March 25 – April 7, 2024
Paphos, Cyprus
Joint Advanced
Student School
Talking with Smart Cities
JASS (Joint Advanced Student School) is an annual international initiative to study emerging technologies using project-driven software development. The school is a place where students and professors from different countries gather for short-term, project-oriented, project-driven education in international teams. Over the course of 7-14 days, each team of students creates and delivers a finished project.
The topics typically studied include mobile devices, the Internet of Things, industrial applications, autonomous mobile robotics and transportation, and virtual reality.
The event includes the following types of activities:
Guest lectures and/or master classes on selected technologies.
Lectures and classes are provided by academic professors and industry experts. The main goal of each lecture is to give a good overview of the technologies; to help students to get a bigger picture of the particular domain, and to acquire a holistic comprehension of the problems, solutions, and challenges that exist.
Work on projects in joint international student teams.
Students will work within joint international teams (about 7 students per team) to develop small projects and apply their new domain knowledge to a particular sub-project. Each project is developed by the teams under supervised guidance.
Topic 2024
Talking with Smart Cities
Controlling Intelligent Infrastructure with Large Language Models
JASS 2024 is going to undertake an immersive, project-driven exploration of smart city technologies, their integration into urban infrastructure, and the natural language interfaces used to control them.
During the school, we will be building an urban city where all the elements are interconnected and can communicate and collaborate with one another.
Key project components include:
Developing a scalable car garage equipped with extensive charging stations. We will use a real robot arm to make the building process incredibly realistic.
Implementing advanced traffic lights and smart navigation systems to streamline urban transportation. Smart robot cars have to transport resources from a warehouse to a construction site autonomously. They should be able to identify their battery level and recharge if required.
Creating a natural language interface for efficient communication and guidance for smart facilities.
Designing and implementing a user-centric car charging system, managed via a Natural Language Processing (NLP) interface. Users will be able to request charging facilities according to their preferences like cost, schedule, power, and so on. An intelligent order management system will contain a bidding mechanism to allocate the best possible charging or parking spots to users, optimizing utilization and satisfaction.
Introducing a proactive City Management module, which identifies the need for additional parking or charging infrastructure and initiates construction projects. This forward-thinking approach ensures the smart city remains adaptive and scalable.
Transforming existing traditional parking spaces into charging ones is part of our sustainability and modernization efforts.
Key technologies and equipment
Kinova Gen3 Robot Arm
Autonomous cars based on Duckietown platform
Optitrack system
Text-to-speech/Speech-to-text
LLM, LangChain
Linux, docker, python, C/C++, CI/CD
March 25 – April 7, 2024
Location: Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
Participants should be either undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate students at universities in Cyprus with strong software engineering and development skills. They should also have an interest in new technologies, mobile devices, and the Internet of Things.
Participation is free. School language – English. All participants will be accommodated during the school by the Neapolis University Pafos and the Leptos Group at the Coral Beach Hotel & Resort.
Our selection process will be based on your motivation, as well as the completion of a test assignment, the link to which you will receive after the application period ends.
The application deadline is March 3.
Meet Our School's Lecturers
-
Prof. Kirill Krinkin
Neapolis University Pafos,
Constructor University Bremen -
Prof. Dr. Bernd Brügge
Technical University of Munich
-
Dr. Robert Chatley
Imperial College London
-
Vivian Loftness
Carnegie Mellon University
Industrial consultant
Wolfgang Maison @ Technical University of Munich
Technicians Team
Ruth Demmel @ Technical University of Munich
Andreas Jung @ Technical University of Munich
Participants
Elizabeth Chan @ Imperial College London
Simon Denisov @ Imperial College London
Hamish Starling @ Imperial College London
Ruben Vorster @ Imperial College London
Elsa Fernanda @ Technical University of Munich
Lena Wawer @ Technical University of Munich
Ting Hsu @ Technical University of Munich
Hanna Cui @ Technical University of Munich
Kevin Huang @ Technical University of Munich
Tobias Wasner @ Technical University of Munich
Andrei Iurko @ Neapolis University Pafos
Anton Kosovskii @ Neapolis University Pafos
Andreas Loizidis @ University of Zurich
Viacheslav Pirogov @ Neapolis University Pafos
Fadeeva Maria @ Neapolis University Pafos
Aleksandra Fedorova @ Neapolis University Pafos
Maksim Igumnov @ University of Central Lancashire
Aleksandr Podkopaev @ Neapolis University Pafos
Vladimir Shtarev @ Neapolis University Pafos
Pascal Weißleder @ Technical University of Munich
Julian Kraus @ Technical University of Munich
Aleksandra Topalova @ Technical University of Munich
Panagiota Miltiadous @ University of Cyprus
Iya Volkova @ Neapolis University Pafos
Dmitrii Stepul @ Neapolis University Pafos
Ilia Nechaev @ University of Central Lancashire
Ivan Kostin @ University of Central Lancashire
Vseslav Kasatskii @ Neapolis University Pafos
