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Advanced Formation Flying
 
Antennas in movement
 
Computer games in the real world
 
Kirk Polycom - Multilingual programming
 
Keep warm - but save energy
 
Home Port
 
Embedded systems need to speak Java
 
Component-based development of embedded systems
 
Performance specification and requirement-based test of embedded systems
 
LandIT - The wireless crop sprayer
 
The farmer's virtual desk
 
PhD student on shares
 
Robots can also be sociable
 
Control your computer - using your tongue
 
Turn the power plants up and down
 
Turbo-charged computation
 



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Advanced Formation Flying

Projektets formål er at skabe en model for rumfartøjer som hybride systemer. Modellen skal bruges i forbindelse med formationsflyvning.

Antennas in movement

The aim of the project is to develop a new generation of antennas for use on objects in movement, e.g. ships or army vessels.

  • Two-axled antenna

  • Reliability of communication, even subject to difficult weather and road conditions

  • Software substitutes mechanics

  • Efficient cheap and reliable communications antenna

  • Autonomous error diagnosis and error management
  • SpaceCom A/S

  • CISS
Computer games in the real world
The aim of the project is to develop interactive games, making them wireless and even more physically demanding than they already are. The games will take place in the real world, rather than on the computer screen.
  • Release computer games from the computer

  • Make games even more active - the player will have to physically move during games

  • Improve positioning with regoard to precision and speed
  • GamesOnTrack A/S

  • CISS
Kirk Polycom - Multilingual programming
The aim of the project is to enable the mobile phone manufacturer Polycom to use various development languages simultaneously.
  • Ease the transition to using Java as programming language

  • Give the programmers the liberty of choice in terms of which language they want to use

  • Create open and fail-safe systems that work and which are quick to adapt to new demands and requirements
  • Polycom (formerly Kirk Telecom A/S)

  • CISS
Keep warm - but save energy
The aim of the project is to find a way of cutting down on the electricity consumption of air conditioning without turning down the heat or ventilation.
  • Use of speed-controllable pumps

  • Same performance - minimal energy consumption

  • Huge potential - possible electricity conservation of 30 percent annually
  • Grundfos

  • Danish Technological Institute

  • Exhausto

  • CISS
Home Port

The aim of the project is to construct a prototype of a control unit capable of controlling all wireless devices in a private residence.

 

  • Reduce energy consumption

  • One single control unit that enable the users to control all wireless devices in terms of e.g. energy consumption

  • Enable different wireless appliiances to communicate
    • Alexandra Instituttet/ISIS Katrinebjerg

    • CSI

    • Ingeniørhøjskolen, Århus

    • Seluxit

    • Servodan

    • Develco

    • CISS
    Embedded systems need to speak Java
    The aim of the project is to exchange experiences and knowledge an in the long run to prepare Danish companies for using Java as programming language.
    • Prepare Danish companies for using Java, which is predicted to be the programming language of the future

    • Easier error recovery

    • Simpler programming

    • Cost-effective solution
    • Prevas A/S

    • Polycom (formerly Kirk Telecom A/S)

    • Wirtek A/S

    • Tekkva Consult

    • Mechatronic Brick Aps

    • Aalborg Industries A/S

    • VIA - University College Horsens

    • Danish Technological Institute

    • CISS
    Component-based development of embedded systems
    The aim of the project is to develop a more coherent method for model-driven development of embedded systems.
    • Further development of existing semantic models and the associated tools of analysis

    • Establishment of a coherent tool-chain for embedded systems

    • Associated with the MoDES project
    • BRICS

    • CISS
    Performance specification and requirement-based test of embedded systems

    The aim of the project is to develop a more coherent method for model-driven development of embedded systems.

    • Further development of existing semantic models and the assiciated tools of analysis

    • Focus on the tools and semantic models that concern test of embedded systems

    • Associated with the MoDES project
    • BRICS

    • CISS
    LandIT - The wireless crop sprayer
    The aim of the project is to create a wireless system enabling all agricultural operating systems to communicate wirelessly.
    • Enable a farmer's systems to communicate wirelessly

    • Enable farmers to program operating systems on e.g. tractors from their home offices

    • Work with standardised computer and web-based systmes receiving, processing and sending data from fields and stables to the other operating systems used in agricultural production
    • Skov A/S

    • Lykketronic A/S

    • Danish Agricultural Advisory Service

    • Landsforeningen Danske Maskinstationer (The National Association for Danish Agricultural Contractors)

    • Tekkva Consult

    • CISS
    The farmer's virtual desk
    The aim of the project is to enable the different types of embedded software in e.g. stables, tractors and offices to communicate - and give farmers access to them no matter where they are.
    • Improve the gathering and distribution of knowledge

    • Enable different systems to communicate

    • Make e.g. climate control more active so that it can be used as decision support
    • Danish Agricultural Advisory Service

    • ISIS Katrinebjerg

    • The University of Southern Denmark

    • KomIalt

    • CISS
    PhD student on shares
    The aim of the project is to unite CISS' expertise within wireless technology with CSI's expertise within mechatronics and utilize this synergy within the field of home automation.
    • Home Automation - help for disabled to control devices and functions in their homes

    • Wireless technology, e.g. Bluetooth

    • Knowledge sharing between centres

    • Enable wireless services to communicate
    • CSI

    • CISS
    Robots can also be sociable
    The aim of the project is to determine whether human social characteristics can be transferred to robots.
    • Enable robots to give and take information from each other

    • Enable energy transfer among robots when one robot in a group needs it

    • Inspiration from gaming theory and social groups

    • Compose a mechanical design that enables energy transfer
    • CISS
    Control your computer - using your tongue
    The aim of the project is to develop a palatal keyboard for disabled people.
    • Wireless keypad controlled by the tongue

    • Wireless communication between computer and keypad

    • Paralysed people get access to internet, e-mail and text messaging

    • Enable paralysed people to control their wheelchairs

    • Developing a power supply that can be used in the mouth
    • CISS

    • SMI - Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University

    • Sahva A/S

    • TKS A/S
    Turn the power plants up and down
    The aim of the project is to determine, theoretically and in practice, how hybrid system theory can be utilizes for improvement of the dynamic characteristics of coal-fired power plants.
    • Including continous and discreet-time dynamics

    • Determine how hybrid control can be used to avoid complications

    • Regulate electricity production to demand and thus diminish CO2 omission
    • Dong Energy A/S

    • CISS
    Turbo-charged computation
    The aim of the project is to optimise the interaction between hardware, operating system, software and other components.
    • Optimise the interaction between a number of processes

    • Use of flexible hardware (FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array) that can be re-programmed from one task to another - and even in the course of the process

    • Reduce production and operating costs
    • ETI

    • CISS

    Turn the power plants up and down
    Since December 2007, CISS PhD student Piotr Niemczyk has been working on a project at DONG Energy. The aim is to find a way of turning the inflow of coal for the Danish CHP plants up and down - and thus enable them to adapt their output to the consumption at any given time.