Risk-Based EMC for Safer Autonomous Systems: Optimized Shielding Measures

In this project, the PhD student will investigate and develop dedicated hardware hardening techniques to develop autonomous systems which are inherently resilient for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI). The aim is to develop systems which are inherently resilient to EMI and can continue to work in a safe manner. More concretely, the focus will be on the so-called 'PCB Shelter Technique'. The research on the PCB Shelter Technique aims at hardening critical components by obtaining overall shielding effectiveness of >80 dB up to at least 40 GHz. The technique will combine waveguide-under-cutoff techniques to cover the critical components with a Board Level Shield on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) with the use of high-spec PCB-level filters for all PCB traces that need to go in and out of the board level shield. This work compliments and continues on previous and ongoing PhD projects in the research group.