The project
MORAD: On-The-Fly Monitoring of Oil Spills: A Radar-Based Approach Using a Drone
is investigating radar-based methods for detecting and measuring oil spills at sea in collaboration with the RPTU Kaiserslautern, Department of Microelectronic Systems Design (Prof. Norbert Wehn).
AI-based approaches are being used for this purpose. The experimental investigations are being conducted in the IMS radar laboratory, and the FPGA-based implementations for the real-time algorithms are also being carried out at the IMS.
The project
Development and Validation of a Bioreactor for the Reliable Cultivation and Biomechanical Characterization of Bone Tissue Autografts
is being conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Technical Chemistry, the Biomedical Engineering Group for Diagnostics and Tissue Engineering (Prof. Cornelia Blume), and TU Dortmund University, Chair of Materials Testing Technology (Prof. Frank Walther), a bioreactor and test bench for the tissue engineering of a bone implant is being designed and implemented. In addition to controlled bone development under automated electronic monitoring of specific indicators, this test bench is intended to enable biomechanical characterization of the developing tissue. Such a combined cultivation and test reactor will represent a key element—previously lacking—for the efficient development of bone substitutes for clinical applications. The electronic control and sensor signal processing, as well as the associated software development, will be carried out by IMS-AS.
