Activities 2025

On this page you will find a list of upcoming or ongoing events in which we as the Systems for Measurement, Control and Diagnosis department of Fraunhofer IOSB are involved.

A cordial invitation - we look forward to meeting you on one of these occasions!

The 2nd “Safety Awareness Day” will have a special focus on safety in construction automation. Together with fischer Austria, fischer BauBot Services and industry leaders, state-of-the-art robotics, live demos and the latest safety technology for mobile machines and robotics will be presented.

🚜 MRD is also involved: Philipp Woock will give a presentation entitled:

“Autonomous construction machinery for practical use”

on the future of construction with autonomous construction machinery. Mobile robots are enabled to drive autonomously by sensor fusion algorithms and control technology.

The EGU General Assembly 2025 brings together scientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of science.

👉 MRD is included: Andreas Wunsch gives a lecture in the session: "Advancing Sustainable Energy Transitions: Integrated Modelling and Assessment of Renewable Energy Systems"

"Predictive Two-Level Energy Management for the Energetic Optimization of Multi-Family Houses and Districts"

🌍 A workshop of the "District heating network optimization" association
In order to achieve the climate targets, the heating networks are to be decarbonized by 2045. This will require around 100,000 new connections per year - the grid must be modernized and expanded. At the same time, the feed-in structure is changing drastically - from large power plants to decentralized feeders. Innovative grid management strategies and new asset management concepts are therefore essential in order to achieve these goals. As part of the event, the district heating association funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK) will present new solutions and tools.

💡 Seven grid operators, AGFW | Der Energieeffizienzverband für Wärme, Kälte und KWK e.V., five companies and seven research institutes are involved in four projects.
💡 In addition to presentations, workshops and poster sessions will be held together with operators and service providers to discuss how obstacles can be removed and how the new solutions can be implemented on a broad scale.

👉 The presentations of the lectures are available here Link  (passwort „FW-Verbund“) only in German

👉 Together with the Fraunhofer IOSB-AST, the Fraunhofer IOSB is leading the organization.
Program management: Thomas Bernard

The Baden-Württemberg AI Alliance brings together companies, municipalities and AI experts to develop concrete solutions for more efficient use of resources, intelligent mobility concepts, a sustainable circular economy and virtual marketplaces. Solutions for practical applications with real added value are developed in interactive workshops.
👉 We are co-organizer and represented by our AI expert.

The four focus topics of the workshops:

🔹 Tourist visitor management: How many guests are where? Steering measures, e.g. forecasting, creating incentives, promoting resource-conserving and conscious behavior,
with Christian Kühnert.

🔹 Energy-efficient mobility: capacity utilization forecast for VAG vehicles, traffic flow management, interface with energy suppliers, charging management for e-vehicles, energy consumption of vehicles.,
with Andreas Wunsch.

🔹 Circular economy: resource consumption/material flows, integration of the recycling industry, waste management, plastics industry, construction industry.

🔹 Virtual marketplace: An AI-supported matching tool that connects solution seekers and providers from the SME sector, facilitates exchange and promotes regional value creation.

With this event, the Wupper Association and the Düsseldorf district government want to offer a water management forum to all water stakeholders such as municipalities, districts, authorities, supply and disposal companies, water associations, industry, fisheries, agriculture, research and environmental protection associations, etc. The Fraunhofer IOSB will be on site as a competent partner with various projects such as "Maritime Robotics" or "Water 4.0 - Monitoring and Operational Management of Water Infrastructures".

👉 We were represented with a presentation:

Surveying a section of the Ruhr using an autonomous watercraft: a field report

Referent: Philipp Woock   

ICRA is the most important conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). It brings together researchers and industry professionals from around the world to share ideas and knowledge and advance robotics for the benefit of humanity. In times when technology is changing rapidly, it is more important than ever to participate in this event.

🤖 We have a total of two contributions for the ICRA25:

A presentation on our “GOOSE-EX” data set

We have developed a new data set for off-road robotics in collaboration with the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. While the UniBW data was published last year, this year we are presenting our own data sets, which are unique due to the application.
Referent: Miguel Granero

Challenge on "Workshop on Field Robotics"

This is a competition for data segmentation based on the GOOSE dataset.

👉 In the organizing team of the competition: Miguel Granero and Raphael Hagmanns.

The first event in the #Forschungs.Focaccia series starts at 19:00 at TRIANGEL in Karlsruhe. Regional mobility research projects - including those involving Fraunhofer IOSB - will present themselves in a relaxed atmosphere.
In addition to the eponymous focaccia, the event includes the presentation of three projects. Afterwards, there will be room for questions as well as the opportunity to discuss the projects in greater depth with the respective representatives in an open discussion.

👉 Fraunhofer IOSB is leading two of the projects presented, one of which is:

DAKIMO - Data and AI as enablers for sustainable, intermodal mobility

Launched in 2021, the "DAKIMO" research project aims to make sustainable and intermodal mobility more attractive and seamless using artificial intelligence (AI) methods. In addition to the project management by  Jens Ziehn, Fraunhofer IOSB is driving the development of AI methods to merge live environmental data such as weather, traffic conditions and mobility offers and to create preference and behaviour models for system optimization and standard-compliant connection to the mobility data space.

The partners of the innovation network met here for the first time with the aim of generating and jointly initiating new project ideas. It promotes innovative technologies for a climate-neutral heat supply and is therefore intended to make a significant contribution to implementing the heating transition and decarbonizing the heating sector. The network is funded by the BMWE.

The main topics:
➡️ Innovative solutions for the use of industrial waste heat
➡️ Development of digital and intelligent heating networks
➡️ Efficient integration of hydrogen for climate-neutral heat generation
➡️ Smart neighborhood solutions for a sustainable energy supply
➡️ Development of new components and systems for heating networks

We are involved in area 2 "Development of digital and intelligent heating networks".

Contact person is here Thomas Bernard, Group Manager Process Management and Data Analysis.

Digitalization, robotics and artificial intelligence for civil engineering and the remediation of landfills and contaminated sites: Fraunhofer IOSB Innovation Day in cooperation with the ROBDEKON competence center - robotic systems for decontamination in hostile environments.

Program preview

• Automation of construction and logistics
  From autonomous construction and work machines to autonomous transport vehicles: we give you an overview of the state of the art and offer you the opportunity to try out our systems live.
• Material evaluation and sorting
  Comprehensive processing of demolition waste can only be successful if the material is optimally evaluated and sorted accordingly. We will show you how this can be done in a highly automated and reliable manner.
• Digital product passport
  The digital product passport is the basis for the traceability of materials and effective reuse of raw materials in the recycling process. We will show you the details of how to implement this important digitalization module.
• Contributions from research and industry
  Find out about the latest research results at first hand and see our solutions in action.

Discuss the future of civil engineering with us and experts from industry and application!