2017


On December 5

On December 5 at 14:00 in Institute of Electronics and Computer science conference hall will occure a seminar on National Research Program „Cyber-physical systems, ontologies and biophotonics for safe&smart city and society.” (SOPHIS) achieved results

 

Please visitors register on the website http://sophis.edi.lv/register/ or by phone: +371 67554500; e-mail: info@edi.lv.


On December 1

During the General Meeting of scientists of EDI a new Scientific Council of EDI is elected the members of which are Modris Greitans, Uldis Grunde, Roberts Kadikis, Krisjanis Nesenbergs, Kaspars Ozols, Rolands Savelis and Gatis Supols.


On November 30

30.11.2017. 13:00 Seminar of the project no.1 „Development of technologies for cyber physical systems with applications in medicine and smart transport” (KiFiS) of the National Research Programme „Cyber-physical systems, ontologies and biophotonics for safe&smart city and society.” (SOPHIS). Venue: “A” auditorium of the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Dzerbenes str. 14, Riga. Members of each research group will present results obtained in the project.


On November 30

30.11.2017. 10:00. Seminar of the project no.4 “Development of technologies for secure and reliable smart-city” of the National Research Programme „Cyber-physical systems, ontologies and biophotonics for safe&smart city and society.” (SOPHIS). Venue: “A” auditorium of the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Dzerbenes str. 14, Riga. Members of each research group will present results obtained in the project.


On November 24

EDI senior researcher Modris Greitans is participating with presentation in European Union House organized seminar “Briefing on Commercialization of Latvia’s Research for Foreign Economic Missions and Chambers of Commerce in Latvia”.


On November 22

Estonian Maritime Administration Chief Specialist of Pärnu Region Urmas Õunap is returning the surface drifter discovered in Pärnu on Monday, 19 November. The drifter was deployed in the Riga Gulf in September 13th for Lagrangian measurements of surface currents in the scope of the VPP project JURSENS .


On November 21-22

The scientific assistant of the Embedded Systems laboratory Dainis Žagars is participating in the 25th Telecommunication Forum (TELFOR 2017) http://www.telfor.rs/?lang=en in Belgrade, Serbia with the presentation ”LoPy as a Building Block for Internet of Things in Coastal Marine Applications”.


On November 16

16.11.2017. Seminar about the opportunities for participating in the program “Apvārsnis 2020”. Venue: “A” auditorium of the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Dzerbenes str. 14, Riga. Seminar program


On November 13-15

Representatives of signal processing and cyber-physical systems laboratories Roberts Kadiķis, Nauris Dorbe, and Aleksandrs Levinskis are attending the International Conferenec on Machine Vision 2017. They present three paper:

  • “Recurrent neural network based virtual detection line”;

  • “Prospects of improving the self-driving car development pipeline: transfer of algorithms from virtual to physical environment”;

  • “Using virtual environment for autonomous Vehicle algorithm validation”.


On November 13-14

Signal processing laboratory researcher Kaspars Ozols and assistant Arnis Salmins are participating in “Intelligent Motion Control Platform for Smart Mechatronic Systems” (I-MECH)” F2F meeting in Milan, Italy. During the meeting, project pilots and demonstrators and their requirments and specifications are discussed in details.


On November 6-8th

Signal processing laboratory researcher Kaspars Ozols is participating in “Integrated Components for Complexity Control in Affordable Electrified Cars (3Ccar)” project F2F meeting in Tampere, Finland. During the meeting, execution of the project, different technical issues and planned future activities are discussed. More about the project: www.3Ccar.eu


On October 26-27

Signal processing laboratory senior researcher/EDI scientific director Modris Greitans and researcher Ričards Cacurs are participating in “Frictionless Energy Efficient Convergent Wearables For Healthcare and Lifestyle Applications (CONVERGENCE)” progress meeting in Bucharest, Romania. Results of physical activity sensor system development are being presented during the meeting.


On October 23-25

Signal processing laboratory researcher Kaspars Ozols is participating in “Manufuture 2017 – Moving up the Value Chain” conference in Tallinn, Estonia. “Manufuture 2017” will focus on smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 in practice, the factories of the future, robotics, the internet of things and smart products. More info: http://manufuture2017.eu/


On October 12-13th

Signal processing laboratory researcher Kaspars Ozols is participating in “Innovation Drift” event in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he as invited speaker gives a presentation named “Experience of the Latvian research institute (EDI) in the ECSEL-JU programme“. More info: http://innovationdrift.com/


On September 29

29.09.2017. 10:00. Seminar of the project no.4 “Development of technologies for secure and reliable smart-city” of the National Research Programme „Cyber-physical systems, ontologies and biophotonics for safe&smart city and society.” (SOPHIS). Venue: “A” auditorium of the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Dzerbenes str. 14, Riga. Members of each research group will present results obtained in stage 4 of the project. Seminar program.


On August 1

1.08.2017. 14:00 Seminar of the project no.1 „Development of technologies for cyber physical systems with applications in medicine and smart transport” of the National Research Programme „Cyber-physical systems, ontologies and biophotonics for safe&smart city and society.” (SOPHIS). Venue: “A” auditorium of the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Dzerbenes str. 14, Riga. Members of each research group will present results obtained in stage 4 of the project. Seminar program.


On July 17-21

From 17 to 21 July researcher Vadim Vedin is participating in 10th JUNO Collaboration Meeting held at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing and presenting the EDI proposal for cooperation. The Institute proposes to address the measurement equipment synchronization issues in JUNO, using the high-precision time interval measurement technology developed in EDI.

 

On the basis of this proposal, the JUNO Institutional Board has granted EDI a full collaboration member status in JUNO (see http://juno.ihep.ac.cn/collaboration.php).

 

JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (see http://juno.ihep.cas.cn/) is an international project initiated by China for creation of observatory for neutrino studies, in particular, to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters by detecting reactor neutrinos from the Yangjiang and Taishan Nuclear Power Plants, observe supernova neutrinos, study the atmospheric, solar neutrinos and geo-neutrinos, and perform exotic searches using a 20-thousand-ton liquid scintillator detector of unprecedented 3% energy resolution (at 1 MeV) at 700-meters deep underground. At present already 72 leading research organizations dealing with particle physics from all over the world are participating in this project. EDI will design specialized event timers for obtaining accurate times of events on a time scale that is synchronized with UTC (Time Scale Coordinated).


On July 17-19

Signal processing laboratory researchers Rolands Shavelis and Kaspars Ozols, as well as assistant Rihards Novickis is participating in “Integrated Components for Complexity Control in Affordable Electrified Cars (3Ccar)” project review meeting in Erlangen, Germany. During the meeting, project achievements in the 2nd year of the project in presented to European Commission as well as planned future activities and discussed. More about the project see www.3Ccar.eu


On June 13-14

Signal processing laboratory senior researcher/EDI scientific director Modris Greitans is participating in “ECSEL JU Symposium 2017” in St. Julian’s, Malta.

 

Signal processing laboratory researcher Kaspars Ozols is participating in “Intelligent Motion Control Platform for Smart Mechatronic Systems” (I-MECH)” kick-off meeting in St. Julian’s, Malta, which is organized during the “ECSEL JU Symposium 2017”.


On June 7-8

Signal processing laboratory senior researcher/EDI scientific director Modris Greitans and researcher Kaspars Ozols are participating in “Advancing fail-aware, fail-safe, and fail-operational electronic components, systems, and architectures for fully automated driving to make future mobility safer, affordable, and end-user acceptable (AutoDrive)” kick-off meeting in Malaga, Spain.


On May 31

EDI senior researcher Modris Greitans is participating in Innovation think tanks organized by The Federation of Security and Defence Industries of Latvia. During the event, Modris is giving presentation “Insight of intelligent technology and IT research in Latvia”.


On May 23-27

EDI senior researcher Modris Greitans is participating in conference “Event-Based Control, Communication and Signal Processing – EBCCSP’2017” in Funchal, Portugal. During the event, Modris is giving presentation “Amplitude Adaptive ASDM circuit”, establishing new international contacts and disseminating VPP SOPHIS research results.


On May 19-21

Signal processing laboratory electronics engineer Rihards Novickis is participating in “Smithy of Ideas 2017” in Valmiera, Latvia (http://ljza.lv/smithy-of-ideas-2017/). Rihards is giving presentation “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and “Universal” chip”.


On May 19

Signal processing laboratory researcher Roberts Kadikis is participating in conference “New Challenges of Economic and Business Development – 2017: Digital Economy” in Riga, Latvia. During the conference, Roberts is giving presentation about results of EDI, SIA „DPA” and SIA “Squalio cloud consultin” project “Deep neural network method for improve the accuracy of tracking and classification of vehicles registration plates” (DziNTA).


On May 18-20

Signal processing laboratory senior researcher/EDI scientific director Modris Greitans and researcher Kaspars Ozols are participating in “Frictionless Energy Efficient Convergent Wearables For Healthcare and Lifestyle Applications (CONVERGENCE)” kick-off meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.


On May 13

EDI programming engineer Romāns Dinuls participated in “Fake news challenge” hackathon organized by NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (http://www.stratcomcoe.org/hackathon ). His team ideas for fake news detection was recognized as the 2nd best of the event.


On May 11

Technology developed by EDI, which ensures extremely high-precision time measurement, has opened possibility of the Institute spin-off company SIA “Eventech” to conclude agreement with the British space technology development company “NEPTEC” to develop a part of LiDAR sensor for the “Luna-27” spacecraft landing system. This means that the EDI technology is able to use on a mission to the moon in order to find a suitable and safe place to could to land a spaceship. More information: http://www.tvnet.lv/tehnologijas/zinatnes/659597-latvijas_iesacejuznemuma_eventech_tehnologijas_dosies_misija_uz_menesi


On May 10

EDI autonomous driving research group is demonstrating its developments on the Bikernieki race track as part of the “Latvian first autonomous vehicle test drive” event. Also, during the event, LMT and Riga High Tech presents their achievements and future plans of creation of international test platforms in Latvia. The demonstration is live streamed in LMT app and can be seen from 12:00 at following link: http://straume.lmt.lv/lv/notikumi/notikumi/bezpilota-auto/1000532

More information: http://www.delfi.lv/auto/zinas/latvija-veidos-starptautisku-bezpilota-auto-izmeginajumu-trasi.d?id=48821261


On May 10

 

Signal processing laboratory senior researcher/EDI scientific director Modris Greitans is participating in conference „Latvian opportunities for research and innovation programme Horizon 2020” in Riga, Latvia. During the conference, Modris is giving a presentation about EDI experience and success in H2020 ECSEL program. The program of the conference is available here: http://www.liaa.gov.lv/lv/pasakumi/konference-latvijas-iespejas-petniecibas-un-inovacijas-pamatprogramma-apvarsnis-2020

 

 


On April 20-21

Researcher Vadim Vedin and senior researcher Ints Mednieks participated in “JUNO Electronics Workshop 2017” in Padova, Italy, to capture the status of electronics development for the JUNO (http://juno.ihep.cas.cn/ ) project and discuss cooperation for development of time synchronization system within this project.


On April 24 -27

EDI electronics engineer Rihards Novickis attending H2020 ECSEL project “Integrated Components for Complexity Control in Affordable Electrified Cars” (3Ccar) review preparation meeting in Spain, Bilbao. Rihards Novickis will be discussing delivery of neuraln network implementation in field programmable system on chip and will participate in discussion regarding project review process.


On April 24-27

Signal processing laboratory senior researcher Modris Greitans, researcher Kaspars Ozols and programmer Niklavs Barkovskis are participating in “Dependable embedded wireless infrastructure (DEWI)” project final review meeting and dissemination event in Graz, Austria. During the meeting, project achievements are presented to reviewers as well to general public via dissemination event. To learn more about the project, please, visit http://www.dewiproject.eu/


On April 20

On April 20 at. 19:00 on Radio NABA program “Zinātnes vārdā” (On behalf of the Science) a conversation with EDI leading researcher and University of Latvia prosfesor Leo Seļāvo about the latest developments in his research work. Radio NABA live and more information – here.


On April 05

EDI scientific director – senior researcher M.Greitāns and senior researcher L.Seļāvo participate as speakers in business management, economic leaders and experts conference EBIT 2017, which take place in the Radisson Blu Latvia.

(http://www.vaditajukonference.lv/)


On March 30

Signal processing laboratory researcher Kaspars Ozols is participating in “Widening participation in H2020: Baltic Sea region on the road towards being the most innovative region in the world” workshop.


On March 23

EDI scientific director Modris Greitāns representing the Institute and participating in Latvian Electrical Engineering and Electronics Industry Association (LETERA) annual meeting of members, which this year took place in Riga Technical University (Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications). In meeting were reported LETERA activities in 2016, elected a new board and a president, approved 2017 budget and were defined priority areas for actions in 2017.


On March 21

EDI scientific director Modris Greitāns representing the Institute and participating in Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association (LIKTA) annual meeting of members. In LIKTA meeting were presented and approved LIKTA board report on the progress, and set priorities for the future work of the Association.


On March 1

The Institute of Electronics and Computer Science (EDI) has started a project titled “High precision synchronous timing in widely distributed scientific instrumentation (DaLaS)” in Marcs 1, 2017. Project co-financed by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and managed by Dr.sc.comp. Ints Mednieks.


On February 20 -22

Lead researcher Leo Seļavo participate in the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2017). EWSN is a highly selective single-track international conference focussing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networking. EWSN in this year is held in Uppsala (Sweden). Conference page www.ewsn2017.org


On February 13 -17

The Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association (LIKTA) in cooperation with Latvian higher education institutions from 13 – 17 February organize the Latvian programmers day 2017, which will consist of a high-level conference, as well as creative workshops, where students, professionals and other interested parties will be able to try out the latest technology.

 

In this conference will also perform EDI lead researcher and University of Latvia Professor L.Seļāvo with presentation “Internet of things and Internet of humans, or the nervous system of the human race?”

 

While, on 13 and 16 February from 15:00 till 18:00 in EDI will be provided embedded platform Arduino programming basics.

 

More information: https://ej.uz/ProgDienas2017


On February 09

EDI is visiting technology portal http://geenius.ee/ journalist from Estonia – Ronald Liive to find out more about in NRP program SOPHIS project developed self-driving car technology and to meet with EDI partners.

Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFqrAM_IIo


On December 30

EDI has submitted project proposals in the Central Finance and Contracting Agency (CFCA) within the framework of the project selection of Operational programme “Growth and employment” – specific Objective 4.2.1. “To increase energy efficiency in public and residential buildings”. More about project selection http://www.cfla.gov.lv/lv/es-fondi-2014-2020/izsludinatas-atlases/4-2-1-2-k-1