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  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Beyerer

  • Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Bretschneider

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    • Autonomous systems / robotics

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  • “Our XAI tools shed light on the black box” (interview)

  • “AI will never replace a human being” (interview)

  • »Broadly engaged in artificial intelligence« (Interview)

  • “Vision language models take interaction to the next level” (Interview)

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    • Manufacturing Execution Systems and Production Control

    • Agile production control

    • Digital twin

    • Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS)

    • Collaborative robotics

    • Industrial Human-Machine Interaction

    • AI/ML-based data analysis

    • Circular economy

    • Industrial Communication

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  • “The AIoT trend is heralding new possibilities” (interview)

  • “AI expertise is not enough on its own” (interview)

  • "Data truly delivers added value when companies share it for specific purposes" (Interview)

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  • “We are making deep learning more robust” (interview)

  • “Key capabilities for tomorrow's battlefields” (interview)

  • “To put innovations to work quickly, we need more agile forms of cooperation” (Interview)

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  • “Climate and energy price crises offer an opportunity” (interview)

  • “A cross-sectoral view of the energy system transition” (interview)

  • “Digital solutions give us more flexibility and agility for managing crises” (interview)

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    • Inspection of complex objects

    • Distant inspection

    • FoodControl

    • Bulk goods sorting

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    • Hyperspectral and multispectral image processing

    • Multidimensional image processing in real-time

    • Optical Metrology

    • Applications and consulting

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  • “Our technology helps to close material cycles” (interview)

  • “Helping to guarantee world food supplies” (interview)

  • “Simulated defects open the door to AI applications” (Interview)

• Focus topic Maritime Technologies

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    • Object Recognition in Sensor Networks

    • Video Content Analysis

    • Tracking and Tracking Assessment

    • Object Recognition in 3D Data

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    • Geo intelligence

    • Image interpretation

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• Core competence Optronics Expand / Hide

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    • Night vision technology

    • Quantum & Laser Sensor Systems

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    • Sensor simulation

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    • Adaptive optics

    • Optics of the atmosphere

    • Signature evaluation

    • Warning sensors

    • Research topics

    • Equipment

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    • Projekte & Produkte

    • Sensor-based sorting systems for bulk goods and recycling

    • Inspection of complex products

    • Food quality and artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture

    • Laboratory

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  • Cognitive Energy Systems (KES)

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  • Digital Infrastructure (DIS)

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  • Machine Intelligence (MIT)

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  • Water and Mobile Systems (WMS)

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• 3D reconstruction

• 4Crypt Video

• ABUL

• Advanced Occupant Monitoring System

• Aerial Image Exploitation System (AIES-RC/CC)

• AGATA

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

• ALBACOPTER®

• Algorithm Toolbox

• AquaBioTox - Broadband sensor for monitoring drinking water quality

• ArGUS - Defense against threats from unmanned aerial systems

• ASARob - Attention-sensitive assistance robots

• AutoInspect: Inspection of complex objects

• Automated Fruit Recognition

• Automatic status analysis of sewer networks (AUZUKA)

• AutomationML Test Center

• Autonomous excavator can recover hazardous materials

• Automatic roof area inspection and geomarketing

• Autonomously mapping shallow water environments under and above the water surface

• Active Sensors

• AMFIS - Reconnaissance with mobile and stationary sensors in a network

• ASKIVIT

• AI-ARC

• BauCycle – construction waste recycling

• Bauhaus.MobilityLab Erfurt

• blackValue

• BLUEASSIST

• beAWARE: Integrated solutions for disaster situations

• BRDF measurement Expand / Hide

  • Spectral reflectometers

  • Gonioreflectometer measuring system

  • Visualisation and preparation of reflection data

• CCT-Sensor

• Coalition Shared Data (CSD) Server

• CoBot

• Competence center for AI Systems Engineering CC-KING

• Competence center ROBDEKON

• COGNITWIN

• Condition monitoring of wind turbines

• Crayons

• CyberProtect

• Cybersecurity Training Lab

• CACTUS-3D: 4D crime scene reconstruction and geo-referenced image retrieval

• CSD Data and information distribution

• core – Serious Game Framework

• Common Learning Middleware (CLM)

• Data-driven error localization in process engineering

• FriDa - Frische Daten

• Data tree Editor (DbEd)

• Deep-sea mapping by a swarm of autonomous vehicles

• Deflectometry for the inspection of specular surfaces

• Deep Sea Robotics

• Detection of moving objects with a camera on a moving platform (m3motion)

• Digitale game based learning framework

• Detection of pyrrolizine alkaloids (PA) in plants

• Development Environment (DevEnviro)

• Remote vibration measurement of wind turbines Expand / Hide

  • Project status and further development

  • Publications on distant vibration measurement of wind turbines

• Digital Map Table

• Digital Map Table in Virtual Reality

• DigiVine – Optics and Image Exploitation for Digitalization in Viticulture

• Drag&Sense - Framework for digital assistance systems

• dynOpt-En - Energy manager for the supply- and demand-oriented connection of energy sources

• DAKIMO

• ED/OM

• e-MonAut - Energy saving in existing buildings through comprehensive monitoring and automation concepts

• EffMon - Efficient monitoring and optimised operational management of properties

• EU ICT Open IoT

• Eur3ka – Manufacturing as a Service: Dynamic networking of production capacities

• Evaluation of signature changing measures

• ELD-BS

• eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)-Toolbox

• Fraunhofer Advanced Asset Administration Shell Tools for Digital Twins Expand / Hide

  • FA³ST Service @ HM 2024

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  • One step closer to the Food Scanner

• Lebensmittelqualität

• Frequency-labeled offset recording (FLOR) unit

• FROST®-Server - An open source implementation of OGC SensorThings API

• FutureProteins

• futureTEX - iTEXFer: Integrated Textile Production

• Fruit and vegetable scanner for wholesale quality assessment

• Findoo - Search engine

• Game-based Learning

• Gaze-based Image Exploitation

• Gesture-based error marking for quality assurance

• GrapeSort

• GUIDE

• Halodome

• HS robustification

• HYPOD – Hyperspectral Oil Leak Detection for airborne pipeline monitoring

• InCarIn

• Industrial Data Space

• Industrial Data Spaces Plus

• Industrie 4.0 MonOpt: Data analysis platform

• Inside Schüttgut

• Integrated Autonomous Driving Lab

• Integrated Video Investigation Suite for Forensic Applications (ivisX)

• Interactive ISR Exploitation Report (i2exrep)

• Investigation of optical turbulence

• Investigation of the atmosphere with a scanning LIDAR profiler

• IRPose

• INITIATIVE

• Intelligent video surveillance

• InnoTeer

• INTERACT

• ISuTest

• ISR Manager Application

• KARLI - AI for interaction in the vehicle of the future

• Karlsruher Forschungsfabrik

• KASTEL

• KERES

• KonsensOP

• KI-LMS, Artificial intelligence for learning management systems

• Living Sparkle

• Lost Earth 2307

• Laser and nonlinear crystals

• MAGNETO

• MARISA

• Measurement of optical turbulence with an AUS Expand / Hide

  • Systems

• Meteorological weather models

• MED²ICIN

• Medical expert systems

• ML4Heat - Tools for optimized operation of existing district heating networks based on machine learning methods

• ML4P: Machine Learning for Production

• Mobility Assistance System: EXPERT

• MODEAS: Modular drone detection and assistance system

• MODAPTO - Modular production via digital twins

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  • Partners

• MyCellFight

• Innovative photogrammetry process

• Night Sky Brightness

• Nitrate Monitoring 4.0

• NurseEye

• Network Enabled Surveillance and Tracking (NEST)

• Navigation Kit

• OCEAN2020 - Open Cooperation for European maritime awareness

• OnkoLeit

• OPAL - Open sensor data platform for analysis and semantic processing

• open62541

• Optics of the atmosphere and meteorology

• Optimization of bioprocesses

• OSREPORT

• Person tracking in the Elbedome

• PAKoS

• PERFORMANCE

• Pattern Recognition (PatRe)

• Platform for optimizing the operation of water systems

• Purity

• PuritySurf

• ProDaMi - Data Mining in the Production Environment

• PREVISION

• PathPlanner – Software application for path planning for mobile systems

• QSelect

• Quantum ghost imaging (lighthouse project QUILT)

• RecceMan

• RoboShield

• Regional Eco Mobility 2030 (REM 2030)

• ResiWater - Secure sensor networks and analysis tools

• Retro-Reflection Ellipsometry

• Robots for security applications

• Recycling

• Ruggedized laser sources for demanding operating conditions

• Sniper detection

• SAR Tutor

• SecureAutoType

• Security Testing Labor

• Smart Agriculture

• Smart Agriculture - Digitization in Agriculture

• Smart Factory Web

• S²UCRE

• SAFEWATER - Tools for rapid detection and containment of CBRN contamination in drinking water networks

• Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction

• Satellite-based early warning

• Secure Plug and Work

• SENEKA mobile robot sensor network for disaster management

• Signature evaluation

• Situation Prediction and Reaction Control (SPARC)

• SMaRT-OnlineWDN

• SIMULU

• STANAG 4609 Validator

• SmartSpectrometer - Intelligente Prozess-Analytik für Industrie 4.0

• SWAP lighthouse project

• SWIR-to-MWIR all-fiber laser and amplifier solutions

• SmartSpectrometer - Intelligent process analytics for Industry 4.0

• SWA - Position selection assistant for ground forces

• Spot-X - Adaptive quiz for your learning content

• RLT-Opt – Holistic optimization of ventilation and air conditioning systems Expand / Hide

  • Consortium

• Towards Ubiquitous Low-power Image Processing Platforms (TULIPP)

• The MODISSA testbed

• Test Area Autonomous Driving Baden-Württemberg

• Tracking people on large video walls: Porsche Museum

• TRM4 - Model for determining range performance

• Simulation of electro-optical systems

• Customized TRM4 Batch Module

• TRIPLEADAPT - Adaptive, interoperational training platforms

• Transfer-X

• UV sensors

• Ultra short laser pulses

• Urban heat islands - UHI's

• VerTurm Expand / Hide

  • SODAR-RASS

  • Ultrasonic anemometer

  • Laser scintillometer

• ViSAR

• Visualisation of landscapes

• Waste4Future

• WaterFrame® - Watercourse information systems

• WebGenesis

• Wolverine

• EU research project FALCON - Understanding and fighting corruption based on data

• Global Discovery Server for OPC-UA

• 3SmartFW

• TwinOpt-Pro - Platform for forecasting and optimizing the operation of drinking water supply systems

• SimKI-Mop

• K3I-Cycling

• SiUSpace

• HeatSteel - Development of an innovative and energy-efficient heat treatment line for ultra-thin precision strip

• Protection of critical maritime infrastructures (HUGIN)

• Artificial intelligence in remote sensing

• QuickChecks CC-KING

• Tec4MaaSEs

• MLOps

• CyReM-ICS

• MUSAL

• PrognoSF

• Terrestrial Free-Space Optical Communications

• QmagiC - Quantum Super-Resolution Imaging in Complex Media

• Holographic Wavefront Sensor

• Adaptive Optics for Underwater Optical Communications

• Adaptive Optics for Daytime Deep-Space Optical Communications

• SM4RTENANCE

• Catena-X

• PhytoMo

• VIGIMARE – Monitoring systems to protect critical underwater infrastructure

• Factory-X

• DRUM – drone-based support for mass events

• SafeInLoc – Functionally safe indoor localization for dynamic production environments

• KomDat

• Drone-based support for emergency service organizations

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  • Hannover Messe 2021 - Digital Edition

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  • 55th Control Engineering Colloquium in Boppard

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  • XXXV. Mess­tech­ni­sches Sym­po­si­um

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  • 56th Control Engineering Colloquium in Boppard

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  • 1st AI Systems Engineering Day

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  • Online workshop platform economy

  • W-Net 4.0 closing event

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  • 6th European Machine Vision Forum

  • Art exhibition "Farbenfrohe Vielfalt"

  • 15th Fraunhofer Vision Technology Day

  • Event AI in industrial companies

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  • Workshop "Automotive meets port"

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  • Fraunhofer IOSB at the Hanover Trade Fair 2024

  • Seminar "Surface inspection"

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    • Exhibition Markus Breig

    • Fewer manoeuvring accidents due to transparent cockpit

    • Fraunhofer IOSB invention QSelect

    • Exhibition Hans-Joachim Conrad

    • Research on automated driving: Japanese delegation as guest

    • Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE: ARGGONAUTS among top five teams

    • Platform Learning Systems - Report

    • 50 years of computer science in Germany

    • Opening of ROBDEKON Competence Center

    • Public test field autonomous driving

    • Research factory: Test zone for agile production

    • Sustainable building

    • Develop embedded systems faster

    • Exhibition Patchworkgoup Karlsruhe

    • open62541: Open source OPC UA stack suitable for embedded systems officially approved

    • On the way to the Karlsruhe research factory

    • Web platform for networked water supply

  • 2020 Expand / Hide

    • Exhibition Susanne Freiler-Höllinger

    • Taking the strain off people through intelligent sensor systems

    • New Competence Center for AI Engineering CC-KING

    • Process model for ML in production

    • Launch of research project KERES

    • Analysis and filtering of microplastics from the sea

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    • Intelligent robots for targeted combating of viruses and bacteria

    • Self-organizing, flexible production instead of assembly line: Study on the car factory of the future published

    • Today's waste becomes tomorrow's resource: "Waste4Future" paves new ways for plastics recycling

    • Activity detection inside the vehicle

    • ROBDEKON presents stage of development

  • 2023 Expand / Hide

    • “Transfer-X” paves the way for SMEs into the data economy

    • Measure wings in flight

    • Underwater and surface mapping of rivers and lakes

    • KI-Allianz BW: Establishment of a data platform under the leadership of Fraunhofer IOSB

    • »Construction Plan Study: Manufacturing-X Data Space« published

    • New ways for better understanding and fighting corruption: Social scientists, data analysis experts and law enforcement practitioners join forces in EU research project FALCON

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    • Release of FA³ST Service v1.0

    • Robotics Institute Germany: Fraunhofer IOSB drives forward the topic of large-scale robotics

    • Multisensor scanner uses AI assistance to detect fruit and vegetable quality

    • Interaction with autonomous driving: How drivers and cars understand each other

    • "Human-AI Interaction": Future-oriented focus for Fraunhofer IOSB department

    • FA³ST Registry version 1.0 released and update FA³ST Service to version 1.1

    • Final presentation of the KARLI research project

    • “I looked up to previous award winners and didn't think I was as good as them": Interview with Karin Stein, award winner of the von Kármán Medal

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