====== Development of a Metric for the Evaluation of Different Hardware Platforms with Respect to a Safety-Critical Medical Application ======
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===== Motivation =====

In nowadays intensive medical care ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) became one of the most problematic disease patterns. Mortality rate for ARDS is still between 40 and 60 percent. A newer treatment option for this illness is the extracorporeal oxygenation. Here the patient is connected to an oxygenator. This device realizes a high percentage of the needed gas ex-change with the blood outside the human body. The lung is disencumbered during this procedure in order to have a chance to regenerate faster. The overall aim of the project SmartECLA is to optimize the used devices for the extracorporeal oxygenation according to the medical requirements and to develop a safety driven closed-loop control for this system. SmartECLA is part of a research network of 6 chairs out of 4 different faculties founded by the DFG.

===== Task =====

The control system to be established will need different kinds of sensors. In order to connect to all these different sensors it is planned to find a common hardware platform to implement the translation and forwarding on the data. It is the task of the described thesis to find a basis of valuation for the different kinds of hardware. In the end there shall be an exemplary implementation on one platform.\\
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  * Familiarize with the topic
  * Point out the requirements towards the hardware
  * Develop a metric with respect to the requirements
  * Comparison and evaluation of the different hardware platforms
  * Exemplary implementation
  * Documentation of the results

===== Goal =====

The aim of this thesis is to compare different hardware platforms and evaluate them objectively.

===== Fields of Study =====

  * Computer science, electrical engineering or comparable

===== Student =====

  * Fan Yang

===== Tutor =====

  * [[:en:lehrstuhl:mitarbeiter:stollenwerk]]