Final Event

Join us and experience the mobility of the future today, when the UNICARagil consortium shows what it has achieved together after a project period of just over five years. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to the tune of €32 million, the 15 university chairs and institutes involved, together with 8 specialists from industry, have developed disruptive architectures for driverless vehicles. These highly modular architectures - from vehicle geometry to E/E architecture and software - create flexibility in the use of automated vehicles. Both software components, such as AI-based environment perception, and hardware components, such as ECUs, sensor and dynamics modules, can be easily exchanged, updated and reused. The consortium demonstrates this flexibility with four driverless vehicle prototypes for different applications: The autoCARGO for fully automated parcel delivery, the autoTAXI as an individual motto taxi, the autoSHUTTLE as a supplement to public transport and the autoELF as a private family vehicle. All vehicles will be on display at the final event, giving visitors a first-hand experience of fully automated driverless driving in mixed urban traffic.

There will also be a full programme of talks and an exhibition of posters and demonstrators to illustrate the science behind the research.

Unfortunately, due to limited capacity, we cannot guarantee that every visitor will be able to ride in a vehicle. For this reason, please register as soon as possible using the form below to indicate your preference for a ride.

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Agenda

 Presentations and SpeechesExhibitionLive Demonstration
from 08:00 Registration
09:00 – 10:30 Opening
  • Welcoming address by the BMBF and the State of NRW
  • Introduction by Overall Coordinator Prof. Dr. Lutz Eckstein & Project Manager Timo Woopen
10:30 – 11:50

Session 1

  • Geometry
  • Mechatronics
  • Software
 Poster exhibition and interactive demonstrations of various results outside the vehicles. Demonstrations of our vehicles autoCARGO, autoELF, autoSHUTTLE und autoTAXI
11:50 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:25  Session 2
  • Automation
 Poster exhibition and interactive demonstrations of various results outside the vehicles. Demonstrations of our vehicles autoCARGO, autoELF, autoSHUTTLE und autoTAXI
15:25 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Session 3
  • Safety
 Poster exhibition and interactive demonstrations of various results outside the vehicles.
17:00 – 18:30 Closing & Outlook

Highlights

Our final event will combine presentations and an exhibition of project results with an interactive live demonstration of the prototypes that have been built up in UNICARagil. To mention only a few highlights:

  • User-centered driverless vehicle prototypes in four exemplary applications: The autoSHUTTLE as part of future public transport, the robo-taxi autoTAXI, a privately-owned autoELF and the autoCARGO for delivery on the last mile.
  • All vehicles using the same modular E/E basis and service-oriented software platform.
  • Robust automation with safe fallback levels enables self-driving and interaction with other traffic participants in an urban environment - no safety driver required!
  • A control center accompanying the driverless vehicles and assisting in difficult situations.
  • Collective perception and learning through Cloud services