The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI, President Bang Seung-chan) announced that it could set specific missions and deadlines to unravel the country’s challenges, and promote mission-oriented R&D by concentrating the agency’s capabilities to attain them.

ETRI announced on the twentieth that it could select six key strategic technologies as key strategic technologies to advertise for the digital innovation of the nation and society and promote mission-oriented R&D in earnest to attain given missions throughout the deadline.

Last 12 months, the federal government chosen 12 national strategic technologies to concentrate on with a purpose to reply to competition for technological hegemony, established the ‘Korea Digital Strategy’ to turn out to be a model country for digital innovation on the earth, and strengthened mission-oriented R&D to attain national innovation through performance-oriented national R&D. He explained that it’s a vital science and technology policy of the federal government to guide the

Reflecting this, the six key strategic technologies chosen by ETRI are ▲artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor and computing ▲security technology ▲AI/software ▲6G communication ▲metabus ▲digital convergence technology.

While discovering and operating the ‘ETRI Top Challenge Project’ by which the world’s top-tier research goals and timelines are set centered on national missions and the director and research directors are directly answerable for creating results, the national representative level is established through continuous communication with the federal government and external experts. We plan to create results.

To begin with, within the AI ​​semiconductor and computing field, it was announced that game-changing within the AI ​​computing field was the vision, and that AI computers/semiconductors developed by themselves would solve super-intelligence problems in society and industry as a complete.

Promote the event of the world’s first petaflops AI process-in-memory (PIM) semiconductor technology by 2025, based on this, enter the AI ​​semiconductor market preoccupied by US corporations and institutions, and innovate semiconductor technology, a national strategic industry. plan to guide.

In the sector of security technology, by 2025, it is going to concentrate on ‘blockchain-based metaverse authentication security technology with an accuracy of 98% or higher’ and ‘development of the world’s best real-virtual convergence 3D image metaverse technology’, leading an intelligent information society that guarantees reliability.

Through this, it plans to contribute to protected national life by analyzing images just like the movie ‘Minority Report’, predicting signs of crime and recidivism, and taking responsibility for security in using the metaverse. The precise goals are ▲Development of intelligent video security technology corresponding to video analysis-based AI crime prediction/response and detection of recidivism symptoms (2023) and ▲Development of metaverse authentication solutions corresponding to real-virtual user-avatar connection authentication and avatar ID management (2025) 12 months), etc.

In the sector of AI/software, ▲development of multimodal sympathetic artificial intelligence for robots that help humans (by 2025) and ▲conceptualization of common sense and knowledge like humans to know/reason/express recent situations in context based on self-growth It plans to guide the era of human-robot coexistence by developing embodied AI technology (by 2027).

Through this, it plans to offer intelligent and sympathetic humanoid robots and AI assistants that accompany life.

Regarding 6G communication, ▲ 6G communication proof of concept (2025) ▲ Hyper-connected 6G three-dimensional communication technology development and international standardization through preemptive standardization activities (2028), etc. shall be used as social overhead capital (SOC) within the digital era. .

To this end, terrestrial and satellite networks are integrated to construct a 3D network that may stably provide ultra-wide 6G services without shadow areas. Ultimately, it plans to guide the transition to the air and space communication era and secure national competitiveness within the unmanned aerial vehicle, aviation communication, and disaster communication markets.

Regarding metaverse technology, we’re going to comprehend barrier-free education and training, equal medical care, realistic entertainment, efficient manufacturing and production, and business with ultra-realistic technology. ▲Development of the world’s best light field 3D image-based real/virtual convergence media technology and mutual sympathetic content technology that gives a way of reality (2025) and ▲realization of a hyper-realistic 6DoF metaverse platform experienced with the world’s best real-life 3D image wide-area spatial streaming (2030) etc. are specific targets.

To this end, it is going to launch the world’s best real-virtual convergence 3D image metaverse technology and stand on the forefront of constructing a more realistic 3D image and a brighter K-metaverse.

The sector of digital convergence technology focuses on cutting-edge mobility and ICT healthcare.

First, through advanced mobility research, we are going to develop a ‘Future Air Mobility Platform (AdAM-P)’ that flies safely in various conditions in the town center, corresponding to weather, radio interference, and shaded areas, by 2025 to unravel chronic traffic congestion. It’s an idea to present an ICT vision.

▲ AAM autonomous flight PoC development (2025) for stable flight maintenance under various abnormal flight conditions in the town center ▲ Development of next-generation AAM platform based on recent avionics SW (2027), etc. Because of this we’re opening the era of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAM) with first-class technology.

In the sector of ICT healthcare, ‘non-invasive/blood-free continuous blood glucose measurement technology’ that helps overcome diabetes with easy blood sugar management in each day life and ‘cancer cell real-time’ Difficult the event of ‘diagnostic molecular endoscopy’.

Specific responsibilities and goals include ▲ development of non-invasive/blood-free continuous blood glucose measurement technology through earlobe-wearable sensor probes, high-sensitivity ultrasonic devices, and intelligent signal processing (by 2025) and ▲ cancer cells with a single light scan without the necessity for contrast media and biopsy Development of a Raman molecular endoscope that diagnoses back diseases in real time (2028), etc.

Through this, it plans to contribute to the belief of 100 years of health and 100 years of well-being.

For research involving R&D of other organizations, especially quantum technology, ETRI decided to ascertain its identity as an establishment leading the industrialization of quantum technology as an establishment leading the event of core source technologies obligatory for industrialization.

It plans to jointly develop quantum communication material-component-system technology with industries, and promote strategic cooperation in the sector of quantum foundry construction in the long run.

As well as, it plans to progressively expand its research by deriving specific performance goals for quantum computing technology.

As well as, away from the present fragmented task-oriented R&D, we are going to proceed to shift to performance-oriented R&D that creates large-scale results by integrating and linking performance between tasks. It is usually said that it is going to promote cooperation with research institutes.

Bang Seung-chan, president of ETRI, said, “We’ll take the lead in securing national strategic technologies and digital innovation technologies in order that researchers can turn out to be technological pioneers leading a comfortable future world through digital innovation. As well as, we are going to lead innovation as a research organization focused on solving missions required on the national level. ” he said.

As well as, he added, “We plan to proceed to find mission-oriented R&D projects to be promoted in the important thing strategic technology area and concentrate our capabilities to attain the mission of solving national challenges.”

Reporter Lim Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com