Aalto University

Aalto university team has extensive experience on advanced radar systems such as fully adaptive cognitive radars and MIMO radars, sensor array signal processing and multiantenna communications. Aalto’s main contributions will be in the broad topic areas of waveform design and optimization in ISAC, transmitter and receiver adaptation, resource allocation in multifunction systems, multiantenna signal processing, and radio frequency machine learning for ISAC, in particular reinforcement learning. Aalto will contribute mainly to WP1 and WP2 and implicitly to WP3 via the Machine Learning related work in WP2. The detailed topics include (i) adaptive waveform design, (ii) multi-functional JCAS Network Intelligence and (iii) co-design of communications and sensing for mutual benefit with shared waveforms, spectrum and hardware resources.

Bosch

As a leading player in different vertical industries, including the automotive and industrial domains, BOSCH is exploring and driving the usage of integrated sensing and communication and the possible role of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in future mobility and factory scenarios. BOSCH participates in all work packages and leads WP 4 on “Demonstrations, Simulations and KPI / KVI Evaluations”.

BOSCH will also ensure a close alignment of the activities in INSTINCT with other related developments in organizations like 3GPP, ETSI, 5G-ACIA and 5GAA.

CentreSupelec

• WP1: CS-UPS will contribute to the modelling and evaluation of metasurfaces, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and holographic surfaces with integrated communication and sensing capabilities, via mathematical analysis and numerical simulations (link-level and system-level studies).
• WP2: CS-UPS will contribute to the understanding the fundamental performance limits and to design of the corresponding algorithms for RIS, which will be endowed with JCAS capabilities to ease their deployment and reduce the control overhead for their operation in wireless networks. CS-UPS will contribute to the mathematical modelling and optimization of holographic surfaces by means of physically-consistent models for communication and will study the corresponding signal processing methods for achieving the performance limits.
• WP3: CS-UPS will contribute to the performance evaluation and optimization of reconfigurable intelligent surface with reduced deployment overhead thanks to their JCAS capabilities. Focus will be put on link-level and system-level studies in the presence in multi-user multi-surface network environments. CS-UPS will contribute to the development of joint mathematical and machine learning methods to design efficient orchestration algorithms.
• WP4: CS-UPS will contribute to the definition of the scenarios and to the stochastic geometry analysis of JCAS in large-scale wireless networks.
• WP5: CS-UPS will contribute to the dissemination of the research results of the project through publications in journal papers, conference proceedings, and technical presentations and tutorials, as well as to the contribution of the project findings in ETSI.

Fraunhofer HHI

Fraunhofer HHI will contribute to the technical work packages 1, 2 and 4, focusing on the topic of wideband JCAS at mmW frequencies. It leads WP1 as well as T4.3.

• WP1: Contributions to the definition of the system architecture for JCAS at mmWave frequencies, channel and sensing measurements at mmWave frequencies
• WP2: design and implement algorithms and waveforms particularly suitable for broadband JCAS at mmW carrier frequencies, analyse RF transceiver impairments to investigate limitations and requirements for broadband mmW JCAS
• WP4: lead the RIS-aided wideband JCAS demonstration in T4.3, contributing with wideband transceiver equipment, setting up the demonstrator and performing the measurements in laboratory and real-world environments

Greenerwave

Greenerwave, established in 2016, is a deeptech company co-founded by researchers Geoffroy Lerosey and Mathias Fink, originating as a spin-off from the Langevin Institute affiliated with CNRS and ESPCI-PSL (École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de Paris). Specializing in the control and orientation of electromagnetic waves, Greenerwave designs and develops, in France, a revolutionary technology that significantly enhances the energy efficiency of equipment. The company's innovative RIS (for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces) offer a more economical, environmentally friendly alternative that reduces reliance on semiconductor materials.

This disruptive technology finds applications across diverse sectors, spanning from automotive manufacturing to satellite communications. Within the telecommunications realm, Greenerwave's solution enables operators to maximize network quality without the need for extensive antenna proliferation, offering a cost-effective and unparalleled energy-efficient approach that guarantees seamless high-speed connections even in the densest zones.

i2CAT

i2CAT is a mission-oriented research center on advanced digital technologies that applies its knowledge to meet real industry and society challenges. Its experience is endorsed by more than 20 years developing international and local R&D projects and initiatives. I2CAT covers a wide range of digital and immersive technologies, such as cloud computing, IoT, 5G, localization and artificial intelligence. In INSTINCT, i2CAT is mainly involved in the optimal placement of the smart surfaces for the improvement of the sensing services and localization accuracy, and in the use of more sustainable solutions to reduce the carbon footprint. I2CAT participates in all Work Packages and is leading the dissemination activities (T5.1).

Inria

INRIA is the French National Institute for Research on Computer Science and Applied Mathematics made up of 3500 researchers and engineers and more than 200 project teams. The DYOGENE team from the INSA Lyon research centre in Paris, a world-class research group in network modelling with stochastic geometry and the MARACAS team, a joint group between INRIA and INSA Lyon hosted at the CITI laboratory will be both involved in the INSTINCT project.

Inria’s main contributions will include system level analysis, definition of use cases, and creating stochastic geometry tools for JCAS for WPs 1 and 4 as well as multi sensor management (WP3), and JCAS demonstration (WP4).

INSA Lyon

INSA Lyon is a leading engineering school in France. The CITI Laboratory is a joint academic laboratory between INSA Lyon and INRIA, which develops research activities bringing together computer science, networking, and digital communications to address the challenging issues related to the development of wireless networks, sensor networks and robot networks. The MARACAS team, a joint group between INRIA and INSA Lyon hosted at the CITI laboratory as well as the main contributor to the development of the CorteXlab (affiliated to the SLICES European infrastructure), will be involved with Inria’s DYOGENE team in the INSTINCT project. 

Together, they will work on WPs 1, 3 and 4: system level analysis, definition of use cases, multi sensor management, creating stochastic geometry tools for and demonstrating JCAS. 

NEC Laboratories Europe

Located in Heidelberg, Germany, NEC Laboratories Europe is the European research and development center for NEC Corporation and develops cutting-edge technology for innovative social solutions. Working closely with the European Union and research partners from around the world, we help transform science and technology in the areas of AI, security and privacy and information and communications technology. These technologies promote NEC Group solutions for a better society in the fields of digital health, safer cities, public services and communication infrastructure.

In the EU project INSTINCT, NEC contributes to all work packages (WPs) and is leading the WP3 on the machine learning empowered intelligent joint communication and sensing (JCAS) network. NEC is also leading the T1.3 on system architecture and performance evaluation methodology, T3.2 on the AI-based orchestration of JCAS networks and T5.2 on standardization activities.

The University of Oulu (UOULU)

UOLOU participates primarily in four work packages: 1, 2, 4, and 5. UOULU leads WP2 and tasks 1.2 and 2.3. Oulu work in WPs will focus on the following research areas:

• WP1: Channel modeling of reconfigurable environments and for sensing applications, performance evaluations based on theoretical models, ray tracing simulations, and real measurement data.
• WP2: Signal processing algorithms for JCAS, RISs, and performance evaluations via component/system optimization.
• WP4: Demonstration definitions based on work in WP2, stochastic analysis of system performance with ray tracing tools.
• WP5: Dissemination, standardization, communications, and exploitation of the results obtained in the project.

University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC)

UPRC coordinates all technical activities of INSTINCT in the role of Technical Manager. UPRC also leads the dissemination, communication, standardisation and exploitation activities and contributes to the INSTINCT use cases, system requirements and architecture definition as well as to the design of RIS-assisted wavefront engineering, beamforming and sensing-assisted communications, RIS-as-sensor, cell free MIMO as sensor, and the co-design of sensing and communications.

Telefónica Innovación Digital (TID)

Telefónica Innovación Digital (TID) is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Telefónica, S.A. (parent company of the Telefónica group) committed to carrying out the Research, Development, and Innovation (R&D+I) activities in the field of telecommunications, telematics and information systems, as well as to nurturing the Telefónica group with the necessary support elements for its development. These activities are primarily directed, though not exclusively, towards the study and preparation of documentation for Product Development, Exploratory Development, Applied Research, Technological Reports, Situational Studies on techniques and technologies, Testing Services, Quality Control, and Audits. 

Among the most relevant activities of the company are the following:

• The specialization, or cooperation, and the exchange of scientific and technological information and knowledge either through the creation of joint ventures or participation in consortia with third-party companies.
• Provision of technical assistance services, professional training, and the exchange of scientists, engineers, and other specialists.
• Maintenance of technological and commercial knowledge under any form of legal protection, including industrial or intellectual property.
• Organization of seminars and other events on specific topics related to the communications sector and digital information technologies.
• The undertaking of joint research projects with cost sharing and work distribution under specific agreements.
• Participation in sponsoring activities jointly with universities and other public institutions, both national and international.
• Engagement in activities and providing services in the areas of telecommunications, information society and communication services
• Investment activities in the communications and information technology sector in the broadest sense, at the national and international levels, through the acquisition or participation in the capital of national or foreign companies established or to be established in this sector.                       

TID will contribute to the technical work packages 1, 3 and 4. In addition, TID will also contribute to communication, dissemination, standardization and exploitation activities of the project, corresponding to work package 5.