The Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) starts the project “FAST – Fast Actuators Sensors and Transceivers” tomorrow, 23 January 2014. More than 120 representatives of about 60 companies will participate at the two-day kick-off event at the TUD event hall at Dülferstraße. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research funds the project with a grant of € 45 million. A further sum of € 30 million will be contributed by the industry stakeholders.
The project “FAST – Fast Actuators Sensors and Transceivers” aims at improving the real time capacity of sensors and actors systems for better interactions between human beings and technical equipment. Examples for applications are an extremely fast automatic hazard braking, high-resolution radar for airplanes, interactive Exo-Skeletons, e.g. as walking aid and remote treatment of patients. Among the approaches for solving these challenges are e.g. extremely fast and energy efficient semiconductor technologies, very high operation frequencies, latency optimization of mobile communications and cloud computing.
Project coordinator is Prof. Frank Ellinger, who is also leader of the research path ”Carbon” in the TUD Cluster of Excellence “Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden” (cfaed). Furthermore, cfaed coordinator Prof. Gerhard Fettweis as well as cfaed investigators and TUD professors Dirk Plettemeier and René Schüffny are involved.
The initiative “Twenty20 – partnership for innovation” aims at strengthening the economic and scientific competencies in the federal states of Eastern Germany by encouraging interregional and interdisciplinary cooperation.

Further enquiries:
Prof. Dr. Frank Ellinger
Professur für Schaltungstechnik und Netzwerktheorie
Phone: +49 351 463 38735


Birgit Holthaus
cfaed-Pressereferentin
Phone: +49 351 463 42848