Activities 2025

On this page you will find a list of upcoming or ongoing events in which we as the Systems for Measurement, Control and Diagnosis department of Fraunhofer IOSB are involved.

A cordial invitation - we look forward to meeting you on one of these occasions!

The 2nd “Safety Awareness Day” will have a special focus on safety in construction automation. Together with fischer Austria, fischer BauBot Services and industry leaders, state-of-the-art robotics, live demos and the latest safety technology for mobile machines and robotics will be presented.

🚜 MRD is also involved: Philipp Woock will give a presentation entitled “Autonomous construction machinery for practical use” on the future of construction with autonomous construction machinery. Mobile robots are enabled to drive autonomously by sensor fusion algorithms and control technology.

🌍 A workshop of the "District heating network optimization" association
In order to achieve the climate targets, the heating networks are to be decarbonized by 2045. This will require around 100,000 new connections per year - the grid must be modernized and expanded. At the same time, the feed-in structure is changing drastically - from large power plants to decentralized feeders. Innovative grid management strategies and new asset management concepts are therefore essential in order to achieve these goals. As part of the event, the district heating association funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK) will present new solutions and tools.

💡 Seven grid operators, AGFW | Der Energieeffizienzverband für Wärme, Kälte und KWK e.V., five companies and seven research institutes are involved in four projects.
💡 In addition to presentations, workshops and poster sessions will be held together with operators and service providers to discuss how obstacles can be removed and how the new solutions can be implemented on a broad scale.

👉 Together with the Fraunhofer IOSB-AST, the Fraunhofer IOSB is leading the organization.
Program management: Thomas Bernard

The Baden-Württemberg AI Alliance brings together companies, municipalities and AI experts to develop concrete solutions for more efficient use of resources, intelligent mobility concepts, a sustainable circular economy and virtual marketplaces. Solutions for practical applications with real added value are developed in interactive workshops.
👉 We are co-organizer and represented by our AI expert.

The four focus topics of the workshops:

🔹 Tourist visitor management: How many guests are where? Steering measures, e.g. forecasting, creating incentives, promoting resource-conserving and conscious behavior,
with Christian Kühnert.

🔹 Energy-efficient mobility: capacity utilization forecast for VAG vehicles, traffic flow management, interface with energy suppliers, charging management for e-vehicles, energy consumption of vehicles.,
with Andreas Wunsch.

🔹 Circular economy: resource consumption/material flows, integration of the recycling industry, waste management, plastics industry, construction industry.

🔹 Virtual marketplace: An AI-supported matching tool that connects solution seekers and providers from the SME sector, facilitates exchange and promotes regional value creation.

ICRA is the most important conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). It brings together researchers and industry professionals from around the world to share ideas and knowledge and advance robotics for the benefit of humanity. In times when technology is changing rapidly, it is more important than ever to participate in this event.

🤖 We have a total of two contributions for the ICRA25:

A presentation on our “GOOSE-EX” data set

We have developed a new data set for off-road robotics in collaboration with the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. While the UniBW data was published last year, this year we are presenting our own data sets, which are unique due to the application.
Referent: Miguel Granero

Challenge on "Workshop on Field Robotics"

This is a competition for data segmentation based on the GOOSE dataset.
In the organizing team of the competition: Miguel Granero and Raphael Hagmanns.

Digitalization, robotics and artificial intelligence for civil engineering and the remediation of landfills and contaminated sites: Fraunhofer IOSB Innovation Day in cooperation with the ROBDEKON competence center - robotic systems for decontamination in hostile environments.

Program preview

• Automation of construction and logistics
  From autonomous construction and work machines to autonomous transport vehicles: we give you an overview of the state of the art and offer you the opportunity to try out our systems live.
• Material evaluation and sorting
  Comprehensive processing of demolition waste can only be successful if the material is optimally evaluated and sorted accordingly. We will show you how this can be done in a highly automated and reliable manner.
• Digital product passport
  The digital product passport is the basis for the traceability of materials and effective reuse of raw materials in the recycling process. We will show you the details of how to implement this important digitalization module.
• Contributions from research and industry
  Find out about the latest research results at first hand and see our solutions in action.

Discuss the future of civil engineering with us and experts from industry and application!