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SElf-Adaptive and Automated LEARNing Framework for Smart Sensors

Project description

Making sensors smart enough to help make Europe greener and more digital

The EU is undergoing an ambitious green and digital transition, which is being advanced by smart sensor technology. Used mainly in aerospace, aviation, defence and industrial and agricultural sectors, smart sensors are expected to play a crucial role in the new green and digital European era, despite the challenges. For instance, while it’s possible to extract information from sensor data, it is not sufficient to ensure solutions for consumer and industrial applications. In this context, the EU-funded SEA2Learn project will develop energy-efficient and real-time mechanisms to adapt the inference capabilities of resource-constrained smart sensors based on the stimulus from the surrounding environment.

Objective

Smart Sensors are key components for the upcoming Green and Digital European era. Recently, novel emerging electronics components – such as high energy-efficient many-core application processors featuring a power consumption of few tens of mWs – have enabled high-accurate on-device inference capabilities, i.e. Deep Learning inference, to extract high-level information from sensor data. However, this technology improvement is not sufficient to ensure robust solutions suitable for consumer and industrial applications. The main issue comes from the wide variety in real-world test conditions and, consequently, the lack at design-time of representative (labelled) sensor data, needed to train DL inference networks. For this reason, the currently used “train-once-and-deploy-everywhere” design process for edge intelligence has proved to be weak, even after an endless cyclic procedure involving data collection, model training and in-field testing.
This limitation is addressed by the SEA2Learn project by developing energy-efficient and real-time mechanisms to adapt the inference capabilities of resource-constrained smart sensors based on the stimulus from the surrounding environment. The proposed strategy, which is unprecedent in this domain, aims at placing in the same training loop multiple smart sensor nodes that interact with a Learning Agent. The latter will leverage a new class of lightweight methods belonging to the Continual Learning (CL) domain operating on unlabelled multi-sensor data. Thanks to the envisioned SEA2Learn framework, the embedded intelligence can adapt over time based on real-world data, making the design process more robust and 10-100x faster than today. To realize this vision, the fellow’s expertise in HW/SW design for embedded machine learning will be complemented by the Continual Learning knowledge of the hosting research group at KU Leuven and enriched by a tight collaboration with an SME that manufactures IoT platforms for edge computing.

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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships

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Coordinator

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
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€ 175 920,00
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OUDE MARKT 13
3000 Leuven
Belgium

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Region
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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