Germany
within the AI Matters project
The German hub is located in Stuttgart, Germany, with a member in Braunschweig, and comprises four partner institutes.
For example, the hub focuses on technologies for:
Testing collaborative robot applications
Testing AMR systems
Member of the consortium
German knot
In a variety of application industries, such as:
- Manufacturing
- Logistics
- Automotive industry
- Electronics
5
year project
25
partners
8
countries
7 nodes + 1.60 M€ of budget
30M€
of EU funding
Members of the node
Fraunhofer IPA
- Head of the German node
- part of the Fraunhofer organization
- Fraunhofer is the largest organization for applied research in Germany
- Fraunhofer IPA focuses on manufacturing and automation
Contact person:
Dr. Björn Kahl
bjoern.kahl@ipa.fraunhofer.de
Institute of Electrical Energy Conversion (IEW)
- Part of the University of Stuttgart
- research focuses on electrical machines and contactless energy transmission
- applications in the fields of mobility, medical technology and industrial applications
Contact person:
Urs Pecha
urs.pecha@iew.uni-stuttgart.de
Research Campus ARENA2036
- Research campus with over 50 partners from industry and science on one platform
- Focus on research in production and mobility
- Establishment of services with robotics infrastructure for AI applications
Contact person:
Muhammad Saeed
muhammad.saeed@arena2036.de
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
- National Institute of Metrology
- Founded in 1887
- Today: 3 locations, employees: ≈ 2000
- Institution of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Policy
- Department of Precision Engineering Focus: Production Metrology
- Virtual instruments (dig. twin), testing of algorithms for CMMs
Contact person:
Dr. Harald Bosse
harald.bosse@ptb.de
Node members
Fraunhofer IPA
- Leading the German node
- Part of Fraunhofer organization
- Fraunhofer is biggest applied research organization in Germany
- Fraunhofer IPA focuses on manufacturing and automation
Lead contact
Dr. Björn Kahl
bjoern.kahl@ipa.fraunhofer.de
Institute of Electrical Energy Conversion (IEW)
- Part of University of Stuttgart
- Research focus on electrical machines and contactless energy transfer
- Applications in the areas mobility, medical technology and industrial applications
Lead contact
Urs Pecha
urs.pecha@iew.uni-stuttgart.de
Research Campus ARENA2036
- Research campus with over 50 partners from industry and science on one platform
- Focused on research in production and mobility
- Establishing services with robotic infrastructure for AI applications
Lead contact
Frederik Wulle frederik.wulle@arena2036.de
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
- National metrology institute
- Founded 1887
- Today: 3 sites, staff: ≈ 2000
- Agency of Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
- Precision Engineering Division focus: manufacturing metrology
- Virtual instruments (dig. twin), Testing of algorithms for CMM
Lead contact
Dr. Harald Bosse harald.bosse@ptb.de
Infrastructure services hub
Robotics laboratory at Fraunhofer IPA, one of the test and experimentation rooms of the German Node.
Experimental rooms
- ARENA2036 (main building)
- Werk150 – Training and testing facility for efficient production
- Robotics laboratory and other facilities at Fraunhofer IPA
- IEW at the University of Stuttgart
Infrastructure
- Measuring equipment for industrial robots (laser trackers, collision pads)
- Mobile robot measuring devices (optical tracking system, area monitoring system)
- Production line production logistics environment
- Robot cell environment
- Test benches for image processing
- Test benches for electrical machines and drives
Exemplary services offered
- Validation of AI algorithms for production with data sets or virtual environments
- Validation of AI algorithms in physical production environments (production lines, robot cells, production logistics)
- Testing the latest technologies such as 5G, 6G, compute clusters and other digital infrastructures
- Certification of AI algorithms for image compression and classification, e.g. of CT data or electron microscope images of nanoscale particles
