Projects and products

Our research and development work happens within the framework of projects - these include equally R&D contracts with industrial customers, publicly funded (collaborative) research projects, and pre-competitive research projects funded by Fraunhofer. You can browse through many of these projects below - as well as products, i.e. results of our R&D activities that have reached a high level of technological maturity.

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    The "CyberProtect" project serves to better secure complex software systems.

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  • The "Security Testing Laboratory" project is concerned with protecting and making industrial automation and control systems (IACS) secure as early as the development process so that attackers have no chance of influencing or damaging production processes.

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  • CHAISE - AI engineering made practical with the Tool Chain for AI Systems Engineering

    A toolbox to continuously improve and deploy ML applications (MLOps)

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    Operating machine learning applications productively requires continuous monitoring, adaptation, and maintenance.

    A project of the same name aims to harness our experience across a whole host of AI application domains to realize MLOps with maximum effectiveness and automate it as far as possible. To that end a software suite was developed that incorporates a wide range of tools for creating machine learning applications and training the ML models.

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  • Factory-X – a sovereign data room for mechanical and industrial engineering

    An open data ecosystem for factory equipment suppliers and their customers - on the foundations of Industrie 4.0 and Gaia-X/Catena-X

    In the lighthouse project Factory-X, an open and collaborative data ecosystem for factory outfitters and operators is being developed on the basis of Catena-X and concepts of the Industry 4.0 platform. Fraunhofer IOSB is involved in or leading a number of use cases.

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  • Reconnaissance and surveillance in civil and military environments often involve the use of different systems, which are subordinate to different areas of responsibility. In multinational operations, data exchange must also be possible between different nations with different authorizations. Security and data protection regulations must be observed.

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  • DynOpt-San

    Digitally supported and modular refurbishment of apartment buildings in neighborhoods with PVT-PCM heat pump systems and self-learning energy management

    Digitally supported and modular refurbishment of apartment buildings in neighborhoods with PVT-PCM heat pump systems and self-learning energy management

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  • Multilayer environment modeling and optronics-based intelligent protection of systems and properties (MUSAL)

    Cooperative environmental modeling for autonomous systems and surveillance tasks

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    Overview of the components of the MUSAL ecosystem, sample autonomous mobile systems, and generated point cloud data.

    The internally financed MUSAL research project is dedicated to the challenge of conceptualizing and implementing so they can contribute to a holistic description of the existing situation.

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  • Economic efficiency, sustainability, ecology and individuality: Intermodal mobility - the use of different modes of transport on one route - has great potential. But the complexity must remain manageable. In other words: Getting to your destination intermodally, for example with a combination of (rental) bike, public transport and e-scooter, must be as easy and pleasant as reaching for your own car key.

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  • A holistic optimization of district heating supply areas offers great potential, for example, through the feed-in of renewable energies, network expansion, energy savings and cost reduction, as well as a reduction in CO2 emissions. The aim is to initially make synergies visible by exchanging and combining data/information that has not been exchanged before, and ultimately to generate added value for as many participants as possible.

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  • For performance evaluation of electro-optical systems, image simulations have advantages and disadvantages over analytical models such as TRM4 . Here, the greatest advantages arise from the use of image data, which allows realistic simulation of anisoplanatic and statistical effects such as turbulence, as well as simulation of advanced digital signal processing techniques.

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  • Interactive ISR Exploitation Report (i2exrep)

    Software for the creation and processing of formalized exploitation result reports

    The interactive Java- and XML-based software "Interactive ISR Exploitation Report" is used to create and edit formalised deployment results reports. It was developed for military reconnaissance and surveillance processes, but is also suitable for use in civil environments.

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