Projects - European projects

The Embedded Systems Institute participates in a number of European projects:

Quasimodo

Quasimodo is an European research project funded by the European Commission under the IST framework programme 7 for Information and Communication Technology, ICT.

The main goal of Quasimodo is to develop new techniques and tools for model-driven design, analysis, testing and code-generation for advanced embedded systems where ensuring quantitative bounds on resource consumption is a central problem.

For more information, follow this link: http://www.quasimodo.aau.dk/index.html 
 

Genesys

The objective of the GENESYS project is to develop a cross-domain reference architecture for embedded systems that can be instantiated for different application domains to meet the requirements and constraints documented in the ARTEMIS strategic research agenda. These requirements are composability, networking, security, robustness, diagnosis, integrated resource management and evolvability. The reference architecture will address common issues, such as complexity management, separation of communication and computation, support for different levels of quality of service, security, model-based design, heterogeneity of subsystems, legacy integration, optimal power usage, and diagnosis. It will provide domain-independent services that can be customized to the needs of a particular application domain. Domain-specific platform services will be converged such that components from different application domains can be consistently integrated while preserving relevant properties.

The project will result in a conceptualization of the cross-domain architecture, a specification of cross-domain core services and optional services for the selected application domains, and four exploratory prototypes that will demonstrate and help to evaluate the feasibility of selected central architectural concepts in the different application domains.

The expected impact of GENESYS is a reduction of development costs and a speed-up of the time-to-market of embedded system development in different ap-plication domains, thereby strengthening the European presence in the competitive world-wide em-bedded systems markets. The support for cross-domain reuse of components is of particular relevance to innovative European SMEs that plan to enter those markets with high-tech products under increas-ing time pressure.

The consortium consists of many major European embedded system suppliers and OEMs encompassing a broad range of application domains, supported by leading research and academic organizations.

For more information, follow this link: http://www.genesys-platform.eu/
 

Artist2 / Artdesign

The strategic objective of the ARTIST2 Network of Excellence is to strengthen European research in Embedded Systems Design, and promote the emergence of this new multi-disciplinary area. Operationally, this is achieved by integrating the teams, and building excellence. We gather together the best European teams from the composing disciplines, and work to forge a scientific community. Integration is achieved around a Joint Programme of Activities, aiming to create critical mass from the selected European teams.

For more information, follow this link: http://www.artist-embedded.org/
 

Multiform

Control systems are a crucial element in high-tech systems and especially in large industrial and infrastructure systems. Industrial production in Europe is highly automated, not only to reduce labour cost but also to meet stringent constraints on product quality and environmental impact and, most importantly, to guarantee the highest possible level of safety. Modern control systems technology can increase productivity and performance of the controlled system significantly.

The main objective of MULTIFORM is the integration and the support for interoperability of tools and methods based on different modelling formalisms in order to make a significant step towards integrated coherent tool support for the design of large complex controlled systems from the first concept to the implementation and further on over their entire life cycle.

By addressing the issue of multi-level multi-formalism control systems modelling and design, this project represents a definite advance over the traditional approach pursued by the control community that focuses solely on the design of control algorithms and, to some extent, their interaction with communication protocols. The multi-formalism approach pursued here reflects the heterogeneous nature of the functionality and of the implementation of large and complex controlled systems. The key contribution of the project towards the goal of integrated model-based control systems design is the connection of tools that support the design of different layers of the control hierarchy and on different levels of abstraction. Integration of tools is pursued both along the axes of re-use and consistency of models, and of feedback and feedforward of results between different levels of the design process and is addressed by mature tools that are based on different formalisms.

For more information, follow this link: http://www.ict-multiform.eu

Care4Me

Cooperative Advanced REsearch for Medical Efficiency (Care4Me) Care4ME is a 40 month project co-funded by the ITEA programme (Application Domains: Cyber Enterprise and Intermediation Services and Infrastructures and in Technology Categories: Content Acquisition and Processing and Content Representation. ITEA is a strategic pan-European programme for advanced pre-competitive R&D in software for Software-intensive Systems and Services (SiS).

The ageing population unmistakably causes higher prevalence of difference (chronic) diseases with associated increasing healthcare costs and shortage of personnel. This revolution in society drives healthcare innovation to the limit. Clinical and technological solutions are required that bring together medical data and knowledge from different sources and domains in order to address the complete healthcare care cycle of a medical condition. The objetive of this project is to increase quality and productivity in the healthcae cycle by using more advanced medical imaging and decision support methods while combining them with different knowledge sources, from early diagnosis to treatment and monitoring. The final outcome of this project are clinical prototypes of novel medical image analysis and decision support systems for three specific disease areas (cancer, cardio-vascular and neurodegenerative disease), that connect to the hospital information systems using a new system architecture. A roadmap into future medical imaging systems is presented. This project covers the first steps of this roadmap.

For more information, follow this link: http://www.care4me.eu/