EduFill: Dr. Björn Kahl

Echord Experiments are a new lightweight funding scheme, perfectly suited for short-term trials or focussed technology transfer activities. Participation in ECHORD offers the possibility to transfer exciting research results in (mobile) robotics from laboratory level to Bachelor and Master programs (including the chance to address the general public).

IVAB: Interactive, virtual, realistic sample rendering

Working group Computer Graphics of Prof. André Hinkenjann in the Institute of Visual Computing.

Various interactive, high quality 3D rendering approaches are used that will enable constructors to take easier and cost-effective decisions on interior design and fitting options.

PlaSMoNa: Platform for the standardized combination of web 2.0 technologies, navigation and smartphones for social applications

Working group Computer Graphics of Prof. André Hinkenjann in the Institute of Visual Computing

The project team will research the combination of currently successful web 2.0 applications, especially the social networks, with satellite- and indoor-navigation.

Agent based traffic simulation: (Agentenbasierte Verkehrssimulation - AVeSi) - development of a realistic traffic simulation for virtual environments.

Project coordination:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Herpers and Prof. Dr. Peter Becker, Department of Computer Science at Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

 Systemic Change Management (sysCM)

The research project „sysCM“ of Prof. Dr. Karl W. Neunast envisions a software-environment that will support the process of systematic change-management. The project is one of three that has been selected in the first round of an internal BRSU start-up funding scheme for high potential research initiatives.

SCAAS - Side Channel Analysis for Automotive Security  

It is the goal of this research project of Prof. Kerstin Lemke-Rust to actively highten the security and thereby the safety of future automitive products by side channel-resistant cryptographic implementations. After the threat analysis of existing automotive applications the main aim will be the development, and the adaption respectively, of efficient and also cost-effective software counter-measures for the types of processors used by the automotive industry.

SaSeRoS - Safe and Secure Robots based on Open Source Software

International Intensive Programme (IP) in the Life-Long-Learning-Programme Erasmus funded by the European Commission.
Students and lecturers from the universities Metropolia (Espoo, Finland), HiST (Trondheim, Norway), HvA (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), UPV (Valencia, Spain) and BRSU (Sankt Augustin, Germany) jointly learn and teach about safe and secure systems on the example of robotics.

IntSenMa -  Intelligent Sensor System for Contact-free Material Detection on Cutting Machine Tools.

The IntSenMa project is a cooperation between the faculty of Computer Science (Norbert Jung) and EMT (Robert Scholl). It aims at developing a robust optical material detection, that can be used to avoid dangerous situations when using machine tools or to notify a user about a necessary reconfiguration with regard to the used material. Properties of optical reflections of beams in the near-infrared up to the UV-spectrum are investigated to identify characteristic signatures of materials that will allow a robust detection.

"FPGA based Computer and Machine Vision"

The research project of Prof. Rainer Herpers is being funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for the exchange of young researchers with the Canadian partners at University of New Brunswick (UNB).

In 2011 and 2012 two BRSU student researchers will be able to spend a month at UNB.

  Experiment in the SAHC

(Short Arm Human Centrifuge) at the DLR. A cooperative research project with scientists from the York Centre for Vision Research in Toronto, Canada. The experiments are in the tradition of the "perceived upright". The gravitation is being changed with the help of the Centrifuge.

Contact: Prof. Rainer Herpers

 Project Transcoop

 Project Sightwalk

The goal of this project is to develop a computerbased algorithm for anonymization, based on latest methods of computer vision, which reliably recognizes faces and licence plates, even in uneven illuminated pictures and in variant distances or physical orientations, and afterwards anonymize those in accordance with data protection regulations.

Prof. Rainer Herpers

Neurocognitive Changes during moderate stress in the immersive Bycicle Simulator - Implications for the use of virtuel environments for training and educational purposes

Cooperation project with the German Sport University Cologne

Pilot study by the research team of Prof. Rainer Herpers in the Immersive Visualisation Environment Immersion Square, short  "FIVISquare".

Contact: Dipl.-Psych. Sandra Boronas

 FIVIS 2

Development of a real bicycle simulator that virtually presents traffic situations within an immersive environment for the road safety education and training of various age groups.
 Prof. Rainer Herpers

http://www.cv-lab.inf.h-brs.de/fivis/

 EXAR - Experiments in Augmented Reality
In the context of the research project EXAR the technique of Augmented Reality (AR) will be used to develop a tool for the observation of physical processes that can provide a directly experiential connection between the real world and its physical description. This way real phenomena with a high complexity can be demonstrated with an intuitive visualization.

Prof. André Hinkenjann

SMOOTH: SMart OptOelectronic swiTcH

 The research group of Professor Norbert Jung has developed a non-contact skin detection sensor system as an additional safety device on circular saws. This sensor detects the "spectral signature" of a material and can, therefore, distinguish the human skin from the material of safety gloves and various other materials.

The project SMOOTH that is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) will see the development of this prototype into a series product. This will be achieved in cooperation with the KA Schmersal GmbH in Wuppertal.
The research project will run until October 2011.

EXSET: Excellence in Security Evaluation Testing

The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to increase security for users of smart cards and systems that are secured by card chips and also for a large number of German industries.

SoftSCheck

In the context of this project more than 100 tools for Threat Modeling and Fuzzing that are available worldwide are being appraised and evaluated  for their software testing suitability in software industry.The producers of software will thereby in future be able to use tools for software design and software tests that are more effective and more economic resulting in safer software.

The project is being funded by the federal ministry of education and research.Cooperation partners are the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Association for Computer Science) and its associated training academy Deutsche Informatik-Akademie (DIA), Microsoft Germany, SAP Germany and the Unabhängige Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (ULD).
 

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Pohl

Peter Sakal, B.Sc. 

BRICS: Best practice in Robotics

The prime objective of BRICS is to structure and formalize the robot development process itself and to provide tools, models, and functional libraries, which help accelerating this process significantly.

• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kraetzschmar
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Methods and Tools to Support a continuous Requirements Engineering in SME-Projects for Developing User-Oriented Software (in German: KoREM)"

In software projects there is often a gap between customers, users and developers. This implies a huge risk of misleading developers to implement system functions detached from the relevant user scenarios.To reduce this risk software companies need methods and tools for Requirements Engineering.

The KoREM project develops such methods and the according tools especially for the use in small companies.The project is based on a cooperation with Prof. Dr. Barabara Paech (Software Engineering at Heidelberg University) and  Insiders Technologies GmbH in Kaiserslautern.

If you are working in a SME and interested in testing our results, please let us know!

Prof. Dr. Simone Bürsner

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LBIS: Lernfähiges, berührungsloses Infrarot-Sensorsystem für Schutzeinrichtungen an Sägen 

The aim of the project is the development of an adaptive, contactless infrared sensorsystem for the safeguarding of circular saws on construction sites and in meat dissecting enterprises.

Prof. Dr. Norbert Jung

Pixelstrom

The Project PixelStrom aims to display very large computer graphic models (or complex shaders), as employed for example in the CAD, design, visualization and computer games sector, inexpensively in real time.

Prof. Dr. André Hinkenjann 

Publication of environmental data (observation data)

Objectives of the project are a definition of a standard procedure for the publication of observational data, the development of a workflow system to automate the data publication process and to ensure the reusability of the results and its application to observational data of other environmental sciences as well as the integration of the procedure and the system in the normal operation of the World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) in Hamburg.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hense

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International Distributed Computer Science Degree

The project aims to develop a German-Canadian Computer Science dual degree program.

Prof. Dr. Rainer Herpers

6-MIG: 6-DoF-multiuserfähiges Interaktionsgerät für 3D-Projektionsumgebungen

The aim of this project is to develop an input device  for use in 3D projection environments that is  intuitive, direct, absolute-working and is  based on the technology of laser pointers.

Prof. Dr. Rainer Herpers  

SEN-TAF: Seniorengerechte Technik zur Autonomieförderung: Anforderungsstudien, Marktanalysen und Akzeptanztests

The project aims to create a requirement and market analysis on household technology suitable  for senior citizens. In addition, the project's focus is on the development of a "SEN TAF" robot and its market launch.

Prof. Dr. Karl W. Neunast  

TraCell: Interaktive Globale Beleuchtungsberechnung mit dem Cell Prozessor

The project aims to implement an application-oriented R & D project in the field of interactive global illumination computation for medical applications and for the product development process.

Prof. Dr. André Hinkenjann

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Bicycle Driving Simulation in the Immersive Visualisation Environment Immersion Square "FIVIS"

RFID in der Logistik - Offene System auf Basis von EPC und ONS

The aim of the project is the development and implementation of an EPC / ONS management system that can be used as a standard software with a uniform architecture for every application and in any enterprise.

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Pohl  

Plattform für wissenschaftliches Rechnen

The project seeks to develop a national optical testbed for the extension and evolution of X-WIN and DFN.

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Berrendorf

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Aufbau von interaktiven virtuellen Umgebungen zur Evaluierung von Usability Fragestellungen im Arbeitsschutz

Development of a simulation environment for the development of security concepts for reducing accidents at work.

Prof. Dr. Rainer Herpers  

Super Computer (Hochleistungsrechner)

The project promotes research and interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of Computational Science & Engineering at BRS University.

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Berrendorf

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