Dynamic Real-Time Material Map (S05)

• Subject Area: Communication Technology and Networks, High-Frequency Technology and Photonic Systems, Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Information Technology ; Computer Architecture, Embedded and Massively Parallel Systems
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 287022738

MARIE’s vision is the construction of a real-time THz material map of a dynamic indoor or outdoor environment. A central research question of S05 is therefore how to construct the real-time THz material map fast and energy-efficiently. To attain such innovation, S05 explores sensor-fusion based THz material mapping techniques, algorithms and their realization on a reconfigurable computing architecture. Challenges such as radar mapping configurations and techniques, energy-efficient mixed-grained reconfigurable computing architecture, Doppler compensation due to dynamicity of the environment, sensor-fusion based image features exploration for object recognition, adaptive radar Simultaneous LocAlization and Mapping (SLAM), dielectric properties and surface roughness estimation, are in the foreground.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 196: Mobile Material Characterization and Localization by Electromagnetic Sensing
• Applicant Institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr.-Ing. Diana Goehringer; Professor Dr.-Ing. Thomas Kaiser