On Tuesday, 11 August, State Minister Regina Kraushaar visited HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering GmbH in Chemnitz as part of her summer tour. FusionSystems was also on site as a project partner of HÖRMANN and provided insights into solutions for vehicle environment perception.
Autonomous driving emerges from the interplay of many disciplines. A central foundation is the reliable perception of the environment: data from camera, radar, and lidar must be brought together, interpreted, and made usable for downstream driving functions. At FusionSystems, we combine modern AI methods with classical algorithms in hybrid processing chains for this purpose.
Another important topic of the exchange was the Letter of Intent on autonomous driving in public transport and its extension, on the initiative of HÖRMANN, to include rail as a field of action.
Road and rail place different demands on automated systems. Many technological foundations, however – such as environment perception, sensor fusion, and robust data processing – are transferable. The fact that both fields of action are now covered by the agreement is therefore an important signal for the further development of autonomous mobility in Saxony.
In Chemnitz, competencies along the entire development chain from the sensor to the driving function are concentrated in one place. This strength is also the result of many years of collaboration between the local companies and research partners – among others in the CADA – Chemnitz Automated Driving Alliance network, in which FusionSystems is also active.
Many thanks to State Minister Regina Kraushaar for the technical exchange and her interest in the technological developments in Chemnitz. We also thank HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering GmbH for hosting, as well as CADA - Chemnitz Automated Driving Alliance, CVAG (Chemnitzer Verkehrs-AG), FDTech GmbH, staff-eye GmbH, and Sächsische Energieagentur - SAENA GmbH for the joint exchange.
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