Interdisciplinary Research Cluster
The development of AmI systems requires new scientific knowledge in the AmI's core areas:
- Hardware architectures
- Sensor and actuator technology
- Communication
- Control engineering
- Software engineering
- Human machine interaction
- Cognitive resources
as well as a large amount of interdisciplinary work that is driven by visions of what AmI systems can be used for. Besides basic research into the above areas, it is very important to develop demonstrators, which are the vehicle for the interdisciplinary work.
Scenarios and Demonstrators of the Research Cluster
Demonstrators play a central role at the AmI Research Center for the following reasons:
- AmI is a vision-driven technology. The concrete requirements for certain AmI systems result directly from scenarios that are the basis for those visions. The scenarios are reflected in the demonstrators.
- Co-operation is ensured due to the interdisciplinary nature of the demonstators.
The AmI Research Center emphasises three "Ambient Assisted" application domains: Training, Living and Working. For this, three demonstrators have been developed, which are not only orthogonal to each other but also ideally suited.
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Further Initiatives
Besides the projects of individual members of the Research Center, who conduct their research within the above mentioned core areas, new initiatives and projects at the Research Center have also begun. For instance, while the aforementioned bicycle demonstrator is being developed in accordance with the research centre's objectives, other demonstrators, also mentioned above, are being developed by through the following initiatives:
