Concept
The project’s overarching concept is to catalyze synergies and transform ecosystems by leveraging commonalities among ECAS vehicles and cobots. The project aims to create a unified technology stack that supports software-defined transformation, facilitates efficient domain adaptation, and promotes innovation along Europe’s value chains. By addressing shared requirements and fostering collaboration among ecosystems, the project seeks to avoid parallel development efforts and achieve economies of scale. The technology stack will be composed of hardware and software layers designed to meet the common needs of Europe’s leading key application areas, promoting synergies and benefits throughout the entire value chain.
Cynergy4MIE will integrate, validate, and verify the achievements of various Supply Chains. Supply Chain demonstrators will address and cover the specific needs of multiple key application areas showcasing the generality and wide applicability of the developed platform towards Society5.0, aiming at significant impact in four complementary pillars.
1. Cost savings
Synergistic technologies such as SiC and GaN enhance energy efficiency, minimize waste, and boost component durability, leading to reduced production costs. By leveraging human-machine collaboration, manufacturing processes can be optimized, further decreasing production time and expenses. Cynergy4MIE aims to achieve a 1% energy savings and plans to directly apply its solutions in the transport, mobility, and industrial infrastructure sectors.
2. Improved performance
The adoption of innovative sensor technologies, including quantum and mm-wave sensors, enhances the performance and efficiency of products, resulting in improved e-motor and battery system efficiency. This advancement also contributes to saving critical materials used in batteries, thereby strengthening Europe’s supply chain resilience. Within this framework, Cynergy4MIE aims to advance battery technology by implementing power-efficient AI systems for error-proofing that consume less than 5 watts, achieving 10X better efficiency compared to current commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions, bolstering sustainability.
3. Competitive advantage
By harnessing synergistic technologies and human-machine collaboration, European companies will achieve a competitive edge in the global market, leading to increased market share and profitability. In this context, Cynergy4MIE envisions revolutionizing software development through formal verification, targeting a cost reduction of 30-50%. The initiative will focus on innovations in low-code solutions and system-of-systems architecture, while also enhancing sensors, human-machine interfaces (HMIs), and software to drive a 25% productivity boost across the entire value chain.
4. Sustainability
The integration of emerging technologies such as SiC and GaN, along with human-machine collaboration, will foster a more sustainable production process by reducing waste and energy consumption. Cynergy4MIE aims to enhance energy efficiency in bulk converter systems, electrolysers, and fuel cells, improving efficiency from around 95% to over 97%. Additionally, GaN power conversion efficiency is expected to rise from the current state-of-the-art 95-96% to 98.5%-99% using proposed techniques. This effort will also contribute to a CO2 footprint reduction, estimated at 2% for specific applications utilizing SiC or GaN-based power converters.