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WU Award for Outstanding Research Achievements to Nico Pintar and Thomas Scherngell
Nico Pintar and Thomas Scherngell from the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy have received the Award for Outstanding Research Achievements for their article "The complex nature of regional knowledge [...] support policy makers in a smart specialisation context. Congratulations! In the spring, an Innovation Systems & Policy Insight on the topic was also produced. In a short video, the two authors explain the
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Shuttles across the Blood-Brain Barrier
blood-brain barrier, the mechanisms are unclear. The blood-brain barrier protects the central nervous system from toxic substances, pathogens and harmful blood plasma components. It also restricts and regulates [...] proteins between the brain and the bloodstream, thus ensuring homeostasis in the central nervous system. However, the blood-brain barrier is difficult to overcome even for drug compounds. One major aim
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Detecting epileptic brain activity in children with AI algorithms.
in the amount of 500,000 euros to develop a decision support system for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in young patients. This system is based on AI-based algorithms and will automatically detect [...] diagnosis and treatment of childhood epilepsy. „In the project, we will develop a decision support system that is specifically tailored to children and adolescents with epilepsy. By using Deep Neural Networks [...] "This not only helps patients and their families, but also reduces the burden on the healthcare system, which has to deal with the consequences of delayed epilepsy diagnoses." The future of childhood
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Project CIVIC: Optimization of construction activities in Seestadt Aspern
and reducing traffic. [Translate to English:] Project manager Pamela Nolz, Center for Mobility Systems: “Cooperation and coordination enable the optimized planning of construction projects and related
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Climate change adaptation
The AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy supports together with the Center for Energy & the Center for Digital Safety & Security as well as the Umweltbundesamt the Climate and Energy
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Adaptive current control method for solenoid valves
fluctuating, uncertain or unknown system parameters. In addition, adaptive control allows the same controller to be used in a class of structurally comparable systems. Due to the adaptive method, no manual [...] In hydraulic drive systems for commercial vehicles, such as excavators and cranes, solenoid valves are used for power distribution. These are usually subject to manufacturing tolerances and thus to large [...] solenoid valves. It consists of an adaptive model-based feedforward and feedback controller, The system parameters are estimated using a tailored recursive least squares method. The proposed solution differs
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AIT delegation joined an ADB mission to Tbilisi
Johanna Schmidt and Gernot Lenz, AIT Scientists from the Center of Mobility Systems took part in a mission to Tbilisi/Georgia, which was organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under their Future
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NEFI: Innovation network for emission-free industry grows by four additional projects
and potential applications for industrial heat pumps and flexibilities in the industrial energy system.The projects have been developed in NEFI_lab, co-financed by the provinces of Upper Austria and Styria [...] partners from companies, research institutes and public institutions, is developing technological and systemic solutions that will enable the energy transition in industry. The Climate and Energy Fund already
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AIT advances European technological development on next generation quantum communication systems
quantum communications, by shoehorning complex systems, which are presently found on metre-size breadboards, into millimetre-size chips. These systems will not only reduce size and cost, but will also [...] mass fabrication of microelectronics. System-on-chip integration will be an essential part of the research work and will lead to highly miniaturized quantum-optic systems that will unleash the potential of [...] Institute of Computer and Communication Systems Athens, VPI Photonics, Cordon Electronics). The industrial end-user perspective will be provided through a system vendor, Mellanox, and operator, Cosmote
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TEDxVienna Adventure at the Technology Experience Lab: The Type to Prototype
were facing the “AIT critical making challenge”, in which they had to build a simple prototype for a system to measure and share one’s emotions. The goal of prototyping is not necessarily to end up with a [...] underlying the sentence, anonymous live voting tools for events to control the atmosphere, the alarm system “feely” for relatives in case a loved one is sad for a long time period and much more. [Translate
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AIT advises German Federal Government on research and innovation policy
contribution builds in significant parts on a background study led by the AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy and conducted jointly with the FU Berlin. The agility concept shows ways in which policy [...] ground for far-reaching processes of change," says study author and Head of AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy Matthias Weber. So far, however, a comprehensive and implementable concept for this [...] on agile R&I policy practices. "We could see that there are several levers to make the policy system more agile: e.g. involve as many stakeholders as possible in decision-making at an early stage, create
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Susanne Meyer appointed to expert advisory board of the Smart City Vienna Steering Committee
Senior Expert Advisor Susanne Meyer from the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy was elected member of the external expert advisory board of the Smart City Steering Committee of the City of Vienna
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Automated aerial vehicles support emergency forces
critical infrastructure. In the future, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles, a powerful tracking antenna system and intelligent algorithms will support these tasks. While the autonomous UAV flies over the area [...] time, the data are securely transmitted to a ground station via a high-performance tracking antenna system without using high-bandwidth, low-latency infrastructure. There, intelligent algorithms analyse the
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Improving aerodynamic performance of aircraft and wind power plants
Austrian Institute of Technology and its partners have successfully developed a quality monitoring system for so-called Riblets. Riblets are microstructured functional surfaces with tiny V-shaped longitudinal [...] We are proud to have been able to make an important contribution to the development of this new system." This work is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) within the project RiSPECT
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Efficient and Affordable Zero Emission Logistics Through Electric Trucks
for truck cabins, such as the implementation of infra-red heating panels, the re-design of the HVAC system with heat recovery or the development of a digital-twin based control strategy for thermal management [...] developments on three pilot sites to validate their feasibility and performance compared to existing systems for medium-duty trucks. In this way, we want to make a significant contribution to decarbonization
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AIT technology now deployed in ISS space research on vascular aging
this system is disturbed, since in weightlessness a redistribution of blood and tissue fluids occurs. In addition to immediate effects, there are also long-term changes in the cardiovascular system, which [...] the ISS expeditions 54 and 55. The measurements are planned to start 17th May.Our cardiovascular system has adapted in the course of evolution to the conditions on Earth. The heart pumps blood through [...] tal conditions. To deepen the understanding of the effects of microgravity on the cardiovascular system, the Canadian Space Agency is using the arterial pulse wave analysis methodology as part of its vascular
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European Defence Agency Service Framework Contract awarded to AIT
scenarios in the area of decision management under stress and the use of tangible interfaces in virtual systems (e.g. the use of a real Geiger counter in a virtual training simulation). Another area of expertise
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An Agenda for Transformative Research
identify gaps and needs for setting the future research agenda on Transformative Research. By combining systems knowledge, transformation knowledge and reflexive knowledge, the workshop worked towards the needed
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Start of Cooperation Agreement
Transport Research (Berlin), the Institute of Vehicle Design (Stuttgart) and the Institute of Transport System Research (Braunschweig). The agreement provides the framework for a long-term cooperation across [...] areas for cooperation are: (1) management of large-scale events and catastrophes and (2) cooperative system of vehicles and infrastructure. In this context, suitable funding instruments for cooperative research
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Digitalisation coupled with agroecology for sustainable agriculture in Europe
digital agroecology. PATH2DEA is part of a whole innovation system. The project is part of a larger European "agroecology innovation system" and aims to strengthen links with existing and previous initiatives [...] PATH2DEA project - "Paving the Way towards Digitalisation Enabling Agroecology for European Farming Systems" led by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology was successfully launched on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023 [...] approximately EUR 2 million and aims to promote digitalisation as an enabler of agroecological farming systems in Europe. It builds on existing digital solutions in the agricultural sector and aligns them with