Youth research 2017Young researchers called to the 52nd round
"The future - I'm shaping it!" - This is the motto for a new round of the youth research competition. Young people who enjoy and are interested in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology can now apply with their research project.
Technical systems such as electronic control units are becoming ever larger and more complex. Alpay Yildiray (18) and Moritz Rocker (17) from Bremen, on the other hand, asked themselves: How simple can a piece of hardware actually be so that it can still execute certain programs? They chose pattern recognition using self-learning artificial intelligence as their task. The process works like this: Reading in the pattern signals - processing - outputting the recognized pattern. The input takes place via a network of five by five switches. Which of these are switched on is recognized by a microcontroller and indicated by the corresponding LEDs lighting up in the 5x5 LED output grid. They used data compression and neural network methods to program their minimally dimensioned microcontroller.