Projects and products

Karlsruhe and its surroundings are becoming a test field for autonomous vehicles.

With the CoBot - Collaborative Robot - Fraunhofer IOSB in cooperation with PWC strategy& demonstrates an innovative AI-based assembly assistance system in which robots and humans work together collaboratively in manual assembly.

The XAI toolbox developed by Fraunhofer IOSB is designed with AI explainability at its core. It enables the swift evaluation of various XAI methods for AI procedures.

QSelect is an innovative system for annotation on components.

The individual needs of all passengers are registered and analyzed.

The INITIATIVE project aims to develop AI-based adaptive communication for the integration of automated vehicles in mixed traffic scenarios.

Our Advanced Occupant Monitoring System detects the driver and all occupants of a vehicle to distinguish between different activities and detect critical situations.

The networked maritime surveillance and reconnaissance mission of the future is the focus of the European joint research project OCEAN2020. The goal is to generate a comprehensive maritime situation picture based on established as well as new technologies. Fraunhofer IOSB is contributing its expertise in the field of underwater drones and maritime situation analysis.

Modern harvesting machines are complex systems that can be configured in many different ways. For example, countless individual parameters can be set by adjusting the sieves, threshing drum speed, vehicle speed, fan power and much more. The BMBF project AGATA is investigating how an optimal configuration can be found here to make the machines as efficient as possible for each field.

Halodome is an AI system for automatic detection of anomalies and defects on components. Supported by a human operator and latest human-computer interaction, the system learns to distinguish between good samples and anomalous samples. In the process, the detection rate continuously improves.

Camera-based people tracking on the video wall in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart.

The Digital Map Table - a new approach in the shared situation visualization and analysis.

"beAWARE" offers improved decision support for extreme weather and climate events. The project work resulted in an integrated solution for forecasting, early warning, transmission and forwarding of emergency data.

In the KARLI project, IOSB is developing occupant state detectors for interactions in the vehicle interior.

The "WaterFrame®" project forms the basis for the cooperative development of watercourse information systems.

Fraunhofer IOSB is a partner in the SM4RTENANCE project to enable a federated neutral cross-sector data space, resulting in the development of interoperable circular twins and integration between data spaces

Data is collected in the vineyard using a combined system of quad bike, drone and calibrated markers in order to develop a systematic monitoring procedure.

Fraunhofer IOSB has developed an autonomous surface vehicle that autonomously takes measurements above and below the water to generate associated 3D maps.

To facilitate faster data transfer between astronomical equipment in space and base stations on Earth, optical communications links can be deployed. Among the design challenges faced when designing deep space communications are: very low power of received signals, the effect atmospheric turbulence on propagating signals, and strong presence of background light from the Sun, which varies over the course of the day. To cope with these challenges, deep space optical communications require adaptive optics (AO) systems to maximize the number of received signal photons, as well as exceptionally narrow bandwidth optical filters to remove background noise from received signals.

Despite the availability of significantly higher bandwidth, the underwater environment poses challenges to the design of optical communications systems. In clean ocean water, extinction due to absorption and scattering very strong, and limits the useful range of underwater communications to ∼100 m in the blue-green spectral window. Additionally, underwater optical turbulence stemming from minute differences in water’s refractive index and salinity perturbs the transmitted laser beams effecting the fidelity of received signals. In the Adaptive Optics group at Fraunhofer IOSB, we study the effect of underwater optical tur-bulence on transmitted laser light and try to compensate the effects of turbulence using adaptive optics systems.