Imagine you have a team of robots working together in a warehouse or hospital — they need to cooperate without crashing into things or getting hacked. Right now, there's no standard way to engineer these multi-robot teams so they're both safe and secure at the same time. SESAME built a complete toolkit — think of it as an engineering workbench — that lets you design, test, and deploy robot teams that can handle surprises, work in changing environments, and resist cyber-attacks. They tested it across five real-world scenarios including manufacturing floors, farms, and hospitals.
Companies deploying multiple robots — in warehouses, hospitals, farms, or inspection sites — face a dangerous gap: there is no standard way to engineer these robot teams to be both physically safe and cyber-secure at the same time. A safety failure can cause physical damage; a security breach can hijack the entire fleet. Current engineering approaches treat safety and security separately, leading to blind spots, costly redesigns, and systems that break under real-world uncertainty.
SESAME built a complete integrated development and deployment platform for multi-robot systems, including: an EDDI-based runtime safety-security monitoring system with configuration and deployment tools; automated vulnerability scanning and intrusion detection tools; automated safety analysis tool extensions (HiP-HOPS and safeTbox); a quality assurance toolset with fuzzing and robustness testing; an executable scenario workbench with code generation; an open public repository of reusable scenarios; and open-source explainable EDDI components — all validated across 5 real-world use cases.
If you are a manufacturer running multiple robots on your production floor and dealing with the risk of collisions, unexpected failures, or cyber-attacks disrupting operations — this project developed an integrated safety-security engineering platform with automated vulnerability scanning and intrusion detection tools, tested across 5 real use cases including agile manufacturing.
If you are a healthcare facility deploying robots for patient assistance or logistics and worried about safety certification and data security — this project built runtime safety monitors (EDDIs) and a quality assurance toolset that can test robot behaviour under uncertain conditions, with healthcare as one of 5 end-user-led use cases.
If you are an agri-food company adopting autonomous robots for harvesting or inspection and struggling with unpredictable field conditions and cybersecurity — this project created an open-source scenario workbench and deployment platform specifically validated in agri-food environments, backed by 18 consortium partners across 9 countries.
SESAME produced open-source software components, which means the core tools are freely available. Integration costs would depend on your specific robot fleet and existing systems. The project's open-source repository of executable scenarios can reduce your initial setup investment.
The platform was designed for multi-robot systems and tested across 5 end-user-led use cases in manufacturing, healthcare, agri-food, and inspection domains. The final integrated platform synthesizes contributions from 18 partners, though scaling beyond the tested scenarios would require additional validation.
Key deliverables include explicitly open-source software components for explainable EDDIs and an open public repository of executable scenarios. The consortium included 9 industry partners and 6 SMEs, suggesting commercial-friendly licensing terms. Specific licensing details should be confirmed with The Open Group Limited, the coordinator.
Yes — SESAME includes automated safety analysis tools (HiP-HOPS and safeTbox extensions) and security analysis tools with vulnerability scanning. These directly support compliance with robotics safety standards. The safety-security co-engineering approach addresses both requirements simultaneously rather than separately.
The project delivered final versions of its integrated platform, scenario workbench, and security analysis tools across its 3-year lifespan (2021-2023). The tools were validated in 5 use-case domains. However, as a Research and Innovation Action, additional engineering would be needed for production deployment.
The platform was built with an open, modular, model-based approach specifically designed for integration. The EDDI-based architecture supports configuration and deployment tools, and the executable scenario workbench includes code generation facilities to help bridge to existing systems.
SESAME's 18-partner consortium across 9 countries is evenly split between industry (9 partners, 50%) and research/academic institutions (9 partners), which is a strong signal that the tools were built with real-world deployment in mind. The coordinator, The Open Group Limited, is a UK-based SME known for technology standards — a credible steward for open-source tooling. With 6 SMEs in the mix and 5 end-user-led use cases spanning healthcare, manufacturing, agri-food, and inspection, this is not a lab-only exercise. The geographic spread across Austria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, and the UK gives broad European market awareness.
The Open Group Limited (UK) — coordinator. Contact via project website or SciTransfer introduction.
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