Projects
Fraunhofer FIRST / Institute
ASCENS (Autonomic Service-Component Ensembles)
In the ASCENS (Automatic Service-Component Ensembles) project, researchers from Fraunhofer FIRST are collaborating with scientists from across the whole of Europe in an attempt to develop theories of self-organisation of sensor networks. One Example is a traffic management system which integrates information from all available resources like vehicles, charging stations, traffic information systems and mobile devices to efficient added value services.
AXBench – AUTOSAR Extensible Workbench
The aXBench is a softwaretool that makes it possible to realize different system variants in automotive engineering in compliance with the AUTOSAR standard. With the aXBench, Fraunhofer FIRST has established a prototype for the function-oriented development of embedded systems in a vehicle.
CoreGRID – CoreGrid – European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies
The CoreGRID Network of Excellence (NoE) aims at strengthening and advancing scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies. The Fraunhofer Institute FIRST participates in the CoreGRID NoE with its experts in the field of ”Grid Workflow Management” in the virtual laboratory 5 (Grid Information and Monitoring Services) and 6 (Resource Management and Scheduling).
DEVICE-SOFT – Deductive Verification for Industrial Critical Embedded Software
The main goal of the project is to disseminate, improve, integrate, and deploy deductive verification technologies into the industrial domain of safety critical embedded systems. The project is centered around the Frama-C framework and its deductive verification plug-in. Fraunhofer FIRST has gained significant experience in the use of the tool and works with the main developer of Frama-C, CEA LIST.
DGI – D-Grid Integration Project
The D-Grid Integration Project (DGI) aims at the integration of the manifold developments of the different D-Grid community projects in a common D-Grid platform. Thus, it wants to offer its services to the German research society within the core D-Grid.
DGSI – D-Grid Scheduler Interoperability
The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the ”Grid Services for Commerce and Science” subsection of its ”ICT2020 – Research for Innovation” program, and forms part of the D-Grid Initiative. Access to resources is modeled and organized through scheduling tools such as the Generic Workflow Execution Service (GWES) developed by FIRST, a cross-sectional middleware component which enables Grid operations to be specified in advance on an abstract level.
Digital Dome
Fraunhofer FIRST has developed a new solution for digital dome projection in close cooperation with Carl Zeiss. It allows digital images and videos to be displayed on a concave hemisphere using standard projectors and commercially available PCs – without loss of quality even in the case of high-resolution images.
DYLOK PRO
In the project DYLOK PRO, Fraunhofer FIRST is developing a robust and reliable localization method that precisely locates devices inside buildings in real-time. The technical components are primarily based on WLAN signals.
EBASO
Today’s cars are produced in line with the modular design principle which enables efficient production of individual customer-configured vehicles. The EBASO project seeks to extend this approach to the development of embedded software in the automotive domain. FIRST collaborates with PROSTEP GmbH on developing a demonstrator to show the simple modeling of product variations in automobile engineering.
EEVU: Energy Generation, Distribution and Realization (EGDR)
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Energy Generation, Distribution and Realization (EEVU) project is a research hub in the Fraunhofer Systems Research Initiative for Electro-Mobility. Together with Fraunhofer AST (Application Center for Systems Technology), FIRST is researching ways for maximum-efficiency of load distribution in energy producer/consumer problems.
Endoguide: Endoscope with a 360-degree view
Modern endoscopes offer the surgeon a limited viewing angle of typically 70 degrees. As a result, doctors can only observe a small segment of their operative area. A panoramic view corresponding to the natural human visual field is missing. An endoscope with a 360-degree view is thus currently being developed in the Endoguide project. With the new endoscope, the surgeon can initially perform an automatic scan function that provides a panoramic view.
ESWT (Extra-Corporal Shock Wave Therapy)
In the ESWT (Extra-Corporal Shock Wave Therapy) project, Fraunhofer FIRST is collaborating with a broad range of other Fraunhofer institutes (MEVIS, EMI, ITWM and SCAI) on the development of new technologies to make focused ultrasound therapy safer and more gentle. FIRST’s role in the project is to develop software that can calibrate organ movements caused by breathing.
Event 09
High-definition projections on a vast dome screen, animated characters directly engaging the audience – modern projection technology offers exciting presentation options for trade shows and events. Visitors to the event fair ”Event 09” on April 8th and 9th, 2009, in Utrecht (The Netherlands) were taken by surprise when they encountered such an installation by the ‘Office Broomer’ agency.
EvoTest – Evolutionary Testing for Complex Systems
In dem von der EU geförderten Projekt wurden automatisch generierte Testsuiten beispielsweise aus der Automobilindustrie mit Hilfe von Gesetzen der Evolutionsbiologie verbessert werden.
GENSIM – Development of a Generic Simulation Tool for Heterogeneous Technical Systems With Structure Dynamics
The GENSIM project, which is being conducted by a consortium of six Fraunhofer Institutes (FIRST, IIS/EAS, ISE, IBP, IWU, IPK), is developing a generic simulation tool for the time-continuous and time-discrete analysis of heterogeneous technical systems.
IMMOS – Integrated Method for the Model-based Development of Automotive Control Units
The IMMOS research project aims to devise an integrated method for the model-based development of embedded control units. The method will integrate existing model-based techniques, in particular model-based requirements engineering, model-based code generation and model-based testing, to form a single coherent development method.
Instant-Grid – A Grid Demonstration Toolkit
Instant-Grid will provide a toolkit for the demonstration of grid techniques and their use in selected pilot applications and will enable the development of custom grid applications.
K-Wf-Grid – Knowledge-based Workflow System for Grid Applications
The main aim of the K-Wf-Grid project is to create an improved infrastructure enabling grids to be used effectively.
MediGRID – Community-Grid for Basic Research in Medicine
The community project MediGRID is going to prove the application and relevance of grid services in medicine and life sciences using high-dimensional as well as mutual relationships of versatile, genotype and phenotype data
MRE - Mixed Reality Engine
Fraunhofer FIRST in association with Exozet Berlin is working in the Mixed Reality Engine project on research and development for a platform whose visitors can use a game format to learn about energy-related issues. It’s a Web portal with access to a ”serious game”.
MRP – Medical Resource Planner
The MRP project aims to develop a planning system for surgical operations. The software being developed is designed to enable effective use to be made of available resources, thus helping to cut costs in the health sector.
MUSE
The MUSE project (Multi-core Architecture for Sensor-based Position Tracking in Space) seeks to improve the positioning of spacecraft. In the project Fraunhofer FIRST investigates the extent to which cutting-edge multi-core processors lend themselves to evaluation of sensor data in outer space and what the supporting computer architecture might look like.
MyRehab: A complete system for the telemedically assisted rehabilitation at home and on the go
In the MyRehab project, Fraunhofer FIRST is developing a telemedically assisted training and therapy environment for prevention and rehabilitation. Its aim is to reacquaint patients with exercise, prevent chronic diseases and facilitate the proper completion of therapy exercises after hospitalization. The system consists of a domestic and a mobile component.
PneumoGRID – Grid-based analysis of medical signal and image data for the dynamic imaging of ventilation in healthy persons and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
The project aims at creating a system that offers established and innovative imaging procedures for lung ventilation testing in clinical studies and patient care to doctors, clinical test centers and companies regardless of location in a user-friendly and inexpensive fashion. Fraunhofer FIRST’s contribution to the project is the middleware component ”Generic Workflow Execution Service” (GWES) which will be expanded by audit trail components.
REFLECT – Responsive Flexible Collaborating Ambient
In order to assist people in handling and operating technical devices in their everyday life and to control the environment, it researches ways of automatically capture and process people’ emotional, cognitive and physiological states as well as ambient Information like physical and other encompassing data.
RehabChip – Technological Feasibility Study for the Integration of Sensor Technology in Rehabilitation and Sports Equipment
Different sensor technologies are tested for their integration capacity in rehabilitation and sports equipment within the scope of the RehabChip project.
SilverGame – Game-Based Multimedia Applications for the Elderly
The internet has a lot to offer: keeping up with friends in social networks, online shopping or a wide range of leisure activities. Such web-based content is still mostly used by young people. Fraunhofer FIRST is developing and implementing algorithms for speech recognition, gesture commands and motion tracking in the SilverGame project and is supporting its partners in system integration and system testing.
SmartSenior - Intelligent Services for Senior Citizens
For most senior citizens quality of life means health, being able to live independently in their own homes for as long as possible, and being able to get around. Fraunhofer FIRST develops in SmartSenior new technologies for the integration and analysis of sensor data and innovative sensor based device and media control for medical- and non-medical applications.
Speed Cap - EEG based on dry electrodes
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology have developed a prototype for a dry EEG cap. The device relies on six distributed contact electrodes that measure brain electroencephalography signals on the scalp (more are possible and can be adjusted for different scalp locations).
spes2020
The aim of the innovation alliance is to develop an integrated, highperformance methodology for the development of embedded systems. The key areas addressed by Fraunhofer FIRST are model-based development, modeling of parallel real-time processes, and proofing real-time behavior as well as quality, safety and certification for the partprojects in avionics and medicine.
THESEUS – Learning semantic annotation from images; managing and querying large sets of semantically described image contents
The technologies being developed within the THESEUS program are preparing the way for a future Internet of Services. Together with Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, Fraunnhofer FIRST will develop a systems which is capable to extract named entities (objects) in query images and to search similar images efficiently based on their semantic contents from large databases.
TiviTrain - Personalisiertes, sensorgestütztes Bewegungstraining bei Rückenschmerzen
TiviTrain eignet sich nicht nur für die Rehabilitation und Nachsorge bei orthopädischen Erkrankungen, sondern kann auch für die Prävention von Erkrankungen der Rückenmuskulatur genutzt werden. Dazu entwickelt Fraunhofer FIRST zusammen mit Partnern im Projekt TiviTrain eine interaktive Trainingsumgebung für zu Hause, die dazu beitragen soll, Muskelkraft und Koordination durch ein regelmäßiges Training zu verbessern.
Vakomo – Validation methods for cost-effective, modular, industrial control systems
Fraunhofer FIRST joined forces with an industry partner from the SME sector in the Vakoma project (validation methods for cost-effective, modular, industrial control systems) to develop decentralized modular architectures for control devices in compliance with IEC 61508, the standard governing safety requirements in electronic systems.
VirtuOS
The standard AUTOSAR already encapsulates a variety of approaches for integration of a broad array of functions in the car. Yet given the different safety requirements for the huge number of individual components, these approaches need to be re-assessed and in some cases extended. In the VirtuOS project scientists at FIRST are developing new processes, tools and methods with this end in mind.
VR Object Display
Fraunhofer FIRST has developed a digital advertising pillar which in addition to rendering still images or videos also allows realistic 3D projection of panoramas and objects
Yagsi – Security for Web Services
Yagsi can be employed wherever services containing sensitive data are available in a workflow. Beyond the mere encryption of data, roles and access authorizations are also implemented in Yagsi.