The research of this team is focused on hardware enablers to realize physically personal devices with compliant and modular solutions, which are easy to use, comfortable to wear, reliable and cost effective. Work is done mainly in the physical user interface components including the housing of the device. The applications will be mobile device enhancements, which user can freely select and combine with other modules. The results can be applied in wearable products as well as in handheld mobile communication devices.

Research topics

• New mobile device concepts and form factors
• Physically soft and flexible electronic, electro-mechanical and mechanical components
• New user interface hardware modules
• Modular mobile device architectures
• Short range wireless communication technology implementation
• Privacy and sharing mode adaptable user interfaces

Publications

Zhicheng Deng, Wei Wang, "A Distributed Coordination System for Modular Reconfigurable Robots", WMCNR 2008 (Wireless Multihop Communications in Networked Robotics ), Berlin, Germany, April 4, 2008.

Xingyu Zhang, Anping Zhao and Junhong Wang, "Research on the characteristics of flexible antennas for general application ", 2008 ICMMT (International Conference on Microwave and Millimeterwave Conference), Nanjing, China, April 21-24, 2008.

Zhicheng Deng, Tom Xue, Huayu Cao, Wei Wang, "Realization of A Bluetooth Network-Based Multi-Module System", WMSCI 2008 (World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics ), Orlando, USA, July 1, 2008

Chenguang Cai, Quayle Chen, Dujuan Zeng, Fei Deng, Antti Salo, Leon Xu, Finite Element Based Design Optimization of Exciting Efficiency for Micromachined Piezoelectric Transducer, accepted by 2nd Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems International Conference & Exhibition , June 3-5, 2008, Hong Kong, China.

Teng Ma, Chenguang Cai, Limei Xu, Leon Xu , Wang Xia, Jian Ma, Chuankai Qiu, "Design and Simulation of Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Actuators for Audio Directional Loudspeakers", accepted by 2nd Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems International Conference & Exhibition, June 3-5, 2008, Hong Kong, China.

Min Chen, Leon Xu, Yang Cao, Limei Xu, Ying Wang, Xuesheng Li, Jian Ma, "Research on an Improved Amplitude Modulation Method of Audio Directional Loudspeaker", 2008 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, July 7-9, 2008, Shanghai, China.

Ying Wang, Limei Xu, Min Chen, Xuesheng Li, Leon Xu, Cao Yang, Jian Ma, "The nonlinear distortion of directional loudspeaker", 2008 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing , July 7-9, 2008, Shanghai, China.

Liwei Yang, Limei Xu, Leon Xu, Antti Salo, "Novel Power Management of Audio Beam System with Specific Corrugated Loudspeaker", International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, July 7-9, 2008, Shanghai, China.

Collaborators

Tsinghua University

University of Electronics Science and Technology China

Contact

Antti Salo, Team Leader

Team members

Quyale Chen | Chunli Jing | Bin Wang | Leon Xu | Jian Xu | Tom Xue | Anping Zhao | Chenguang Cai | Huayu Cao | Zhicheng Deng