March 8th, 2021 | by
Letzner, Andrea
Digital ear-opening – Hearing aids and other hearables often cause wearers to perceive their own voice in a distorted way, and chewing, swallowing, and even walking also generate unpleasant noise. The reason for this is the so-called occlusion effect, which occurs when headphones or hearing aids close off the auditory canal. This problem is addressed by the startup Elevear, which emerged from the Institute for Communication Systems and was successfully founded by Stefan Liebich, Johannes Fabry, Raphael Brandis, and Elfed Howells on February 4, 2021. Their Occlear® technology suppresses the occlusion effect and allows natural voice perception.
The project has already received the RWTH Innovation Award in 2019 and was accepted into the RWTH Incubation Program in January 2021 as one of twelve outstanding founding teams.
Kategorie: Allgemein, Information, Kommunikation und Elektronik, Informationstechnische Systeme
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February 3rd, 2021 | by
Nießen, Lara Sophie
CAD-Drawing– IEM
In November 2020, a master’s thesis was started at the IEM on the topic of “Development and Construction of a Highspeed Actuator System and Track for a Maglev Train Model on a Scale of 1:20”.
The aim is to further develop the 1:20 scale magnetic train model existing at the IEM. To this end, the test track is to be extended to include a combination of a linear asynchronous machine in short stator design and a linear synchronous machine in long stator design, taking into account the structural conditions of the test hall. The levitation operation is realized with so-called hybrid actuators, which consist of a combination of electric and permanent magnets.
The six-month implementation of this master’s thesis is supported by the Hans Hermann Voss Foundation – in particular, the material costs for the prototype are financed. The foundation supports master’s theses by RWTH students who conduct research in one of the university’s profile areas and whose work contributes to solving application-related problems.
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January 21st, 2021 | by
Nießen, Lara Sophie
Congratulations to Stefan Dähling and Sonja Happ for winning the Best Paper Award in the IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications for the paper:
Stefan Dähling ; Sonja Kolen ; Antonello Monti, ‘Swarm-based automation of electrical power distribution and transmission system support’, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2018, p. 212 – 223
Kategorie: Auszeichnungen, Information, Kommunikation und Elektronik
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January 7th, 2021 | by
Nießen, Lara Sophie
For his achievements in the area of “Development of operations and management systems for home broadband networks”, Professor Dr.-Ing. Haris Gačanin, is elevated to the status of IEEE Fellow of class 2021. The IEEE is known as the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. The awarding of the title of IEEE Fellow is considered a great honor and recognition for outstanding personal achievements.
He began his academic career with a Ph.D. in electrical and communications engineering at Tohoku University in Japan, where he also worked as an assistant professor before joining Alcatel-Lucent Bell in 2010. There, he was employed as a department head at Nokia Bell Labs and received several innovation awards from Alcatel-Lucent Bell and Nokia Bell Labs, as well as other awards for contributions in IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers). In April 2020, he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University as a professor. There, he holds the Chair for Distributed Signal Processing at the Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.
Professor Gačanin is active in the field of digital communication and data processing methods for the design of optimization and management systems. His contributions in research on next-generation communication technologies have had a direct and positive impact on the business development of his former employer Alcatel-Lucent Bell. Professor Gačanin currently holds approximately 150 technical publications and 90 patents in his research area.
Kategorie: Allgemein, Auszeichnungen, Information, Kommunikation und Elektronik
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December 17th, 2020 | by
Wick, Sandra
Against the background of the current COVID-19 situation we will hold the FGE Colloquium online, which is planned for 17.12.2020. The event starts at 18.00 hrs. The topic is “Redispatch in Germany and Europe”.
Speaker is Dr. Niels Ehlers from 50Hertz Transmission GmbH.
There will be ff. aspects will be discussed:
- Higher capacity utilization and congestion management in the power grid
- European developments
- New challenges for engineers
Target group: Students, scientific staff, interested public.
If you would like to participate, please let us know via the following email address:
fge-kolloquien@iaew.rwth-aachen.de
We will then be happy to send you the dial-in data for the event.
Event series FGE Colloquia
Further exciting FGE colloquia, which will take place in the winter semester on the topic of energy technology and economics, is on the following date and can also be accessed via the online flyer:
| 04.02.2021 |
Panel Discussion: Electricity war reloaded – is alternating current still up to date?
Prof. Rik W. De Doncker, E.ON ERC, RWTH Aachen, Prof. Jochen Kreusel, ABB Power Grids Germany AG, Peter Barth, Amprion GmbH, Dr. Joachim Kabs, Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG |
Kategorie: Allgemein, Energie und Umwelt, Information, Kommunikation und Elektronik
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December 3rd, 2020 | by
Wick, Sandra
On Thursday, 03.12.2020 at 18.00 hrs, an event will take place as FGE Colloquium with the title: “The largest national IT project of all times: The digital transformation in the energy industry”.
Speaker of this lecture is Dr. Christoph July from devolo AG.
You will receive the dial-in information for the event at the following e-mail address
fge-kolloquien@iaew.rwth-aachen.de
The event will take place within the framework of the colloquia of the Forschungsgesellschaft Energie (FGE e.V.) planned for the winter semester 2020/21. Due to the corona pandemic, this event will be held online.
Event series FGE Colloquia
Further exciting FGE colloquia, which will take place in the winter semester on the topic of energy technology and economics, are on the following dates and can also be accessed via the online flyer:
| 17.12.2020 |
Redispatch in Deutschland und Europa
Dr. Niels Ehlers, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH |
| 04.02.2021 |
Panel Discussion: Electricity war reloaded – is alternating current still up to date?
Prof. Rik W. De Doncker, E.ON ERC, RWTH Aachen, Prof. Jochen Kreusel, ABB Power Grids Germany AG, Peter Barth, Amprion GmbH, Dr. Joachim Kabs, Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG |
Kategorie: Allgemein, Energie und Umwelt, Information, Kommunikation und Elektronik
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October 5th, 2020 | by
Letzner, Andrea
Nowadays, patients receive comprehensive treatment from a number of qualified medical professionals. Through a unique combination of translational medical research, data science and computational intelligence, Clinomic GmbH aims to serve as an interface between medical professionals and databases. The result? Mona, the intelligent assistance system for intensive care units, which is designed to support nurses and doctors in the optimal treatment of their patients.
Clinomic GmbH was founded in 2019 by an interdisciplinary research team. Among the founding members are Univ.-Prof. Anke Schmeink from the Department of Information Theory and Systematic Design of Communication Systems, Prof. Guido Dartmann from theInstitute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems and Dr. med. Arne Peine, Priv.-Doz. Lukas Martin and Univ.-Prof. Gernot Marx from the Universitätsklinik Aachen together with Univ.-Prof. Christoph Thiemermann from the William Harvey Research Institute of Queen Mary University of London.
Since its launch, Clinomic GmbH has not only won the RWTH Spin-off Award 2019, but has also received funding of 1.6 million euros and is a partner of renowned companies such as Microsoft, NVIDIA and Google.
Kategorie: Information, Kommunikation und Elektronik, Informationstechnische Systeme, Medizintechnik
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September 18th, 2020 | by
Letzner, Andrea
DFG grant for “Memristive Devices Toward Smart Technical Systems”
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding five projects under the priority program “Memristive Devices Toward Smart Technical Systems” with the participation of members of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University. Four of them are projects at the chair of Prof. Rainer Waser IWE2 and the Peter Grünberg Institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich. A further project was approved in the teaching and research area of Prof. Regina Dittmann “Technology of Oxide Electronics” also at the Peter Grünberg Institute.
The funding for the five Jülich-Aachen projects amounts to approx. 1.2 million EURO for the duration of the priority program of 3 years. Within the framework of the various projects, Faculty 6 will develop memristive components for use in novel energy-efficient computer structures or for intelligent sensor applications for the future Internet of Things in cooperation with other research institutions such as TU Dresden, TU Chemnitz, the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), the Helmholtz-Zentrums Berlin, TU Berlin and the NMI – Natural and Medical Sciences Institute – at the University of Tübingen and the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron
About the projects:
In the project “Memristive Time difference encoder (MemTDE)” the group of Mrs. Dittmann and the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron) are working on the development of a memristor-based intelligent electronics for processing sensor signals for the Internet of Things. This is intended to process the collected information on site instead of transmitting it wirelessly using a lot of energy.
In the “Hybrid MEMristor-CMOS Micro Electrode Array bio-sensing platform (MEMMEA)” project, the partners of PGI-7, the Helmholtz Center Berlin, the TU Berlin and the NMI – Natural and Medical Sciences Institute – at the University of Tübingen are striving to develop sensors that can directly record the activity of biological neurons. These sensors based on memristor-CMOS hybrid circuits enable direct on-chip signal processing and open up a new field of biological signal processing.
In the project “Domino Processing Unit: Towards Novel High Efficient In-Memory-Computing (MemDPU)” the partners of PGI-7 and the Chemnitz University of Technology are working on a novel computing unit, the Domino Processing Unit (DPU). In contrast to the conventional von Neumann architecture computing unit, this DPU enables computing directly in memory. With the DPU, the high energy consumption is saved through communication between the memory and the computing unit.
In the project “Universal Memcomputing in Hardware Realizations of Memristor Cellular Nonlinear Networks (Mem2CNN)” the partners of PGI-10, PGI-7 and TU Dresden are pursuing the development of memristive cellular neural networks. These networks enable the direct processing of video signals, for example in the form of edge detection for pattern recognition. Thus, visual data could be processed in real-time.
In the project “Robust Compute-in Memory using Memristors : ROBCOMM”, the partners of IWE 2, PGI-7 and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are working on the development of reliable, efficient circuits based on memristive components that enable a Computation-in-Memory (CIM) architecture. The CIM architecture allows to efficiently perform complex computational operations such as vector-matrix operations or to directly solve large systems of equations.
Kategorie: Information, Kommunikation und Elektronik, Mikro- und Nanoeletronik
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June 19th, 2020 | by
Letzner, Andrea
In the context of an industry project, ICE contributed to the HENSOLDT Cyber MiG-V. This is a general purpose, logic-encrypted processor, Made in Germany and targeting high-security applications. Logic encryption hinders the insertion of hardware Trojans, ensuring full control of the design and production chain. The CPU is based on a 64-Bit RISC-V core and can be used together with the formally verified seL4 microkernel (hosted in the chip’s internal ROM) to create an ultra-secure solution
Institute for Commmunication Technologies and Embedded Systems (ICE)
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June 17th, 2020 | by
Letzner, Andrea
State government supports 13 outstanding 5G projects with up to 26 million Euro
The new 5G generation of mobile communications not only enables higher data transmission rates, but also real-time transmission and the networking of machines, systems and robots in industry.
The Department of Information Theory and Systematic Design of Communication Systems ISEK has developed the project 5GComet, a real-time capable 5G-end-to-end infrastructure between field and cloud level for industrial applications in cooperation with Fraunhofer IPT, WZL and other partners. The aim is to achieve a cross-process network of smart workpieces, machines and services for intelligent applications to control and optimize production.
As one of 13 innovative projects, 5GComet is being funded with a total of 26 million euros.
Source: Wirtschaft.NRW
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