Cognitive systems and robotics
Embedded systems, intellectual systems and monitoring and control systems are the new global trend in various application areas – automotive, avionics, manufacturing, etc. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia perform research and development for national customers mostly.
Embedded systems are widely used to control complex systems. Russian research bodies and private companies are active at development new hardware and software embedded systems; focus is on the real-time control systems and extreme conditions of operations.
EU-RF R&D collaboration in the field of embedded electronics components will contribute to increasing the share of the ES value in the value of the final product especially in sectors such as Industrial, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Smart Homes and Health/Medical Equipment.
- EU-RU cooperation will be particularly promising in the automotive sector (the share of embedded electronics in the car will reach 35-40% by 2015)
- Automation in consumer goods is likely to be the strongest driver in the near future
- Joint R&D projects oriented to advanced procedures for embedded decision-making can expect a rapid return on investment from telecommunications and multimedia requiring research activity on sensors and communication, networks (conventional and wireless).
The impact is however likely to be felt even more widely in emerging applications such as monitoring over sensor networks and control of industrial processes over wireless Networks.
This domain is supported by the National Platform on Mechatronics, Embedded Control Systems, RFID and Robotics.
Distinguished R&D institutions:
- Scientific-Research Institute for System Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences
- Institute for Design Problems in Microelectronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Saint-Petersburg State University
- Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering
The Armenian researchers have many achievements in developing of theory of automatic devices and the automated designing of computing systems, as well as in creating of mathematical models and software for distributed systems. Some companies are specialized in the area of digital design. Their activities are directed to application- specific embedded memory cores design, memory compilers and software tools creation that enable the development and reuse the memory cores as well as to development of electronic design automation (EDA) software for semiconductor design.
Ukraine has critical mass of scientific and technological developments in microelectronics area especially in the fields of:
- Nanoelectronics
- Design of semiconductor components
- Design platforms, interfaces, methods and tools
- Embedded systems.
Microelectronics is the one of most developed scientific and technology areas in Ukraine because it was developing as a part of the relevant field of the former Soviet science.
Today, a significant number of organisations and institutions develop microelectronic applications. The world-recognized Ukrainian ICT organisations and Institutes working in this area:
- Lviv Polytechnic National University,
- Faculty of Microelectronics - National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
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