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Vertiports

The goal of the Vertiports project, funded by EFRO GTI West-Vlaanderen, is to develop a functional airlift (including workflow and test flights) from Ostend to a wind farm so that infrastructure inspection at sea can be carried out by an unmanned aircraft, as well as to goods transport to and from the wind farms with drones instead of vessels. The project focus will be on issues needed to establish an operational airlift: making drones fly further and longer (is hydrogen a valid energy source for drones?), making drones operate in all weather conditions (what works in rain and wind), and how can all this be done in a regulatory, safe and efficient manner? IPI's role in the project is to develop a hyperspectral payload and software workflow for measurements in the North Sea. EFRO, 1/2024 - 12/2026

MultipLICITY

The IMultiple Lasers and Integrated Cameras for Increasing Trustworthy Yields (MultipLICITY) project aims to address the challenges of 3D printing, which is used to create a variety of products, from car parts to medical implants and custom-made tools. Unfortunately, a sizable percentage of these components still show defects, caused by insufficiently sophisticated quality monitoring of the printing process. The MultipLICITY project aims to improve the quality of 3D printed products, reduce waste, and save energy. ICON project, 9/2022 - 8/2024

BoB

Building Information Modelling (BIM) allows making elaborate, information-rich models of building designs. However, there is no easy way yet to couple these models to what is actually happening on-site, during a construction. The BoB project aims to create a 2-way link between BIM models and the actual building, improving building efficiency and avoiding costly errors IPI researches camera networks and cross-modal 3D matching to link on-site camera images with 4D BIM models to estimate construction progress in highly challenging environments. ICON project, 1/2022 – 12/2023

HoloWrist

Holographic Skeletons for Wrist Surgery: The goal of HoloWrist is to use augmented reality to accurately show the location of a patient's wrist bones during surgery. This will be done by creating a hologram of the patient's wrist bones (e.g. from their CT scan) and using augmented reality headsets (e.g. Microsoft's HoloLens) to display the hologram on the patient's wrist. IPI's focus is on motion tracking to ensure the hologram is aligned to the patient throughout the surgery. FWO, 1/2022 – 12/2024

Flanders AI

Groundbreaking artificial intelligence research enabling a meaningful impact on people, industry and society. IPI researches real-time and power-efficient AI in the edge for various applications. National project (Flemish EWI), 7/2019 – present