Tag: robotics

Futurezone award for most innovative 5G project

Lakeside Labs won the futurezone award in the category 5G innovation of the year for its work on communication in swarms. The award was presented by Huawei at an award ceremony in Vienna. The runner ups for the award were the University of Klagenfurt with a virtual realities use case and the TU Vienna with a smart 5G machine vice. The use case “Communications in Swarms” is being developed at…

Robots inspect ship hulls

The objective of the European project BugWright2 is to develop and demonstrate an adaptable autonomous robotic solution for servicing ship outer hulls. By combining the capabilities of autonomous micro air vehicles and small autonomous underwater vehicles, with teams of magnetic-wheeled crawlers operating directly on the surface of the structure, the inspection and cleaning system will be able to seamlessly merge the acquisition of a global overview of the structure with…

Mini workshop on networked systems

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Session A: Drone networks (09:00 to 10:40, 1 hour talks + discussions) Samira Hayat: Experimental evaluation of wireless communications for drones Aymen Fakhreddine: Cellular-connected drone systems: State-of-the-art and research issues Raheeb Muzaffar: Live multicast video streaming from drones Session B: Industrial, robot, and post-disaster networks (11:00 – 12:40, 1 hour talks + discussions) Jorge Schmidt: UWB sensor networks Agata Gniewek: Swarmalatorbots — Robots that sync and…