PhD Position in MSCA ETN ETERNITY: EMI-resilient Interconnected Medical Systems

Many technological innovations in medical applications will rely on distributed sensors and (wireless) communication networks. This brings major safety and reliability challenges as there will be more reliance on the (wireless) interconnections to operate reliably for all scenarios, and this over the system’s entire life-cycle. As such, it is necessary to guarantee the connectivity’s robustness, taking into account a combination of stresses, including EMI disturbances, environmental conditions, aging, etc. For complex distributed sensor and communication networks, this can only be achieved by a holistic approach that covers at the same time the software, middleware, and hardware layers. Therefore, this Ph.D. project aims to develop novel software, middleware, and hardware techniques to obtain fault-tolerant and/or fault-operation behavior for the overall system-of-systems. A study test case will be made with cold-plasma healing devices (PMC).