Strategic, multidisciplinary research projects directed by DIREC researchers – often in collaboration with external partners – aim to deliver value for both the scientific world and society. The Explore projects are small agile research projects with the purpose of screening new ideas.
Constructing cyber-physical systems with humans in the loop is important in many application areas to enable a close co-operation between humans and machines. However, there are also many challenges to overcome when constructing such systems with current software technologies and human-centered design approaches.
A robot database with information on previous robot solutions can save manufacturing companies time and money and allow for smaller-scale companies to automate their production as well. This is the conclusion of the ReRoPro project. Although it sounds simple, there are several challenges involved with creating a robot database. With input from industry and international experts, the researchers have now gained a much better understanding of the challenges.
A recurring problem of digitalised industries is to design and coordinate hybrid systems that include IoT (Internet of Things), edge, and cloud solutions. Currently adopted methods and tools are not effective to this end, because they rely too much on informal specifications that are manually written and interpreted by humans.
Several highly popular YouTube channels for mathematics and other scientific content (e.g., 3blue1brown, Numberphile, Veritasium) with millions of views indicate that learners may respond very positively to professionally produced educational videos. This project aims at creating and evaluating an initial library of such videos to supplement teaching in algorithms.
We will investigate how to combine secure multiparty computation and blockchain techniques to obtain more efficient privacy-preserving computation with accountability.
As cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are becoming ever more ubiquitous, many of them are considered safetycritical. We want to help CPS manufacturers and regulators with establishing high levels of trust in automatically synthesized control software for safety-critical CPSs.
The overall purpose of this project is to define, investigate, and provide preliminary methodologies for scheduling and routing microliter-sized liquid droplets on a planar surface in the context of digital microfluidics.
Sensitivity measures how much program outputs vary when changing inputs. We propose exploring novel methodologies for specifying and verifying sensitivity properties of probabilistic programs.
This project will quantify the biases and uncertainties associated with human mobility data collected through digital means, such a smartphone GPS traces, cell phone data, and social media data.
Effect systems are currently a hot research subject in type theory. Yet many effect systems, whilst powerful, are very complicated to use, particularly by programmers that are not experts at type theory. Effect systems with inference can provide useful guarantees to programming languages, while being simple enough to be used in practice by everyday programmers.
Computing devices consume a considerable amount of energy. Implementing algorithms in hardware using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can be more energy efficient than executing them in software in a processor. This project explores classic sorting and path-finding algorithms and compare their energy efficiency and performance when implemented in hardware.
Artificial Intelligence brings the promise of technological means to solve problems that previously were assumed to require human intelligence, and ultimately provide human-centered solutions that are both more effective and of higher quality in a synergy between the human and the AI system than solutions that are provided by humans or by an AI system alone.
