Projects
Non-invasive technology in the care of urinary incontinent institutionalized demented eldery HOGENT
Development of surgical assistive technology for intraocular microsurgery KU Leuven
Our eyesight is by far our most developed sense, playing a vital role in nearly all aspects of everyday life. As such, severe vision loss can have a devastating impact on one’s life. Advancements in medicine have led to effective treatment methods for a substantial range of eye diseases. Nevertheless, several retinal disorders remain a common cause of vision loss. At the time of writing, an estimated 244 million people worldwide suffer from a ...
Increasing Security on Industrial Machine Gateways using Trusted Computing Technology KU Leuven
The Industry 4.0 transition implies that industrial machines are no longer isolated. Connecting machines to an internal IT infrastructure and the Internet opens up new opportunities. Exposing sensor data to back-ends can increase the efficiency of the production process and improve the user experience. Although this transition increases the competitiveness of our factories, serious privacy and security risks emerge. Leaking too much ...
Integrating search and optimisation technology for formal modelling languages. KU Leuven
Several research fields share the goal of developing domain independent languages and techniques for search and optimisation. Main-stream areas are operations research, constraint programming and satisfiability checking of propositional logic. A new development is the emergence of search systems based on expressive logics with origins in the area of knowledge representation that prove well-suited in knowledge-intense domains. This approach ...
Technology supported high intensity training in chronic low back pain: the Techno-HIT trial. University of Antwerp
Radiation Hardened Aging Resilient Digital Integrated Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technology KU Leuven
long-term reliability of recent CMOS technologies is impacted by different intrinsic degradation mechanisms that progressively alter their electrical characteristics (BTI, HCI, TDDB...). Due to the ongoing aggressive scaling process, those mechanisms exhibit significant dispersions related to the process details and variability. The parametric evolution induced by those mechanisms constitutes a reliability risk, both directly, by compromising ...
Bio-impedance Sensor Technology for Robot-Assisted Vitreo-retinal Surgery KU Leuven
At present, vitreoretinal surgery is performed purely manually by highly specialized, welltrained surgeons. The surgeons need superior handeye coordination and precise positioning. When applying even small forces tangential to the surface of the eye, e.g. by means of the inserted instruments, the eye rotates and a different part of the eye becomes visible under the microscope. Microsurgeons are trained to pivot the instruments around the ...