The FET Proactive DREAM project went for 4 years starting in January 2015 up to December 2018. It was coordinated by Sorbonne University in France and included partners from Spain, The Netherlands and United Kingdom.
The EU-funded project DREAM explored the potential of dream-like processes to improve the performance of AI cognitive architectures in a robotic setup, addressing the increasingly strategic area of AI where researchers are called to open up new avenues of innovation.
DREAM was a truly out-of-the-box project as it pinpointed a new frontier of research in adaptive algorithms, namely in evolutionary neurodynamics. The underlying idea is to enable robots, in dream-like phases, to optimise and consolidate the knowledge acquired in awake-like phases. This kind of algorithms, rather than running constantly in a single process, ‘check out’ of their stream of consciousness to simulate alternative scenarios to the ones experienced during ‘awake’ sessions.
The experience of DREAM has resulted in several publications and peer reviewed articles that testify the fertile ground for further research and applications.
Please see this CORDIS article for further details about the project results.
FET-Open and FET-Proactive are now part of the Enhanced European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot.