Offroad Machinery of the Future: Electrified and Autonomous
Overview
The design of future offroad machinery for construction, agriculture and other specialized tasks is heavily impacted by three major trends: Electrification, Autonomy and Safety.
Electrification: Netherlands net-zero goal aggressively drives electrification of machinery. New designs need to be fully electric, whereas existing machines needs to be retrofitted with batteries and electric drives. This requirement is a major change for a traditional industry, and the right tools and support are crucial to successfully transition from combustion engines to fully electric drivetrains.
Autonomy: Driven by the increasing shortage of skilled machine operators, the automation of difficult, dangerous and repetitive tasks will improve productivity and safety of heavy equipment. Successfully implementing autonomy requires collaboration among many, multidisciplinary teams, and the right platform to allow seamless collaboration.
Safety: Modern machines sport multitudes of distributed sensors and edge processors, require high-bandwidth communication networks and integrate IoT and cloud connectivity. In turn, this puts new requirements on machine manufacturers to guarantee functional safety and cybersecurity. The new EU Machinery Directive imposes higher requirements on functional safety topics, and good software development practices form the foundation of a successful development organization.
Highlights
- Electrification: Enable faster design iterations and reduce physical testing through digital twins and dynamic simulations
- Autonomy: Enhance productivity and safety by automating difficult, dangerous, and repetitive tasks and integrating AI capabilities
- Software-Defined Machine: Incorporate distributed sensors, edge processors, IoT, and cloud connectivity for customized functionality and brand-distinctive features. Guarantee software quality and functional safety through stringent software development practices.
Who Should Attend
Engineers and Technical Managers working on electrification, autonomy and functional safety topics.
About the Presenters
Christoph Kammer is a senior application engineer at MathWorks in Switzerland. He supports customers in the robotics and autonomous systems domain in the areas of control and optimization, virtual scenario simulation and digital twinning. Christoph has a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zürich and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from EPFL, where he specialized in control design and the control and modelling of electromechanical systems and power systems.
Tadele Shiferaw is a Senior Application Engineer at MathWorks Benelux focusing on design automation topics such as physical modeling, control design, systems engineering and hardware-in-the loop testing. In this customer-facing role, Tadele leads technical engagements with both commercial and academic organizations for successful adoption of model-based design. Prior to MathWorks, he worked as a Mechatronic Software Engineer at Philips Healthcare developing high level application and low-level control software for a robotic X-ray platform. Tadele completed a graduate study in control systems and a Ph.D. on safe robotic manipulation at University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Johan van Uden is Business Development Manager at ICT Automotive. Based in Eindhoven, Johan has been instrumental in driving business growth and development within the company. After graduating at the Technical University of Eindhoven in 2013 on the subject of Model Based Development, he joined ICT Automotive. Over the last decade Johan has worked on several key projects, including the Motar project.
Johan is known for his extensive knowledge in the fields of Automotive and Motar / MATLAB-Simulink. He is a true ambassador of the ICT / Motar Platform and is highly regarded as a mentor for graduates. His technical expertise is complemented by his commercial drive and flexibility, making him a valuable asset to the team.
Jan Gillesen started as a Control System Developer at OXBO 6 years ago, pioneering in new agricultural machines, from forage mergers to corn harvesters and manure spreaders. He has a background in Industrial Design and over 10 years of experience in designing control systems, bridging HMI, software and electrical/harness design for different vehicles; two of which winning a Red Dot design award. Having played a key part in integrating different systems and advanced machine control for different platforms, he now spearheads the harmonization of the control systems of all different OXBO machines to a global architecture.
Yuri Steinbuch is CBO of Avular since 2018, working every day towards solving society’s biggest challenges using autonomous mobile robots and drones. Always looking for new opportunities, and realizing new ambitions, he formed a team of students called STORM Eindhoven during his masters in Systems and Control. Together, they built an electrical motorcycle themselves and raced it in 80 days around the world, to prove that electric mobility is ready, today. He continued this thrive for innovation and societal change through Avular, where they are showing that robots and drones are the next big thing; an answer to the labor shortages haunting every industry.
Agenda
| Time | Title |
9:00 |
Registration and Welcome Coffee |
09:30 |
Introduction |
09:45 |
Physical Modeling and Electrification
|
10:30 |
Rapid Electrification: Towards Zero Emission with Model-based Development in a Few Months Johan van Uden, Business Development Manager, ICT |
11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:30 |
Autonomy for Offroad Machinery
|
12:30 |
Lunch |
13:30 |
Autonomous robots and drones for societal challenges Yuri Steinbuch, CBO, Avular |
14:30 |
Software-Defined Machine and Functional Safety
|
14:45 |
Harmonizing agricultural machines by adopting a future-proof architecture Jan Gillesen, Control System Developer, Oxbo |
15:15 |
Drinks & Networking |
16:00 |
End of Event |
