Current projects

Currently the following applied research projects are active at ESI:

Poseidon

Dynamic information-centric systems-of-systems

The Poseidon project rises to the challenge to discover new ways on how to build advanced systems of systems, and therefore on how to allow for flexibility, adaptability and evolvability in systems of systems while ensuring reliability – a crucial requirement, not only in the domain of maritime safety systems that provides Poseidon’s exemplary application and the industrial laboratory needed for its success.

Octopus

Smart system adaptability

A general aim for high-tech system development is to improve system evolvability, i.e. the ability to easily adapt systems in response to evolution of technology, competition, and/or customer expectations. Systems should be easily modifiable to take advance of new hardware and software technologies and to respond quickly to changing customer expectations. Current development approaches specify the functionality of a system at design-time. Such approaches are not sufficiently adequate to develop systems that easily adapt to environmental or product usage fluctuations. A viable answer to these new challenges is genuine system adaptability; i.e. the ability of the system to adapt itself to fluctuations in the environment, the use of the product, etc.; naturally, these adaptations should not require an expensive and time-consuming product development cycle.

Carm 2G

Embedded control is a key product technology differentiator for many of the Dutch high-tech industries. The strong increase in complexity of embedded control systems combined with the occurrence of late changes in control requirements, results in many timing performance problems showing up only during the integration phase. This results in extremely costly design iterations, severely threatening the time-to-market and time-to-quality constraints.

Metis

Efficient management of coastal waters is an important task for all industrialized countries. As the traffic levels grow and the types of activities expand the opportunity for accidents and criminal acts increases. The monitoring and management of these coastal areas requires significant resources in terms of skilled manpower and active enforcement. Management of shipping is required for a number of strategic reasons, namely: Collision avoidance, enforcement of fishing policies, pollution control, deterrent to criminal activities such as smuggling & terrorism and guidance in cases of bad weather or unexpected obstacles.

Allegio

To remain competitive companies need to economically bring advanced products quickly and cost effectively to market without compromising the high standards of safety, performance and reliability. The Allegio project will work closely with Philips Healthcare, iXR Group, the world’s leading supplier of Interventional X-ray equipment to develop and evaluate an effective systems architecting methodologies to address these concerns.