Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA)
The main mission of IEETA is to put the expertise of its members at the service of the development of Intelligent Systems for Human Assistance, helping solving problems in several domains of knowledge. This is a trend that IEETA has started several years ago and that now, more than ever, is a crucial goal, not only because of an aging society, but also because several threats, such as those due to environmental changes or the direct and intentional human action, may create catastrophic scenarios that require monitoring, surveillance, patrolling and assistance.
Two major areas contribute to this mission which are mapped into two of the three research groups of IEETA, namely, BIT (Biomedical Informatics and Technologies) and IRIS (Intelligent Robotics and Systems). The third group, ISP (Information Systems and Processing), contributes to both fronts as a catalyst, by providing expertise in areas such as computational intelligence, high performance algorithms, augmented and virtual reality, large scale information systems, security, and signal and image processing.
IEETA contributes with solutions with the aim of increasing the life expectancy of the human population. This is at the core of BIT, that contributes to the areas of bioinformatics, e-health networks and services, speech processing, multi-modal brain signal, sensing of physiological and environment variables, and imaging analysis. On the other hand, solutions are developed with the aim that those living longer will be assisted appropriately in their daily activities, throughout their lives. This is provided mostly by IRIS, that contributes to the areas of multi-agent/multi-robot systems, both in terms of coordination and cooperation, in artificial cognitive modeling and computer vision, and in intelligent living/working support systems that are able to interact with humans.
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Address:
Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Informática de Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago 3810-193 Aveiro – Portugal
Contacts:
E-mail: ieeta@ua.pt
Tel.: +351 234 370 500