| 2006 |
High-Availability Automation
Networks |
| 2005 |
Substation Automation
Synthesizer (Synthy) |
| 2003 | Body-in-White Performance Tracking with Industrial IT |
| 2002 | Building Automation, Visitor Management |
| 2001 | Control Architecture for a hybrid micro-turbine. |
| 2000
1998 |
Development for ABB Industry, Printing, of a new architecture
for printing
machines (customer MAN),
development of the field bus interface (hardware, software and associated tools) between MAN and ABB parts of the control system |
| 1998
1996 |
Application Subgroup Leader in the 5th European Telematics
Application
Programme (Transport Sector),
definition of data communication over Internet to rail vehicles in collaboration with the Swiss NEPESM project. |
| 1995
1994 |
Expert in the European project EUROCAB-ETCS (DG IV):
Definition and specification of the architecture for safe on-board data transmission in an heterogeneous environment with several European firms. |
| 1999
1989 |
Participation in the Train Communication Network of the International Electrotechnical Commission. Writing of the specifications, tutorials, engineering, project editor, technical advisor, Swiss representative in IEC TC9 WG22. |
| 1988 | Participation in the Alphorn project (middleware based on Resilient Remote Procedure Calls): programming in Modula-2, documentation, tutorials. Collaboration with EPFL (LIT, Prof. Nussbaumer) on Manufacturing Messaging Specifications (MMS) |
| 1987 | Specification of a new modular process control architecture based on multiprocessors (P216) for ABB Industry. |
| 1986 | PhD Thesis on fault-tolerant computing at ETH-Zurich
(A Method for the Design of Embedded Fault-Tolerant Computers for Process Control and a Design Example) |
| 1985 | Development of a fault-tolerant controller for HVDC-power transmission control (Blackwater project), specification and hardware design. |
| 1984 | Specification of the BBC-proprietary parallel bus B448 for Industry and Grid Automation (still in use in protection devices and in drive control in 2002). |
| 1983 | Hardware-development of a tightly-coupled multiprocessor (POOLPO) |
| 1982 | Development of a Z80-macro-assembler for the CALM language in Pascal for EPFL. |
| 1981 | Participation in EWICS/IEEE Futurebus (IEEE 896) standardisation, specification of the serial inter-processor link. |
| 1980 | Development of a small, Z-80/Mubus based computer for education in BBC (used in apprentice workshop). |
| 1979 | Study of fault-tolerant architectures for Brown Boveri & Cie Industry (ESL) |