The "Forschungsschwerpunkt" was established in June 2008 at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in accordance with the "Forschungsinitiative" of the "Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz".

The "Landesforschungsschwerpunkt" AmSys is focusing on technologies and applications of ambient systems, a new generation of miniaturized distributed networked embedded systems based on intelligent sensors and actuators, and advanced signal processing capabilities. Ambient systems typically operate largely autonomously without human interaction. They are the foundation of a very challenging IT-vision, which efficiently supports the capabilities and skills of the human being in its everyday life. The scientific work on ambient systems requires a strong interaction between different technical disciplines as well as technology development and applications in innovative use cases. AmSys refocuses the already existing expertise at the TU Kaiserslautern to achieve scientific leadership in this field. To reach this ambitious goal, already existing disciplinary and interdisciplinary research activities are concentrated and systematically advanced.

read all?... the whole abstract of the annual report 2009 of the Forschungsschwerpunkt

Research activities will be focused on 4 technology topics:
  • Hardware platforms (adaptive, reconfigurable architectures, system-on-chip, robotics)
  • Control (networked control, sensors, actuators, real-time)
  • Communication (sensor networks, wireless communication, navigation, localization)
  • Software architectures (adaptivity, distribution, human-machine interaction)
Application fields will be medicine (e.g. emergency recognition), assisted living, production, and recreation. For more details on our activities please refer to: