Brief Introduction
The FZI Research Centre for Information Technology, with headquarters in Karlsruhe and a branch office in Berlin, is a non-profit organisation for applied research in information technology and technology transfer. It brings the latest scientific findings in information technology to companies and public institutions and qualifies students for an academic and business career or the leap into self-employment.
For the intelligent technical systems of the future, the FZI researches design processes in areas such as holistic modelling, automated system generation and end-to-end verification.
Thanks to its excellent facilities with real-world laboratories and test vehicles as well as its close cooperation with companies from the mobility sector, the FZI combines basic research with practical application. In this way, the FZI contributes to the implementation of useful and customised solutions for SMEs, industry and the public.
Role in the Project
In COOPERANTS, the FZI is researching an infrastructure for the semantic coupling of engineering data. Descriptive models are to be used to make it easier to find relevant information and to enable and implement application-specific smart services. In addition to the infrastructure for developing, providing and linking these descriptive models, for example in the form of an ontology, methods for searching and interpreting data are being researched, which form the basis for application-specific services. This is supported by approaches for the automated semantic enrichment of engineering data.
Machine learning approaches are used to support the transfer of semantic annotation from existing data to new engineering data. In addition, the FZI is researching methods for the automated detection of inherent structures in new engineering data in order to facilitate semantic annotation.
Added Value of COOPERANTS for FZI
COOPERANTS will enable the FZI to strengthen its competences in the field of model-based systems engineering, especially in the areas of semantics-supported data exchange, data interpretation and data-driven verification. COOPERANTS will expand the existing expertise used in industry and technology transfer projects to include expertise in the development and use of GAIA-X services and the semantic interpretation and integration of engineering data, particularly in the context of space. The transfer to thematically related application domains, in which the exchange and asynchronous interpretation of data play an important role, is very promising. Furthermore, COOPERANTS allows the expansion of the FZI network for dissemination as well as the networking of project-external, especially medium-sized, co-operation partners of the FZI with the COOPERANTS partners.
Contact
Dr. Alexander Viehl
Division Manager – Intelligent Systems and Production Engineering
viehl@fzi.de
