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Interview with Niels Syassen, SICK AG
“It makes sense to start by solving a simple problem”

Quality assurance is one of the, if not the most crucial competitive factors for industrial companies. German companies have long since recognized this and generally do not have to contend with quality issues. But that comes at a cost. Artificial intelligence is now believed to become a game changer in quality assurance. Dr. Niels Syassen, Executive Board member with responsibility for SICK AG’s Technology & Digitalization portfolio, explains how this will work.

Industry 4.0

January 29, 2025

Autonomous Driving
Myths and reality

There are so many myths about autonomous driving and safety in the public debate. We're going to look at four of them here from a US perspective.

Autonomous driving

January 16, 2025

DEEP Series (Data Efficient Evaluation Platform), Part 1
Reliable AI Enables Automation of Quality Inspection in Industry

Machine learning (ML) is considered a promising technology for the automation of quality control in production environments, even if the requirements are complex. However, ML approaches require sufficiently large datasets for training of the system, which are often unavailable. The ML toolchain DEEP (Date Efficient Evaluation Platform) from Fraunhofer IKS addresses this challenge.

Artificial intelligence

December 18, 2024

Autonomous driving
Where driverless cars still have some catching up to do

Autonomous driving can work well in precisely defined areas of use. Yet if driverless cars are let loose into the free-for-all of everyday road traffic unprepared, difficulties can crop up that these vehicles are not prepared to cope with. Three examples.

Autonomous driving

December 4, 2024

Safetronic 2024 Review
Extending existing processes of Functional Safety

Complex behavior presented by modern vehicles relies on complex sensors recognizing the environment of the vehicle. Unfortunately, this functionality does not operate in a black-white scheme.

Autonomous driving

November 20, 2024

Safetronic 2024: Preview
A Linux based OS solution for safety related applications up to ASIL-B/ SIL-2

High-performance computers (HPC) as the central elements of E/E-architectures in software-driven vehicles need an adequate operating system solution. Linux is a good choice for HPCs.

Safety engineering

October 23, 2024

Safetronic 2024: Preview
Architectures for Safe Automated Driving

The demanding integrity and availability requirements of Highly Automated Driving need to be addressed by suitable architectures.

Autonomous driving

October 7, 2024

Interview with Jessica Kelly
"At Fraunhofer IKS I would say we have a strong representation of women within our team"

The days of hollow “women's power” phrases are over. This has long since become a social demand for equal opportunities for women, which is clearly formulated, emphatically demanded and often put into practice - albeit with varying degrees of commitment. Jessica Kelly, who has been a researcher at the institute since 2022, explains what it looks like in science and at Fraunhofer IKS.

Interviews

September 25, 2024

Safetronic 2024: Preview
Explainable Statistical Evaluation of an Automated Driving System Functionality

Algorithms used in automated driving systems are complex and use non-deterministic deep neural networks. Some variants of deep neural networks can be explained theoretically but their behavior under all conditions for the set of safety-critical scenarios to be covered by the automated driving system in the given operational design domain is generally not readily understood. Here is how it could work – a new approach.

Autonomous driving

September 6, 2024

Interview with Alexandre Sawczuk da Silva
»An international team can strengthen the quality of the work we deliver«

Research teams at the Fraunhofer IKS live and breathe diversity. The researchers come from a total of 25 countries. Dr. Alexandre Sawczuk da Silva from Brazil is one of them. In this interview, he describes his path to Fraunhofer research.

Interviews

August 29, 2024

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