Our fourth CE II funding call is now closed and funding has been allocated. Please see these pages for more details about Connected Everything’s funding call for feasibility studies and it’s processes.

Details of the studies awarded in the fourth and final round of Connected Everything II are:

University of Newcastle – Design and Manufacture of Novel 3D Printed Electrodes

University of York – Demonstrating Resource and Energy Efficiency through Data-driven Smart Food Manufacturing Processes

University of Nottingham – DOMINOES: aDaptive human-rObot teaMINg fOr rEmote taskS

University of Liverpool – IMPRESS – reInventing Manufacturing via Products with REconfigurable Shape and Stiffness

University of Nottingham – Digital manufacturing of metal oxide nanocomposites via interpretable machine learning models

London South Bank University – Adaptive biocomposite 3D printing based on industrial robotics

Details of the studies awarded in the third round of Connected Everything II are:

University of Lancaster – Developing the future of adaptive materials based on HD-reprogammable matter (final summary) – see You Tube for conference presentation

University of Liverpool – Solar Skin: Additive manufacturing of customised, fully integrated, photovoltaic products (final summary) – see You Tube for conference presentation

University of Plymouth – Participatory Housing Manufacturing (final summary) – see You Tube for conference presentation.

University of Wales, Trinity St David – A Flexible & Low-Cost AR/AI Solution for Critical to Quality Feature & Defect Identification for SMEs (final summary) – see You Tube for conference presentation

Details of the studies awarded in the second round of Connected Everything II are:

University of Birmingham – Novel Digital Twins for Compliance Debts in Smart Manufacturing (final project summary) – see You Tube for conference presentation

Nottingham Trent University – Studying mental stress factors in occupational safety in the context of smart factory and COVID-19 (final project summary) – see You Tube for conference presentation

Details of the studies awarded in the first round of Connected Everything II are below:

University of Liverpool – Manufacturing of 3D-printed morphing origami solar sails for the next generation of CubeSats (final project summary) – see You Tube for conference personation

University of Cambridge – AgentChat: Feasibility Of Large-scale Multi-agent Based Coordination For Freight Co-loading (final project summary) – see You Tube for conference presentation

University of the West of England – Embedded Intelligent Empathy in Design (final project summary) – see You Tube for conference presentation

Connected Everything I managed two funding calls for feasibility studies and supported 11 projects.

Round 1 feasibility studies:

“Towards additive manufacturing process control using semi-supervised machine learning”
University of Liverpool

“BREWNET: Intelligent cloud connected sensors for economic small scale process optimisation”
University of Nottingham and University of Leeds

“Circular 4.0: Digital intelligence to enable a circular economy”
Cranfield University and University of Sheffield

“Feasibility of capturing crafts-based knowledge in an AI system for future autonomous precision surface manufacturing”
University of Huddersfield and University of Nottingham

“Investigating spoken dialogue to support manufacturing processes”
University of Sheffield

“Digitisation of collaborative human-robot workspaces”
Loughborough University

Round 2 feasibility studies:

“Computing craft: Manufacturing cob structures using robotically controlled 3D printing”
Cardiff University / University of Plymouth

“A digital garment simulation tool for fashion design linking consumer preference and objective fabric properties”
University of Leeds

“ICHORD: Integrating Cognitions of Human Operators in digital Robot Design”
Cranfield University / AMRC

“Continuous in-situ microstructure and composition analysis within 3D-printed structures using in-chamber sensors”
University of Cambridge / Imperial / Sheffield Hallam University

“Pathway to autonomy for an SME factory”
University of Portsmouth / AMRC