Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB

Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB

Monitore mit Kartendarstellung hinsichtlich Krisen wie Flut, Pandemie etc.
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“Digital solutions give us flexiblity and agility”

Whether flood, pandemic or man-made threat: Our business unit spokesperson Dr Mossgraber explains how digital solutions support government agencies and public safety and security organizations in managing crises.

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Integrated solutions for disasters

We help rescue services to control the situation during environmental disasters. By integrating heterogeneous data, the beAWARE platform offers early warning assistance and situation monitoring in the event of heatwaves, forest fires or floods.

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Image Processing Forum 2024: Register now!

Fraunhofer IOSB and KIT invite you to the forum on November 21 and 22 in Karlsruhe to present the latest trends in image processing. The methods are used in areas such as quality assurance of industrial production processes, in robotics and for driver assistance.

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“You must not be afraid to fail”

Karin Stein is the first woman in NATO history to receive the von Kármán Medal, the defense alliance's most prestigious scientific award. In an interview on the occasion of the award ceremony, the IOSB department head talks about how she came to physics and the responsibility she feels.

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Innovation for the vehicle safety

We increase safety and comfort in (semi-)autonomous driving! Institute Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Beyerer explains in our blog interview how 2D and 3D cameras in vehicle interiors can help.

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Out now: Our 2023/24 progress report

»Digital technologies for productivity, sustainability, and security« – this is the motto of the new issue of Fraunhofer IOSB's progress report. Here you can browse through the document!

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Human-AI Interaction in focus

The interface between humans and AI-based technical systems: This is what the research and development of our newly launched Human-AI Interaction department, HAI for short, is all about.

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Better understanding and combating corruption

Together with 24 partners from 15 countries, we are supporting data-driven prosecution of corruption in the recently launched Horizon Europe project "Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organized Crime Networks (FALCON)".

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Your career with us

Attractive research projects and close ties to industry, creative freedom, and family-friendly conditions: Find all this and more at Fraunhofer IOSB.

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Welcome to Fraunhofer IOSB!

Developing innovative vision systems including the necessary laser light sources. Making best possible use of sensors and interconnecting them. Processing and evaluating the resulting data streams. Using this data to efficiently support humans in making sound decisions, improving processes and controlling autonomous systems in an intelligent way: This complete process and value chain is our domain. It combines the core competences reflected in our name – optronics, system technologies and image exploitation – to provide optimum benefits for a wide range of applications.

Our solutions for your needs

In our business units we bundle our competences and drive forward market-oriented developments.

Business unit Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems
Business unit Automation and Digitalization
Business unit Defense
Business unit Energy, Environmental and Security Systems
Business unit Inspection and Optronic Systems
Focus topic Maritime Technologies
From study to prototype: forms of collaborating with us

News from Fraunhofer IOSB

 

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Karlsruhe / Stuttgart / 19.9.2024

More safety and better user experience with AI

Under the technical coordination of Fraunhofer IOSB, twelve research and industry partners developed AI applications for automated driving in KARLI. The focus was on the design of AI-controlled interaction between vehicle and user - for example, to combat motion sickness and help drivers behave according to the level of automation. The project concluded with KARLI presenting its results.

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Karlsruhe / 5.8.2024

Digital twins: FA³ST Registry v1.0 released

Free, open-source software for digital twins based on the Industrie 4.0 Asset Administration Shell specification: This is what the Fraunhofer Advanced Asset Shell Administration Tools, FA³ST for short, offer. In addition to the FA³ST Service, the FA³ST Registry is now available in the first stable version. This means that even complex use cases, such as for the circular economy, can be realized.

 

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Karlsruhe / Berlin / 16.6.2024

IOSB drives topic of large-scale robotics

Within in newly launched Robotics Institute Germany (RIG), Fraunhofer IOSB will establish the field of AI-based large-scale robotics. This includes autonomous construction machines, agricultural robots and other heavy-duty machines that perform complex tasks independently. Similar issues have so far been researched in the ROBDEKON competence center in particular, and results were presented in Berlin.

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Munich / Karlsruhe / 17.6.2024

Scanner detects fruit and vegetable quality

A new AI-supported multisensor application developed by Fraunhofer IOSB and partners is being used to screen perishable goods such as fruit and vegetables. This technology carefully detects quality features even under the surface, making it possible to predict the shelf life of fruit and vegetables. It can be used on entire crates at the touch of a button — and customized with the addition of other sensors.

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Where to find us

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Branch labs/offices

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Advanced System Technology branch IOSB-AST

Industrial Automation branch IOSB-INA

 

visIT science journal

Data spaces and
digital twins

Industrie 4.0 is an export hit, but digitalization lags in Germany. We are convinced that by sharing data within value-creation networks, customer-related added value and scalable solutions can be created. Data spaces and standards-based digital twins provide a suitable basis for this. Learn more about our projects and solutions in this field in our visIT science journal.

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