Completed Projects

HYPATIA

HYBRID PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR INNOVATIVE 300 GHZ RADAR APPLICATIONS

The project HYPATIA aims at providing a robust electronic hetero-integrated high frequency technology with a wide range for industrial applications suited for the mass market. The core of the project lies in connecting the advantages of the substrate technology BiCMOS and mHEMT to realise an industrial-suited basis for high frequency sensors. This is done based on a silicon chip  which works with a large bandwidth in a frequency range of  300 GHz. Combined with an mHEMT circuit, the range qualitiy of the signal increase significantly through low-noise receiver circuits. They are will be provided to challenging applications in the industrial measuring technology. 

Part­ners
SI­KO­RA AG, In­fi­ne­on Tech­no­lo­gies AG, Fraun­ho­fer IAF, Fraun­ho­fer FHR, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum (Chair for Integrated Systems), IMST GmbH

TA­RAN­TO

TOWARDS AD­VAN­CED BIC­MOS NA­NO­TECH­NO­LO­GY PLAT­FORMS FOR RF TO THZ AP­P­LI­CA­TI­ONS

It is TARANTO's goal to further expand the leading position of the European semiconductor industry in the SiGe BiCMOS technology and a solid industrial basis for the development of new products in the area of telecommunications as well as home and vehicle electronics. One of the main technical goals at TARANTO is to make the new performance level of SiGe HBT from earlier projects suitable for mass production. Another goal is to tailor the technologies to the scope mentioned above.  For this, TARANTO's partners will establish new characterisation methods for frequencies up to a few hundred GHz on the decive and circuit level. Additionally, the HBT compact model will be further developed to support future applications. 

Part­ners
34 part­ners in total. Co­or­di­na­tor: ST Micro­elec­tro­nics S. A.; German part­ners: In­fi­ne­on Tech­no­lo­gies AG, In­fi­ne­on Tech­no­lo­gies Dres­den GmbH, In­no­va­tions for High Per­for­mance (ihp GmbH), MICRAM Micro­elec­tro­nic GmbH, Al­ca­tel-Lu­cent Deutsch­land AG, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum (Chair for Integrated Systems), RWTH Aa­chen Uni­ver­si­ty, Tech­ni­sche Uni­ver­si­tät Dres­den, Uni­ver­si­tät des Saar­lan­des, Uni­ver­si­tät Stutt­gart, Karls­ru­her In­sti­tut für Tech­no­lo­gie, Nokia So­lu­ti­ons and Net­works GmbH&Co KG, Ber­gi­sche Uni­ver­si­tät Wup­per­tal, Fried­rich-Alex­an­der-Uni­ver­si­tät Er­lan­gen Nürn­berg, Ka­threin-Wer­ke KG

Funding
EU ECSEL/BMBF

 

radar4FAD

UNIVERSAL RADAR MODULES FOR FULLY AUTOMATED DRIVING

Autonomous driving, especially in the urban environment, is the future of the car industry. A future vision that will be the reality in just a few years and will have a positive impact on our lives.  Ultimately, it comes down to one question: Will the German automotive and supply industry be able to drive this development and strengthen its global claim to technology and market leadership.

The project radar4FAD does its bit by securing the essential requirement for autonomous driving: the full robust envoronment recognition - always and under all boundary conditions. The radar system has to be permanently efficient, independent of the weather conditions, time of the day, traffic volume, and other influences. Over the course of the project, a flexible radar modular construction kit is to be built. The construction kit is to be cost efficient and thus suitable for large-scale production of all forms of radar applications in the area of highly automated driving. In the context of the project, the Chair of Integrated Systems researches integrate circuits for future radar modules selectively for extended modulation schemes like Or­tho­go­nal-Di­vi­si­on Code Mul­ti­plex (OFDM) and fast Chirp Sequences (CS).

Part­ners
Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum (Chair for Integrated Systems), In­fi­ne­on Tech­no­lo­gies AG, Ro­bert Bosch GmbH, Daim­ler AG, Karls­ru­he In­sti­tu­te of Tech­no­lo­gy, Fraun­ho­fer ENAS, Fraun­ho­fer FHR, In­no­va­tions for High Per­for­mance (ihp), Uni­ver­si­tät Ulm, Chem­nit­zer Werk­stoff­me­cha­nik GmbH, IMST GmbH

Radarmeter-3D

DEVELOPMENT OF A RADAR BASED SENSOR SYSTEM FOR AN ADAPTIVE COMPENSATION OF THE 3D POSITIONING ERROR OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS

It is the goal of the research project Radarmeter 3D to use industrial robots highly accurate while still being cost efficient. Industrial robots usually have a good relative positional accuracy. To accomplish a highly precise and absolute position accuracy, however, is a problem that has not been satisfactorily solved yet. Visual sensor methods for position control are sensitive to dust and moisture. Additionally, the sensors are either not precise, slow, and cheap, like camera based methods, or precise fast but also expensive, like laser based systems. 

In the project, a multi radar sensor system for a highly precise and three dimensional positioning is researched. The measuring system will be equipped with at least three radar sensors, which will measure the three dimensional position of the roboter in the romm dependent of the stationary reference targets. Additionally, a coupling with an environment simulation gives a priori information for a digital signal processing and target rendition. . The sensor is then able to compensate angular errors on the basis of the current measures. Thanks to the radar positioning sensor, such a industrial robot can be flexibly used in many areas, e.g. to measure and ensure the quality of components in industrial processes or to navigate mobile roboters. The project has been successfully registered with  Leit­markt­Agen­turN­RW and is funded in equal parts by the state NRW and the EU. 

 

Part­ners
IGA mbH, Kroh­ne In­no­va­ti­on GmbH, IBG Ro­bo­tro­nic GmbH, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum (ESIT, EST, Chair for Integrated Systems), HÜB­NER GmbH & Co. KG, Eta­lon AG, Wil­helm Schrö­der GmbH, ISRA VI­SI­ON AG, LBBZ-NRW GmbH

Funding
Leit­markt­agen­tur Produktion.​NRW

RaVis-3D

DEVELOPMENT OF A NAVIGATIONAL AID FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

A navigation system for blind people and people with visual impairment was the goal of the research project RaVis-3D. With this new system. the user can perceive their environment acoustically - similar to the echolocation used by bats - so that even in foreign environment they can recognise how far away obstacles and walls are. The radar system scans the surroundings and converts the gained information into an acoustic sound pattern. Through this visualisation of their surroundings, the user is no longer dependent on the range of their white cane. RaVis 3D is a cooperation project within the European Funds for Regional Development. Besides the three chairs of electrical engineering of the Ruhr-University Bochum, several industrial partners are part of the funds. The project was successfully registered with LeitmarktAgenturNRW and is funded in equal parts by the state NRW and the EU. 

Part­ners
Kampmann Hör­sys­te­me GmbH, SNAP GmbH, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum (ESIT, IKA, In­te­grated Systems), Drä­ger und Li­e­nert In­for­ma­ti­ons­ma­nage­ment GbR, Be­rufs­för­de­rungs­werk Halle (Saale), GN Hea­ring GmbH

Funding
Leit­markt­agen­tur LifeSciences.​NRW
 
Web­si­te
http://ra­vis-3d.​de/​

 

eMuCo

ICT-eMu­Co is a Eu­ropean pro­ject sup­por­ted under the Seventh Frame­work Pro­gram­me (7FP), which is co­or­di­na­ted by Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät-Bo­chum. The aim of the pro­ject is to de­ve­lop a plat­form for fu­ture mo­bi­le de­vices based on mul­ti-core ar­chi­tec­tu­re main­tai­ning a high fle­xi­bi­li­ty and sca­la­bi­li­ty in the sys­tem. This com­pri­ses the re­le­vant con­trol­ler ele­ment as well as the ope­ra­ting sys­tem and ap­p­li­ca­ti­on lay­ers.

 

EASY-C

The aim of the re­se­arch in EA­SY-C will be to de­ve­lop key tech­no­lo­gies for the next ge­ne­ra­ti­on of cel­lu­lar net­works (LTE and bey­ond). The­r­ein our in­sti­tu­te ex­plo­res sui­ta­ble pro­ces­sor plat­forms for the se­cond layer of the pro­to­col stack (MAC, RLC and PDCP) with a focus on con­cepts and mo­dels for hard­ware ac­ce­le­ra­ti­on.

 

EASY-A

The growing demand for wireless communication systems with transmission rates of multiple gigabits per second presents a great technological challenge. The only solution  is to increase the spectral efficiency of the transmission method or to explore the frequencies in the millimeter range, which is not used for mobile communications as of yet. On a system level, the Chair of Integrated Systems researches the realisation of a highly integrated 60 GHz communications system in a cost-efficient silicon technology. 

 

Impairments of Signal Integrity by RF

3GPP Long Term Evo­lu­ti­on (LTE) is the suc­ces­sor of UMTS. Using hig­her order mo­du­la­ti­ons and mul­ti­ple an­ten­nas (MIMO) a da­ta­ra­te up to 200 Mbit/s is achie­ved. LTE is the first cel­lu­lar stan­dard using Or­tho­go­nal Fre­quen­cy Di­vi­si­on Mul­ti­ple Ac­cess (OFDMA) which uti­li­zes more ef­fi­ci­ent­ly the fre­quen­cy spec­trum. In the ISIRF-pro­ject the im­pact of ana­log com­po­n­ents wi­t­hin the radio front­end on the si­gnal in­te­gri­ty is in­ves­ti­ga­ted and sui­ta­ble com­pen­sa­ti­on me­thods are de­ve­lo­ped.

 

60-GHZWPAN

BEY­OND GI­GA­BIT WIRE­LESS SYS­TEMS

The Wire­less Per­so­nal Area Net­work (WPAN) is the short dis­tan­ce pen­dant of the po­pu­lar wire­less local area net­work (WLAN). A broad­band com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on sys­tem at 60GHz pro­vi­des the ca­pa­bi­li­ty to rea­li­ze thousand fold hig­her data rates com­pa­red to WLAN. Thus, un­com­pres­sed video streams can be trans­mit­ted wire­less from note­book to the video pro­jec­tor and a wired con­nec­tion bet­ween (HD-) TV, DVD-play­er and Hi-Fi sys­tem can be omit­ted. The 60-GHz-WPAN-Pro­ject tar­gets the de­sign of ana­log RF buil­ding blocks and a re­cei­ve chain in a 65 nm di­gi­tal CMOS tech­no­lo­gy. More

Location based Services (LBS) integrated in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

Lo­ca­ti­on-ba­sed ser­vices (LBS) are a key per­va­si­ve com­pu­ting ap­p­li­ca­ti­on that could de­eply in­flu­ence the way peop­le use their mo­bi­le de­vices. Re­cent ad­van­ces in mo­bi­le pho­nes, GPS, and wire­less net­wor­king in­fra­struc­tu­res are ma­king it pos­si­ble to im­ple­ment and ope­ra­te lar­ge-sca­le LBS. In en­ab­ling LBS ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons to in­ter­ope­ra­te with the In­ter­net, using IP Mul­ti­me­dia Sub­sys­tem (IMS) which sup­ports all the exis­ting in­dus­tri­al stan­dards (e.g., GSM, UMTS, GPS, AGPS), pro­mi­ses car­riers and sub­scri­bers alike a suite of new lo­ca­ti­on ser­vices. The in­te­gra­ti­on of ad­van­ced LBS in IMS and the pos­si­ble ap­p­li­ca­ti­on of these ser­vices are sug­gested in this pro­ject.

 

Saw-less Frontend

In this project, research concerning the receive path in mobile communications is conducted. The challenge here lies especially to exchange the external steep SAW filters with electrical filters in the entry of the receive path. The electrical filter is especially low-noise and linear. 

 

 

Radar on Chip for Cars (ROCC)

The increasing traffic volume in the streets leads to a demand for new safety concepts in the motoring technology. According to studies dealing with automobile radar systems, about 88% of all collisions are affected positively by these systems. The project aims at realising cost-effective radar systems on highly integrated silicon chips for the next generation of automobile radar systems at 76-81 GHz. The Chair of Integrated Systems researches and develops integrated circuit components for the analog front end of these radar systems.

 

 

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