Towards a Platform for Widespread Embedded Intelligence - ERCIM

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ARTEMIS Annual Conference 2006
by Erwin Schoitsch
The third ARTEMIS annual conference took place in Graz, Austria on 22-24 May.
The event was attended by nearly 250 delegates from European companies,
representatives of SMEs, governments, academia and research Institutes.
ARTEMIS (Advanced Research and
Technology for EMbedded Intelligence
and Systems) is a strong, industry-driven
European Technology Platform (ETP)
whose goal is to establish a coherent,
integrated European Strategic Research
Agenda (SRA) to maintain the European
lead in the field of embedded systems.
From the scientific-technical point of
view, ARTEMIS tries to establish a
common approach and common technology
across application domains. It
does this by creating a public-private
partnership bringing together people
from industry, small and medium-sized
businesses, universities, research centres
and European public authorities, in the
field of Embedded Systems. Common
technology is defined by three working
groups:
• Reference Designs and Architectures:
to offer standard architectural
approaches for major application contexts
and to address complexity challenges,
dependability issues and build
synergies between application sectors
(eg aeroplane safety at automotive
costs).
• Seamless Connectivity and
Middleware: to offer wide-scale interoperability
and connectivity, to provide
new services, functionality and to
build the ambient intelligent (smart)
environment
• System Design Methods and Tools: to
enable dependable, rapid design and
development.
Additionally, a strategic group works on
generic enabling technologies based on
foundational sciences' results.
Application contexts are wide-spread,
according to the principle that
Embedded Systems are Everywhere.
The target application areas are:
• Industrial (automotive, aerospace, railways,
machinery, process industry,
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biomedical, manufacturing, medical
systems, etc.)
• Nomadic Environments (enabling
devices such as PDAs, on-body systems)
for the mobile environment
• Private Spaces (homes, cars, offices,
entertainment, comfort, well-being,
safety)
• Public Infrastructures (airports, highways,
railways, communication networks,
security systems, energy, etc.).
ARC Seibersdorf research was represented
at the exhibition by a booth displaying
animated videos on the application
of dependable embedded systems at
NASA (time-triggered systems for the
Mars mission), DARPA Grand
Challenge (Embedded Vision Systems
being part of one of the finalists in this
race of autonomous vehicles through the
desert in Nevada) and the DECOS project.
The EU-funded Integrated Project
DECOS - Dependable Embedded
Components and Systems - was presented
via videos explaining the DECOS
technology in the context of automotive
applications and by a demonstrator TT-
Car, a model car demonstrating the
advantages of time-triggered technology.
ERCIM and AARIT, the Austrian
member of ERCIM, was represented at
the DECOS project booth. The ERCIM
Working Group, Dependable Embedded
ERCIM at the Smart Systems/ TTTech Booth at the ARTEMIS Conference Exhibition,
Graz 2006.
Systems (DES-WG), is cooperating
closely with DECOS. The DES-WG is a
dissemination partner of DECOS and
DES-WG events are sponsored by
DECOS.
Links:
ARTEMIS: http://www.artemis-office.org/
DECOS: https://www.decos.at/
Please contact:
Erwin Schoitsch, ARC Seibersdorf research/
AARIT, Austria
E-mail: erwin.schoitsch@arcs.ac.at