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Best Paper Award

IEEE HONET Best Paper Award!

Best Paper Award, Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari, Parham Haji Ali Mohamadi, Dragan Subotic, Ritesh Kumar Singh,
Bram Vanderborght, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey, Track: Robotics, Paper entitled: Low-power Energy Management Module for Ambiently Powered Robotic Swarms, IEEE HONET 2024, 3-5 December 2024, Doha, Qatar

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DotBot

SwarmIT demo

This demo presents SwarmIT, a software designed to turn a collection of DotBots into a swarm testbed.

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EWSN paper accepted

CaIN: Low Power and Low Latency VHF Mesh Networking, Mengyao Liu, Bingwu Fang, Jonathan Oostvogels, Sam Michiels, Andrei Belogaev, Xinlei Liu, Jeroen Famaey, EWSN 2024, 10-13 December 2024 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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Best Paper Award

IEEE Smart IoT Best Paper Award!

Best Paper Award presented to Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic, Michael Villnow for the paper titled Channel-Dependant Forward Error Correction for IEEE 802.15.4 O-QPSK
The 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, November 14-16, 2024 Shenzhen, China

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Turtle-Bot3 Burger setup equipped with EMM and solar panel

IEEE HONET paper accepted

Low-power Energy Management Module for Ambiently Powered Robotic Swarms. Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari, Parham Haji Ali Mohamadi, Dragan Subotic, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Bram Vanderborght, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey, IEEE HONET 2024, 3-5 December 2024 Doha, Qatar.

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José Quevedo

Interview with José Quevedo

A new episod in the series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member. Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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IEEE SmartIoT paper accepted

Channel-Dependent Forward Error Correction for IEEE 802.15.4 O-QPSK. Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic, Michael Villnow. IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT) 14-16, November 2024, Shenzhen, China.

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DAFUSAI paper accepted

Feature-level fusion in wireless acoustic sensor networks with graph attention networks for classification of domestic activities
Wei Wei, Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse, Thomas Avé, Tom De Schepper, Kevin Mets. 2nd Workshop on Data Fusion for Artificial Intelligence (DAFUSAI)
October 19th, 2024 at ECAI, Santiago de Compostela.

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IEEE Computer paper accepted

EDHOC is a New Security Handshake Standard: Overview of Security Analysis. Elsa Lopez Perez, Göran Selander, John Preuß Mattsson, Thomas Watteyne, Mališa Vučinić. IEEE Computer, to appear in 2024.

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ICRA paper published

Standards-based Remote Attestation for Internet-of-Things Swarms. Yuxuan Song, Malisa Vucinic, Thomas Watteyne. Workshop on Breaking Swarm Stereotypes, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 17 May 2024.

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DotBot paper published!

Demo: DotBot, a cm-Scale, Easy-to-Use Micro-Robot for Swarm Research. Said Alvarado-Marin, Alexandre Abadie, Filip Maksimovic, Martina Balbi, Trifun Savic, Thomas Watteyne. Workshop on Breaking Swarm Stereotypes, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 17 May 2024.

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IOTSMS paper accepted

Pre-shared key authentication in Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE. Elsa Lopez Perez, Thomas Watteyne, Mališa Vučinić. IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), Malmo, Sweden, 2-5 September 2024.

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MDPI Sensors paper

Policy Compression for Intelligent Continuous Control on Low-Power Edge Devices. Avé T, De Schepper T, Mets K., Sensors. 2024; 24(15):4876.

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ESANN paper accepted

Online Adaptation of Compressed Models by Pre-Training and Task-Relevant Pruning. Thomas Avé, Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse, Wei Wei, Kevin Mets, The 32th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 9-11 October 2024

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IEEE IECON paper accepted!

Running SmartMesh on the MAX32655 with MicroPython. Luiz Sampaio, Kate O’Riordan, Dara O’Sullivan, Brian Coffey, Lance Doherty, Thomas Watteyne. Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Chicago, IL, USA, 3-6 November 2024.

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Hackathon on Lightweight IoT Security

Hackathon on Lightweight IoT Security

We are delighted to announce that Said Alvarado-Marin got the best demo award at the ICRA 2024 workshop on breaking swarm stereotypes in Yokohoma, Japan on 17 May 2024 for his demo about the DotBot..

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Another IEEE ISCC paper accepted!

Bit- and Symbol-Error Patterns of the IEEE 802.15.4 TSCH Mode. Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic, Michael Villnow. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 26-29 June 2024.

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IEEE ISCC paper accepted!

TMVS: Threshold-based Majority Voting Scheme for Robust SRAM PUFs. Sara Faour, Malisa Vucinic, Filip Maksimovic, David C. Burnett, Paul Muhlethaler, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer Pister. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, 26-29 June 2024.

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Interview with Danny Hughes

A new episod in the series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member. Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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Roderich Gross

Interview with Roderich Gross

A new episod in the series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member. Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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Paper accepted in IEEE Access journal!

Secure Communication for the IoT: EDHOC and (Group) OSCORE Protocols. Rikard Hoglund, Marco Tiloca, Goran Selander, John Preuss Mattsson, Malisa Vucinic, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Access, to appear in 2024.

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Jeroen Famaey

Interview with Jeroen Famaey

A new episod in the series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member. Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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Another CrystalFreeIoT paper accepted!

ABL: Leveraging Millimeter Wave Pulses for Low Latency IoT Networking, Bingwu Fang, Jonathan Oostvogels, Xinlei Liu, Andrey Belogaev, Sam Michiels, Danny Hughes, Jeroen Famaey, Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT), Hong Kong, 13-16 May 2024.

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Quentin Bey

Interview with Quentin Bey

A new episod in the series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member. Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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Another CrystalFreeIoT paper accepted!

Single-Chip Motes and SRAM PUF: Feasibility Study. Sara Faour, Blaz Korecic, Malisa Vucinic, Fil Maksimovic, David Burnett, Paul Muhlethaler, Thomas Watteyne. Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT), Hong Kong, 13-16 May 2024.

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CrystalFreeIoT paper accepted!

RobOTAP: Over-the-Air Programming of Robotic Swarms. Alexandre Abadie, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Malisa Vucinic, Thomas Watteyne. Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT), Hong Kong, 13-16 May 2024.

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Brian Coffey

Interview with Brian Coffey

A new video in the series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member. Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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IEEE NetRobiCS paper accepted!

Qrkey: Simply and Securely Controlling Swarm Robots. Alexandre Abadie, Malisa Vucinic, Diego Badillo, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS), Vancouver, Canada, 20 May, 2024.

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Ingeniarius

Ingeniarius

Ingeniarius, headquartered in Valongo, Portugal, is a pioneering small team with a significant impact in the realm of robotics and intelligent systems.

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IEEE WCNC paper accepted!

Performance Comparison of EDHOC and DTLS 1.3 in Internet-of-Things Environments. Geovane Fedrecheski, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21-24 April 2024

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IPSN’24 paper accepted!

“Twofer: Ambiguous Transmissions for Low-Latency Sensor Networks Facing Noise, Privacy and Loss” (J. Oostvogels, D. Hughes, S. Michiels)” was accepted at IPSN’24

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OpenSwarm workshop

Siemens Workshop

On 19 December 2023, OpenSwarm members of Siemens AG Germany have met for a hands-on workshop at the Siemens Campus in Erlangen.

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distrinet

Visit DistriNet

DistriNet is a team of over 90 researchers working on Distributed Systems, Security and Networking. We are part of the Computer Science department of KU Leuven, located in historic Leuven, Belgium.

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Mengyao Liu

SenSys demo accepted!

FreeBot: a Battery-Free Swarm Robotics Platform. Mengyao Liu, Fan Yang, Sam Michiels, Said Alvarado-Marin, Thomas Watteyne. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Istanbul, Turkey, November 13-15, 2023.

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Franz Zeilinger

Interview with Franz Zeilinger

In the coming months, we’ll be featuring a series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member in order to introduce them to you.

Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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Imec’s IDLab

Today, let’s visit imec’s IDLab, located in The Beacon innovation hub, an inspiring place and community for digital innovators in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Michael Villnow

Interview with Michael Villnow

In the coming months, we’ll be featuring a series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member in order to introduce them to you.

Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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Trifun S

WF-IoT 2023 paper accepted!

WELOC: Localizing Equipment in Marinas using Ultrasound. Trifun Savic, Keoma Brun-Laguna, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 12–27 October 2023, Aveiro, Portugal.

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IROS

IROS 2023 paper accepted!

Sharing the Control of Robot Swarms among Multiple Human Operators: A User Study. Genki Miyauchi, Yuri Kaszubowski Lopes, Roderich Gross. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USA, 1-5 October 2023.

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Micael Couceiro

Series of Interview

In the coming months, we’ll be featuring a series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member in order to introduce them to you.

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Trifun on IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things

DCOSS-IoT 2023 paper accepted!

Blip: Identifying Boats in a Smart Marina Environment. Trifun Savic, Keoma Brun-Laguna, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS-IoT), Workshop on Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things (ISIoT), Pafos, Cyprus, 19-21 June 2023.

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Series of Interview

In the coming months, we’ll be featuring a series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member in order to introduce them to you.

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IPSN 2023 poster accepted!

Poster Abstract: Hands-on Evaluation of Kinéis Satellite IoT Technology. Raúl de la Fuente, Thomas Watteyne. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), San Antonio, TX, USA, 9-12 May 2023.

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EuCloudEdgeIoT membership

EuCloudEdgeIoT membership SHARE We are happy to announce that OpenSwarm has joined EUCloudEdgeIoT, a community of 30+ European collaborative research projects.  EUCloudEdgeIoT coordinates a portfolio

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Kick-off Meeting!

Project Kick-off meeting SHARE 26-27 January – Inria Paris The project’s kick-off meeting took place in Paris on 26-27 January.  The event was hosted by

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