Research & Development
SeTeL has always paid great attention to R&D activities which initially were developed in technical documentation sector and subsequently gradually moved towards the various areas of Complex Systems Engineering, up to the design of the MAR Amphibious Rover, an enabling platform on which to install ad-hoc sensors and enabling instrumentation.
Today MAR – Multifunction Amphibious Rover has become our main project.
Relations with OdR and R&D Centers
R&D activities have always developed by constantly interacting with Industry and Research organizations. Hence SeTeL’s ability to integrate non-homogeneous skills and competences and to:
- promote and optimize the multidisciplinary relationship and communication capacity between complex organizations (large, medium, small and OdR) in the development of projects with a high technological content;
- ensure effective governance of the activities/problems connected to the integration of national and international subjects (companies, universities, research, etc.) with very different languages, techniques and entrepreneurial cultures;
- directing and managing processes aimed at creating clusters and networks of clusters, between entrepreneurial and research subjects, operating on innovative supply chains.
Below are some of the OdR and Universities with which SeTeL has collaborated over the years:
- Libera Università S.Pio V di Roma;
- Università di Calabria – Laboratorio di Documentazione (LABDOC);
- Università la Sapienza di Roma – Centro Ricerche per il Trasporto e la Logistica;
- Università la Sapienza di Roma – Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari;
- Università la Sapienza di Roma – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale;
- Università degli Studi della Tuscia – Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali;
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata – Dipartimento Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali;
- Università degli Studi di Roma 3 – Dipartimento di Scienze;
- Università degli Studi di Roma 3 – Laboratorio di Misure Elettriche ed Elettroniche;
- Università degli Studi di Catania – Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente;
- CREA – Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria;
- LUISS – Business School;
- Link Campus University;
- Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi del CNR;
- ASI (Italian Space Agency);
- ENEA (Technology Transfer Unit) for T3GOV Project – Territorial Technology Transfer Governance.
MAR – Multipurpose Amphibious Rover – R&D Projects
Title: Bi@Valvia 4.0 – SMARt Farming & Alien Sentinel – sistema innovativo per attività di monitoraggio, ispezione, manutenzione e campionamento nell’ambito dell’acquacoltura
Start date: 20/11/2024
End date: 30/11/2025
Proposing Party:
SeTeL srl
Objective:
The primary objective of the project is the creation of an amphibian system with specific application in aquaculture, with a particular focus on shellfish cultivation. The technology that we will develop will be equipped to carry out the following activities:
• monitoring and sampling of water inside the farms;
• inspection through the introduction of AI in terms of defense against alien species;
• maintenance of the systems.
Activity:
The project idea combines the enabling technology of the MAR (Multipurpose Amphibious Rover) with a mechanical arm, equipped for monitoring, inspection, maintenance and sampling of water in the aquaculture sector with a specific focus on shellfish cultivation. The Rover, integrated
with the mechanical arm equipped with sensors, actuators and AI, allows to certify the quality of the water by measuring the chemical variables in real
time, taking samples for subsequent biological analysis. The results are communicated to the command and control station (Ground Station) which will be able to provide indications of any risks (early warning), linked to the presence of alterations. The rover has autonomous navigation characteristics,
low energy cost and low personnel commitment. The rover therefore acts as the enabling technology (KETs) which, integrated with the mechanical arm equipped with a sensor component, allows to inspect the environment in aquaculture farms – in particular those of shellfish – carry out maintenance operations and evaluate the maturation of the product to optimize its production. At the same time, the aim is to study the presence of alien species using AI techniques.
The use of the rover in aquaculture will allow the introduction of an innovative breeding method with low environmental impact, with the possibility
of analyzing biodiversity also in terms of defense against invasive alien species.
Funds:
The project is financed with resources from the Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) Missione 4, “Istruzione e Ricerca” – Componente 2 “Dalla ricerca all’impresa” – Linea di investimento 1.4, “Potenziamento strutture di ricerca e creazione di “Campioni Nazionali di R&S” su alcune Key Enabling Technologies”, funded by the European Union – NextgenerationEU”.
Title: HYDROMAR – Hydro Multipurpose Amphibious Rover
Expected start date: 12/06/2024
Expected end date: 11/06/2025
Proposing Party:
- SeTel Srl
Collaborative research organizations for contractual research activities:
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
Specialist consultancy services:
- Start 4.0
Objective:
The primary objective of the project is the creation of an amphibious system, called HydroMAR, with high rapid deployment capacity for early warning and risk analysis operations, drinking water monitoring and infrastructure inspections. water and artificial reservoirs.
Primary objectives are activities related to the observation and measurement of water quality, as an enabling element of a series of analyzes and processes on critical infrastructures to mitigate the risk relating to human safety, species safety, the management of any activities reclamation, etc.
Activity:
The project idea combines the enabling technology of the MAR amphibious rover (Multipurpose Amphibious Rover), with monitoring, inspection and sampling activities of the critical infrastructures of water networks and artificial drinking water basins. The monitoring activities will be aimed at avoiding risks of propagation of pollutants and evaluating possible impacts of climate change.
The sampling and monitoring system will consist of the amphibious Rover associated with an underwater drone which, equipped with appropriate sensors, will carry out in-depth inspections, will collect water samples and will require two communication systems, one between the Rover and the Ground Station and one between the rover and the underwater drone.
The first communication system will presumably have to be defended from cyber attacks that could damage it or direct it towards objectives other than those planned or maliciously alter the data collected.
The second will presumably be implemented via optical cable both for reasons of cost effectiveness and its intrinsic resistance to cyberattacks.
The rover, which has internal calculation and therefore data fusion capabilities, as well as partial real-time data interpretation, will be able to carry out an initial processing of the data acquired by the underwater sensors, to associate the localization of the collected sample, to carry out an initial analysis of the presence of pollutants and to activate a predictive system for the risk of their propagation.
The rover will communicate with the enabled data collection center, over the air, through a secure communication channel, thus protecting the data and promoting cybersecurity and resilience policies. The same secure channel will also ensure the command and control function from malicious hacking.
The University of Roma Tre (Department of Science) will be involved in the research activities, through Contractual Research agreements, for the integration activities of the underwater drone, including sensors and actuators, with the rover on the surface.
Start 4.0 will also be involved with the specialist consultancy service for the activity of: Over-the-air communication (data protection solutions and cybersecurity framework & advisory and digital transformation advisory) a fundamental activity to achieve the objective of the project which will guarantee security of the data telecommunications system and remote control.
Funds:
The facilitation provided by this NOTICE FOR THE PROVISION OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN THE MATTER OF ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES 4.0 FOR THE SECURITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES (ANNOUNCEMENT – 2023 – START4.0) is granted pursuant to the PNRR, MISSION 4 COMPONENT 2 “From research to business” INVESTMENT 2.3 “Strengthening and thematic and territorial extension of technology transfer centers by industry segments”, financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
Title: VPR FESR, Voucher Internazionalizzazione PMI
Start date: 09/11/2023
End date: 14/12/2023
Proposing Party:
Programma FESR Lazio 2021-2027
Obiettivo Strategico 1 – Europa più competitiva e intelligente
Obiettivo Specifico 3 – Rafforzare la crescita e la competitività delle PMI
Objective:
The intervention supports the participation of regional SMEs in trade fairs to expand their access to foreign markets. The beneficiary SME must participate in the trade fair with its own physical exhibition space; participation through collective exhibition spaces is not allowed, even if partly reserved for the beneficiary SME.
Participation is eligible for trade fairs that begin after the publication date of the Notice and conclude by the end of 2024.
Trade fairs are defined as trade shows, international exhibitions, or significant commercial events, excluding markets that are exclusively or predominantly aimed at end consumers.
Activity:
Participation in the following fairs:
Reas Salone internazionale dell’emergenza, di Montichiari (BS)
https://www.reasonline.it/en/
Dates: 4-5-6/10/2024
FESR contibution: 15.240,00 €
Rem-tech Expo – Hub Tecnologico Ambientale di Ferrara
https://remtechexpo.com/
Dates: 18-19-20/09/2024
FESR contribution: 15.240,00 €
AFRAQ 2024 Aquaculture Africa Conference
https://afraq24.com/
Dates: 19-20-21-22/11/2024
FESR contribution: 15.240,00 €
Funds:
The project is financed with the funds of the PR FESR Voucher Internazionalizzazione PMI of the Lazio Region, based on the Public Notice approved with Det n. G13698 dated October 18, 2023.
Title: ECOMAR Fast Deployment Early Warning Environmental System
Expected start date: 21/11/2023
Expected end date: 21/05/2025
List of Beneficiaries:
- SeTel Srl – leader
- Faal Srl
- Esseodue Srl
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
The primary objective of ECOMAR (POR FESR Project Lazio Region) is the realization of an autonomous amphibious vehicle, named Rover, with a high rapid deployment capacity for early warning operations aimed at chemical- physical analysis of marine waters.
The early warning activity will allow the authorities to be quickly alerted in the event of water pollution. The vehicle will be equipped with sensors capable of detecting various chemical-physical characteristics in real-time, comparing the data with each other (data fusion) and generating an alert where a possible anomalous condition is revealed.
Activity:
The project involves SeTeL – Servizi Tecnici Logistics s.r.l. in the redesign and creation of the new marine Rover by integrating the appropriate components and sensors; various departments of Roma TRE University which will dedicate themselves to research, design and small-scale prototyping of the components necessary to adapt the agricultural Rover to the marine environment and make it suitable for the early warning and fast deployment mission; ESSEODUE srl which will deal with the definition and design of the chemical-physical-biological analysis methodology for the purposes of early warning; FAAL BATTERIE SRL which will deal with the study, analysis and design of the optimal system for energy storage via batteries.
Funds:
The project is co-financed with the funds of the Lazio FESR Regional Program 2021-2027 of the Public Notice “Riposizionamento Competitivo RSI” (RSI Competitive Repositioning) approved with Resolution no. G18823 of 12.28.2022.
Eligible costs: € 954.734,40
FESR contibution: € 667.196,50
For more information on the ECOMAR project – which began in November 2023 – below is an abstract on its main activities.
LIFE- WINEGROVER: Precision Agriculture System to limit the impact on the environment, on health and on air quality of grape production.
Title: Precision Agriculture System to limit the impact on the environment, on health and on air quality of grape production.
Expected start date: 01/09/2020
Expected end date: 31/10/2023
The project will be implemented in the following Member State(s) and Region(s) or other countries:
- Italy (Lazio and Toscana)
- Portugal (Norte)
- Spain (Andalusia)
LIST OF BENEFICIARIES:
- Coordinating beneficiary: Università degli Studi della Tuscia
- Associated beneficiary: CREA – Counsil for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Alalysis – CREA VE Research Center – Viticulture and Oenology
- Associated beneficiary: Inova+ – Innovation Services, S.A.
- Associated beneficiary: LUISS – Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
- Associated beneficiary: Asociacion Empresarial Multisectorial Innovadora para las Ciudades Inteligentes
- Associated beneficiary: SETEL Servizi Tecnici Logistici Srl
- Associated beneficiary: Wellness Telecom S.L.
Objectives:
Main objective of the Project is to decrease the environmental impact related to grape production by introducing novel technologies for Precision Agriculture (PA) and validate in two vineyards in Italy and Spain the technical performance of a cost-effective and integral solution based on the implementation of a new PA system developed in a previous research project.
Activities:
The main activities in whose SeTeL is mainly involved are the following:
- Development and implementation of the prototypes of the terrestrial Rover, an innovative autonomous terrestrial electric rover moving along the vineyard equipped with multy-sensory instrumentation for proximal sensing and actuators.
- Development and implementation of a ground control station for missions control and real time location system. The system is based on MAVLINK protocols. Local proximity sensors operate independently from the remote guidance, immobilizing the vehicle when not explicitly authorized from the ground station.
PROJECT BUDGET AND REQUESTED EU FUNDING:
- Total project budget: 2,188,137 Euro
- Totale eligible project budget: 2,188,137 Euro
- EU financial contribution requested: 1,203,275 Euro (=55% of total eligible budget)
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For more information please visit the site https://winegrover.eu/.
Title: AGRIDRONEVISION
Duration: 18 months
Start date: 18/01/2018
End date: 18/11/2019
Partnership:
- SeTel Srl – leader
- IDS SpA
- DIBAF “Università della Tuscia”– Department for Innovation in Biological, Agrifood and Forest System
- CNR – IMM Roma
- Link Campus University
Description:
The project idea called AgridroneVision focuses on the creation and development of an integrated and intelligent system for innovative applications with a high knowledge content in the precision agriculture sector. The system will consist of a remotely piloted aircraft component equipped with multi-sensory instrumentation dedicated to proximal sensing, a ground control station and an innovative terrestrial rover and a series of sensors for monitoring the main microclimatic parameters.
Activity:
The main activities of the project concerned the construction of the following integrated subsystems:
- Drone system. This system consist of an aircraft component and a remotely piloted land rover, equipped with multi-sensory instrumentation dedicated to proximal observation (proximal sensing) and mechanical actuators.
- Monitoring System. The system consists of a ground control station and specific command, data fusion and decision-making software.
- Sensor system. Commercial sensors were analyzed and innovative sensors developed for monitoring the main microclimatic parameters.
Funds:
The project is co-financed with the funds of the POR-FESR 2014/2020 of the Lazio Region, based on the “LIFE 2020” Public Notice (“Public Notice”) approved with Det n. G08726 dated July 29, 2016.
Complex Systems Engineering – R&D Projects
Title: SCAMP (Smart Components via AM – Additive Manufacturing – polymeric)
Duration: 18 months + 3
Expected start date: April 2018
Expected end date: 31/01/2020
Partner:
- Leading Company: Thales Alenia Space Italia
- Partners: SeTeL s.r.l. – HB Technology s.r.l. – Dragonfly s.r.l.
- University and Research Organisms: University of Rome Tor Vergata Department of Engineering of the “Mario Lucertini” Company and The National Research Council – Institute for the study of nanostructured materials – ISMN.
Description:
The project aims to create a significant tertiary structure of nanosatellite, made of innovative polymeric/nanocomposite material using AM techniques and integrating materials, nanotechnologies, microelectronics and Advanced Manufacturing in the same structure.
Se.Te.L. role:
The role of SeTeL is to correlate the reliability of the product by monitoring, tracing and post processing the AM production data, collected by multispectral and IMU sensors.
Project budget:
The project is co-financed by funds of the POR-FESR 2014/2020 of the Lazio Region, Call for Kets Technologies Enabling.
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2012.
SeTeL, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Electrical and Electronic Measures of the Faculty of Engineering of Rome 3 and the CNR-IMM, wins, as a Prime, of a project funded by the POR FESR 2007/2013, called SIMPFLEX, Stretching/Pressure Measurement System, distributed on flexible or semi-flexible surfaces with autonomous sensors.
The basic concept that inspired the project is the development of a new family of multisensory systems of “contactless” measurement systems that are totally autonomous – also for power supply – and able to transfer the data to be measured to the processing, without the use of physical electrical connections between the parts of the system.
2011.
SeTeL, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Electrical and Electronic Measures of the Faculty of Engineering of Rome 3, presents a proposal within the initiative on “Technological Research Promoters” (funded by the Province of Rome), relating to vulnerabilities and protection techniques of photovoltaic systems.
SeTeL role is the industrial sponsor. The proposal was accepted for funding.
2011.
Project COLD ENERGY was founded by Ministry of Environment. The objective was Energy saving on large industrial refrigeration system.
SeTeL role was the analysis and device vulnerabilities, realization of the control system of the refrigeration machine and energy saving measurement.
Prime: Industria Angelantoni.
Partner: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Rome 3.
Shape Memory Alloy-Based Actuators for Aerospace
2010.
Call ASI (Italian Space Agency) on Research and Development Projects. Theme: “Materials, Components, Sensors”.
SeTeL, in partnership with Aerosekur, presents the ALMAS Project aimed to develop a PinPuller for space devices, based on Shape Memory Alloys technology. Role of SeTeL was the analysis of the pinpuller failure modes.
Research Agreement for autonomic logistics
In the last 8 years SeTeL has developed an intense relationship with the Faculty of Sciences of Rome 3, stimulating a lot of master thesis and scientific publications on Autonomic Logistic and on ASD 3000 L.
It is a research area that applies to complex systems such as: satellite systems, railway systems, large plants already equipped with sensors for temperature, vibration, pressures, electric and magnetic fields etc. with current technology they provide indications of the overall status with indications of the type ok-not ok. Maintaining systems in efficiency is therefore traditionally regulated by static, human-guided maintenance plans, even if supported by a computer.
An innovative method is to equip individual components with specialized microsensors, able to assess the expected performance related to the specific mode in progress.
The Autonomous Logistic, unlike traditional structures, aims to assess the state of degradation of each individual parameter and their whole in order to be able to determine the remaining life related not only to the overt failure (already detectable with the systems degradation of the set of parameters). On this goal SeTeL is able to pour a significant “tesauro” of experience.
The development of Autonomic Logistics policies and devices, enables continuous surveillance of the real-time health of components, reducing the risks of unexpected events and shifting maintenance activities “on condition” with obvious improvements safety, service availability and business cost-effectiveness.
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