Systems & Controls

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When researching sensor systems for controlling water quality, monitoring the environmental parameters in buildings, or analyzing body movement, the underlying research topics that form part of INCAS³ projects are often the same. Such topics include the design of sensor hardware platforms and that of reliable software to control the system. The Systems & Controls group conducts basic research into such underlying topics.

Research

INCAS³ develops cognitive sensor systems for monitoring and control applications. Such a network of sensors adapts its sensing to any anomalous environmental situations, and automatically detects and recovers from system faults. This requires the sensors to cooperate and establish an optimal balance between the amount of data transmitted through the network, energy consumption, and the system’s performance and reliability.

Systems & Controls

Platform

INCAS³ designs and develops its own sensor-actuator platform, known as MicroSpot, which is suitable for use in robust, large-scale wireless networks. The Systems & Controls group overviews the continued development of the platform. Reliability and efficiency of the system are priorities in this regard. Research topics include signal processing in a sensor readout chain, the low-energy operation of sensors, and the formal analysis, verification or synthesis of the system software.