A co-designed hardware/software architecture for augmented materials

  • Authors:
  • Simon Dobson;Kieran Delaney;Kafil Mahmood Razeeb;Sergey Tsvetkov

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University College, Dublin, IE;Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, IE;Tyndall National Institute, Cork, IE;Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin, IE

  • Venue:
  • MATA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Recent advances in materials, sensing, power harvesting, context-awareness and miniaturisation have opened-up the possibility of constructing materials that directly include considerable computing power. We present an architecture for the hardware/software co-design of such “augmented” materials that allows designers to address the links between the physical and informational properties of artefacts. The architecture is highly modular in terms of sensor, communications, power and processing capabilities, and utilises an advanced semantically well-founded software model.