Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB
Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB

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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  • Eur3ka – Manufacturing as a Service for fast pandemic reaction

    Repurposing and networking of available production capacities and capabilities to cope with global production crises

    Manufacturing as a Service – Eur3ka – Network for Fast Pandemic Reaction
    © https://www.eur3ka.eu/

    The aim of the H2020 project is the digital management of production capacities for the development of flexible supply chains between consumers and producers - especially for rapid response to pandemics.

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  • The MODISSA testbed

    Experimental platform for hardware evaluation and software development

    MODISSA, a mobile sensor carrier

    MODISSA in front of the IOSB institute building in Ettlingen, Germany.

    MODISSA (Mobile Distributed Situation Awareness) is the IOSB's realization of an experimental platform for hardware evaluation and software development in the contexts of automotive safety, security, and military applications. It is based on a Volkswagen van VW T5 that has been equipped with a broad range of sensors and contains hardware for complete raw data capture, real-time data analysis, and immediate data visualization on in-car displays

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  • Automatic roof area inspection and geomarketing

    Planning, coordination, and control are three interrelated, essential components in companies' decision-making processes to undertake and prioritize market activities. Remote sensing methods can derive information, or geodata, about large areas using airborne sensor data. This geodata helps to answer specific questions of a company and makes the underlying information more quickly tangible through deriving relevant parameters or visualization in thematic maps.

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  • Autonomous excavator can recover hazardous materials

    An excavator works without an operator? Yes, there is one. It was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, Systems Engineering and Image Exploitation IOSB in Karlsruhe. The autonomous excavator "IOSB.BoB" ("excavator without an operator") can, for example, salvage hazardous materials or remove contaminated soil layers and represents a flexible demonstration and development system for testing scalable autonomous functions.

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  • AgriApps (application modules for automated management of special agricultural crops)

    Agricultural robots
    © indigo(c)2014

    Application modules for the automated management of special agricultural crops

    In the BMBF project AgriApps (application modules for the automated management of special agricultural crops) a modular concept for the automation of agricultural tasks is being researched. An autonomous robot can be equipped with different "apps" that perform different tasks. Thus, a high utilization of the robot over different seasons and thus an economical operation can be achieved.

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