRAVEDIU Ana-Maria (scientific research assistant) who replaced Fratila Madalina Marina and RADULESCU Mihai (scientific research assistant).

        During phase 3 of the project, the major requirement of the project to train young researchers and maintain new human resources was met. Due to personal reasons, the master student Madalina Fratila, newly hired on the project in stage 1, gave up the position for employment at a private company, the position being occupied by a competition of master student Ana-Maria Travediu who successfully took over the activity; through the competition organized by the Doctoral School of the Romanian Academy, he became a doctoral student with a scholarship. At this moment in the research team of the P3 IMSAR component project there are 2 new hired doctoral students, who are provided with tools in artificial intelligence techniques, the top field of scientific researchers.

        Within UPB the two positions were occupied by: Gudovan Iulia (scientific research assistant) and Andronache Maria Madalina. Andronache Maria Madalina gave up the extension of employment within the project, and therefore, she was replaced starting with 01.12.2019, through competitions by ARGHIRESCU Sebastian-Alexandru. Also, starting with 01.10.2020, Gudovan Iulia was replaced by DRAGAN Maria.

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     V. Presentation of the use / improvement of existing competencies / resources at the consortium level (checks);

          At this stage, there were no expenses corresponding to the checks.

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