9th International VDI Conference - Connected Off-Highway Machines

• Innovation Process along the Customer Journey
• Application of Advanced Analytics & AI
• Extended Reality & Data Augmentation
  Dr. Christoph Gugg , Lead Digital Innovation, PALFINGER AG, Austria

• Enabling reliable and seamless connectivity
• Performance of cellular and Wi-Fi
• Enabling precision positioning from radio and NTRIP
  Dr.-Ing. Heikki Keränen, Head of Technology, Satel, Finland

• The Power of Satellite in Off-Highway Machine Connectivity:  Revolutionizing real-time data transmission and remote monitoring
• Real-world examples of how satellite technology enhances fleet management, operational efficiency, and safety
• Insights into multi orbit satellite networks, including GEO and NGSO systems, and share on terminal developments optimized for off-highway machine connectivity
  Charlie Coates, Senior Principal Market Development Manager, Land Mobility Business Development, Intelsat, USA

• 4D imaging radar technology in agriculture
• Localization in Vineyards using radar to guide semi and autonomous vehicles
• Detection of objects based on radar in an agricultural environment
  Tommy Ertbølle Madsen, CEO and Co-Founder, Co-authors: Christian Metz, Antoni Benavent, all of AgriRobot, Denmark

• Embedded systems - IoT gateway
• Tractor API
• Human in the loop
  Wofgang Hollerweger, Principal Software & Functions Engineer, AVL List GmbH, Austria

• Exploring the role of XR technologies for cabin-based and teleoperation applications
• Demonstrating XR technlogy application in real work environment
• Discussing the potential of XR of operation performance based on usability, situation awareness, attention and workload
• Outlining further evaulation activities
  Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Lorenz, Chair of Industrial Design Engineering, Research Associate, Co-author: Dr.-Ing Volker Waurich, both of Technische Universität Dresden

• Weaknesses of common programming languages such as C/C++ require numerous tools to meet normative, regulatory and quality requirements
• Fast development cycles can no longer be achieved without compromising quality
• Rust has the potential and the innovative strength to become the leading language in modern software development
• A complete migration of existing software to Rust is costly, there is an interest in partial integration
  Dr. rer. nat. Peter Faymonville, Senior Manager Functional Safety, Engineering Methods & Processes, ITK Engineering GmbH, Germany

• Virtual prototyping approaches for automated solutions
• Motion control and sensor technologies
• Interoperability for connected and automated fleets of construction machinery
  Dr.-Ing. Volker Waurich, Construction Future Lab gGmbH (CFLab), Germany

During the interactive World Café Session, we invite you to directly engage with other experts. It is an interactively moderated discussion on different topics. Discuss and identify challenges within your sector as well as problems, needs and solutions.

At the end of the first conference day, we kindly invite you to use the relaxed and informal atmosphere at our conference dinner for indepth conversations with other participants and speakers.

• Building a database for perception tasks in low-volume applications, e.g. construction and agriculture
• Leverage data from various sources for cost-savings and faster go-to-market
• Development of multitask detection models for robustness
  Dr. Felix Nobis, Perception Lead, driveblocks GmbH, Germany

• Functional Safety and environment perception
• Collision Avoidance
• Autonomy and Assistance Systems
• Off highway SAE layer 4 functional safe autonomy
  Dipl. Ing. Christoph Mueller, PhD, CEO, MobileTronics GmbH, Germany

• Safety of machinery depends on the situational context
• Perception performance increases through simultaneous bottom-up and top-down processing
• Perceptive interaction allows for reacting to unforeseen events and disturbances
  Dr. Patrick Wolf, Senior Safety Engineer, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

• Overview of the Technology: spot spraying and its significance in promoting sustainable and efficient agricultural practices with the example of ONE SMART SPRAY
• Addressing Challenges: technical and operational hurdles faced during the project‘s life span, alongside the adaptive strategies and solutions
• European LIFE Project Insights
• Next Steps on commercialization of Smart Herbicide Application Technologies in Europe
  Janis Faltmann, Head of Region Europe, ONE SMART SPRAY a Joint Venture between Bosch and BASF, Germany

• Data for AI model training must be high performance, flexible, and scalable.
• Data helps AI models identify and extract meaningful features from input data.
• Quality and depth of training data significantly impact the success of AI models.
  Frank Kraemer, Systems Architect, IBM, Germany

• Introduction into the risk, which comes with various new technologies
• Besides to interfaces and connectivity the main focus is of attackers view to AI
• Overview about various regulations that may or may not have an influence to this market segment in the future
  Marcus Klische, MHP Management- und IT-Beratung GmbH, Germany

• The impact of recent advancements in Generative AI on the off-road industry
• Improving workplace safety using perception technology
• How to leveraging vision technology to boost workplace efficiency?
  Pedro Ribeiro, Innovation Expert, Blaxtair, France

• Upcoming Safety and Cybersecurity regulation from EU will hit the machinery industry
• Challenges will be on the process, method and tool, but also on operational level
• Since the automotive industry had these challenges recently - there are best practices and lessons learned which can be reused
  Georg Graupner, Managing Consultant Cybersecurity for Automotive and connected fleet industries, NTT DATA Deutschland SE, Germany