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Click Adaptive sensing & control of uncertain systems, key enabling technologies for machines of the future
Flanders Make invites you to a seminar focusing on the adaptive sensing & control of uncertain systems. This seminar will take place on Thursday, 28 May 2015 at Sirris, Technologiepark 935 in Ghent.
Modern machines deal more and more with non-deterministic processes that need to be sensed and controlled properly. In both the ‘Adaptive Sensors’ and the ‘Stochastic Control’ project, Flanders Make and its project partners gained innovative insights in this matter.
The activities for both projects have been defined on the basis of on analysis of current industrial practices and are driven by concrete and practical challenges of companies from the mechatronics industry.
Speakers will therefore not only explain the technical approach of the project, but also talk about the insights and solutions to practical challenges encountered during their research.
Invited speakers from both academia and industry will also present a broad overview of the considered topics. Finally, a panel session will be organized with representatives from both sides.
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IEEE International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems
CERTIFICATION OF SMART TEXTILES
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the specific requirements towards the certification of smart textiles and wearable intelligence. This workshop is part one in a series of two workshops. This first workshop will cover the more general aspects, while the second one will cover the more specific requirements for health care applications.
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Click 2nd 'European Expert Workshop on Reliability of Electronics and Smart Systems'
After the start in 2013, we would like to es-tablish EuWoRel as an annual event. It shall become a platform addressing the concerns of reliability, robustness, and functional safety of new products and technologies in the field of electronics and smart systems. In particular, the direc-tions of the further research on reliability methodology shall clearly be visible, not only for the electronics packaging community in industry and academia but also for the representatives of funding agencies at national and European levels.
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From aerospace to automotive to telecommunications to medical devices, reliability has never been more critical than in today's high technology electronic products. Co-developed with technologists from top companies, including Thales, Continental Automotive, EADS, Robert Bosch, Celestica and Zestron, this two-day technical conference will bring together experts from industry and research institutions to explore critical reliability issues facing European electronics designers and manufacturers. It opens with a choice of one half-day workshop (one focused on fundamentals, the other offering advanced education) followed by paper presentations in four key areas:
- Electrochemical Migration
- Impact of High Temperatures on Design, Process and Assembly
- Advanced PCB Materials and Technology
- Solder Joint Reliability
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In februari 2013 is DSP Valley (samen met partner imec) gestart met het project GEzonder door Nano-Elektronica En Slimme Specialisatie (GENEESS). Doel is om de inzet van nano-elektronica als sleuteltechnologie te stimuleren in Vlaanderen, specifiek op het veelbelovende domein van de medische technologie. GENEESS will partijen uit de hele waardeketen bij elkaar brengen (van componentenbouwers tot zorgverstrekkers) om samen te bouwen aan gepersonaliseerde oplossingen voor diagnose en therapie. Focus ligt op de toestellen "dicht bij de patiënt" (draadloze monitoring devices, slimme implantaten, enz.).
Het startevenement wil voor een zo ruim mogelijk publiek de activiteiten en eerste resultaten van het project voorstellen, in de aanwezigheid van boeiende sprekers uit de bedrijfswereld, onderzoekswereld en de overheid. Er zullen ook demonstraties zijn van producten en ontwikkelingen van bedrijven en onderzoeksinstellingen actief op het gebied van medische technologie.
Het project GENEESS wordt gesteund door de Vlaamse Overheid (Agentschap Ondernemen, Nieuw Industrieel Beleid).
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Reliability estimation of physically inspired models (Relimod)
Physically inspired models are a useful means for designing better machines and vehicles. They allow for a faster control design and verification of the correct operation of the machine/vehicle through virtual tests. But how can we incorporate the different behavior of multiple machines of the same type in a single model? Or how can we rely on a model, if we do not know to what extent its behavior deviates from reality? For example, what guarantee do we have that a model-based control design will produce the expected performance on the actual machine? Or in an end-of-line test, can we use a model to evaluate whether the observed machine behavior is within acceptable tolerances? So an understanding of the reliability of the model and its parameters is necessary.
In the Relimod project, an approach is developed and demonstrated that allows quantifying the reliability (uncertainty) of the output of physically inspired models and their parameters based on a certain set of experiments performed on a realization of the mechatronic system.
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Functional safety validation - Challenges and innovative solutions
Safety is of increasing importance in industrial environments. The international standard EN-IEC-61508 defines the requirements for the functional safety circuits and the procedure for performing a safety assessment. This procedure consists of 3 steps: hazard and risk analysis, safety function definition and SIL (Safety Integrity Level) validation.
In the validation process, reliability quantification of parts used in safety instrumented systems is required.
In the VAL4SIL project different techniques for reliability quantification have been investigated. Based on this investigation a systematic integrated process for quantifying system's reliability and validating SIL for safety function is developed.
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