CTS - Centre of Technology and Systems
Research at CTS addresses engineering systems with a cyber-physical dimension, including modelling and design, development of technologies and support methods, proposing appropriate governance models, application, and evaluation.
For the period from 2018 to 2022, CTS aims to make substantial scientific and technological contributions for the development of the next generation of cognitive and interconnected cyber-physical systems. It is guided by an interdisciplinary objective across four development axes: (1) fundamental research, focusing on understanding and modelling the foundations of systems and their behaviour; (2) applied research, focused on solving societal problems in various sectors; (3) Training and advanced education, contributing to the training of doctoral students and early career researchers; and (4) Creating social impact, promoting the exploitation of results and technology and knowledge transfer, and initiatives to involve society in science and technology.
Research activities focus on systems with increasing levels of intelligence, autonomy, and hyperconnectivity. This involves data-rich environments, distributed intelligence, mobility and autonomy, where sensing, microelectronics, embedded systems, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence and qualitative reasoning, robotics and automation, interoperability and collaboration, security and balanced collaboration between human systems play an important role. Global sustainability concerns, including energy efficiency and system optimization, are covered in developments. CTS seeks an interdisciplinary integration of these multiple areas of knowledge to cover the full range of abstraction layers, from smart devices to large networked cognitive systems.