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Research / Projects

Institute of Engineering Geodesy

Research priorities and projects of the IIGS

Research projects at IIGS in the subject areas of:

Smartphone Navigation

Subject area Traffic Telematics/GeoMobility

  • Integrated traffic situation detection
  • Kinematic positioning methods
  • Digital road map
  • Map-Matching
  • ConMoRAIL
    - Sensor-based Detection and Localization of Faults on Railway Tracks
  • CoKLIMAx
    - Use of COPERNICUS data and services for climate-relevant urban planning
  • Ghosthunter
    - Telematic system against wrong-way drivers using GNSS and digital maps
  • TransSec
    - Autonomous emergency maneuvers and motion monitoring for road safety
  • HydrOs
    - Integrated hydrographic positioning system
  • MOPSY
    - Modular positioning system
  • Map-Matching
    - Map-based Locating
Construction control-circuits for construction machinery

Subject Area Construction control circuits

  • Integration of engineering geodetic processes into construction processes
  • Construction machine control/ Robot control
Dam monitoring

Subject Area Monitoring

  • Distributed multi-sensor systems
  • Area-wide data capture for architecture
  • Kinematic capture
  • Brain TLS
    - Research project “Geodesy meets Neuroscience”
  • TanDEM-X DLR
    - Worldwide PPP – evaluation of kinematic GPS measurements for TanDEM-X evaluation
  • Low-Cost-GNSS Monitoring
    - An automatic low-cost GPS monitoring system
  • IMKAD
    - Modeling and description of deformation processes
AI model

Subject Area Process and quality modeling

  • Process modeling
  • Simulation and evaluation
  • Quality models and management
  • Neural networks
    - Quality propagation using artificial neural networks
  • Cluster of Excellence IntCDC RP18
    - Development of a holistic quality model for IntCDC building systems: social, environmental and technical characteristics
  • ROSATTE
    - Quality-assured data exchange infrastructure
  • Quality management
    - Introduction to quality management – the ISO 9000 family
  • QuCon
    - Development of a real-time quality assurance system for residential buildings
  • Quality models
    - Three different quality models were developed at the Institute of Engineering Geodesy
  • Model evaluation
    - Sensitivity analysis

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