List, Georg

Daniel Baumann, IT

AVL List GmbH

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

ON COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

EFECS – Brussels, Dec. 6th

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WHO IS AVL?SOLUTIONS FOR ALL CUSTOMER SEGMENTS

Passenger Cars

Racing2-Wheelers

Construction Commercial Vehicle

Agriculture

Locomotive Power PlantsMarine

Powertrain Engineering

Simulation & Testing

Development Platform

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ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT AUTOMOTIVE

5 powertrain

elements

EXPERIENCE65 years !

GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

30 engineering locations• >220 testbeds• Global customer support network

ONEPARTNER

INNOVATION 1500 granted patents

RESEARCH 10% of

turnover in-house R&D

GROWTH

SALES

1995:0.15 billion €

2016:1.40 billion €

Plan 2017:1.52 billion €

STAFF

8.600 employees

65% engineers and

scientists

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200

400

600

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1,000

1,200

1,400

1,600Research & Innovation

is fundamental to our

position and growth

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AVL NETWORK OF TECHNICAL CENTERS

*Headquarters in Graz

Austria*France GermanyGreat Britain

HungarySwedenTurkeyItaly

South AmericaBrazil

AsiaChinaIndiaJapanKorea

North AmericaUSA

Europe

Ann Arbor, USA

Plymouth, USA

Istanbul, TUR

Lake Forest, USA

Sao Paulo, BRA

Gotenborg, SWEBudapest, HUN

Paris, FRABasildon, UK

Shanghai, CHN

Remscheid, GER Munich, GER Stuttgart, GER Regensburg, GERNeuenstadt, GER Ingolstadt, GER

Coventry, UK

Tianjin, CHN

Steyr, AUT

Haninge, SWESödertälje,SWE

HQ Graz, AUT

+ another

9 Engineering

Offices

Delhi-Gurgaon, IND

Tokyo, JPN Seoul, KOR

Graz, AUT

Europe:

>10 Tech

Centers

Europe is a

key region for

innovation @ AVL

Americas:

4 Tech

Centers

Asia:

6 Tech

Centers

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Digitalization

Data Science

THE AUTOMOTIVE (R)EVOLUTION

Urbanization

Individual Mobility

Sustainability

Smart

Production,

Industry 4.0

Simple Technology,

Innovation &

Start-Ups

Virtual = Real

Gender Balance in

Engineering & Technical FieldsSafety &

autonomous

driving, Artificial

Intelligence

Electrification

Asia

Market

Growth

Intelligent Mobility

Connected World

Shared EconomyAVL Fields of Research

• Virtual = Real

• Electrification

• Digitalization, data science

• Autonomus driving, AI

• Smart Production, I 4.0

• Intelligent Mobility

• …

Source: Excerpt from BMW´s „The Next 100 Years“

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AVL IS COMMITTED TO ARTEMIS AND ECSEL

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WHY DO WE DO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH?

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3 DIMENSIONS OF BENEFITS

Partners

• KIT, AIT – scientific partners

• BMW, Bosch – value chain partners

• … & many others

Topics

• Data Analytics & Data Management

for continuous product improvement

• Cost optimization of digital product &

production requirements

• Smart services for test equipment

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WHERE WOULD WE TAP INTO AN ECO-SYSTEM: TESTFIELD OF THE FUTURE

Digital Twin & AR to e.g. develop & optimize workflows

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3 DIMENSIONS OF BENEFITS

High driving quality is precondition for safe feeling & user acceptance

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 6.8

Lane Assist• Dist. Lane Left 6.2• Lane Precision Neuronal 6.8• Lateral Control Quality 6.7

13 sec

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 6.9

Lane Assist• Lane Precision Neuronal 6.3• Dist. Lane Left 6.8• Lane Precision 7.0

18 sec

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 6.9

Lane Assist• Lane Precision Neuronal 6.3• Lane Precision 7.0• Lateral Ctrl. Quality 7.0

23 sec

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 7.2

Lane Assist• Lateral Ctrl. Quality 6.5• Lane Precision 7.0• Dist. Lane Left 7.0

28 sec

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 6.5

Lane Assist• Lane Precision Neuronal 5.9• Lateral Ctrl. Quality 6.3• Dist. Lane Right 6.5

33 sec

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 6.0

Lane Assist• Lateral Ctrl. Quality 5.4• Lane Precision Neuronal 5.5• Dist. Lane Right 6.2

38 sec

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 4.3

Lane Assist• Dist. Lane Left 3.4• Lane Precision Neuronal 4.2• Lane Usage 4.3

43 sec AVL-DRIVETM

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SOFTWARE & SYSTEMS NEED HARDWARE –SOLUTIONS REQUIRE COLLABORATION

Virtual and semi-virtual testing and verification of highly automated systems.

74 partners

€68M budget

AVL as Global Project Coordinator

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THREE PILLARS FOR SUCCESS

68 partners

€82M budget

AVL as Global Project Coordinator

• European key players from different

industrial domains

• Large companies developing embedded

systems act as technology users

• Large tool providers, SMEs and

researchers as technology providers

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THE CRYSTAL VISION

Enable New

Engineering

Methods

Open

Integration

Platform

Industrial

Workflows

Tool Layer

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Innovation – managing the complexity

➢ Software complexity & interoperability, e.g. Cloud- platforms – Apps – Embedded SW – AI

➢ Non-synchronized lifecycles of technology layers accelerates dynamic & churn

➢ Propensity towards multidomain research – risk of loss of focus, lack of industry interest

Creating and maintaining the innovation ecosystem

➢ Diverging interests of stakeholders (e.g. chip manufacturer, sensors, software, car OEMs)

➢ Competition in business versus collaboration in research (pre-competitive vs. “coopetition”)

Appropriate funding scheme

➢ Ensure attractiveness for all participants (large companies like car OEMs, SMEs and RTOs)

➢ Find an appropriate reimbursement scheme for coordination efforts of large projects

THERE ARE CHALLENGES, HOWEVER

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AGAIN … WHY DO WE DO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AT AVL?

• Risk free, inspiring, highly competent, pre-competitive environment

• Work with customers & partners building relationships

• Based on research results, develop tools for innovative methods

• Provide tools to research partners to apply in solution of their use cases

• Financial co-investment & support to pass TRL hurdle and share burden

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Christian Doppler Laboratories

COMET Centres

ACstyriaEuropean RTD

Projects

ERTRAC

EARPA

EGVIA

FFG-Projects

COOPERATION & MULTI-FIRM RESEARCH IN AUSTRIAN & EUROPEAN NETWORKS

A3PS

Silicon AlpsECSEL-Austria

ECSEL (EPoSS, ARTEMISIA)

FCH-JU AMP

Since 1992 AVL List has been active in more than

150 EC-funded RTD projects.

40 x as Co-ordinator.

Pro2Future

www.avl.com

THANK YOU