04/17/2024 | According to a recent survey by Germany’s digital association Bitkom, 57% of Germans are convinced that means of transportation such as trains, buses, and cars will predominantly drive autonomously in the future. 49% believe that artificial intelligence (AI) can make the use of new mobility services more attractive. The results of the representative survey from the beginning of this year clearly show that acceptance of autonomous driving is growing. The safety factor plays a decisive role in ensuring that this remains the case. The KoSi (Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Safety Guarantees) joint project has taken safety a significant step forward, at least for autonomous cars. Together with its partners, fortiss successfully completed the three-year project at the beginning of January.

03/27/2024 | As part of the digital transformation process, small and medium-sized enterprises must continuously increase their efficiency and performance in order to remain competitive in the long term. A key component of this is the targeted use of customized software solutions. However, this often proves challenging in day-to-day operations due to limited resources and expertise. The aim of the Software4KMU project is to provide a software engineering toolbox that offers low-threshold yet comprehensive support.

03/20/2024 | The complexity of modern software-intensive systems is increasing rapidly in all sectors. To meet this challenge, industry is increasingly adopting model-based systems engineering (MBSE). AutoFOCUS 3 (AF3) is a proven research platform that implements the latest results from fortiss in the field of model-based development. AF3 is available as open source software, and the new version 2.24 offers numerous new functions that further enhance the platform's capabilities.

02/21/2024 | Artificial intelligence (AI) and sport - a promising symbiosis for load prediction, increased training efficiency and injury prevention. While prevalent in professional sports, AI now enters popular sports as well. The trAIner project, initiated in mid-January at the facilities of Munich-based company Kinexon, aims to develop a context-based AI system for player development in amateur basketball over a two-year collaboration period.

02/07/2024 | The rising number of passengers and the associated air traffic are increasingly pushing the civil aviation system to its capacity limits. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) could play an important role in meeting the challenges of this development. As part of the KIEZ 4-0 project, fortiss has therefore developed concepts together with its project partners from aviation and science to enable the certification of the safety of AI-supported applications in aviation. The results of the project were presented at the online closing event on February 6.

01/24/2024 | Climate-friendly and healthy consumption is not always easy to implement in everyday life - because in the jungle of content information, certificates of origin and labels, choosing the "right" product is often more difficult than expected. The web app "KISusCheck - Sustainable Shopping Assistant", which has been under development at the Kompetenzzentrum für Ernährung (KErn) since 2021, uses Artificial Intelligence and sound nutritional knowledge to ensure greater transparency when shopping for food. Together with business partner IBM Germany and the Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems fortiss, the research results to date and a current prototype were presented at the end of November 2023. The app's programming code is available as open source.