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Cooperation

Projects

A selection from 60+ on-going or successfully completed projects with significant involvment of VIRTUAL VEHICLE.

Automated Driving & Assistance Systems

VIRTUAL VEHICLE covers the development, validation, test, operation, and continuous self-diagnosis of fail-operational automated driving architectures and ensures the coexistence of these highly automated vehicles with conventional vehicles on the road.

Related projects:
3CCar
3CCar proposes new and scalable methods to evaluate controls in a realistic and open setting.
AutoDrive
Advancing fail-aware, fail-safe and fail-operational electronic components and systems for automated driving.
HADRIAN
Holistic Approach for Driver Role Integration and Automation Allocation for European Mobility Needs.
IoSENSE
Availability of top innovative, competitive sensors and sensor systems “Made in Europe” for applications in Smart Mobility, Society, Energy, Health and Production.
TrustVehicle
Improved Trustworthiness and Weather-Independence of Conditional Automated Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Scenarios.
PRYSTINE
Programmable Systems for Intelligence in Automobiles.

Advanced Testing & Validation

VIRTUAL VEHICLE investigates in advanced functional validation methods and provides demonstrators and state-of-the-art and cutting-edge testing facilities for vehicles, engines, powertrains, and their components.

Related projects:
CPSE Labs
Integration of Co-Simulation Methods into a real-time Platform for CPS.
ACOSAR
Advanced Co-simulation Open System Architecture
ENABLE-SE3
European Initiative to Enable Validation for Highly Automated Safe and Secure Systems.
SEMI40
One of the largest Industry 4.0 Projects in Europe for “smart production” and “cyber-physical production systems”.
SPIDER
Smart PhysIcal Demonstration and Evaluation Robot

Data Security & Trustworthiness

With more and more vehicles connected to the Internet, and with a growing number of services now being managed via mobile devices, the risk of sensitive data being stolen or manipulated is intensifying daily.

Related projects:
AEGIS
Advanced Big Data Value Chain for Public Safety and Personal Security.
AMASS
Architecture-driven, multi-concern and seamless assurance and certification of cyber-physical systems.
InSecTT
InSecTT aims at creating trust in AI-based intelligent systems and solutions as a major part of the AIoT.
TrustVehicle
Improved Trustworthiness and Weather-Independence of Conditional Automated Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Scenarios.
SCOTT
Secure connected trustable things.

Digital Operation

Speed and timing are a competitive advantage in an increasingly real-time economy. VIRTUAL VEHICLE researches on the future big data use cases for connected transportation solutions.

Related projects:
FACTS4WORKERS
How can new information and communication technologies Support workers in “smart factories”?
In2Smart
Intelligent innovative smart maintenance of assets by integrated technologies
Inframix
Road infrastructure ready for mixed vehicle traffic flows.
Productive 4.0
Electronics and ICT as enabler for digital industry and optimized supply chain management.

Efficient Development

Predictive functional validation, digital twins and complete product life cycles. VIRTUAL VEHICLE investigates and develops approaches for the key factors for efficient development. These key factors are traceability, agility, comprehensive view and partner integration.

Related projects:
ECOCHAMPS
More lightweight, robust, cost-effective as well as improve driving comfort and sadety for powertrains in commercial vehicles.
EU-LIVE
Developing a systematic approach for designing, developing and constructing L-category vehicles for urban areas (2-, 3- and 4-wheelers).
iDev40
In this project, 38 partners from six countries will be involved in research on the smart networking of development and production processes for electronic components and systems.
OBELICS
Optimization of scalable realtime models and functional testing for e-drive concepts.
Science2Society
Improving university, industry and society interfaces to boost the throughput capacity of Europe’s innovation stakeholders.

Energy Efficiency

The reduction of CO2 emissions is mandatory. On one hand the direct emission of CO2 in combustion engine driven cars has to be minimized and on the other hand the number of fully electric vehicles producing zero exhaust emissions locally has to be increased.

Related projects:
ASSURED
Fast and smart charging solutions for full size urban heavy duty applications.
Connecting Austria
Combining efficient and automated freight transport from the highway into the city.
HiPERFORM
High performant, wide band gap power electronics for optimised, efficient and reliable electric drivetrains.
OPTEMUS
Developing an electric vehicle that requires 50% less energy for comfort and 30% less energy for component cooling.
REWARD
Developing highly efficient Diesel powertrains and after-treatment technologies for cleaner passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
sys2WHEEL
Integrated components, systems and architectures for efficient adaption and conversion of commercial vehicle platforms to 3rd generation battery electric vehicles for future CO2-free city logistics

Passenger Comfort

VIRTUAL VEHICLE has a long experience in acoustic and thermal comfort issues. Comfort is not only a selling proposition but can be closely linked to safety aspects, since discomfort negatively influences driver reactions and thermal comfort influences strongly energy efficiency.

Related projects:
BATWOMAN
Bringing together young acoustic researchers from different Domains and providing them with a structured training platform.
DOMUS
Design OptiMisation for efficient electric vehicles based on a USer-centric approach.
OPTEMUS
Developing an electric vehicle that requires 50% less energy for comfort and 30% less energy for component cooling.
PBNv2
Next generation pass-by noise approaches for new powertrain vehicles.
sys2WHEEL
Integrated components, systems and architectures for efficient adaption and conversion of commercial vehicle platforms to 3rd generation battery electric vehicles for future CO2-free city logistics

Vehicle Safety

The EU “vision zero” defines the goal of eliminating all fatal road accidents by the year 2050. VIRTUAL VEHICLE is developing human-centered approaches regarding novel comprehensive vehicle safety systems for occupants and VRUs, incorporating information from all traffic participants and infrastructure.

Related projects:
ADVICE
Advancing user acceptance of general purpose hybridized vehicle by improve cost and efficiency.
AEGIS
Advanced Big Data Value Chain for Public Safety and Personal Security.
InSecTT
InSecTT aims at creating trust in AI-based intelligent systems and solutions as a major part of the AIoT.
MeBeSafe
Measures for behaving safely in traffic.
OSCCAR
EU project for future vehicle occupant safety.
SECREDAS
Product Security for Cross Domain Reliable Dependable Automated Systems.
UPSCALE
AI for efficient electric car production.

Shift2Rail – VIRTUAL VEHICLE AUSTRIA Consortium+

VIRTUAL VEHICLE represents VVAC +, a consortium of 4 Austrian market leaders in the international rail industry, Europe’s largest freight wagon manufacturer and 8 other industry and science top players.
01/2016 – 12/2021
13 partners
VIRTUAL VEHICLE, Plasser & Theurer, Tatravagonka, voestalpine, etc.

Related projects:
FFL4E
Future freight loco for Europe.
In2Smart
Intelligent innovative smart maintenance of assets by integrated technologies
In2Track
Research into enhanced tracks, switches and structures.
PIVOT
Performance improvement for vehicles on track.

ALP.Lab – Europe’s most diverse test lab for autonomous driving

Under the title ‘ALP.Lab’, the VIRTUAL VEHICLE, together with the Styrian research institutes TU Graz and Joanneum Research, as well as the industrial companies AVL List and Magna Steyr, bundles its competences, in order to test automated driving systems on a large scale. ALP.Lab combines virtual and real tests, analyses, simulations and a wide range of private and public test tracks.