Cosys-Lab considers the Co-Design for Cyber-Physical Systems. This ranges from the development of novel sensor techniques over embedded systems, and modeling techniques to the design of energy-efficient mechanisms. Cases include; monitoring patients with respiratory syndromes, localization and gas-leak detection based on bat research, cost-efficient design of embedded controllers for BLDC machines, virtual hardware-in-the-loop verification, and optimal design of an emergency ventilator.

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Our Mission?

Aim, systems involved, objectives, methods, range, and applications:

Research on co-design and co-development (including the complete life cycle) methodologies and workflows for cyber-physical systems.
These systems mostly take the form of physical (lab)setups and include acoustic sensors, pulse echo array systems, embedded systems, control, electro-mechanics, rod mechanisms, robots, energy harvesting systems, …
In design and operation, we aim to achieve systems with optimal safety, reliability, resilience, energy efficiency, throughput speed, latency, safe human-machine interaction, and system architecture.
The methods used and researched include optimization to guarantee the global optimum, patterns, heterogeneous sensor fusion, a general theory of semantics in long-wavelength sensing, learning techniques for repetitive tasks, ….
The research group covers the whole range from low-level hardware to high-level intelligence, multi-time-scale hardware design, …
The research group focuses on applications spanning biological research, medical technologies, human-centred systems, advanced machinery for industry, transport, and agriculture.

Cosys-Lab is part of the Flemish Chips Competence Centre (FC3),  a consortium created between 4 Flemish Universities proposed under the European Chips Act to support the Flemish Industry.

Cosys-lab is part of the AnSyMo/Cosys core lab of Flanders Make, the strategic research center for the manufacturing industry in Flanders.