I. Tematic laboratories

Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL)

Focused on FPGA-based systems design covering:
- Specification methods, models and tools for problems of digital design: development graphical languages for specification of digital control devices, models of reconfigurable and hierarchical finite state machinesm novel methods and algorithms for FPGA-based digital system;
-Hardware accelerators for special purpose computations: configurable computing engines for combinatorial computations.
Coordinator: Prof. Doutor António Brito Ferrari

Electronic Systems Laboratory (LSE)

Mission: To contribute to the development of more predictable, reliable and efficient embedded systems, namely those that interact with, or monitor, their environment or user, by developing appropriate input/output, computing and communication infrastructures.
Applications fields: Monitoring, manufacturing, robotic, transportation and control systems
Lines of research:

• Distributed hardware architectures (with special purpose HW support and flexible interconnections)

• Real-time communication protocols (towards flexibility and scalability)

• Advanced modelling and control techniques (embeddable in constrained microcontrollers, resilient to distributed implementation)

Lab coordinator: Luis Almeida. For more information check the LSE web site (http://www.ieeta.pt/lse)

Information Systems and Telematics Laboratory (ISTL)

Focused on:
- Network and Distributed Systems Management: development of a middleware architecture to support the collection of management data from several types of agents. The impact of distributed systems technology on Network, Service and Security Management is also addressed.
- Digital Libraries and Archives: model and architecture Web centred, able to support bibliographic information as well as electronic data and with a high granularity of search. Work on more efficient search techniques for the Portuguese is also addressed.
- Healthcare Information Systems: development of new metholodologies for healthcare process modeling and implementation. This activity is centered in the IST project TEAM-HOS where the Univ. of Aveiro is the coordinator partner (www.team-hos.net).
- Biomedical informatics: integration of clinical and genetic information and development of new tools for knowledge management in health. The main activity in centered in the IST project INFOGENMED where the University of Aveiro is the coordinator (www.infogenmed.net)
Coordinator: Prof. Doutor A. Sousa Pereira

Signal Processing Laboratory (SPL)

Research in core signal processing, emphasizing its use in multidisciplinary applications, aiming at the integration of knowledge from several areas. Specific goals:
- Develop new tools and models for the study of signals and systems: Signal modelling / processing / coding and Linear and non-linear system modelling.
- Contribute to multidisciplinary research and transversal projects involving other Labs of IEETA and other RUs.
Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Paulo Jorge Ferreira
See also: Signal Processing Lab web site

II. Tranverse Activities

Intelligent Robotics

Inteligent robotics is a research field requiring the convergence and smooth integration of a large variety of theories and technologies. The Transverse Activity on Intelligent Robotics (ATRI) of IEETA is conducting research on human-robot interaction, robot learning and multi-robot systems.

More at the ATRI website.

Epilepsy

Epilepsy: Efforts concentrated in devising new solutions epileptic EEG spike and waves detectors and on the study of background EEG activity of epileptics which we have found to have hidden information related to the epileptogenic foci location.
See also: SIAS Interest Group

Tomography

Its main goal is to develop new imaging techniques for tomographic reconstruction. Interest is both in hardware, designing scanners based on new physical principles, as in software.

III. Insterest groups

Health care information systems group

Presenting a wide vertical approach, ranging from the sensor level to the management of clinical data, this group seeks for novel application of electronics, networks and information systems in health care, mainly in the neuroinformatics area. See also: SIAS group web site.

Bioinformatics group

Gathering a multidisciplinary team, this group is working on novel methods and tools for the analysis and management of genemic data.