Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) RWTH Aachen University

Description

The Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) is a part of RWTH Aachen University and researches the complete vehicle including its systems and their interactions. From the initial idea for innovative component and system concepts to vehicle prototypes, the institute’s employees actively design solutions for tomorrow’s mobility. In public and bilateral projects, we work together with and for manufacturers and suppliers with an automotive focus to ensure that future mobility remains safe, efficient and attractive. The basis of our intensive research work for large parts of the automotive industry and public funding bodies at EU, federal and state level is our extensive infrastructure. It ranges from driving simulators, powertrain, battery, chassis and tire test benches and acoustic, thermodynamic and servo-hydraulic test facilities to a complete vehicle crash test facility and test tracks. In addition, the latest software and hardware equipment is available for all required simulation disciplines.

Role and Key Contribution to the Project

The Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) will act as a work package leader for WP5 (Scenario generation methodology & process). As part of this project, the ika is researching how to expand scenario databases by generating (synthetic) scenarios. One aspect is the use of scenario concepts to directly generate new scenarios that have not happened in the real traffic. Another aspect is to collect data from the real traffic at rural and urban roads using ika’s roadside ITS sensor units.

Website

https://www.ika.rwth-aachen.de/en/ .