EDAG Tech Insights (6)

More Efficient Image Processing Using AI

The analysis of video data for the recognition of movement using artificial intelligence (AI) requires a lot of materials and energy. However, neural networks that are processing information via two different data streams deliver results of high accuracy with little effort. The EDAG research project furthermore offers optimization potential for...

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Electrics & Electronics

The Key to a Powerful Charging Infrastructure

The success of the electric car rests on the question of whether adequate charging facilities can be created. Municipalities are expected to create even more charging stations, even more ultra-rapid charging points. Topping up batteries faster and faster isn't necessarily the only solution. The alternative is to "refuel" on more occasions – with a...

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Electrics & Electronics

The Battery Cell: Key Technology in the Electric Powertrain

In the traditional vehicle world, engine technology is regarded as one of the vital unique selling points of a vehicle manufacturer. Key vehicle characteristics are derived from the power unit, which is also a central element of value creation. In an electrified, digital vehicle world, it is no longer the combustion engine or electric motor, but...

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Software & Digitalisation

Improved Efficiency with Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence

Whether for planned maintenance or due to unplanned downtime - if the assembly lines are at a standstill and no cars can be produced, the company loses money. Predictive maintenance promises a solution: this is a method that helps to optimise maintenance intervals and detect incipient problems in good time, long before the machinery breaks down....

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Software & Digitalisation

How Mobility Data generates Business Models

The digitalization of traffic in Germany is continually gathering pace. Using vehicle and traffic infrastructure data opens up numerous opportunities, for example in the development of smart cities or new business models. But for this to happen, we need unhindered communication by means of open standards – and the corresponding publicly-owned...

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Vehicle Engineering

EDAG makes the brake fit for the eCar

The electrification of the powertrain also has an effect on the brake system – many previously valid concepts and experiences are losing their validity. In order to meet the resulting requirements, not only innovative solutions, but also new methods and tools need to be developed, for simulation and testing processes for instance. EDAG has now...

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Software & Digitalisation

An AI based raindrop detection system for Autonomous Driving

On one hand automotive industry’s largest researched field, Autonomous Driving is leading to revolutionary shift by teaching the cars how to drive on its own in both controlled and uncontrolled environments. On the other hand, it is almost impossible to develop cars that can surpass human driving without a powerful and a reliable sensor system,...

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Vehicle Engineering

The next energy boost

New forms of energy and drive are increasingly becoming the focus of mobility and infrastructure developers. EDAG is now bundling its competences in a new business unit: "Energy Systems and Drivetrain". Green electricity, e-mobility, hydrogen and fuel cells: these are the buzzwords on the way to new mobility and new, smart production methods. One...

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Vehicle Engineering

From trucks to combine harvesters: how EDAG is advancing the automation of commercial vehicles

They weigh several tonnes. Skillfully steering them across the fields requires years of experience: without combine harvesters, agriculture would not exist in its current form. But can even huge vehicles like these be operated without a driver? Autonomous driving on public roads is still prohibited by law - but technologically possible. Adapting...

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Vehicle Engineering

Lights on the way to intelligent communication

Car lights – long underestimated – are developing into key players for the future of automobility. What might initially sound a bit far-fetched becomes clear as soon as it comes to communication between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles: "Has the self-driving car noticed me, and can I cross the road?" – this is the point at which lights become...

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