IN2Lab research project successfully completed

The goal was clearly defined: to increase road safety and efficiency. To this end, the researchers of the IN2Lab project, which brought together the expertise of the Fraunhofer IVI Application Centre Ingolstadt with Audi, Blickfeld, and Continental under the coordination of THI, developed a system to safeguard automated driving functions. Key components included infrastructure-side sensors for environment detection, Car2X communication for networking vehicles and infrastructure as well as mission control in the backend for monitoring and control.

Roadside units in the infrastructure record their environment, generate lists of detected and classified objects, and transfer the data to Mission Control. The Mission Control server merges the data and generates "global object lists", which are transmitted to the test vehicle via the roadside units using V2X communication.

The closing event once again demonstrated that the test field has enriched the Ingolstadt mobility region with an open, urban development and demonstration platform for 5G-based mobility applications. It has contributed to traffic safety and sustainability as well as to the development of connected, automated driving. IN2Lab was funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy, and Technology as part of the Bayern Digital II initiative. The test field is being expanded and further developed in other R&D projects, such as 5GoIng. Work is currently underway to stabilize it as an "Open Innovation Lab".