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Connected and autonomous driving is one of the key technologies for the mobility of the future. At CARISSMA the research and test center for vehicle safety at the Technical University of Ingolstadt THI research is carried out in particular on the road safety of self-driving vehicles. The Free State of Bavaria is supporting the research field with technology funding which is now being extended to the new VorSAFe-Plus project predictive safety systems for automated driving. In the research project of the CARISSMA Institute of Safety in Future Mobility C-ISAFE funded with 2.3 million euros a safety system is to be developed for predictive accident detection and the reduction of the consequences of accidents for highly automated vehicles.Bavarias State Secretary for Economic Affairs Roland Weigert emphasized on the occasion of the handover of the funding decision The automotive industry is the backbone and innovation engine of the Free States economy. We want to secure the technological leadership of our manufacturers and suppliers in the long term including in the future-oriented topic of autonomous driving. We are providing research funding of over 20 million euros for this purpose. The funds will flow into the four regional associations for autonomous driving that have been established in Ingolstadt Dingolfing Kempten and Aschaffenburg.Weigert The regional network and the cutting edge research at the Technical University make Ingolstadt a leading region for the smart digital mobility of the future. In addition to VorSAFe-Plus the Ministry of Economic Affairs is funding three other sub-projects in the field of safe automated driving at THI with a total of five million euros. We are not only investing in the competitiveness of the Bavarian automotive industry but are also strengthening Ingolstadt as a science location. VorSAFe-PLUS is part of a large-scale research project made up of four sub-projects. The focus is on research into safe automated driving. The THI researchers were able to win a project volume of over eleven million euros for the Ingolstadt region. All sub-projects are supported by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs as part of technology funding.VorSAFe-PLUS is designed as a cooperation project between science and business and is set to run for three years. The project partners include BMW and Continental but also AKKA DSO and ANavS a Munich startup specializing in high-precision localization systems. Prof. Christian Birkner expert for vehicle systems and their control Prof. Thomas Brandmeier head of C-ISAFE and founder of CARISSMA and Prof. Lothar Wech CARISSMA spokesman and specialist for test methods in vehicle safety will lead the project. As part of VorSAFe-Plus environment sensor systems are trained to deliver exact data on other road users even until shortly before a collision and to reliably detect an accident situation. Through active steering and braking interventions and intelligent airbag systems that trigger just a few moments before the collision accidents are avoided or the consequences are minimized. Extensive tests in the indoor rain and fog system of the C-ISAFE guarantee the reliability of the technical solutions even in bad weather.With the specially equipped test vehicles from VorSAFe-Plus THI is expanding the existing test facilities at the CARISSMA research and test center. The new vehicles form the technical basis of a mobile innovation laboratory for automated driving. With the data obtained in this way on a wide variety of driving scenarios the project creates additional synergies that further strengthen the Technical University of Ingolstadt as an AI mobility hub in Bavaria.
