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Production / 17.7.2025

Autonomous Systems on a Leash

A precisely defined operating environment is not only important for autonomous driving. The Operational Design Domain (ODD) also ensures safety for many other highly automated systems in rail transport, logistics and mobile robotics.

Autonomous Systems

Artificial Intelligence / 9.7.2025

An alliance that benefits customers

Fraunhofer IKS has joined the Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance. According to the Institute Director Mario Trapp, exchange and collaboration within the alliance make it possible to pool expertise and create synergies - to the benefit of customers.

Fraunhofer Alliance

Portrait Lena Heidemann / 26.6.2025

"I have always tried to give myself the space to just try everything out."

Lena Heidemann has been part of the Fraunhofer IKS since November 2020. She initially joined the institute as a student assistant. Since November 2021, she has been a research engineer in the Industrial Sensing Systems department. Her curiosity, openness and willingness to simply try out new things led her to research.

Portrait Lena Heidemann

Quantum Computing / 25.6.2025

How secure are quantum machine learning systems?

Machine learning models are exposed to malicious external attacks that drastically falsify results and assessments - to the harm of people in safety-critical situations. Defense strategies already exist. But what happens when quantum computing comes into play? Together with partners, Fraunhofer IKS has taken a close look at the first approaches to averting danger.

Quantum Computing

Interview with Edith Holland / 12.6.2025

“Safety is a key aspect for public acceptance of automated driving”

Edith Holland is the new program advisor for Safetronic and chief engineer for functional safety at HORIBA MIRA. In our interview, she spoke about her motivation and the importance of safety for road vehicles today and in the future.

Interview Edith Holland

Automatica 2025 / 12.6.2025

Simplicity meets efficiency: working safely with your robot colleague

Seeing and being seen - this not only counts in the social arena, but also in the efficient and reliable cooperation between humans and robots in industrial production. Fraunhofer IKS will be demonstrating what this is all about in particular at Automatica in Munich at the end of June under the motto: “Simplicity is key”.

automatica 2025

Industrial Automation / 19.5.2025

MBO-KISS: The future of control applications in industry

Can AI revolutionize production control? This is the question the research project MBO-KISS (Methods for Evaluating and Optimizing AI-generated Control Applications Based on the Physical Simulation of Machines and Their Desired Behavior) aims to address. The project has started at the beginning of the year, with a total duration of three years. The goal is to investigate the possible usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating and securely applying control applications in industrial production.

Industrial Automation

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