News System- und Rechnerarchitektur2026-07-13T23:10:18.327653+02:00New research project SatelLight-R at Smart Sensors Groupurn:news-2026-satellight-r2026-07-01It's summer time and we kick-off our new SatelLight-R project, where we continue our successful collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin to advance research towards future optical satellite systems. Building on our previous work SatelLight, we will develop and evaluate new concepts for resilient optical satellite buses based on optical wireless communication (LiFi). The project combines expertise in optical communication, embedded systems, and simulation-based system analysis to explore secure, energy-efficient, and high-performance solutions for future space applications. Marek Jahnke from the Smart Sensors Group will continue contributing to the project within the scope of his PhD research: Go for it Marek!]]>Strong participation at IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2026 in Reykjavikurn:news-2026-dcoss2026-06-29The Smart Sensors Group contributed four accepted papers to the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2026) in Reykjavik, Iceland. The contributions covered main conference full paper At the Edge of the Heart: ULP FPGA-Based CNN for on-Device Cardiac Feature Extraction in Smart Health Sensors for Astronauts related to our project KORVEKSiS, one paper at HIEMI Workshop From Sound to Species: A Modular Acoustic Sensor for Biodiversity Monitoring related to BioDivKI2, as well as Poster contribution on new research idea on POSTER: Discrete Wavelets as Zero-Parameter Front-End for Near-Sensor Cardiac-Interval Estimation from Seismocardiography and a Demo on DEMO: Real-Time Bird Detection with a Modular Acoustic Sensing Platform which has attracted a great deal of attention. The presented work reflects the group’s ongoing research on energy-efficient, reliable, and intelligent sensing solutions for challenging environments: From space applications to biodiversity monitoring at the edge.]]>Yannick Loeck presented his research at ACM SenSys 2026 in Saint-Malourn:news-2026-sensys2026-05-14ACM SenSys 2026 in Saint-Malo, Yannick Loeck presented his research paper Short Paper: Simulation-Based Performance Characterization of Common NOR Flash File Systems, which received very positive feedback from the community. The encouraging discussions and responses motivates us to further deepen our research into reliable yet efficient file systems for resource-constrained and highly reliable systems such as space platforms and CubeSats.]]>Teaching in up-coming summer semester 2026urn:news-2026-teachingSS2026-03-06In the upcoming summer semester SS26, we will again offer interesting courses. The 'classic' lecture Smart Sensors for master students as well as our highlight Grundlagen Raumfahrtelektronik for bachelor students are on the List. Two additional Seminare on the topics of RIOT OS and GPU Programming complete the teaching activities.]]>THHORs BOLT Participates in Student Training Week at Esrange Space Centerurn:news-2026-rexus_ko2026-01-30This week, THHORs BOLT from Hamburg Space Team e.V. as part of our CubeSat LAB, participated in a student training week at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The team was accompanied by Marek Jahnke, who joined the trip as a supervising PhD candidate. During the training week, the team worked on the further development of their LiFi experiment. Within the campaign we will investigate and exploit results from SatelLight, e.g. optical communication approaches for future space applications. The experiment will fly on REXUS 37, a suborbital research rocket as part of the 17th cycle of the REXUS/BEXUS programme. The programme is organised by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Swedish National Space Agency, the European Space Agency (ESA), as well as SSC Space and ZARM. Many thanks for the trust and this great opportunity!]]>Teaser Video of our Teaching Project EduSaturn:news-2025-sih_video2025-12-04In the summer and on behalf of Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, we had a visit from BewegtBildBüro Ohlendorf, who created a nice video about our work in our EduSat teaching innovation project. The result can be seen on YouTube. Feel free to share it with all interested students! In the long term, we have the ambitious plan to establish the field of space electronics here in Hamburg and open up the TUHH for all motivated students interested in space technology. Many thanks to Yannick Loeck and our students from the CubeSat LAB, as well as to THHOR/Space Team e.V. for their continuous support in making great things happen!]]>Back in Bordeaux - 2nd Parabolic Flight for ARTIFACTSurn:news-2025-artifacts22025-10-31The Smart Sensors Group at Hamburg University of Technology is back in Bordeaux for the 45th DLR Parabolic Flight Campaign, continuing their ARTiFACTS research on how gravity affects seismocardiogram (SCG) signals to advance astronaut health monitoring. Led by Ulf Kulau, the team collaborates with Bielefeld University to conduct experiments in microgravity. The data we collect as part of the campaign is extremely valuable for our DFG project KORVEKSiS. It enables us to derive new models for compensated location vectors. Many thanks to DLR and Novespace for their outstanding support of our Research.]]>Two more accepted publications by Marek Jahnkeurn:news-2025-wisee2025-10-15This week, Marek Jahnke is at IEEE WISEE 2025 in Halifax, presenting his publication Light Simulation Framework for the Optimization of Spatial Structures for Intra-Satellite LiFi-Communication. At the same time, his journal paper Implementation and Evaluation of CSBM for Intra-Satellite Communication with Cuboid-Based Signal-Space generated Symbols has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification. This is a fantastic result from the work carried out as part of our SatelLight project together with TU Berlin. Congratulations to Marek and a great achievement by the whole team.]]>Radiation Test of SpacePatch and ISFDurn:news-2025-radnext2025-10-05This week, the Smart Sensors Group had the privilege to take part in an exceptional experiment at HollandPTC, conducted within the framework of the RADNEXT initiative. The main goals of our experiment were 1) Observing the radiation resilience of SpacePatch, our SCG sensor system designed for astronaut health monitoring and 2) Validating the ISFD mechanism in FPGAs for Single Event Upset (SEU) detection. Both experiments were successfully carried out under a proton beam environment. Huge thanks to our PhD researchers Kazi Mohammad Abidur Rahman and Lucas Bublitz for their excellent planning and flawless execution of the experiment, and to HollandPTC, with special appreciation to Thomas Toet and Dr. rer. nat. Nils Krah, for their excellent support. We are also grateful to RADNEXT for providing this invaluable opportunity.]]>Teaching in up-coming winter semester 2025/2026urn:news-2025-teachingWS2025-09-23In the upcoming winter semester WS25, we will again offer interesting courses. The lecture Energieeffizienz in eingebetteten Systemen and two Seminare on the topics of recent topics in machine learning, and sensors under space conditions. Another interesting course will be Research Based Learning. Seats are limited, please read the comments on the websites.]]>Our CubeSat LAB featured in NDR report: Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre feiert Jubiläumurn:news-2025-ndr2025-09-18To mark the anniversary of the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, NDR Hamburg Journal produced a report in which our CubeSat LAB was also featured. Many thanks to NDR for the wonderful presentation of our work, and we hope that we will be able to further expand teaching at the TUHH in the field of space electronics in the future. The report is available in the ARD media library here.]]>Davis Rakhshan joined our Group as new Doctoral Researcherurn:news-2025-davis2025-09-01Davis Rakhshan joined the Smart Sensors group as Doctoral Researcher with the 1st of September. He will strengthen our research team and will work on the very exciting project BioDivKI2. Welcome, Davis!]]>DLR released Mission Video for PLUTOurn:news-2025-plutovideo2025-08-20The DLR released a very nice video that illustrates the PLUTO mission. Furthermore, the video shows nice insights to the architecture and components of the Satellite. We are proud and feel very honored that we are part of this great mission with our RISA experiment. Video can be found here and many thanks to our partners from DLR Bremen.]]>
