Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group

NEWSROOM (Adapting Cyber Awareness for Evolving Computing Environments). European Defence Fund (EDF). Dec 2023 - Nov 2026.

RE-ROUTE (integRated intElligent multi-modal tRanspOrt infrastrUcTurE: distributed localised decision-making at the network edge). EU Horizon Europe. Jan 2023 – Dec 2026.

OMDI (Oulu Medical Data Infrastructure). European Structural Funds - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Sep 2024 – Jul 2026.

Kansallisen turvallisuuskoulutuksen yhteistyöverkoston rakentaminen / National cybersecurity education cooperation network. Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö / Ministry of Education and Culture. Dec 2022 – Dec 2025.

Safe biomonitoring by bioICT integrated wearables. Infotech. Jan 2022 - Dec 2025.

CS-AWARE-NEXT (AI-based cybersecurity management for organisations and local networks). EU Horizon Europe. Jul 2022 – Jun 2025.

AeroPolis (Sustainable and autonomous carbon-neutral aerial ecosystems and energy solutions for future metropolises). Research Council of Finland. 2022 - 2024.

ADAPTINFA (Urban Environment and Climate Change in the Arctic: Data-driven Intelligence Approach to Multihazard Mitigation). Research Council of Finland. Jan 2022 - Dec 2024.

Tekoälyjärjestelmien haavoittuvuuksien testausalusta / Artificial intelligence vulnerabilities test platform. MATINE. Feb 2023 – Dec 2024.

TORQS (Towards reliable quantum software development approaches and use-cases). Business Finland. Jan 2023 – Dec 2024.

HTx (Next Generation Health Technology Assessment ). EU Horizon 2020. Dec 2018 - Jun 2024.

Suoritettava tietoturvasertifikaatti / Executable cybersecurity certificate. MATINE. 2022 - 2023.

CSI-COP (Citizen Scientists Investigating Cookies and App GDPR compliance). EU Horizon 2020 SwafS Research and Innovation Action. Jan 2020 - Aug 2023.

5GDrones (5G for Drone-based Vertical Applications). EU Horizon 2020 ICT-19-2019 Research and Innovation Action. Jun 2019 - Sep 2022.

HYFLIERS (HYbrid FLying-rollIng with-snakE-aRm robot for contact inSpection) EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action. Jan 2018 - Sep 2022.

ABIDI (Context-aware and Veracious Big Data Analytics for Industrial IoT) CHIST-ERA and Academy of Finland. Sep 2019 - Aug 2022.

Sensor Within: Harnessing Human Biology for Sensing Applications. Infotech. Jan 2018 - Dec 2021.

SECREDAS (Product Security for Cross Domain Reliable Dependable Automated Systems). ECSEL-JU (Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership, Joint Undertaking, Joint Undertaking). May 2018 - Oct 2021.

Low-carbon drone solutions utilisation models and introduction action recommendations (VED) EAKR. Aug 2019 - Jul 2021.

Arctiq DC (Arctic Datacenters). Jan 2019 - Jun 2021.

CS-AWARE A cybersecurity situational awareness and information sharing solution for local public administrations based on advanced big data analysis. Horizon 2020. Sep 2017 - Dec 2020.

Garbot Utilizing robotics and AI for material recycling. EAKR. Jun 2017 - Feb 2020.

GeoBot Robotics for geopolymer material research and manufacturing. EAKR. Nov 2018 - Dec 2019.

EAKR Labrobot EAKR. Sep 2016 - Oct 2019.

Situation Awareness in Information and Cyber Security (SAICS). Academy of Finland. Jul 2014 – Jun 2016.

European Robotics Research Network EURON. EU- FP6 Network of Excellence.

Minotaurus (Human-machine interaction in intelligent sensor network). EU Regional Development Fund ERDF. Jan 2009 – Dec.2012.

XPRESS (fleXible PRoduction Experts for reconfigurable aSSembly technology).

ROBOSWARM (Knowledge Environment for Interacting ROBOt SWARMs). Nov 2006 – Apr 2009.

€-Confidential. ITEA. Sep 2006 - Mar 2009.

SAMURAI (Smart Archive: Management, Utilization and stoRAge of continuously measured Information). Tekes. Nov 2006 – Feb 2008.

PROTOS Genome. 2004 – 2007.

PROTOS (Security Testing of Protocol Implementations). MATINE. 2002 – 2003.

SIOUX (Intelligent system for dynamic online quality control of spot welding processes for cross-sectoral applications). EU-FP6. Oct 2002 – Oct 2004.

VALTA (VALssauksen TArkentaminen). Jan 2002 - Feb 2004.
Hi-TechSteel. Tekes. Jan 1999 – Dec 2002.

PROTOS (Security Testing of Protocol Implementations). Tekes. 1999 - 2001.

RoboCup (Experiments on Reactive Control Architecture). Jan 1996 – Dec 1998.

RockEU2. Horizon 2020.

ReBorn. EU-FP7.

euRathlon EU-FP7, Horizon 2020.

SOCRATE (Exploiting Social Structure for Cooperative Mobile Networking). WiFiUS programme, Tekes / Business Finland.

GlobalRF (Global RF Spectrum Opportunity Assessment). WiFiUS programme, Tekes / Business Finland.

INCA. Academy of Finland.

Cyber Trust. Tekes.

SIMP (System Integrated Metal Processes). Tekes.

MOPO. EAKR. Tekes.

PROB2E (Probability Predictions to Production Efficiency). Tekes.
Impress.

FRONTIER-COMPAT (inferring causal relationships in complex systems). Tekes.

Adaptive And Intelligent Systems Applications. Tekes.

CRS (3D color range scanner). Tekes.

MOVE. Academy of Finland.

Evolutionary active materials. Academy of Finland.

PROTOS-MATINE. MATINE.

FRONTIER-RIDAC.

ROSEMAN (RObots SErving huMANs).

Classification Of Melanocytic Lesion With Machine Vision.

Psoriasis Area Assessment With Machine Vision.

Standardisation

BISG is active in a number of standardisation initiatives.

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27, whose activities include information security management systems, cryptographic and security mechanisms, security evaluation, testing and specification, security controls and services as well as identity management and privacy technologies.

ISO/TC 299, which has working groups on topics such as personal care robot safety, and modularity for service robots.

Collaborative initiatives

Remarkable international activities with BISG visibility other than research projects (see the Projects section) and standardisation include the following:

SPARC robotics PPP, a Public-Private Partnership between the European Commission, and European industry and academia to facilitate the growth and empowerment of the robotics industry and value chain, from research through to production.

euRobotics aisbl (association internationale sans but lucratif = non-profit) is a Brussels based international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics. euRobotics builds upon the success of the European Robotics Technology Platform (EUROP) and the academic network of EURON, and will not only continue the cooperation but will also strengthen the bond between members of these two community driven organisations. Thus, leading towards the establishment of only one sustainable organisation for the European robotics community as a whole.

Centre for Advanced Steel Research (CASR), a national centre of expertise focusing on the chemical, mechanical and physical metallurgy of steels, including control and information engineering and modelling.

Cooperating universities and industry partners

BISG collaborates with universities in Europe and worldwide, as well as with national and multi-national industry partners.

BISG's research activity has spun off more than ten several enterprises, also acknowledged internationally, including:

• IndoorAtlas, the world's first company to utilize magnetic anomalies inside buildings and smartphones to pinpoint positions indoors. The company was founded in 2012.
• Probot, a high-tech robot company with the vision to transfer results of research world to the end-users and real world applications. The company was founded in 2006.
• Aquamarine Robots, which offers robotic vessels based aquatic information system to collect, store and visualize relevant information from freshwater and mining environments. The company was founded in 2013.
• Codenomicon produces state-of-the-art black-box, negative testing solutions for improving the quality of software implementation. Founded in 2002, Codenomicon found in 2015 the Heartbleed Bug from OpenSSL (the bug affected about two thirds of all the WWW-servers on the Internet, also SSL-VPNs, network appliances and wide variety of client-side software).
• Clarified Networks is a company specialized in providing the collaborative networks analysis tools and services to make modern networks secure and robust.
• Nelilab operates in applications of mathematics to improve products or the efficiency of production processes.
• Atomia is a company aiming to decrease the costs of mass manufactured electronics design, reduce the cycle time of electronic design and make the design easier for people who don't have years of experience in specialized electronics field.
• Indalgo is an industrial process optimization algorithm development and software provider.
• Hearth Signal.
• Nose Laboratory.

If you are looking for a BISG thesis supervisor, you can find our research topics from the list of Eligible supervisors (scroll down the page to reach at its bottom the list) for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). You may contrast the supervisors list with the BISG Group Members list to select your BISG supervisor.

Please, visit the Computer Science and Engineering Degree Programme page about practicalities related to the preparation of your thesis.

Our group offers the following courses:

Teachers' contact details can be found from the study guide page (see above course links). See also the BISG Group Members page.

If you have a proposal or inquiry, contact our unit leader Juha Röning, juha.roning (at) oulu.fi

To contact other group members, see the Group Members page.

Our postal address is

Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group

P.O. Box 4500

FI-90014 University of Oulu

Finland

BISG research premises are located mainly on the third floor of Tietotalo building of the Linnanmaa campus, but the Robotics lab is on the first floor (street level), room TS139. For both, the entrance at street level is through door E.

See more detailed instructions and maps.

The street address of Tietotalo is:

Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 3, Oulu.