After 3 years of system design, development and user testing, the WebDA project has finally delivered the envisioned integrated platform for novel services to train the cognitive abilities and to reduce the cognitive load of the elderly, to better structure their everyday tasks and to detect and signal emergency situations. […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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After 2 years of networked embedded systems research and development, the Living++ project has been completed successfully. The members of the Living++ project developed an intuitive platform to use novel devices in an integrated manner that can be controlled remotely via a television. The Living++ platform can provide a number […]
The article "Decentralized multi-robot cooperation with auctioned POMDPs" was written by the authors Jesus Capitan, Matthijs T.J. Spaan, Luis Merino and Anibal Ollero. Abstract: Planning under uncertainty faces a scalability problem when considering multi-robot teams, as the information space scales exponentially with the number of robots. To address this issue, […]
The European research project "Estimation and Control for Safe Wireless High Mobility Cooperative Industrial Systems" (EC-SAFEMOBIL) was reviewed in Brussels in June 2013. This was the first review of this project, conducted by the European Commission and it was very successful.
The paper titled "IRIS: A Flexible and Extensible Experiment Management and Data Analysis Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks" was written by the authors Richard Figura, Chia-Yen Shih, Songwei Fu, Roberta Daidone, Sascha Jungen and Pedro José Marrón. It describes the experiment management and data analysis tool called IRIS and how this tool […]
The recently completed NOBEL project – Neighbourhood Oriented Brokerage ELectricity and monitoring system – tackles the challenge of smart cities and especially smart grids with an innovative approach that allows end users, small scale producers and grid operators to operate on a local market and trade directly among each other. Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie […]
At CeBIT (5th to 9th March, Hanover), the world’s leading exhibition for the digital economy, the research group NES of Prof. Marrón of the University of Duisburg-Essen is represented this year for the first time with its own stand. In CeBITlab (Hall 9), with focus on Research & New Technologies, Professor […]