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Dietmar Dietrich o. Univ. Prof. Dr.
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information
Technology
Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Institute of Computer Technology
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Founded 1815 Scientists 2000 Full
professors 153 Students 16 630 Foreign
students 20 Area 275 802 m2 Rooms 8
987 Students Computer Science 26,7 Students
Architecture 16,7 Students Electrical
Eng.IT 9,1
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ICT Institute of Computer Technology

• Staff
• 3 full professors
• 4 non-scientific employees
• 61 scientific staff members(included 50 Ph.D.
  students)
• 45 master theses students

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Research and education(Kaindl)

• Requirements engineering
• Software engineering
• Object-oriented development
• Human-computer interaction
• Web engineering (hypertext)
• Knowledge-based approaches

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Research and education(Grimm)

• Embedded systems
• Distributed systems in automation
• HW/SW codesign
• SoC

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Research and education(Dietrich)

• Digital ASIC design
• Fieldbus systems
• Computer networking
• Smart-card technology
• Internet coupling
• Fault tolerant systems

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We are vice-president, chair, convenor, delegate,
member, .. in various organizations

• ASA (member of the advisory board)
• CENELEC TC65 CX (delegate) CEN TC247 (delegate)
• CEN TC247 WG4 (convenor)
• OVE TC65 CX (member)
• ON FNA 058 (member)
• LonMark Audit (member)
• ISO TC205 (member)

• OVE (vice president)
• OGMA (member of the advisory board)
• IEEE Section Austria chair
• IEEE IES TC BACM chair
• IEEE IES ADCOM member
• Ass. Editor in IEEE IES TII
• Ass. Editor in EURASIP

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International Cooperation of ICT
ICT, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
USNRC, Korea
Berkeley, USA
Universities of Pakistan NUST, Comsats, UET
University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Potential Cooperations

• Projects / Master Thesis / Dissertations
• Visiting Professorship
• Student Exchange Programs
• Funded Research Projects
• Austrian Exchange ServiceWTZ - Scientific and
  Technological Co-operation
• DUO Korea
• EU Funding
• Research Projects with Industry
• Joint Conference and Journal Papers, Special
  Session Organisation, Conference Organisation,...

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SYSARI SYstem SAfety Research Industry

• Research activities in safety-critical systems
  with intensive cooperation with industry
• Project Topics
• Safe System and Software Architecture
• Fault Tolerance Methods
• Hardware and Software Diversity
• Static Software Analysis
• Operating System Safety
• Q2 2006 Q2 2009
• 3 man years

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Building Automation

• Automatic control
• Heating, ventilation, air-condition (HVAC)
• Lighting control
• Fire detection
• Local control network
• Fieldbusses
• Measures and control
• 100 thousands of nodes
• Save expenses
• Increase comfort

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• LonWorks (EIA 709, EN 14908) is a universal
  control network without safety certification
• Goal
• Safety integrity level 3 (SIL3) certified system
• First building automation network with safety
  features to reduce risk
• Requirements
• Additional hardware and software for nodes
• Safe installation and configuration tools
• Safe software test tools

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• Duration Q2 2005 Q2 2008
• 17 partners across Europe
• 42 person months for ICT
• 4 Persons

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IRON CONCEPT

• Integral Resource Optimisaton Network

We design the intelligent electricity network for
the future

• IRON solves upcoming problems in electricity
  grids
• IRON enables usage of distributed energy storages
• IRON increases energy efficiency

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IRON CONCEPT

• IT infrastructure in electricity grids for
• Flexible consumers (time-of-use tariffs)
• New imbalance energy providers (virtual power
  plants)
• Better usage of distributed storages
• Better integration of distributed generation
• Q1 2006 Q3 2007
• 2 Persons

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ASIC Design High Performance Image Processing
3 Projects
ADAM
VICI
HDIP
Quality assessment of 40 banknotes per second
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ADAM

• Linear image sensor based on 2D sensor
• Up to 100 kHz line clock
• Intelligent data pre-processing
• 60 x 60 x 60 mm³

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ADAM

• High speed CMOS image sensor
• 1024 x 1280 at 500 fps
• 1 x 1280 at approx. 500000 fps
• 10 Pixel with 10 bit each _at_ 66 MHz
• Data reduction within sensor
• FPGA based image pre-processing
• Q2 2005 Q4 2006
• 5 man years

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PAWiS
FIT- IT Employees 4 Duration 09.2005 10.2008
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PAWiS

• Systems Architecture for Power Aware Wireless
  Sensor Network Nodes
• Goal Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Nodes
• Topics
• PAWiS Simulation Framework
• Wakeup receiver
• Energy management unit
• Partner Infineon
• www.radiopulse.co.kr ? Mango

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Mediafacade

• Integrate LEDs into build fassade
• System solution
• Integration of Building automation
• FFG Project
• 5 consortium partners
• Q2 2006 Q3 2008
• Consulting

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The ARS Project
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Intelligent Buildings

• Enable a building to interact with its
  inhabitants
• Make building aware of moods and feelings
• Take advantage of ICTs competences

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From Perception to Action

• Not only to recognize special situations, but
  also to select execute appropriate reactions
• Different environments or fields of application
  ? different requirements
• Building automation
• Globally distributed, but static system
• Mobile service robots
• To take actively part in procedures within the
  house
• More resource-limited ? allocation of tasks
• Teams of individual service robots ? coordination

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• Computers

• Humans

• Fast
• Exact
• Incorruptible
• Comprehensible
• Unable to fulfill some of the easiest tasks

• Slow
• Fallible
• Undependable
• Double-minded
• The most sophisticated control system known

yet
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The ARS Project is about trying something
different

• Artificial Intelligence promised smart machines
  50 years ago.

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A bionic approach

• To learn from nature one can study

• The brain
• Neuroscience
• Neural networks

• The mind
• Psychoanalysis
• ARS project

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Perceptive Consciousness II
Neuro-Symbolic Information Processing
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How can technology tap into that knowledge?

• Psychoanalysis has studied the mind for 110 years.

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Two-fold Motivation

• Technical
• To build more intelligent automation systems
  robots
• Problems of current AI
• Focus of attention
• Automatic resource allocation
• Adaptive, context-aware behaviour
• etc.
• Psychological
• To build simulations of human behaviour
• To test the functional role of emotions
• To test their interaction with cognitive
  abilities
• ? Deeper understanding of the abilities of the
  human mind

Charlotte Rösener
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SENSE Smart Embedded Network of Sensing
Entities

• Security in public space
• Airports, Football stadium
• Wireless sensor networks
• Neighbourhoods
• EU-funded

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