All projects from the School of Engineering
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RENERG2 - RENewable enERGies in future energy supply
Energy storage is a key challenge for the integration of renewable energies in future energy supply. Power-to-Gas, which transforms electricity in chemical energy carriers, is currently considered as the only pathway to enable a sustainable, renewable energy provision with a large penetration of fluctuating ...
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Talkalyzer
The aim of this project is to develop a demonstrator in the form of an Android app, which can visualize the speeches of two interlocutors in real time. This should enable a superior to recognize, for example, whether he or she talks too much in an employee appraisal interview or whether the interview is balanced.In ...
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SIDAC System for the Integral Data-based strategic Asset Controlling of Real Estates
In this project the SIDAC system was developed that allows the collection and management of all kinds of data from existing real estates that is needed for the strategic assect controlling these real estates. In addition, consulting services were designed that are based on different simulations with the collected ...
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Feasibility study and sensor improvements
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Intelligent sensor-based assistance system for retail
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CASCADE
CASCADE is an EU-funded project in which a unified control framework for continuum robots that can operate in complex and deformable environments (specifically in the cardiovascular system) is developed. Recent efforts in robotics and automation research have fostered the development of a wide variety of ...
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Challenge Earth Activity Plattform (CHEAP)
The goal of this project was to research and develop a service platform where users can compete others in their outdoor activities. To that end a user records a challenge with his smartphone and publishes it together with a specification ot the challenge (e.g. distance, time, type of activity) and the achievements ...
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FI-PPP – CONCORD
CONCORD is the Facilitation and Support action for the EU-funded Future Internet Public-Private Partnerships (FI PPP) programme. CONCORD supports the European Commission in implementing a coherent FI PPP programme in a way that makes it more than the sum of its 10 constituent projects. Concord proposes and ...
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Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics by Composite Microextrusion
In the framework of a ZHAW internal project a new concept for 3D printing of ceramics based on a modified Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) process was developed. Unlike conventional FDM filament printers, the starting material is a polymer-ceramic composite granulate material instead of a polymer filament as a ...
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ATPL(H)
Consulting with the Pilots' School of the Swiss Air Force for the the following areas: Aircraft General Knowledge (Helicopters) Physics of Flight (Helicopters) Performance (Helicopters)
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PPS Paraplegiology
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Reduction of degradation of electrolyte supported SOFC solid oxide fuel cells
In autumn 2013, the industrial partner Hexis has started the pilot market launch of the combined fuel cell heating device Galileo 1000 N. Keeping the stack power degradation as low as possible while achieving stack lifetimes above 40’000 h was one of the major challenges. Therefore, the focus of the SOF-CH ESC ...
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wind energy Goms-region, VS
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NoTeS Training in ATM
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Predicting customer behavior by combining freetext information with structured customer data
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Developing new behavioural models for simulating pedestrian flows and an optimized revenue concept
The simulation of pedestrian flows has become of increasing importance and attention over the last years. With the resulting innovations this project aims to improve the quality of the simulation results substantially. Furthermore the duration of simulation projects shall be reduced to improve competitiveness. This ...
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FI-Ware KIARA – A novel QoS-enabled middleware
Today, nearly any application depends on distributed and service-based computing of some sort. This is most apparent in the mobile and cloud computing areas but this trend is quickly affecting essentially all areas of computing. Despite this natural and comprehensive demand, most interestingly, there is to date no ...
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Mobile Cloud Network
Mobile and Cloud Computing are the two dominant transformations driving the IT industry in the recent and moreover, upcoming years. Interestingly, both technology domains seem to be a natural match but no technologically firm and sound framework exists. This important and equally comprehensive problem statement is ...
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PRIME
PRIME aims to create new solutions for deployment by SMEs of highly adaptive, re-configurable self-aware plug and produce assembly systems, which will use multi-agent control,dynamic knowledge sharing, integrated monitoring, and innovative human-machine interaction mechanisms. These next generation assembly systems ...
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Risk- and Finance-Lab
The Risk- and Finance Lab is a platform for the systematic modelling of the cash flow streams associated with investments and operations of financial or non-financial institutions. By covering both, cash flows of operations and financial business, the Lab establishes a link between technical and financial modelling ...
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STPA for the Protontherapy Facility at PSI
The hazard and risk analysis method STPA was applied to the Gantry 2 proton therapy treatment area at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in the context of a dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Optimum asset management of infrastructure networks
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Enterprise Knowledge Curation
The internet is a central source for information and knowledge. Many information workers have difficulty in not just finding information easily, but rather in tracking topics continuously without undue effort. The Squirro research application is built to enable an easy curation of collections pertaining to diverse ...
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IFA International Foresight Academy
The International Foresight Academy (IFA) is the first initiative worldwide to bring together foresight activities around the globe in order to expand horizons and offer new networking opportunities. This EU project, coordinated by the Austrian Institute of Technology, did not only use international exchange ...
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Pipeline for 3D Animation File and Visual Effects Studios
The goal of this project was to research and develop a pipeline that supports the whole production process of small to medium 3D-animation and VFX studios. The developed pipeline follows a node-based approach developed an InIT that is flexible ennough to adapt to the different project structures that exist in these ...