6th International VDI Conference - Connected Off-Highway Machines

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Chair’s Welcome and Opening Address:
Michael Gomes, Vice President, Topcon Agriculture, USA

I. Connected Vehicle Technology

Opening Keynote

A Bold View on the Future of Connected Off-Highway Machines

• Taking the ecosystem perspective
• Fight for the digital layer
• Developing new business opportunities
• Outlook and key takeaways

Andreas Baier, Partner Industrial Goods & Services & Oliver Dolny, Manager Industrial Goods & Services, both: Porsche Consulting GmbH, Germany

Perspectives of a Connected and Automated Construction Site

• Wireless communication systems for construction sites: Comprehensive data flow between machines, assets and a central management instance
• Key requirements for automated machine operation and construction work driven by digital models
• Research project “Bauen 4.0“ – from simple asset tracking devices to machine on-board systems up to site planning and management software

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Will & Volker Waurich, both: Stiftungsprofessur für Baumaschinen, TU Dresden, Germany

Why the Process Is the Best Interface between Connected Machines

• Lean construction & smart equipment
• Human machine interaction
• Data driven continuous improvement

Dr. Lucas J Winter, Managing Director, CONTAKT GmbH, Austria

Solving Connectivity Challenges for a Remote Controlled Excavator

• Remote control – a step towards the autonomy
• Varying data use cases and their throughput, delay requirememets: Control, sensors, video
• Real life connectivity implementation solving the issues

M.Sc.Eng Heikki Keränen, Head of Technology, Satel, Finland

Lunch

II. The Future of Autonomous Mobile Machines

Hardware and Software Platforms for Autonomous Operations

• Advanced automation and autonomy pose new challenges for hard- and software developers
• Higher performance requirements are emerging together with the need for increased safety levels 1st day
• The adoption of new technologies will re-define the collaboration between the operator and the machine

Dipl. Ing. Andreas Locatelli, Senior Product Manager, TTControl GmbH, Austria

Environmental Sensing for Connected Off-Highway Machines

• From assistant systems to autonomous solutions for off-highway
• Use case overview in off-highway
• Environmental sensing

Dr.-Ing. Lars Thielke, Business Development Manager, Continental Automotive GmbH, Germany

Digital Transformation of Earthmoving: Keep the Distance by Digital Assistance

• Assisted automation in the movement of earth and measurement of terrain
• Digital transformation: From data to knowledge
• Digital twinning of processes and remote jobsite management

Karsten Elles, Smart Construction Market Development Manager & Ian De Dobbelaere, Smart Construction, both: Komatsu Europe International, Germany

Networking & Coffee Break

III. Data Management & Data Privacy

Data Platform Serving Multiple Stakeholders

• What defines a ”data platform serving multiple stakeholders” and what are decision criteria for choosing the right platform?
• Why do IoT initiatives fail and what challenges do customers face in IoT projects?
• Ready made IoT solutions for customers within a powerful IoT platform environment

Ralf Parfuss, Founder and CEO, t-matix solutions GmbH, Austria

Governments are Catching Up: Requirements & Impact on Connected Machinery

• Data Governance rules in the EU
• OEMs must balance data privacy, data sharing, cybersecurity

Vik Vandecaveye, Cybersecurity & IoT Regulatory Compliance, CNH Industrial, Belgium

Identifying the Correlation Between Functional Software Changes and Regulated Vehicle Functions

• What is regulated? The software or the software functionality?
• Validation requirements by WP29 and type approval regulations
• Does updated software necessarily affect the type approval?
• Speaking the same language – how to report the effect of the software update
• How can software change validation verify warranty eligibility?

Roger Ordman, Executive Vice President, Aurora Labs, Israel

End of Conference Day One

Get-together:

Relaxed  and informal atmosphere for in-depth conversations

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Chair‘s Opening

IV. Maintenance & Monitoring of Connected Off-Highway Machines

Opening Keynote

The Journey from Smart Data to Smart Service

• Fuchs digital journey
• Integration and combination of digital services
• The added value for all stake holders
• Projections and visions about the next level and generation of smart service

Dominik Vierkotten, General Manager & Thomas Sandrock, Director Product Support & Quality, both: Terex Deutschland GmbH, Germany

Smart Camera AI/From Optical Perception to Intelligent Processing on the Edge

• Smart camera AI – the intelligent key sensor in off-highway machines
• Combining robustness, powerful artificial intelligence and machine
• Learning features in one device local data processing, filtered data transfer to the cloud and faster decision-making right on the spot
• Use cases: Feature extraction, people and object detection, area surveillance, predictive maintenance

Sven Salzer, Managing Director, Ark Vision Systems, Germany

V. Safety and Connencted Off-Highway Machines

Environment Detection and Safe Decision Making for Off Highway Mixed Traffic Operation of Mobile Machines

• Environment recognition for automatic motion of mobile machines
• None of the long range environment recognition systems available today used for guidance are functional safe
• Sensor diversity and redundancy
• Processing by certified PLd/Cat3 mobile safety controllers
• Functional safe decision making basing on the available environmental sensor data and the driving situation

Dr. Christoph Mueller, CEO, MobileTronics GmbH, Germany

Networking & Coffee Break

LiDAR in Off-Road – Use Cases, Challenges and Solutions

• Applications and uses cases in agriculture, mining and construction
• Challenges of esthetical and reliable integration
• Handling of contamination
• Using AI to cover safety and automation tasks
• Robust sensor technology and manufacturability

Karsten Bronowski, Business Development Manager, XenomatiX, Belgium

Develop Safe & Certifiable Software: Learnings from the Passenger Vehicle Industry

• Key trends and challenges in developing the software defined off-highway vehicle of the future
• Layered software architectures (e.g. AUTOSAR) to manage software complexity
• Toolchain definition and integration for safety standard compliant development (e.g. ISO 26262 / ISO 25119 etc.)
• Automated processes to reduce efforts in achieving compliance and (re-) certification

Gaurav Tomar, Automotive Industry Manager EMEA & Mohammad Abu-Alqumsan, Product Manager, IEC Certification Kit, both: MathWorks, Germany

Lunch

Panel Discussion:

The Challenges of Mixed Fleet Management

• Connectivity & communication
• Effects of Covid-19

Panelist to be announced

Networking & Coffee Break

VI. Fleet Management & Fleet Operations

Feature-On-Demand & Fleet-On-Demand: How On-demand Solutions Conquer the Construction Site and What Effects This Has on OEM‘s

• On-demand solutions
• Differentiation via software
• Smartphone on the construction site
• Impact on OEMs

Stefan Öttl, Irdeto B.V., Director Business Development, Off-Highway, Austria

Fleet Management
Speaker to be announced

Conference Chair‘s Closing Remarks

End of Conference