11th International VDI Conference - Connected Off-Highway Machines

Dr.-Ing. Patrick Wolf, Senior Safety Engineer, IESE Fraunhofer, Germany

• Connected technologies breakthrough traditional business
• Turning Data into relationship improvements
• Automation Empowering People: a new era for customer support 

Edoardo Dioni, Digital Product Manager, Connected Services, CNH, Italy

• The advantages of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Support of standards compliance through Model-Based Design (MBD)
• Early requirement validation and rapid design iteration through simulation 

Dr. Mohammad Abu-Alqumsan, Product Manager IEC Certification; Dr. Martin Becker, Principal Application Engineer, MathWorks, Germany

• Expanded cyber risk landscape for off-highway machines
• Structured and proactive approach to cybersecurity across the entire lifecycle
• Standards and regulations provide guidance for building resilient digital ecosystems in the off-highway sector 

Patrick Faye, Head of Cybersecurity, Software & Digital Mobility, UTAC, France

• Increased cyber attack surface of off-highway machinery
• Regulatory frameworks impact product development and lifecycle processes
• Cybersecurity is a strategic necessity to ensure safety and reliability

Annemike Vierneisel, Adv. Consultant Hardware Security, act digital, Germany

• Introduction of the RTK technology and its relevance for high-precision positioning applications in the construction domain
• Technical feasibility study of an RTK bridging solution
• Demonstration of key findings and customer value for construction industry 

Dr. Michael Schwall, Volvo Construction Equipment, Germany; Heikki Keränen, Head of Technology, Satel Oy, Finland

• Diverse environmental conditions and high demands on networked construction sites
• Construction operations require real-time or near real-time connectivity
• Measurements highlight the need for adaptive, redundant communication 

Stephan Hammes, Head of Advanced Engineering, BOMAG, Germany; Dr. Wolfgang Kiess, Hochschule Koblenz, Germany

• Electronic control of heavy truck driving functions opens new applications and enables cost and design efficiencies
• Integration complexity from differing vehicle vs. machine safety standards, shown through practical system integration examples 

Christoph Müller, CEO, MobileTronics, Germany

• Deterministic MOSA-based software stack for autonomous defence offhighway systems
• Real-time mixed-criticality runtime integrating vehicle control and AI
• Platform-agnostic deployment of reusable autonomy software 

Thomas Wambera, Vice President Business Development, Apex.AI, Germany

• Vision–language models add language-grounded scene understanding to autonomous defence vehicles
• Better handling of novel obstacles, terrain, and long-tail edge cases
• Deployment of VLMs on embedded automotive-grade hardware 

Peter Kristiansen, Head of Business Development, Embedl, Sweden

At the end of the first conference day, we kindly invite you to our evening get-together where you can use the relaxed and informal atmosphere for in-depth conversations with other participants and speakers.

During the interactive Round Table Session, we invite you to engage directly with other experts in interactively moderated conversations on various topics. Discuss and identify challenges within the industry as well as problems, needs, and solutions

• The infinity loop during the development of autonomous off-highway machines: Understanding the continuous cycle of data collection
• Cloud-Based Data Curation at Scale
• AI-powered Semantic Scenario Search Capabilities
• High-Quality Training Data: Reducing labeling costs and improving data quality 

Partick Bartsch, Principal Evangelist Applied AI - Automotive, AWS, Germany

• Off-Highway autonomy is becoming more complex
• Reliable autonomy software requires deterministic data handling, modular integration, and reproducible testing
• A middleware-centric approach enables synchronized multi-sensor data processing, scalable data pipelines, and hardware abstraction 

Gautam Dobariya, Business Development Automated Driving & Software Solutions, dSpace, Germany

• Unreliable GPS, missing maps, and dynamically changing terrain challenge autonomous mobile machines
• driveblocks uses real-time semantic mapping to build a rich understanding of the environment
• Safe, context-aware navigation in unstructured terrain through geometric reasoning and multi-modal sensor fusion 

Leonhard Hermansdorfer, Co-Founder & CTO, Driveblocks, Germany

• The transition from hardware-centric to software-defined, connected, and data-driven machines
• Improved Functional safety, cybersecurity, and compliance through a phased, brownfield modernization roadmap
• AI, reusable components, digital twins, and test automation accelerate the modernization 

Mohideen Farouk, Director Engineering ServicesTrucks & Off-Highway, L&T Technology, Germany

• AgIN is a global agricultural data space enabling secure, cross-vendor data exchange
• Connection of manufacturer systems and data hubs
• AEF is enabling farmers to access multi-brand machine telemetry in a single portal 

Norbert Schlingmann, General Manager, Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation e.V., Germany

• MiC 4.0 establishes a uniform, manufacturer-independent digital language for construction machinery
• The shared data model is developed jointly with OEMs and construction companies
• Tools such as the MiC 4.0 TestTool and Database make data quality and digitalization levels transparent and verifiable 

Dr. Darius Soßdorf, CEO, Machines in Construction MiC 4.0, Germany