Administrative services

Centre D'Excellence En Technologies De L'Information Et De La Communication (CETIC)

Logistic & Process Optimisation: Provide expertise on how to address large scale logistic, scheduling, and other combinatorial optimisation problems using constraint-based local search. CETIC has developed a routing optimization algorithm called RoutaR. It is based on the oscar.cbls optimization engine and on GraphHopper cartography. Both are open source. Method Description: It inputs a routing problem, expressed in a Json file format. It typically contains a set of geographic locations, a description of a fleet of vehicles and a set of constraints. It produces a routing solution; a planning of each vehicle of the considered fleet that mentions their tasks and geographic locations Method reference: https://www.cetic.be/RoutaR-outil-de-planification-performant-et-facilement-adaptable

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Angewandten Forschung Ev (Fraunhofer)

**Who Can Benefit:** - Robotics Companies: For testing and validating social robots and speech-enabled systems in realistic clinical environments before market entry. - AI & NLP Developers: For evaluating natural language interfaces on physical robotic platforms in real healthcare workflows. - Healthcare Institutions: For assessing how robotic systems perform in their specific clinical contexts before committing to procurement. - Research Groups: For conducting HRI studies in controlled yet realistic hospital settings with access to clinical staff and infrastructure. **Equipment / Robotics Platforms:** - SoftBank Robotics Pepper humanoid social robot designed for increased engagement with the patient via expressive upper body mechanics. - Temi mobile service robot designed for telepresence, guidance, and information delivery as well as conversational interactions. **Key Features:** - Access to a dedicated Real-Lab (Reallabor) providing hardware and clinical test environments for evaluating robotic systems in healthcare settings - Testing of NLP/speech-enabled robots in realistic clinical workflows with actual healthcare personnel - Evaluation infrastructure for both controlled laboratory experiments and in-situ ward-level assessments - Multi-disciplinary support combining robotics engineering, clinical expertise, and social science perspectives **Possible Applications:** - Ward Assistant Robot Testing: Evaluating mobile robots designed to support nursing staff with logistics, information delivery, or patient guidance in realistic hospital corridors and wards. - Speech Interface Validation: Testing natural language dialogue systems on robotic platforms in noisy, dynamic clinical environments to assess robustness and usability. - Staff Relief Assessment: Quantifying the cognitive, physical, and time-based relief potential of robotic systems for medical personnel through structured pilot studies. - Patient Interaction Evaluation: Assessing how patients (across age groups, health conditions, and tech literacy) respond to and interact with social robots in clinical settings. - Workflow Integration Testing: Evaluating how robotic systems integrate into existing clinical workflows without disruption, including edge cases and failure scenarios. - Multi-Robot Coordination: Testing multiple robotic systems operating simultaneously in shared clinical spaces. **Who We Are:** The **Fraunhofer Insitute for Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer IIS)** has established the **"Center for Sensor Technology and Digital Medicine" (CEMDIS)** in cooperation with the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) to enhance modern healthcare through **innovative sensor technology** and **digital solutions**. This center focuses on integrating **innovative medical technologies** such as **wearables** and **robotic systems** to support **medical diagnostics**, **patient monitoring** and **evaluating patient-specific therapies** by providing digital health solutions für real-life healthcare. Located at the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, it offers unique infrastructures for the **development**, **integration**, and **validation** of novel health technologies, providing companies opportunities for **technological advancements**. For more information, visit the [Fraunhofer IIS website](https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/de/ff/sse/health/zentrum-sensorik-medizin.html).

Centre D'Excellence En Technologies De L'Information Et De La Communication (CETIC)

Hospital processes optinisation. CETIC offers its expertise in the field of data management, process simulation, and other innovative expertise that could best optimize the multiple flows related to processes in a hospital, such as the sterilization process. The idea is to build a simulation model of the centralized shared sterilization process based on existing data from several hospitals in order to test and optimize the sizing of the future process. How can the service help you? This service provides a simulation service of sterilization facilities, to evaluate the sizing and robustness of such facilities against the expected flow of trays to sterilize. How the service will be delivered? The service will be delivered by first collecting relevant input data, which includes the medical tool documentation (detailing the description of medical tool sets exported from the sterilization software) and activity data (providing traceability of the passage of sets within the sterilization department). Additionally, data representing the sterilization facility and its environment, such as transportation logistics (e.g., by trucks if applicable), will be gathered. Once the input data is collected, a series of scenarios will be simulated to assess the performance and capacity of the sterilization facility. These simulations will validate investment decisions by providing key performance indicators, including the occupancy rate and overall performance of the facility under various operating conditions. Method reference: Discrete event simulation