Partners & Projects

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HAN is one of the biggest Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands having approximately 35000 of students, 3900 of staff, and 50 research groups and centres of expertise. HAN’s centres of expertise provide tailored research, and outstanding test facilities, to companies and institutions on both national and international level.

COOPERATION

The one involved in the cooperation with ROBOAUTO; HAN Automotive Research, has an extensive experience and track list in the commercial vehicle dynamics and control, automation and testing. This is being valorised in H2020 5G Blueprint project where HAN and ROBOAUTO intensively cooperate on full automation of bi-directional docking manoeuvre involving Tractor-Semitrailer vehicle combination.

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Valeo is an automotive supplier and partner to automakers worldwide. As a technology company, they design innovative solutions for smart mobility, with a particular focus on intuitive driving and reducing CO₂ emissions. Valeo’s ambition, as a tech company, is to play a major role in tomorrow’s mobility.

COOPERATION

Project of Valeo and Roboauto is under the NDA restrictions.  The outputs of the project will be revealed soon.

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The Transport Research Centre (CDV) is a public research institution, established under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport. With its focus on research, the CDV covers the key needs of transport development in the Czech Republic, on country-wide, regional and local levels.

COOPERATION

Roboauto in cooperation with CDV works on several projects in the fields of testing of the teleoperation, autonomous driving, mapping or Czech and Euro projects, such as TACR or SHOW. Together we raise awareness and promote the developed technology.

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Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS Dutch Railways) operates passenger rail services (high-speed, intercity and regional) throughout The Netherlands. NS aims to provide convenient, fast, safe and affordable travel and to ensure that people can reach their destinations in a sustainable manner. NS is developing into a broad service provider that works with other companies to offer the customer the option of ‚smart‘ travel based on the most up-to-date information. Seamless travel, from door to door.

COOPERATION

Project of NS and Roboauto is under the NDA restrictions.  The outputs of the project will be revealed soon.

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Every year approximately 50 trade fairs or other exhibition events are held at the Brno Exhibition Centre and over 1 million visitors come to see them. Traditionally, the largest and most important event is the annual MSV International Engineering Fair, one the most prestigious engineering fairs in Europe.

COOPERATION

Cooperation with BVV brings opportunities for testing and presenting the technologies that Roboauto develops. Thanks to this partnership, we bring autonomy and teleoperation to the public eye at interesting exhibitions of all kinds.

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Mattro GmbH was founded in 2006 in Schwaz, Tyrol and since 2019, is part of the HAWE group. Mattro is a specialist, with over one century experience, when it comes to the topic of electrification of special machines. It´s a producer of modular lithium-ion battery packs, innovative battery systems and developer of the electric robot platform ROVO.

COOPERATION

Roboauto integrated a teleoperation set into a robot platform ROVO. The set consists of 4 cameras on the vehicle side and remote station with joystick or steering wheel with pedals to fully control the vehicle, for the operator. The whole integration took about 2 weeks. Thanks to this integration, The ROVO can be opearted on very long distances (kilometres) and used as an inspection machine in danger zones or for rescue and fire brigade operations. 

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Czech company focusing on development and implementation of modern electronic microprocessor solutions for the control and security of both underground and surface mining machines intended for explosive environments.

COOPERATION

Joint development of Collision Avoidance System for the 30 tonne heavy mining loader DNK-10. The idea was to integrate a Lidar sensor in front of the machine to help the driver avoid difficult to see obstacles round the vehicle, in the mining tunnel – especially rocks. The system was supposed to be passive and by the sound noise alert the operator in case on incoming collision. At this moment, the project is on hold.

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Czech start-up company focusing on last-mile delivery by robots. The idea is to move simple and repetitive tasks to robots and use human potential more efficiently. Nowadays BringAuto offers autonomous and remotely controlled robots for different tasks such as delivering or vending.

COOPERATION

Company BringAuto uses for their robots autonomous and remote control (teleoperation) technologies. BringAuto is one of the first customers and partners, who implemented the teleoperation technology developed by Roboauto.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is a world leader in science products with more than 125 000 employees. The company helps customers accelerate research and its application into the daily lives of companies and people across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Among its many activities, typical examples include improving medical diagnostics, researching modern materials and increasing laboratory productivity. The company develops and supplies a wide range of science products worldwide – from laboratory glassware, analytical instruments and powerful microtomographs to electron microscopes.

The Brno technology centre, which is the largest centre of electron microscopes in the world, specializes in electron microscopes and spectrometers. The Brno branch employs more than 2000 specialists.

COOPERATION

Roboauto is privileged to be part of some of the innovation teams. The details of the collaboration are under NDA.

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5G-Blueprint aims to design and validate technical architecture and business and governance models for uninterrupted cross-border teleoperated transport based on 5G connectivity. The project’s outcome will be the blueprint for operational pan-European deployment of teleoperated transport solutions in the logistics sector and beyond.

COOPERATION

Roboauto’s role in this project as a use case provider is to deploy and improve teleoperation.Teleoperation will be enabled by 5G qualities, such as low latency, reliable connectivity, and high bandwidth. In addition to teleoperation, we are also working together with our partners on improving the anticollision system for on-road use.

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SHOW aims to support the deployment of shared, connected and electrified automation in urban transport, to advance sustainable urban mobility. During the project, real-life urban demonstrations taking place in 20 cities across Europe will see the integration of fleets of automated vehicles in public transport, demand-responsive transport (DRT), Mobility a Service (MaaS) and Logistics as a Service (LaaS) schemes.

COOPERATION

SHOW aims to be the biggest and most holistic ever initiative piloting automated vehicles in urban environments. It gathers a strong partnership including 69 partners from 13 EU-countries and fosters international cooperation by collaborating with organisations from the US, South Korea, Australia, China, and other countries.

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The main objective of HELMET is to develop innovative EGNSS applications capable to impacting on eco-friendly and green transportations means. Target adopters of EGNOS and Galileo are the Connected and driverless cars, Train signaling, UAV for surveillance of roads and railways.

COOPERATION

Multi-modality is HEMET’s differentiator to federate innovative applications transforming the independent habit of roads and railways into a synergic ecosystem sharing digital infrastructures, safety and certification processes to lower energy consumption and pollution. HELMET capability to operate UAVs increases the safety by introducing new means for integrated car and train automation. The high integrity and high accuracy platform relies on the Consortium’s know how of SBAS-EGNOS technology to stepping into the multi-constellation multi frequency and multi sensor domain to fight back against common hazards characterizing land mobile scenarios.

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Manufacturers of automated systems and their components have been allocating an enormous amount of time and effort in R&D activities. This effort translates into an overhead on the V&V (verification and validation) process making it time-consuming and costly. The ECSEL JU project VALU3S aims to evaluate the state-of-the-art V&V methods and tools, and design a multi-domain framework to create a clear structure around the components and elements needed to conduct the V&V process.

COOPERATION

The main expected benefit of the framework is to reduce time and cost needed to verify and validate automated systems with respect to safety, cyber-security, and privacy requirements. Roboauto is a use case provider at this project. We provided our partners with mock-up of our whole teleoperation system and they are testing their advanced methods and tools on it to improve these aspects of our system and therefore make it more robust.

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V-tron believes in harmony, self-determination, equality and responsibility. Maximum user experience is central to this. With innovative techniques, V-tron wants to meet the wishes and needs of stakeholders (users) in the mobility and logistics domain by creating appropriate solutions.

COOPERATION

The V-tron and Roboauto cooperation brings new possibilities in the field of teleoperation development. Our cooperation goes beyond the 5G-blueprint project and together, we are developing our technologies for vehicles of all kinds.

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Czech company focusing on partnerships with machine manufacturers in the fields of system hydraulic, electronics, software and electric drives. Team of experienced design engineers provides the OEM customers with unique and sophisticated system solutions.

COOPERATION

Thanks to Technotrade´s experience with electric drives and software, they are able to deliver a complex drive by wire solution for the vehicle. After Technotrade´s integration of electric driving units, Roboauto is able to connect to the vehicle through the CAN communication and in a matter of days prepare the vehicle for remote control (teleoperation) or autonomous driving.

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Italian company designs, builds and distributes fully electric 100% made in Italy N1 category vehicles. Main focus is on goods and passengers transport realized by electric pick-ups and shuttles.

COOPERATION

In the framework of the project 5G Blueprint, Roboauto developed and integrated its autonomous setup, consisting both of hardware and software into the Esagono Grifo shuttle. The bus is deployed and tested in the closed areas of the exhibition grounds, manufacture areas and ZOOs to autonomously transport people between several stations. Together with the autonomous technology, Roboauto implemented the collision avoidance system for improving the safety of this system.

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The company was created in 2014 with the mission of democratizing processor design. Nowadays Codasip is a leading supplier of processing solutions for IC designers, offering products based on open standards such as the RISC-V ISA, LLVM, and UVM. They are a founding member of RISC-V International (formerly RISC-V Foundation) and they were the first company to offer a commercial RISC-V IP core in 2015.

COOPERATION

Project of Codasip and Roboauto is under the NDA restrictions. 

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Abbas is a Czech company operating on the market since 1995. The main mission is to be a reliable partner in the field of security technologies and to help increase the level of security of people and property. The strategy focuses on the quality of delivered technologies and services. Base of the business activities is focused on precise technical and consulting support. ABBAS, a.s. is an ISO 9001:2016 certified company.

COOPERATION

Project of Abbas and Roboauto is under the NDA restrictions. 

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Czech manufacturer of fully electric skid steer loaders. Premium developer of in-house produced heavy duty machines for agri, wood, landscape or construction industry. Flagship products are ELISE900, full-size, fully electric skid steer loader and MiniZ, fully electric mini loader. Both machines with possible remote control and wide range of attachments.

COOPERATION

Roboauto together with company First Green Industry develops first, fully electric teleoperated skid-steer in the world. The loader will be able to drive remotely via 4G or 5G data network. The operator may sit in the remote station hundred kilometres far from the machine. Which gives the operator higher safety and comfort and also saves time needed to approach the skid-steer.

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The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic is an organizational unit of the state that was founded in 2009 on the support of research, experimental development and innovation. The creation of TA CR is one of the cornerstones of the fundamental reforms in research and development (R&D) in the Czech Republic. The key features of the reform is the redistribution of financial support from the national budget. The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic simplifies the state support of applied research and experimental development which has been fragmented and implemented by many bodies before the reform.

COOPERATION

Roboauto is working on projects:

• Situational awareness in drivers of teleoperated vehicles
• High-definition maps as a tool for increasing resiliency and safety of (automated) vehicles
• Use of virtual tracks to improve safety, reliability and efficiency of autonomous vehicles

All these projects are part of TA CR programmes and support research and development in Roboauto