Institute
of Computer Engineering
University
of Luebeck, Germany
Institute
The Institute of Computer Engineering at the University of Luebeck in Germany was founded and is being led by Prof. Erik Maehle, one of the founders and the treasurer of IRIANC. The main activities of the research groups of the institute are in the areas of
Parallel and fault-tolerant computing
Reconfigurable computing
Ubiquitous computing
Mobile robotics
In the area of parallel and fault-tolerant computing the focus is currently on distributed storage systems and their coding schemes. Dynamically reconfigurable coprocessors for network processors and high-performance processing nodes are the main subjects in the area of reconfigurable computing with special emphasis on NoCs for multi- and many-core systems. Wireless sensor networks for patient and environmental monitoring are studied by the ubiquitous computing group. Walking robots and underwater robots are investigated by the mobile robotics group. Special emphasis is there on organic principles to achieve robustness and fault tolerance by self-organization.
Research
Projects
The research projects of the institute are partly funded by the university and partly by various grants. Examples of recent projects funded by grants are given below.
DynaCore (Dynamically
Reconfigurable Coprocessor for
Network Processors)
since 2003, funded by
German Science
Foundation (DFG)
ORCA
(Organic Robot Control Architecture)
since
2005, funded by German Science Foundation (DFG)
WWR (Knowledge
Workshop Computing Systems)
2001 –
2004, funded by German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under
coordination
of the: University of Rostock, Germany
FSOE
(File System Offload Engine)
2004
- 2005, funded by IBM Research Lab Zurich
NGNP
(Next-Generation Network Processors)
2001
– 2003, funded by IBM Research Lab Zurich
Wireless
Patient Monitoring
since
2002, partly funded by the state of Schleswig-Holstein, DFG and
industry
partners
Director
Erik Maehle is Professor and Director of the
Institute of Computer Engineering at the University of Luebeck,
Germany, since
1994. He received his Diploma and Doctoral Degree in computer science
from the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1977 and 1982
respectively. After
subsequent positions as a postdoc at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
and the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg he became a Professor at the
Universities of
Augsburg in 1987 and Paderborn in 1989, respectively. He is a Member of
the
German Informatics Society (GI) and the German Chapter of the ACM as
well as
the IEEE
and the IEEE Computer Society.
In the German Informatics Society (GI) he is a
member of the Specialized Committee on Computer and System Architecture
ARCS
(Speaker 1992 - 1999), the Steering Committees of the German Special
Interest
Group on Parallel Processing PARS (Speaker 2001 – 2006) as well
as on
Fault-Tolerance and Dependability VerFe. In 2006 he was elected Speaker
of the Specialist
Area ‘Computer Engineering’ of the GI.
Professor Maehle is subject area editor of the
Journal on Microprocessors and Microsystems and member of the steering
committee for the IPDPS Workshop series DPDNS (Dependable Parallel,
Distributed
and Network-centric Systems). He has been PC Co-Chair of EDCC-3,
PC-Chair of
the PASA-Workshops 2002 and 2004 and the PARS-Workshops 2003 and 2005,
General
Chair of the EUROMICRO Conference 2007, PC Co-Chair of NCA08 and
Co-Chair of GI
Informatik 2009. Besides that he was a
member of numerous PCs of national and international conferences and
workshops.
In the course of his professional career
Professor Maehle has held the following distinguished positions:
-
Member of the board of directors of Heinz Nixdorf
Institute, Paderborn,
and Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing PC2 (1989-1994)
-
Visiting Scientist at IBM Research Lab Zurich (1992)
-
Dean of Faculty of Technical and Natural Sciences,
University of Luebeck
(1998-2000)
-
Visiting Scientist at IBM Research Lab Zurich (2001)
-
Member of Presidency of German Informatics Society (GI)
(since 2006)
-
Member of the Extended Executive Committee of GI (2008-2009)
Selected Recent
Publications
El Sayed Auf, A.; Dudek, N.; Maehle, E.: Hexapod
Walking as Emergent Reaction to
Externally Acting Forces. ROBOTICA
2009, 67-72, Castelo Branco, Portugal 2009, Best
Student Paper Award
Maas,
R.; Maehle, E.: Swarm based construction of large scale maze-like
environments. Second International Conference on Robot
Communication and
Coordination, 2009 ROBOCOMM 09, 1-6, IEEE, Odense, Denmark 2009
Osterloh,
C.; Litza, M.; Maehle, E.: Hard- and Software Architecture of a
Small
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Environmental Monitoring Tasks.
German
Workshop on Robotics 2009, 347-356, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg,
Braunschweig
2009
El
Sayed Auf, A.; Litza, M.; Maehle, E.: Distributed Fault-Tolerant
Robot
Control Architecture Based on Organic Computing Principles.
Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, 115-124, Springer,
Boston 2008
Hampel,
V.; Sobe, P.; Maehle, E.: Experiences with a FPGA-based
Reed/Solomon-encoding coprocessor. Microprocessors and Microsystems
32,
313-320, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2008
Jakimovski,
B.; Maehle, E.: Artificial Immune System Based Robot Anomaly
Detection
Engine for Fault Tolerant Robots. 5th International Conference on
Autonomic
and Trusted Computing (ATC-08), Oslo, Norway, 2008, 177-190, Springer,
Berlin,
Heidelberg 2008
Jakimovski,
B.; Meyer, B.; Maehle, E.: Swarm Intelligence for
Self-Reconfiguring Walking
Robot. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA,
IEEE
2008
Pionteck,
T.; Albrecht, C.; Koch, R,; Maehle, E,: Adaptive Communication
Architectures
for Runtime Reconfigurable System-on-Chips. Parallel Processing
Letters,
275-289, World Scientific Publishing, 2008
Pionteck,
T.; Albrecht, C.; Koch, R.; Maehle, E.: On the Design Parameters of
Runtime
Reconfigurable Systems. Proc. International Conference on Field
Programmable Logic and Applications (FPLA 2008), 683-686, IEEE Press
2008
Schmitt,
O.; Bethke S.; Sobe P.; Prehn S.; Maehle E.: Parallelized
segmentation of a
serially sectioned whole human brain. Image and Vision Computing,
Volume
26, Issue 2, 1 February 2008, 289-301, Elsevier, Inc, New York 2008