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Actuation systems for flight control systems, valves and hydraulic components.
HeartKinetics was created as a spin-off from the Cardiology department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in June 2019. The company is set up as the results of technology developed through ESA funded research (since 2009) on astronaut cardiac function monitoring in space. HeartKinetics’s vision is to make this technology widely available to patients suffering [...]
As we get older, it becomes increasingly difficult to see up close. Our eyes need to adjust every time to change between seeing close up and far away. This natural adaptation by the human lens is also called accommodation. The human lens loses elasticity with age which makes it more difficult to accommodate, reducing the [...]
ADGA RHEA took part in the seventh annual NATO Cyber Coalition 2014 (CC14) by providing a leading cyber security system to help exchange critical cyber information and promote a collective defense approach to cyber security. This four-day exercise was attended by over 650 participants who gathered together to test NATO’s ability to defend its networks [...]
Precision farming is set to become even more precise with a new camera drawing on satellite imaging. Together with VITO, and thanks to ESA research on new cameras, Cubert developed a hyperspectral camera connected to a drone. These cameras are now able to see details as small as 4–5 cm big. Three customers are already [...]
Read all about the most recent achievements of Caeleste, a Belgian success story supported by Verhaert.
The first European radiation hardened processor intended for hard real-time processing.
Test bench and numerical model for screening and acceptance of ball bearings.
Lambda-X, Belgian company with extensive expertise in vision and optical metrology, has developed a multifunctional microscope, which can be used both as a confocal scanning microscope (LCSM) with dual-wavelength fluorescence imaging and as a differential imaging contrast (DIC) microscope. What’s more, this high-performing microscope is very compact and has a low power consumption. Individual DIC [...]
ESAComp is software developed and supported by Componeering Inc., Finland, for analyzing and designing fiber-reinforced composites. Its scope ranges from conceptual and preliminary design of fiber-reinforced layered composite laminates structures to analyses of details of the mechanical and thermic properties. ESAComp is a stand-alone software tool, but thanks to its ability to interface with widely-used [...]
According to Wohlers Report 2016, the Additive Manufacturing (AM) industry grew from 25.9% CAGR to $5.165 billion in 2015. Furthermore, the AM industry revenue forecast by 2020 grew from 9 B$ to 21 B$ between Wholers Report 2013 and 2014. Lightweighting, more integration, topology optimization and customization are some of the key benefits from Additive [...]
Can you imagine a traditional drone entering a building? It could resemble a action-thriller feature film, with the propellors causing lethal damage or colliding with obstacles. But not with Fleye: this soccer ball-shaped flying robot carrying a high definition camera weighing less than half a kilogram. With its single rotor completely wrapped in a protective [...]
Online analyzer with algae as a test organism to monitor chronic and acute Ecotoxicological effects of discharged effluents.
Whole body vibration platform for training and physical rehabilitation.
Over the years, the application of in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) technologies in clinical diagnosis has evolved multifold. The global IVD market (segmented into diabetes, infectious diseases, oncology, cardiology, HIV/AIDS, autoimmune diseases, drug testing, nephrology, and other applications) is rising to 69 billion euros revenue by 2020. Rising incidences of chronic and infectious diseases and increasing healthcare [...]
This technology was developed by a Belgian company and technology provider that specializes in vibration control and has an extensive track record in both active and passive damping and anti-noise systems. The technology relies on avoiding perturbations being amplified by structural resonances by creating structural damping, and cancelling vibrations by generating a force opposite to [...]
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is a proven technique for material analysis in a broad range of industries and applications. The application possibilities go from positive material identification, scrap metal sorting, measuring sulfur in oil, analysis of coating thickness of metal finishing and metal alloys to quality control in the electronics and consumer goods industry. With a [...]
As medical diagnostics extensively use radiography, the driving force for the X-ray image sensor community is achieving the lowest possible dose for imaging. Furthermore, medical diagnostics would benefit greatly from true color X-ray imaging, as it could be more accurate. A low-cost and low-power X-ray photon counting detector has been developed with the highest possible [...]
An industrial optical engineering firm from Belgium has developed and patented the phase-shifting Schlieren method, filling a niche in the range of optical measurement techniques. This submicron method almost reaches the resolution achieved by interferometric systems, but avoids their inherent limitations (cost, environment insulation, sensitivity & limited shape steepness). It has a variable sensitivity, both [...]
VITO launches a hyperspectral camera comprising image processing and mapping software. VITO is a leading European independent research and technology organization, headquartered in Belgium. Their imaging solution can be used for agriculture monitoring, increasing production yields and reducing operational costs. VITO now wishes to transfer its technology to an end-to-end or a standalone solution. The [...]
European environmental agency legislation restrict companies in their urban wastewater treatment (91/27/EEC EC directive). One of the main principles of this directive is the necessary monitoring through specific parameters, analytical methods and sampling frequency. Member states are required to ensure that both discharges from wastewater treatment plants, and receiving waters are monitored. This applies, among [...]
A European wind turbine maker found itself with an emergency: their new clean-energy turbines were efficient, effective and state-of-the-art, but they were too loud. Fortunaly, ESA’s advanced Darwin planet-hunter study provided a smart answer: telescope mirror precision alignment technology. By using the same approach that keeps multiple telescope mirrors precisely aligned, Micromega Dynamics could cancel [...]
An imaging technology developed for space finds an application in a device for cell therapy.
A Belgian university research group frequently collaborating with ESA/NASA with a large body of knowledge in data processing algorithms, classification algorithms has developed advanced data mining techniques for automatic spacecraft status characterization. The tools were developed for novelty detection in large sets of telemetry parameters and derived parameters to be used in environments where automatic [...]
