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23. April 2020Successful Completion of the mFUND Project for Automated and Autonomous Operation on the Spree-Oder Waterway (SOW). Four Partners from Business and Science Participated.
(Berlin, 22.04.2020) Four partners from science and business, Alberding GmbH, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Lutra GmbH (Port of Königs Wusterhausen), and the Federal Association of Public Inland Ports (BÖB), successfully completed the project “AutonomSOW – Data Foundations for Automated and Autonomous Operation on the Spree-Oder Waterway” in March 2020 and presented it to the Federal Ministry of Transport. The project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure under the funding guideline Modernity Fund (“mFUND”) with a total of 93,267 euros.
As part of the project, user requirements for the overall system of inland shipping in multimodal transport chains were collected, and future logistics processes on the SOW were considered. Existing data foundations of the WSV were examined for usability and suitability for automated and autonomous operation, and requirements for their availability were derived. The necessity of collecting additional real-time data from the waterway was also discussed in detail.
From the functional and technological requirements for the subcomponents logistics, port, waterway, inland vessel, communication channel, and traffic management, a technology concept was derived. The research and development needs were presented in a gap analysis. Recommendations for action were developed for the different operational expansion stages of (partially) automated or autonomous navigation, and a timeline for establishing a digital test field was estimated. The transferability of the concept to other regional test fields was also addressed.
The concept developed in the AutonomSOW project serves as the basis for the establishment of a digital test field for automated and autonomous operation on the SOW. The collection and integration of necessary real-time data from the waterway are to be implemented in an mFUND project of funding line 2.
“About the mFUND of the BMVI: Since 2016, the BMVI has been funding research and development projects related to data-based digital applications for Mobility 4.0 as part of the mFUND research initiative. In addition to financial support, the mFUND promotes networking between actors from politics, business, and research through various event formats, as well as access to the data portal mCLOUD.
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