Lakeside Labs

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Lakeside Labs
Lakeside Labs
Lakeside Labs
Seat of the wearer: Klagenfurt , Austria
Type of research: Applied research , basic research
Subjects: Engineering , computer science
Areas of expertise: Communication technology , robotics
Management: Christian Bettstetter, Claudia Prüggler (Managing Director)
Employee: 17 (as of June 2019)
Homepage: lakeside-labs.com

The Lakeside Labs are a non-profit company for scientific research and further development of self-organizing networked systems based in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee . The aim is to apply and improve self-organization methods in the areas of IoT , robotics , production and transport .

Lakeside Labs in Klagenfurt, Austria

Origin and development

The establishment of the Lakeside Labs was initiated by the Carinthian Economic Development Fund and several professors from the University of Klagenfurt . In 2007 the concept was presented and funds amounting to € 22 million were released. Communication technology professor Christian Bettstetter, who continues to exercise this function, was commissioned with the scientific management. Lakeside Labs GmbH was founded in February 2008 with its headquarters in Klagenfurt's Lakeside Science & Technology Park . Claudia Prüggler was appointed as commercial director.

In the first few years, the company functioned primarily as a research management office for projects in the newly founded Faculty of Technical Sciences in Klagenfurt. This collaboration resulted in over 500 scientific and technical publications, around 40 dissertations and several patents. The carrier was an association at that time.

After the end of the ERDF funding period 2007–2013, the company was reoriented and restructured with the aim of building up scientific staff. The shareholders are now BABEG Kärntner Betriebsansiedlungs- und Beteiligungs-GmbH and the University of Klagenfurt, which means that Lakeside Labs GmbH is majority owned by the Republic of Austria. Financing is provided through a basic budget and the acquisition of national and European research funding. The research activities are assessed by a scientific advisory board , chaired by Erwin Toplak, a former board member of Kapsch TrafficCom . There have been several company spin-offs, for example the Sensolligent company. Honorary members are the complexity researcher Carlos Gershenson and the physics professor Marc Timme. In 2018, the scientific director Bettstetter was awarded the Carinthian State Prize.

Research areas

The institute names the following topics as current research priorities:

Most research projects are carried out together with companies - including Airbus, Infineon Technologies Austria, SKIDATA, SOFTEAM and Treibacher Industrie.

In applied research on algorithms in multi-drone systems, together with the University of Klagenfurt, Austria assumed a certain pioneering role from 2008, the results of which are to be made available to the specialist audience and the public under the name “Dronehub K”. These activities resulted in more than 100 scientific publications, a university science and doctoral college and participation in an Austria-wide drone research infrastructure. A drone hangar was opened in Lakeside Park in December 2019.

An interdisciplinary workshop called “Research Days” takes place every two years . With this one wants to promote the dialogue and the group work of the invited scientists and thereby deliberately differentiate oneself from the mainstream conferences of the engineering sciences, whose focus is typically on frontal presentations. It is organized together with the University of Klagenfurt.

Research projects

  • BugWright2: Automated inspection of ship hulls using robots and drones ( Horizon 2020 project)
  • CPSwarm: Application of swarm algorithms in cyber-physical systems ( Horizon 2020 project)
  • DeSSNeT: Dependable, secure and time-aware sensor networks ( COMET project)
  • SWILT: Swarm intelligence layer to control autonomous agents ( FFG project)

Publications

  • Pasquale Grippa, Udo Schilcher, and Christian Bettstetter: On access control in cabin-based transport systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems , vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 2149–2156, June 2019. doi: 10.1109 / TITS.2018.2864551
  • Pasquale Grippa, Doris A. Behrens, Friederike Wall, and Christian Bettstetter: Drone delivery systems: job assignment and dimensioning. Autonomous Robots , vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 261-274, February 2019. doi: 10.1007 / s10514-018-9768-8
  • Evşen Yanmaz, Saeed Yahyanejad, Bernhard Rinner, Hermann Hellwagner, and Christian Bettstetter: Drone networks: communications, coordination, and sensing. Ad Hoc Networks , vol. 68, pp. 1–15, January 2018. doi: 10.1016 / j.adhoc.2017.09.001
  • Johannes Klinglmayr, Christian Bettstetter, Marc Timme, and Christoph Kirst: Convergence of self-organizing pulse coupled oscillator synchronization in dynamic networks. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control , vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1606–1619, April 2017. doi: 10.1109 / TAC.2016.2593642
  • Tamer Khatib, Wilfried Elmenreich, and Azah Mohamed: Simplified IV characteristic tester for photovoltaic modules using a DC-DC boost converter. Sustainability , vol. 9, no.4 , April 2017. doi: 10.3390 / su9040657
  • Samira Hayat, Evşen Yanmaz, and Raheeb Muzaffar: Survey on unmanned aerial vehicle networks for civil applications: a communications viewpoint. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials , vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2624–2661, October 2016. doi: 10.1109 / COMST.2016.2560343
  • Günther Brandner, Udo Schilcher, and Christian Bettstetter: Firefly synchronization with phase rate equalization and its experimental analysis in wireless systems. Computer Networks , vol. 97, pp. 74–87, March 2016. doi: 10.1016 / j.comnet.2016.01.001
  • Jürgen Scherer, Saeed Yahyanejad, Samira Hayat, Evşen Yanmaz, Torsten Andre, Asif Khan, Vladimir Vukadinovic, Christian Bettstetter, Hermann Hellwagner, and Bernhard Rinner: An autonomous multi-UAV system for search and rescue. In Proc. Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use (DroNet) , Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015. doi: 10.1145 / 2750675.2750683
  • Nikolaj Marchenko, Torsten Andre, Günther Brandner, Wasif Masood, and Christian Bettstetter: An experimental study of selective cooperative relaying in industrial wireless sensor networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics , vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1806–1816, August 2014. doi: 10.1109 / TII.2014.2327915

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The standard of July 31, 2007 (online edition): New ICT Research Center in Klagenfurt
  2. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of December 12, 2018 (online edition): With robots into the future
  3. ↑ Life in a team: who asks the important questions? In: Nothing is as it seems - The Carinthia Economic Area. Ed .: BABEG Kärntner Betriebsansiedlungs- & Beteiligungsgesellschaft, pages 30–39, 2018
  4. ^ Publication list of Lakeside Labs
  5. ↑ Lakeside Labs alumni and startups
  6. ↑ Espacenet patent database. Search results with Lakeside Labs GmbH as the applicant.
  7. ↑ Knowledge balance sheet 2008 of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Ed .: Jutta Menschik-Bendele, April 2009
  8. ^ Scientific Advisory Board of Lakeside Labs
  9. ↑ Trendingtopics.at of February 1, 2018: Sensolligent: Klagenfurt-based startup creates digital twins of factories
  10. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of December 10, 2018 (online edition): Culture Awards - Three entertaining hours without a biscuit
  11. ↑ a b Der Standard from July 12, 2011 (online edition): Let's do it like ants
  12. ↑ The Standard of July 16, 2013 (online edition): Drones on a peace mission
  13. ↑ The Standard of January 15, 2016 (online edition): When the post arrives by drone
  14. ↑ Futurezone.at from June 19, 2017: Drones: From “Killing Machines” to “Healing Machines”
  15. ↑ Futurezone.at of September 27, 2017: Austria's first 5G test region is being built in Carinthia
  16. ^ Die Presse from January 9, 2016: Wireless above the clouds
  17. ↑ a b Kleine Zeitung from November 3, 2018 (online edition): Technology makes the industry rave
  18. ↑ Die Presse of October 22, 2016: No more waiting unnecessarily when the mountain is calling
  19. ↑ Microdrone demonstration on YouTube , accessed July 30, 2019.
  20. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of June 19, 2019 (online edition): Participation in Austria-wide drone research infrastructure
  21. ↑ ORF of December 18, 2019 (online edition): Europe's largest drone hall opened
  22. ↑ European Commission website: Autonomous Robotic Inspection and Maintenance on Ship Hulls and Storage Tanks , accessed on July 28, 2020
  23. ↑ The Standard of December 13, 2018 (online edition): Technology based on the ant model
  24. ↑ a b FFG project database , accessed on August 20, 2020
  25. ↑ The Standard of May 14, 2019 (online edition): The Internet of Things is only human