All projects from the School of Engineering
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Next Generation 3D Tissue Models: Bio-Hybrid Hierarchical Organoid-Synthetic Tissues (Bio-HhOST) Comprised of Live and Artificial Cells.
Bio-HhOST aims to implement “hybrid organoids”, which means systems composed of biological and artificial cells. The purpose of hybrid organoids is to provide a tissue–like an environment for studying biological, e.g., tumours and cells. In this example, tumour cells would be an instance of biological cells, and the ...
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SpectralPad
SpectralPad offers an easy-to-use, accurate and cost-efficient way to diagnose and monitor yellow skin diseases for more than 1 billion patients world wide.
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Swiss Smart City Outreach
The aim of the "Swiss Smart City Outreach (SSCO)" project is to promote the implementation of smart city initiatives, primarily in the canton of Zurich, by providing information, knowledge transfer and networking, thereby contributing to the development of smart, sustainable cities and municipalities in Switzerland. ...
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"Muscle Jump", how well do you control your biosignals?
This demo project relates to the current application of EMG sensors (electromyography). Nowadays, EMG sensors can be used to control modern arm or leg prostheses, giving patients more freedom. However, controlling such prostheses is a challenge and requires lengthy training. Especially at the beginning, it is ...
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3D tape winding on additive manufactured cores
The 3D Winding on Additively Manufactured Cores (3DW-AM) project proposes a novel technological process for the fabrication of highly topology-optimized, ultralight carbon fiber structures for use in the aviation industry.
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Accessible Graphics: Semantic graphic description in PDFs for visually impaired people
The goal of this project is to research and develop deep-learning based methods to automatically extract the data visualized in a chart, in order to generate a semantic description of the chart graphics for visually impaired readers using their screen readers.
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AI-based Health Prognostics for Battery Energy Storage Systems with Operational Condition Monitoring Data
In order to offer new asset performance management services, Fluence Energy and the ZHAW will develop advanced analytics, in particular AI algorithms, for grid-scale battery energy storage systems based on real-world data from operational plants.
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An interactive tool for Community Interpreter training
Community interpreters interpret conversations in the health, social, education or asylum sectors and thus make a significant contribution to giving people without sufficient knowledge of the national language access to public services. Despite this responsible task, they rarely have the opportunity to practise in ...
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DermatoTherma
Our objective is to provide an innovative thermotherapy treatment solution for cutaneous leishmaniasis to patients globally. We aim to offer an alternative to traditional medication-based treatments, which are often associated with significant side effects. To ensure accessibility and affordability in the 98 ...
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DICLIS - Surveying the ZHAW Diversity Climate for students at the ZHAW
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EDGAR – EGNSS DFMC for GBAS bAsed opeRations
EDGAR (EGNSS DFMC for GBAS bAsed opeRations) Project aims at contributing towards the development of an improved, more liable, and accurate GBAS solution that responds, on the one hand, to the increasing demand for enhanced approach and all-weather operations in the ever-growing volume of air operations; and on ...
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Holoreach - development of trunk therapy for the assessment and training of balance & control in neurorehabilitation
The SNSF-funded Health & Wellbeing project deals with the topic of trunk stability. The aim is to create a novel, technology-supported training concept to promote selective trunk training. In a first step, this includes the implementation of tracking software for the kinematics of the test subjects, the development ...
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HyPowerGT: Demonstrating a hydrogen-powered gas-turbine engine fuelled with up to 100% H2
The HyPowerGT project aims at moving technological frontiers to enable gas turbines to operate on hydrogen without dilution. The core technology is a novel dry-low emission combustion technology (DLE H2) capable of handling mixtures of natural gas and hydrogen with concentrations up to 100% H2. Besides ensuring low ...
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Interoperable solutions to streamline PED evolution and cross-sectoral integration
The PEDvolution solutions will design, process, optimise and strengthen the PEDs genotype- and/or phenotype. Whereas the genotype of a PED is its set of genetic material, built through a unique combination of Social-Technology-Interoperability-Market related aspects. The PED’s phenotype is the set of observable ...
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NAFTAQ: Novel AFM Techniques for Autonomous Quality Control in Industrial Manufacturing
This project aims to fill technological gaps and develop key innovations critical to quality control with atomic force microscopy in high-throughput processes. It allows Nanosurf to offer new quality control solutions for industrial manufacturing, today's fastest-growing market segment.
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Net-Zero self-adaptive activation of distributed self-resilient augmented services (NATWORK)
The ambition of the EU NATWORK project funded by Horizon Europe - 6G SNS (2024-2026) is to set the foundations and deploy the very first economically realistic, energy efficient, and viable bio-inspired AI-based 6G cybersecurity and resilience framework for intelligent networking and services, taking a holistic ...
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Net4Cities – Real-Time Monitoring Networks and Transport Emissions for Tailored Zero Pollution Action Plans in European Cities
The EU Europe H2020 project Net4Cities aims to monitor and allocate traffic emissions of all kinds in order to enable their targeted reduction as part of the Zero Pollution Action Plan. To this end, new standards for monitoring air pollution and noise emissions are being developed in 11 European cities, including ...
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Packaging technology, stability evaluation, and non-destructive testing for commercialization of perovskite solar modules (PACSTATE)
For commercialization of emerging perovskite solar modules, we aim to develop new encapsulation and anti-degradation materials, a commercial system for accelerated stability evaluation, advanced non-destructive testing and modeling methods for comprehensive solar module optimization.
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Revolutionizing Skill Development: How AI Can Enhance Training for Decent Work and Climate Resilience
Climate change is affecting most of the world population faster than the population can adopt. This issue is present in daily lives, agriculture, urban planning and distribution of goods and utilities. Decisions need to be taken in real time, supported by knowledge captured in various data representations. The ...
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Smart urban green spaces
The importance of urban green spaces is growing the longer they are used to mitigate the effects of global warming (including an increase in hot & dry summers, and more intense heavy rainfall): ground-covering vegetation delays the drying out of unsealed surfaces, increases evaporation, improves the cooling function ...
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SwissSTES - Swiss Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage Action Plan and Implementation
Substituting fossil fuels with renewable energies will not be feasible without a massive expansion of seasonal energy storage. Seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) can make a significant contribution here. To date, the importance of STES for improving security of supply has been overlooked, although it has a great ...
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Unified Model for Evaluation of Text Generation Systems (UniVal)
We are developing a statistical model, how text generation system could be evaluated using a combination of human annotations and automatic (error-prone) metrics.
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Control platform for gallium nitride-based power converter
Feasibility assessment of a FPGA based control architecture suitable for GaN based power converters.
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Study on potential and challenges of blended and therefore homogenised biochar with consistent properties
Study on potential and challenges of blended and therefore homogenised biochar with consistent properties.
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Calculation of an optimized freight configuration for aircraft
When loading an aircraft freight hold, the space should be used as efficiently as possible. For this it is important to take account of spatial dimension, volume and weight of goods such as pallets and crates. There is an excessively large number of possible arrangements, which is why packing optimization has long ...