Articles – Magazine of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS

Artificial Intelligence
What happens when AI fails to deliver?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has to be able to handle uncertainty before we can trust it to deliver in safety-critical use cases, for example, autonomous cars. The Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS is investigating ways to help AI reason with uncertainty, one being the operational design domain.

Autonomous driving

Institute buildup/expansion

March 25, 2021

Transfer infrastructure
High-performance center brings boost to Munich region

High-performance centers pool together the expertise of Fraunhofer Institutes at a regional level and reinforce this know-how through collaboration with additional university and non-university research organizations. In Munich, the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS is a partner in the High-Performance Center Secure Intelligent Systems LZSiS.

March 19, 2021

Portrait Andreas Kreutz
Driven by an urge to explore

Andreas Kreutz, research engineer at Fraunhofer IKS, likes breaking new ground — both in his research and in his spare time. Part seven of our employee profile series.

Employee portraits

February 25, 2021

Bavarian high-tech agenda
Fraunhofer IKS expands its fields of research

The Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS is now over a year old. To ensure its second year gets off to a good start, it has received further funding from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs to the tune of 20 million euros, which will be used to speed up the process of expanding into new research areas.

Institute buildup/expansion

February 18, 2021

ResilientSOA
Towards resilient architectures for cognitive systems

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate software algorithms and physical structures. To exceed the simple embedded systems of today, advances in CPS require several properties, particularly adaptability, resilience, and safety. Lean management of CPS with resilient architectures satisfies these requirements by combining data distribution with service-oriented structures. A practical use case: a moving robot in a warehouse.

Industry 4.0

Institute buildup/expansion

January 28, 2021

Portrait Poulami Sinhamahapatra
“It´s fun when ideas work out”

Poulami Sinhamahapatra doesn’t just work on new developments at Fraunhofer IKS – in her free time she also writes poetry and blog posts in English and Hindi. She was inspired to enter the worlds of art and research by reading science fiction books. Part 4 of our employee portraits series.

Employee portraits

January 21, 2021

Kleinste Wassertropfen auf einem Blatt in schwarzweiß

Munich Quantum Valley
A quantum leap for machine learning

Fraunhofer IKS is carrying out research into safe software applications for quantum computers. The work is part of the new Bavarian initiative Munich Quantum Valley.

Safety engineering

January 14, 2021

Interview with Simon Burton
“I’ve always had a great affinity for research.”

Science needs to prove that systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) are safe enough. That is what Prof. Simon Burton, who recently became Division Director for Safety at Fraunhofer IKS, is calling for. In this interview he explains the institute’s approaches to ensuring safety.

Artificial intelligence

Interviews

December 8, 2020

Fighting climate change with artificial intelligence

When it comes to environmental protection and climate action, most people think of renewable energies, electric cars and sustainable consumer goods. Very few would associate it with artificial intelligence (AI), but in fact AI has a crucial part to play in the fight against pollution and climate change.

Artificial intelligence

November 13, 2020

Flexilience: balancing key requirements in autonomous systems

Reconciling safety, performance and reliability in cloud-based cognitive systems is no easy task. Especially in safety-critical autonomous systems such as driverless cars, expectations rightly assume that all three requirements are implemented at the highest level. However, this comes up against limited resources. The Fraunhofer IKS has developed an approach for optimising safety, performance and reliability depending on the current situation and concrete applications: flexilience.

Cognitive systems

Institute buildup/expansion

October 16, 2020

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