Prystine Project Kick-Off

29/30.05.2018 Infineon, Munich

The PRYSTINE project started with a kick-off meeting which took place on May 29^th  - 30^th 2018, at the Infineon Kubus in Munich. The kick-off was inaugurated by the project coordinator Prof. Dr. Eng. George Dimitrakopoulos (IFAG) and Mr Herbert Roedig (IFAG). Work Package Leaders presented the planning of their work packages for the first year of the project. Supply Chain Leaders gave thought-provoking overviews of the key issues related to technology areas. The main objectives for the meeting were to set the official start of the project, to establish connections between all partners, to provide clarifications about administrative aspects, and to define the specific work that each participant is going to fulfil during the project lifetime.

About PRYSTINE

Among the actual trends that will affect society in the coming years, autonomous driving stands out as having the potential to disruptively change the automotive industry as we know it today. As a consequence, this will also highly impact the semiconductor industry and open new market opportunities, since semiconductors play an indispensable role as enablers for automated vehicles. Fully automated driving has been identified as one major enabler to master the Grand Societal Challenges of safe, clean, and efficient mobility. For this, fail-operational behavior is essential in the sense, plan, and act stages of the automation chain in order to handle safety-critical situations by its own, which currently is not reached with state-of-the-art approaches also due to missing reliable environment perception and sensor fusion.

PRYSTINE will realize Fail-operational Urban Surround perceptION (FUSION) which is based on robust Radar and LiDAR sensor fusion and control functions in order to enable safe automated driving in urban and rural environments.

Furthermore, PRYSTINE will strengthen and extend traditional core competencies of the European industry, research organizations, and universities in smart mobility and in particular in the electronic component and systems and cyber-physical systems domain.