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Research Project CONTROL of the Thuringian Mobility Innovation Center (ThIMo)

More safety for autonomous driving in complex environments

The CONTROL research project of the Thuringian Mobility Innovation Center (ThIMo) strengthens safety for autonomous driving in complex environments. Together with 24 partners, ThIMo is developing new methods to make automated vehicles on road and rail safer.
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THE KEY POINTS IN BRIEF
• The research project CONTROL is developing secure systems for autonomous driving.
• ThIMo combines real driving tests with virtual simulations.
• Goal: More safety and new standards for autonomous mobility.

The Thuringian Mobil­i­ty Inno­va­tion Cen­ter at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Ilme­nau has launched a large-scale research con­sor­tium project that promis­es greater safe­ty for autonomous dri­ving on roads and rail in com­plex envi­ron­ments. In the CONTROL project, 24 part­ners from research and indus­try, led by Siemens AG and Valeo Switch­es and Sen­sors GmbH, will devel­op inno­v­a­tive meth­ods for safe dri­ving of autonomous vehi­cles in the dynam­ic over­all sys­tems of road and rail. The costs of the three-year project, amount­ing to 30 mil­lion euros, are fund­ed by the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Eco­nom­ics and Ener­gy with 16 mil­lion euros.

Autonomous driving as the key to the mobility of the future

Autonomous dri­ving is con­sid­ered a key tech­nol­o­gy for tomor­row’s mobil­i­ty. It is intend­ed to pro­vide greater safe­ty, effi­cien­cy, and com­fort while reduc­ing emis­sions. Espe­cial­ly in pub­lic pas­sen­ger trans­port, new pos­si­bil­i­ties arise through auto­mat­ed peo­ple movers and dri­ver­less trains. How­ev­er, cur­rent sys­tems reach their lim­its in com­plex traf­fic sit­u­a­tions – this is where CONTROL comes in.

CONTROL: Security for autonomous vehicles on road and rail

The research project CONTROL devel­ops solu­tions for autonomous dri­ving in com­plex envi­ron­ments. The goal is to enable vehi­cles to act safe­ly even dur­ing Long-Tail events such as sud­den obsta­cles, chang­ing weath­er con­di­tions, or lim­it­ed vis­i­bil­i­ty. To this end, vehi­cles cap­ture and eval­u­ate uncer­tain­ties in real-time and ini­ti­ate auto­mat­ic safe­ty mea­sures as need­ed. The prac­ti­cal applic­a­bil­i­ty is ver­i­fied in sim­u­la­tions and real-world tests.

Thuringian Mobility Innovation Center as a Technology Driver

The Thuringian Mobil­i­ty Inno­va­tion Cen­ter (ThI­Mo) plays a cen­tral role in the CONTROL project. Its experts devel­op test meth­ods that com­bine real dri­ving tests with sim­u­la­tions. The “over-the-air vehi­cle-in-the-loop” method clos­es the test­ing chain between real and vir­tu­al envi­ron­ments – a glob­al­ly rec­og­nized approach for safe sen­sor devel­op­ment.

Research for safe mobility in Thuringia and beyond

Pro­fes­sor Matthias Hein, Direc­tor of ThI­Mo, empha­sizes: “The CONTROL project lays the tech­no­log­i­cal ground­work for safe autonomous sys­tems that will fun­da­men­tal­ly change mobil­i­ty.” In addi­tion to new stan­dards, the project aims to strength­en the inter­na­tion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness of the Ger­man indus­try and pave the way for new appli­ca­tions in robot­ics and indus­tri­al automa­tion.

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Erwin Kartnaller

Erwin Kartnaller has been a fixture in Swiss trade journalism covering commercial vehicles and mobility for over four decades. After 16 years working for daily newspapers and family magazines, he moved into trade media and wrote for virtually every commercial vehicle magazine published in Switzerland, with very few exceptions. For nine and a half years, he was editor-in-chief of the Swiss Commercial Vehicle Association ASTAG's magazine, where his precise language and clear stance had a lasting impact on industry communication. This was followed by positions in the automotive industry, including at Eurotax autoinformation and aboutFLEET. He also wrote specialist articles for Auto&Wirtschaft and Auto Bild Schweiz. With his platform www.ekacom.com (http://www.ekacom.com/), he continued to wield his “sharp pen” – an independent voice for clear words and pointed commentary. In his last professional role as editor-in-chief of Polyscope, he immersed himself in the world of electronics – a field that is increasingly shaping mobility. Today, after his active professional life, Erwin Kartnaller is once again devoting himself entirely to his passion on the mobility-360.ch platform: mobility in all its facets.

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