All projects from the School of Engineering
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Mixed Reality in plant engineering
MBS (feasibility study): Use of XR (Mixed Reality) in plant engineering. By walking through large plants together in virtual space in the early stages of the development process: shortened process time Reduction of planning errors and time-consuming coordination with international customers Reduction in the ...
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Emission Zero: A sustainable construction simulation game, 1990-2050
Imagine a city somewhere in Switzerland. The year is 1990 and now it's about pursuing sustainable development that aims to achieve emission zero by 2050 at the latest. Where to start? What strategies must and can be used to perhaps achieve this goal beforehand? This city is a simulation within a video game and you ...
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Experimental & Machine learning driven design of stable 2D/3D perovskite solar cells for outdoor applications.
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have recently attracted considerable research interest due to their remarkable properties and noticeable power conversion e?ciency (PCE) of more than 25.5%. Despite all the advantages, perovskites are highly sensitive to moisture, heat, and irradiation, which result in device ...
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Intelligent planning for robot-based manufacturing
The proposed research seeks to merge data-driven methods, symbolic knowledge, and domain expertise to enhance the planning, optimization, and control of industrial robots and processes in robot-based manufacturing. By incorporating sensor data, we can leverage additional information to monitor and control industrial ...
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Towards stable and highly efficient lead-free perovskite white light-emitting diodes
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used as artificial smart light sources in lighting, display, communications, medical services, and signage. Recently, organic-inorganic hybrid lead halide perovskites LEDs have drawn vigorous scientific interest due to their low cost, high efficiency, and simple manufacturing ...
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MOF Facilitated Pilot Scale Carbon Capture
MOF Facilitated Pilot Scale Carbon Capture.
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Smart Maintenance Nuclear Power Plants
Smart Maintenance Nuclear Power Plants.
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Enabling Scientific Diplomacy: Preparation of the GESDA Neurotechnology Compass
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) is developing the “Neurotechnology Compass” (the NeuroTech Compass – NTC). The NTC is aimed at equipping decision-makers with the necessary navigation tools to best support research in neuroscience and neurotechnology and their applications in society. By ...
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ESAM - Evaluation System for Additive Manufacturing
Today, when a new component has to be manufactured, the choice of the supply and production value chain is mainly led by a techno-economic evaluation, and the "sustainability" of the solution is not considered. Given different efficiencies of the manufacturing processes, in terms of resources consumption, it is not ...
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Fabrication of single crystal perovskite memristor
Perovskite memristors’ switching mechanism mainly consists of filaments formation and rupture. It is challenging to investigate filaments because their formation and rupture are random events in nano scale that exactly cause memristor, set, and reset voltage instability. Consequently, filament formation and rupture ...
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Large Language Models LLM (e.g. GPT) aaS in Marketing
The idea of this project is to develop an LLM aaS that offers selection, usage and integration of LLM-based applications to companies. Based on bmq experiences we want to start with content adaption (adaption of an initial content piece to e.g. different social media channels) as an initial use case to shape and ...
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Making I-CNS A Reality (MIAR)
The aviation industry aims to integrate communication, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) services in order to use spectrum more efficiently and increase resilience while enabling optimal separation between aircraft and maintaining safety. In this context, the EU-funded MIAR project will focus on the capabilities of ...
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Serverless data analytics and data-centric consensus for sensed data in public transport
Public transport in Switzerland and in Latin America is organised differently and operated with different levels of reliability, innovation priorities, and acceptance of digital support solutions by passengers. The common element is that in both regions, operators struggle with optimising the offered services to ...
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Augmented Reality Outdoor Mission "Escape the fossils"
With the Augmented Realitiy (AR) outdoor mission " Escape the Fossils", we want to create awareness and communicate our current research on energy transitions. It will specicially target students from 12 years. For this reason supporting material will be developed. The project partnership between the institute of ...
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Dark Energy: Accurate estimation and awareness of cloud-induced power consumption
Phones and notebooks do not require much power? Wrong, most usage patterns involve the heavy use of cloud services. In contrast to device consumption, the extent of this indirect consumption is unknown to users. This project delivers a tool to trace cloud use and convey a CO2 equivalent to the user. ...
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Development and construction of a sensor carrier for the drone-based measurement of methane and CO2 concentrations in near-ground air layers
The Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam is researching the exchange processes between the ground and the atmosphere. To this end, the climate-relevant gases methane and CO2 are to be measured in air layers near the ground in order to make climate models more accurate. This is being done with an unmanned aerial vehicle. The ...
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Off-the-shelf upgrade to improve drug screening throughput by a factor 30
NexMR can achieve high throughput screening by boosting the NMR sensitivity using in situ sample irradiation. This is currently achieved through an optic fiber which needs to be manually exchanged for each sample (every minute), or using a flowthrough system designed by NexMR. The latter approach is incompatible ...
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AI4CP: AI for self-organizing Content Platform
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Development of the next generation of high-pressure pumps for sewer cleaning vehicles on future all-electric carrier vehicles
The general trend towards sustainable products also has a major impact on sewer cleaning vehicles. In order to be prepared for the future and to be able to cover the market needs while at the same time complying with sustainability requirements, a technology change from combustion engines and oil hydraulics to a ...
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Perovskite Accelerated Lifetime Assessment, degradation mechanism Comprehension for fast device reliability Enhancement (PALACE)
Among the emerging energy production technologies, metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry as their power conversion efficiency (PCE) has increased from 3.8% to a certified >25% in a decade. This is even more remarkable considering that low cost ...
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The Fourth International Workshop on Dynamic Scheduling Problems
The aim of the workshop is to present recent research results on dynamic scheduling problems, in which job processing times, machine speeds or other parameters of the problems are variable and dynamically change in time.
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Urban Green Space and Climate in a Network of Urban Climate Networks (URBNET)
Climate change is accelerating and affects livelihoods already now, while society needs to prepare for a future, even hotter climate. Among many other impacts, climate change affects human health and leads to excess mortality due to heat. In cities, the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates the problem, all the ...
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Water and Metal-Powder Micro-Propulsion System for Small Satellites
An Inventive High-Thrust Micro-Propulsion System Compatible with Small-Satellites' Safety and Budget Requirements. The need for high-thrust propulsion systems compatible with small satellites for applications such as constellation deployment, orbit maintenance and stationkeeping is particularly emerging. A ...
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Soilspector – Computer vision-based detection of soil properties
Computer vision-based detection of soil properties.
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ML-BCA: Machine Learning for Body Composition Analysis
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) of the ZHAW, together with the Cantonal Hospital Aarau, has laid the foundations for machine learning-supported body composition analysis on image files of the KSA within the framework of preliminary studies and has achieved promising results. The aim of this project is ...