Smart Mobility News

Reinickendorf district town hall visitors can now use the barrier-free indoor navigation system “everGuide”. A team of researchers from the Smart Mobility business unit at Fraunhofer FOKUS developed the free app.

Digital curbside management optimizes curbside parking by enabling dynamic time slots for delivery vehicles, taxis, etc. The Smart Mobility team at Fraunhofer FOKUS has developed a smartphone-based curbside screening solution that integrates diverse sensor sources in the street space to obtain an accurate picture of the current street situation.

The Smart Mobility team at Fraunhofer FOKUS has developed new components for Eclipse MOSAIC in order to evaluate different traffic state estimation systems in a simulation. After all, optimal routing through the city is only possible if the current traffic situation is known precisely. This avoids congestion and promotes sustainability.

How can autonomous driving be made more reliable? Yesterday, the “KI-FLEX” project presented its research results. The initiative was built around a high-performance, energy-efficient, and yet flexible hardware platform with the corresponding software framework, which uses AI technology to process and fuse data from various sensors. This allows vehicles to perceive and localize environmental stimuli in a manner that is fast, efficient, and reliable.

There are times in traffic situations when cyclists are difficult to detect even for the most advanced vehicle sensors - for example, when they are obscured for a few seconds by a stopping bus. In the project Reallabor Hamburg Fraunhofer FOKUS used its Eclipse MOSAIC simulation framework to demonstrate that uninterrupted object detection can be achieved by fusing LIDAR data from multiple automated cars, thus providing even better protection for particularly vulnerable road users in the future.

To warn drivers of a collision with a cyclist, an e-scooter rider of road damage, or to guide a blind person to the right government office or the bus door, highly accurate localization is always of fundamental importance. Fraunhofer FOKUS will be presenting its “Location-as-a-Service” at the ITS World Congress in Hamburg from October 11 to 15, 2021, at the “Reallabor Hamburg” project booth in Hall B2.

The business unit Smart Mobility demonstrates how the open-source simulation environment Eclipse MOSAIC can be used to test and further develop Remote-Operated Driving (ROD).

On the occasion of EclipseCon 2020, Fraunhofer FOKUS launches its simulation environment Eclipse MOSAIC. This solution is based on VSimRTI (Vehicle-2-X Simulation Runtime Infrastructure), which has been developed over the last 12 years in close cooperation with the DCAITI of the TU Berlin and has already been used by more than 600 partners to test mobility services and traffic scenarios. Eclipse MOSAIC is now partially available as open-source.

In the three-year EU project INFRAMIX, simulations and real field tests on motorways in Austria, Spain and Germany have shown that digitalization and communication form an efficient bridge between conventional and automated vehicles, thus enabling mixed traffic. Fraunhofer FOKUS used its simulation environment Eclipse MOSAIC (formerly VSimRTI) in the project and developed it further.

Around 30 project partners are developing digital mobility solutions in a common ecosystem for the Hanseatic City of Hamburg by the end of 2021. Fraunhofer FOKUS is participating in an app for particularly vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists and users of e-scooters.