On July 24 and 25 of 2025 senior researcher Rihards Novickis and researcher Andrejs Cvetkovs from the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science visited project partners in Graz, Austria.
Experiments using EDI’s quantum sensor were performed at the Virtual Vehicle (VIF) headquarters. The quantum sensor being developed is a high sensitivity magnetometer that enables accurate measurements of the magnetic field vector. In A-IQ Ready and ARCHIMEDES projects the magnetic field, among other applications, is used for localization. This use case is enabled by the fact that influences from the Earth’s magnetic field, underground minerals, rebar structures in buildings and other magnetic objects, when combined together, result in a unique magnetic field value at every point of space. In situations where conventional approaches like vision and satellite navigation are not applicable, such magnetic field map can be used instead. During the experiment, measurements with EDI’s quantum sensor and commercially available magnetometer used by VIF were made in parallel in order to evaluate potential licalization precision improvements.
Another visit involved the partners from Silicon Austria Labs (SAL), who together with VIF are also located in the Graz Technical University campus. The meeting involved discussions about the quantum sensor’s applications for battery state evaluation and charging process control as part of Cynergy4MIE project.
