CeTI „Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop”
The federal excellence initiative "CeTI - Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop" (spokesperson: Prof. Frank Fitzek) focuses on efficient collaboration between humans and machines in real and virtual worlds. The overarching goal is to enable people to interact with cooperating cyber-physical systems (CPS) in the real or virtual world in quasi real time.
Demonstrator of a glove with finger tracking and optical feedback
As part of the CeTI federal excellence initiative, the ITM focuses primarily on the research and development of technological solutions for multimodal functionalized e-textiles as an interface between humans and (virtual) machines.
Two fundamental concepts are being pursued and evaluated in order to record status information from the human body as precisely and with as little latency as possible and to provide situation-specific haptic, acoustic and/or visual feedback:
- function-optimized textile substrates with structure-integrated electrical supply systems that act as a basic structure for sensory/actuator/energy-providing functionalization using film-based bendable and/or ultra-small electrical transducer systems,
- fiber-based sensor and actuator systems that are integrally incorporated into the textile carrier structure, electrically contacted and efficiently combined with other data evaluation and energy supply systems.
The ITM of TU Dresden is significantly involved in the following sub-projects:
- U3: Internet of Competencies
- K3: Extended perception
- TP2: Sensors & actuators
- SP4: Flexible Electronics
Further information can be found at: www.ceti.one