Extremely precise event timing incl. space domain.  Equipped with the best instrumentation and decades of experience, our team of scientists develop general purpose event timers and application-specific timing, synchronization, signal processing and signal conditioning systems. Our timers are used in more than half of all satellite laser ranging stations. With extreme precision of 3 pico-seconds our timers are used worldwide by different entities such as NASA. Each new system is thoroughly tested to ensure stable and predictable performance even in harsh and fast-changing conditions. In collaboration with European Space agency we have developed a space-grade timer, which is planned to be used for Luna-27 space mission with ROSCOSMOS and for Portuguese satellite in lidar systems.

Remote sensing Space data processing. EDI has decades of expertise in developing unique sub-8GHz short-range high-resolution Ultrawideband radar technology and their testing in different applications, including ground and wall probing, through wall imaging, remote human breathing and heart rate detection, non-contact ice thickness measurement and time domain reflectometry. With support of European Space Agency, we also develop complex methods and software for Earth observation. Our unsupervised land cover classification technology is focused on automatic classification of multispectral satellite images or other data and our latest results show the superiority of our non-parametric clustering algorithm over other available methods such as K-means and ISODATA.

Robotics and machine perception.  We enable robots to operate in changing environments and perform tasks that require autonomous decision-making and adaptability. Our systems combine sensor technologies with original data fusion, processing and computer vision algorithms, including AI. We develop new and fast data labelling methods to facilitate the use of our perception algorithms on various real-world tasks. We perform cutting edge R&D on connected and automated driving, where we develop fail-safe, fail-aware and fail-operational V2X communication technology as well as perception system. We use our drive-by-wire test platform in our ITS TestBed to test different functionalities of the developed technologies. Other mobile platforms, including drones, are targets for machine learning algorithms trained at EDI HPC. Our research on trustworthy and explainable AI envisions safe and collaborative operation between robots and humans.

Signal processing and embedded intelligence. Our extensive expertise in signal processing and embedded intelligence has facilitated development of unobtrusive wearable sensing fabrics capable of real-time 3D reconstruction, train integrity monitoring system, patented multi-modal FPGA-based biometric system, industrial low latency and high-data rate wireless sensors, hardware accelerators for image processing and depth sensing, V2X communication systems, one of the first Artificial Neural Network accelerators for realizing state-of-art vehicle control and many others. Currently, EDI experts work with hardware platforms ranging from the smallest micro-controllers to the most advanced state-of-the-art Systems-on-Chips and their expertise covers high-speed PCB design, low-level software development, algorithm design, digital and analog circuit engineering, prototyping, and smart embedded cooperative-system development.

Smart sensors and IoT.  EDI has more than 10 years of R&D expertise in smart sensors and internet of things systems, including PCB and firmware design, network architectures, and data collection and processing. We have developed our own WSN programming language, operating system and unique large scale 100 node IoT testbed with the possibility to move 50 nodes to any testing location for extensive testing, debugging and data gathering, including battery discharge simulation and energy consumption measurements. We develop cutting-edge wearable systems based on inertial and bio-electrical sensors on flexible PCBs and conductive textiles for applications in healthcare, active life style and sports. We focus on energy and computationally efficient data transmission and processing to enable unobtrusive usability of wearable devices that provide real-time feedback. We have developed proprietary communication solution that supports connection of hundreds of sensors with only four wires, and is used for deformation monitoring systems for buildings, bridges and tunnels.