Martin Andraud

Phoenix is a H2020 FET-Open European project financed by the European Union

• WHAT: The Phoenix project tries to find methods for evolving generations of small sensor agents that are increasingly adept at exploring an inaccessible environment.
• HOW: Evolution is achieved through injecting successive instantiations of swarms of miniaturized sensor agents into the inaccessible environment: at each generation, part of the agents are recovered, and the collected data are then used to jointly optimize, by means of evolutionary algorithms, a model of the environment, as well as the hardware and behavioral parameters of the agents themselves, before starting the next generation.
• WHERE: The Phoenix project uses a pipeline inspection test case to validate the results, but the resulting technology can be broadly applied in contexts such as water, oil, waste, and heat distribution systems, chemical reactor vessels, space exploration, and eventually even inside the human body.