CNR convers multiple roles in the context of cassata project. The main body of activities is in the Optronics sensors area . In fact CNR is leader of the optronics technical area (WP3,WP4,WP5), direct responsible of WP3 and of deliverable 3.3. Because of the mentioned project responsibilities CNR is preent also in WP1 and WP2. CNR also has an additional activity in the acoustic area (WP6 and 7).

As a research institute, CNR expects to advance the knowledge in the field of optronics and acoustic sensors, and develope new detection strategies that allow humans to gain more information from the environment they live in.

The CNR activities aim at enhance the operational effectiveness of optronic sensors for chemical analysis by introducing multiparametric measurement units endowed with multiple different sensors and a machine learning-based interpretation of the data collected capable of giving a warning when the chemistry of the environment change, and trained to classify the type of warning. the paradigm shift consists in giving up the diret measurement of trace concentration of chemicals with sophisticated equipment, but rather extract environmental information from different sensors and infer whether the chemical backgroud has changed since the last measurement. This strategy allows to strongly reduce the sensor’s technological requirements, making possible to miniaturize them and reduce their cost to make them conceleable and expendable.