Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI

Under the motto »Industrial 3D printing on the rise«, Fraunhofer IVI presented itself at the 6th Additive Manufacturing Forum 2022, the leading conference for additive manufacturing with trade exhibition, in Berlin from July 5 to 6, 2022. The institute presented the AMCOCS project - a platform for digital testing and certification procedures in additive manufacturing.

In order to be allowed to use such a process, providing proof of strength is a necessary prerequisite. Currently, only very time-consuming and cost-intensive quality assurance processes exist for this area, which represent a high hurdle for the widespread use of this methodology. AMCOCS aims to accelerate the test and certification process by developing a digital, self-learning testing and certification platform. This will bundle data from the production phases of additive manufacturing, post-processing and material parameter determination.

As part of this project, AMCOCS will be piloted with use cases from the aerospace industry. Complex algorithms can be used to derive predictions about the strength of the objects to be printed. In the future, it should be possible to make reliable statements about the strength of the objects to be printed in advance, i.e. before printing. The material parameters determined on this basis will enable the user to carry out a professional design. Manual testing and certification procedures can thus be shortened.

• to the AM Forum website
• to the AMCOCS project website

With »Design in Focus Fraunhofer Research«, the Fraunhofer Network »Science, Art and Design« offered employees of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, partners from the national university landscape, artists and interested parties for the first time a conference and exhibition format for the exchange of internal design projects with external design practice and design research.

In three exciting sessions focusing on »Product Design & Interaction«, »Architecture & Workspace Design« and »Innovation Research & Design Integration« as well as an accompanying exhibition, best practice examples from the Fraunhofer Institutes were presented alongside successful networking projects.

The conference, which took place at the Fraunhofer Forum Berlin, also informed about the successful launch of the DesignLab, an initiative of the Fraunhofer Institutes IWU, IWS and IVI as well as Technical University of Dresden, which will be located at the Fraunhofer IVI in the future. We are looking forward to the cooperation and many interesting projects.

• more information about Design at Fraunhofer IVI

Flexible traffic data collection in compliance with data protection regulations under all weather conditions

In the context of connected and automated driving, many inner-city areas will be safeguarded in the future by sensors installed in the infrastructure. The reliable perception of road users under difficult weather conditions is one of the challenges that can only be met with cooperating and networked sensor systems.

In the KonSensData project (Cooperating Sensors for Data) of the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Internet Technologies CCIT, a hardware solution consisting of radar and infrared camera in combination with data fusion is currently being developed to detect different classes of road users in a flexible, data-protection-compliant and, above all, robust manner and to transmit the data to other road users. The Fraunhofer Application Center »Connected Mobility and Infrastructure« based in Ingolstadt is playing a leading role in the research work. Together with the Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences (THI), the institute contributes to research in the field of mobility in Bavaria.

Thank you for visiting us and our Sensorbox exhibit at Hannover Messe!

• more information about the booth of Bavaria Innovative
• Website Hannover Messe

The digital experimental field LANDNETZ was awarded the »Innovation Award Reallabore: Test Spaces for Innovation and Regulation« in the category »Insights« on May 31, 2022. The competition, offered by the BMWK for the second time, aims to make reallabs visible, honor innovative ideas and promote new reallabs.

Since 2019, scientists from the Technical University of Dresden (TUD), together with the Saxon State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI, have been researching solutions for area-wide wireless data transmission and networking in order to advance digitalization in agriculture. In doing so, the three project participants are relying on a new type of communication infrastructure. With the help of fully portable campus networks with independent mobile network and servers, agricultural areas are supplied with 5G and digital applications in agriculture are designed and tested. 

• to the press release of TU Dresden(German)

• to the article of Fraunhofer SIRIOS