Last Thursday, the festival KOSMOS Chemnitz #Wirbleibenmehr took place in Chemnitz city centre. The city presented itself with a colourful programme of concerts, readings, workshops, exhibitions, panels and sociopolitical discussions. On Düsseldorfer Platz, FusionSystems and the Chemnitz companies Baselabs, FDTech, Intenta and Naventik presented their developments for the future of urban mobility: automated driving. All 5 companies are represented in the newly founded cluster Chemnitz Automated Driving Alliance (CADA) and, together with CWE and the City of Chemnitz, want to advance research and development in the field of automated driving in Chemnitz.
At KOSMOS Chemnitz, we presented our sensor vehicle and our expertise in vehicle environment perception, vehicle interior monitoring, person and object detection, and the positioning and localisation of vehicles. From 12 noon, interested visitors had the opportunity to find out about current developments in automated driving and to talk to the companies. In various panels, the companies provided information and insights. The programme opened with the School & Family Talk on the topic “Automated Driving for Beginners”, in which representatives of the participating companies answered questions from school students and their families. Since all companies in the CADA cluster except FDTech started as spin-offs of Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz), the Founders' Talk was a good opportunity to promote Chemnitz as a location for starting a business. In the subsequent Experts' Talk, the company representatives took questions from Dirk Vogel, network manager of the automotive supplier network AMZ, and answered questions such as: What is happening here to make room for the mobility of tomorrow? How will automated driving change future mobility?
We thank all visitors and interested parties for the great response and the positive feedback on the topic of automated driving, as well as the organisers for the good planning and implementation, and we look forward to further events in this format.
