Projects

Collaborative Research Center 1608

CONVIDE: Consistency in the View-Based Development of Cyber-Physical Systems

Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as cars, airplanes, or smart home systems integrate computational processes with physical processes. These CPS comprise of many electronic, mechanical, and software-controlled components, posing difficult challenges for the design of such complex systems. Not only is there a need for modern CPS to be highly dependable, configurable, and flexible. At the same time, these systems can only function if all parts interact seamlessly. As a result, individual developers find it increasingly difficult to control the complexity of modern CPS, even at an abstract architectural level. For this reason, so-called “views” of the system – sub-models that are specific to the developer’s task – are used during development. 

Collaborative Research Center 1625

CCSS - Atomic-scale understanding and design of multifunctional compositionally complex solid solution surfaces

Compositionally complex solid solutions (CCSS) comprising five or more different elements mixed in a simple single-phase crystal structure provide conceptually unique, highly promising prospects in important scientific and technological areas, where the surface dominates properties such as – and ultimately not limited to –electrocatalysis and corrosion, crucial for future sustainable energy conversion systems.