Category: Prototypes

Using swarm Intelligence to tackle the resource slack crisis at the edge

July 31, 2025
Posted by Melanie Schranz

Modern edge computing faces a silent efficiency killer: resource waste. Traditional orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes often rely on conservative, rule-based scheduling where applications overestimate their CPU and RAM needs. This leads to significant “slack resources”—allocated capacity that sits idle while other tasks wait in queues. The Horizon Europe project ACES is tackling this challenge through a novel, self-organizing local decision mechanism inspired by the natural world. A multi-agent approach to…

Project 6G-SKY concludes with excellent review

June 27, 2025
Posted by Christian Raffelsberger

Lakeside Labs is proud to announce the successful completion of the project 6G for Connected Sky. It has been awarded the highest possible grade “excellent” at the final CELTIC-NEXT EUREKA review on June 26, 2025 at Airbus, Ottobrunn. This recognition reflects the project’s exceptional ambition, technical quality, and strong impact potential for future 6G-enabled airspace connectivity. As leader of the work package “Integration and Demonstration,” Lakeside Labs played an important…

Swarm intelligence in the factory

July 2, 2024
Posted by Melanie Schranz

Modern semiconductor production is a operating at huge complexity, often involving over 1,500 products moving through 300 processing steps across 1,200 different machines. Traditional centralized scheduling methods frequently fail to optimize these NP-hard environments in real-time. To address this, the SwarmIn project leverages Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithms to create a self-organizing, bottom-up scheduling system. Unlike standard scheduling that calculates a global plan from the top down, the SwarmIn approach…

Successful drone test flights for 6G-SKY

April 30, 2024
Posted by Christian Raffelsberger
Group picture at test flights

The research project 6G-SKY has reached a major milestone: Lakeside Labs and the company Twins have successfully conducted a series of flight tests using an integrated drone platform at the Logistics Center Austria South. Aerial image analysis via wireless connectivity The main goal of these flights was to evaluate the performance of three interconnected drones in an image analysis scenario. The drones were equipped with optical sensors and wireless communication…

Robots inspect ship hulls

July 29, 2020
Posted by Melanie Schranz

The objective of the European project BugWright2 is to develop and demonstrate an adaptable autonomous robotic solution for servicing ship outer hulls. By combining the capabilities of autonomous micro air vehicles and small autonomous underwater vehicles, with teams of magnetic-wheeled crawlers operating directly on the surface of the structure, the inspection and cleaning system will be able to seamlessly merge the acquisition of a global overview of the structure with…

UWB sensor networks in airplanes

April 27, 2016
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

Modern airplanes are equipped with hundreds of embedded sensors and actuators necessary for structural health monitoring, aircraft control, and passenger and crew assistance. These devices are typically interconnected by wires. Using wireless connections instead of wires improves flexibility of installations and reduces the airplane’s weight. Researchers from Airbus Group Innovations have been working on this topic for several years. An ongoing joint project with the University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside…

Collaborative mapping with mobile robot teams

January 15, 2015
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

New packages for the Robot Operating System (ROS) are available for autonomous exploration of unknown environments using collaborating mobile robots equipped with cameras. The software offers wireless ad hoc communications between robots, merging of maps from different robots, and coordinated selection of exploration frontiers. A prototype with up to four robots was built that demonstrates its functionality in an indoor environment. There is a broad spectrum of applications for mobile…

Pulse-coupled oscillator synchronization on FPGA radios

February 8, 2014
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

The mathematical modeling of pulse-coupled biological oscillators offers a fully decentralized and scalable approach for time synchronization. There is a broad spectrum of work on pulse-coupled oscillators in physics, biology, neuroscience, and other disciplines. The communications engineering community has been interested to transfer these results to the synchronization of nodes in wireless networks. A one-to-one transfer is infeasible due to the differences between wireless and biological communications. Several extensions and…