Ensuring Trustworthiness of AI-Enhanced Embedded Systems
In the white paper “Ensuring Trustworthiness of AI-Enhanced Embedded Systems”, Infineon Technologies and Fraunhofer IKS present how to apply a unified safety lifecycle on an AI-Based Motor Control Unit (AI-MC) illustrative use case.
The new Fraunhofer IKS building is currently under construction on the Fraunhofer campus in Garching near Munich. The move is planned for next year. You can find more information here.
We are looking forward to welcoming you at our events:
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11.12.2025
Beyond Safety Forum
On December 11, 2025, SICK invites you to the fourth Beyond Safety Forum. The event is being held in cooperation with Fraunhofer IKS. This edition focuses on a key question: How can we ensure safety while systems become increasingly complex?
Safety and flexibility in production – a contradiction? Not at all. We will show you how you can have both and achieve higher profits. Artificial intelligence plays a decisive role in this. We will demonstrate this on February 5, 2026, at our Safe Intelligence Day with a focus on automation at Fraunhofer IKS in Munich.
Quantum machine learning (QML) offers a promising pathway for early adoption in industrial settings. For QML solutions to be effectively implemented in production, dedicated access to quantum hardware is essential. The quantum hardware ecosystem is rapidly evolving, with most of the infrastructure hosted by cloud providers. However, this reliance on cloud services presents challenges, including latency, security concerns, and high costs which can impede real-time applications. Is there a way to circumvent these limitations?
»It´s important that AI decisions are transparent«
Artificial Intelligence fascinated the medicine graduate during his studies. This fascination remained even after he graduated: today, Dr. Johannes Karg conducts research at the Fraunhofer IKS on a wide range of applications for AI in medicine.
„We wanted to open up a kind of window into our research engine room“
Fraunhofer IKS has introduced its Playground. This platform is especially designed for companies to explore the institute's offerings. In an interview, Institute Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp discusses the concept behind the Fraunhofer IKS Playground.
There is great hope: even if quantum computers initially “merely” improve the simulations of quantum mechanical processes, they could, among other things, help to train AI systems more efficiently in the future. The first small quantum computers are already commercially available. But what potential do they actually have today?
Artificial intelligence opens up new economic opportunities for companies. However, the integration of AI raises significant safety concerns in safety-critical systems. This results in a gap between economic potential and safety, the economic safety gap. But generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI, GenAI) can help close it.
Holistic safety for road vehicles is the focus of the annual Safetronic conference (November 12–13, 2025, in Leinfelden-Echterdingen). In a video discussion, Fraunhofer IKS Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp and Program comittee member Hans-Leo Ross, CARIAD, talk about the future of mobility.
The safety of a product, i.e., not causing harm, is a crucial property for its persistent success on the market and avoidance of legal risks for the manufacturer. However, since perfectsafety is typically not achievable, the question what defines acceptable safety and what defines acceptable risks, i.e., risk acceptance criteria (RAC), arises.
Would you like to know more about the research of Fraunhofer IKS? Then take a look at our Safe Intelligence online magazine. Here you can find out more about our research projects and our employees.
Would you like to know who your potential colleagues at Fraunhofer IKS are? Read our employee portraits on our Safe Intelligence Blog to find out what motivates our colleagues and what they are working on!
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