Embedded Systems and Internet of Things

This focus group around Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Prof. Sebastian Steinhorst addresses the design challenges for resource-constrained embedded and cyber-physical system architectures, which are entering further areas of our everyday life with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT). For such connected devices, conventional centralized system architectures are reaching their limits regarding manageability, scalability and efficiency. Hence, design approaches are required where centrally coordinated networks of these devices are developed towards self-organizing architectures as illustrated. Here, smart algorithms will enable system-level functionality and achievement of common goals in a distributed fashion without central coordination. When properly designed, such fully decentralized architectures will provide scalability, modularity, efficiency and robustness beyond the capabilities of centralized architectures. However, when considering resource-constrained embedded applications from the automotive, energy storage or IoT domain, several challenges arise when attempting to design such decentralized architectures. Strong resource limitations regarding computation, communication and energy require advanced methodologies for co-design of hardware/software architectures, distributed algorithms and secure communication such that the goals of safety, security, efficiency and scalability can be reached.

TUM-IAS funded doctoral candidates:
Emanuel Regnath, Embedded Systems and Internet of Things
Ege Korkan, Embedded Systems and Internet of Things
Philipp Weiss, Embedded Systems and Internet of Things

Publication by the Focus Group

2020

  • Oberkofler, Jens; Aikman, Brech; Bonsignore, Riccardo; Pöthig, Alexander; Platts, James; Casini, Angela; Kühn, Fritz E.: Exploring the Reactivity and Biological Effects of Heteroleptic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Gold(I)-Alkynyl Complexes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2020 mehr…

2019

  • Lamprecht, Alexander; Baumann, Martin; Massier, Tobias; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Decentralized Non-Neighbor Active Charge Balancing in Large Battery Packs. 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2019 mehr…
  • Lamprecht, Alexander; Garikapati, Ananth; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Enhancing Battery Pack Capacity Utilization in Electric Vehicle Fleets via SoC-Preconditioning. 2019 22nd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), IEEE, 2019 mehr…
  • Mrowca, Artur; Nocker, Martin; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Günnemann, Stephan: Learning Temporal Specifications from Imperfect Traces Using Bayesian Inference. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019 on - DAC '19, ACM Press, 2019 mehr…
  • Mrowca, Artur; Nocker, Martin; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Günnemann, Stephan: Learning Temporal Specifications from Imperfect Traces Using Bayesian Inference. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019 on - DAC '19, ACM Press, 2019 mehr…
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Park, Sangyoung; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Design Automation for Energy Storage Systems. In: Design Automation of Cyber-Physical Systems. Springer International Publishing, 2019 mehr…
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Kauer, Matthias; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Optimal Dimensioning and Control of Active Cell Balancing Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 68 (10), 2019, 9632-9646 mehr…
  • Probstl, Alma; Park, Sangyoung; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Cost/Privacy Co-optimization in Smart Energy Grids. 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2019 mehr…
  • Regnath, Emanuel; Steinhorst, Sebastian: CUBA: Chained Unanimous Byzantine Agreement for Decentralized Platoon Management. 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2019 mehr…
  • Zimmermann, Thomas; Mora, Mathias; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Mueller-Gritschneder, Daniel; Jossen, Andreas: Analysis of Dissipative Losses in Modular Reconfigurable Energy Storage Systems Using SystemC TLM and SystemC-AMS. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 24 (4), 2019, 1-33 mehr…

2018

  • Korkan, Ege; Kaebisch, Sebastian; Kovatsch, Matthias; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Sequential Behavioral Modeling for Scalable IoT Devices and Systems. 2018 Forum on Specification & Design Languages (FDL), IEEE, 2018 mehr…
  • Lamprecht, Alexander; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Improving fast charging efficiency of reconfigurable battery packs. 2018 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2018 mehr…
  • Mrowca, Artur; Pramsohler, Thomas; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Baumgarten, Uwe: Automated interpretation and reduction of in-vehicle network traces at a large scale. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Design Automation Conference on - DAC '18, ACM Press, 2018 mehr…
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Park, Sangyoung; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Multi-Pattern Active Cell Balancing Architecture and Equalization Strategy for Battery Packs. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design - ISLPED '18, ACM Press, 2018 mehr…
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Park, Sangyoung; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Design automation for battery systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design - ICCAD '18, ACM Press, 2018 mehr…
  • Probstl, Alma; Park, Sangyoung; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: SOH-aware active cell balancing strategy for high power battery packs. 2018 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2018 mehr…
  • Regnath, Emanuel; Steinhorst, Sebastian: SmaCoNat: Smart Contracts in Natural Language. 2018 Forum on Specification & Design Languages (FDL), IEEE, 2018 mehr…
  • Regnath, Emanuel; Steinhorst, Sebastian: LeapChain. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design - ICCAD '18, ACM Press, 2018 mehr…
  • Saidi, Selma; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Hamann, Arne; Ziegenbein, Dirk; Wolf, Marko: Special Session: Future Automotive Systems Design: Research Challenges and Opportunities. 2018 International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), IEEE, 2018 mehr…

2017

  • Kauer, Matthias; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Rapid Analysis of Active Cell Balancing Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 36 (4), 2017, 694-698 mehr…
  • Mundhenk, Philipp; Paverd, Andrew; Mrowca, Artur; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Fahmy, Suhaib A.; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Security in Automotive Networks. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 22 (2), 2017, 1-27 mehr…
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Kauer, Matthias; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Modular Active Charge Balancing for Scalable Battery Packs. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems 25 (3), 2017, 974-987 mehr…
  • Shivaraman, Nitin; Easwaran, Arvind; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Efficient decentralized active balancing strategy for smart battery cells. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2017, IEEE, 2017 mehr…
  • Shreejith, Shanker; Mundhenk, Philipp; Ettner, Andreas; Fahmy, Suhaib A.; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Chakraborty, Samarjit: VEGa: A High Performance Vehicular Ethernet Gateway on Hybrid FPGA. IEEE Transactions on Computers 66 (10), 2017, 1790-1803 mehr…
  • Waszecki, Peter; Mundhenk, Philipp; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Karri, Ramesh; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Automotive Electrical and Electronic Architecture Security via Distributed In-Vehicle Traffic Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 36 (11), 2017, 1790-1803 mehr…

2016

  • Lukasiewycz, Martin; Kauer, Matthias; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Synthesis of Active Cell Balancing Architectures for Battery Packs. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 35 (11), 2016, 1876-1889 mehr…
  • Sagstetter, Florian; Waszecki, Peter; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Multischedule Synthesis for Variant Management in Automotive Time-Triggered Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 35 (4), 2016, 637-650 mehr…
  • Steinhorst, Sebastian; Kauer, Matthias; Meeuw, Arne; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Cyber-Physical Co-Simulation Framework for Smart Cells in Scalable Battery Packs. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 21 (4), 2016, 1-26 mehr…