Projects

AmplitudeX

Within this project, an automated system network is to be developed that is capable of recording and monitoring critical areas of maritime infrastructures in real time, efficiently and in parts autonomously in three dimensions.

ARROWS

The goal of this project, which continues the activities of the preceding project KÜS (KPI-based monitoring of the security situation of offshore wind farms), is both the development of methods for assessing the degree of resilience and risk of OWF with regard to safety and security as well as the research on approaches that enable to enhance the resilience towards threats to the safety and security of this infrastructure. Therefore, different aspects of OWF shall be considered, including the energy provision as well as operation and maintenance processes ‑­ both with emphasis on security aspects, the integrity of surveillance systems as well as the overall safety and security of the OWF infrastructure including offshore platforms.

DTMS

The project is to address these questions using the example of maritime security. The DLR Maritime Security Research Network already possesses a sufficiently large pool of methods, tools and expertise to realise this project within their group.

ForCyS

The ForCyS project aims at the development of well-founded methodologies for the security evaluation of critical systems as a foundation for the future design and operation of cyber resilient maritime infrastructures.

MAI

The aim of this project is to enhance the TRAGVIS sensor for new areas of application. The core of the system should be maintained for the use of maritime search and rescue (SAR).

MAREVIS3D

The main goal is the research and development of a unified pipeline for the automatic recognition of objects and their features, along with their 3D reconstruction to be presented to a maritime situational awareness system.

MARLIN

One of the central tasks of the Institute for the Protection of Maritime Infrastructures is the creation of improved and innovative situational awareness systems to ensure the protection of critical maritime infrastructures and the development of the entailed technology. This applies not only to port facilities but also to other maritime infrastructures such as offshore wind farms, ships (container ships, passenger ships, etc.) and international maritime routes which are inherently essential for German exports.

MAST

Goal of the project MAST is the improvement of the capturing and processing of sonar data. For MIMO sonar antennas the main focus lies on the improvement of the signal separation through innovative pulse form design with a special attention on concrete applications like high resolution scans of ship hulls. In addition, when analyzing sonar images, not only the automatic detection of objects but also the detection of changes in a scene over a certain time period will be investigated in MAST.

ResH2

A principal goal of this project is to relate cross-system resilience-oriented aspects to system’s requirements and restrictions in the context of green hydrogen offshore infrastructures and maritime utilization.

SUBVIS

In addition to acoustic sonar systems, active optical camera systems offer solutions for improving visibility through turbid waters. The aim of this project is to develop a gated-viewing sensor, that effectively suppresses backscatter by time-synchronising nanosecond light pulses with a delayed exposure of the camera.

SWIR

The Goal of this project is the fabrication of a light and portable demonstrator, which provides better orientation indoors through fog and smoke via vision enhancement.

VerSich

Alongside the identification of past, present and future challenges regarding the employment of autonomous systems in the security domain, the project shall further uncover methodological approaches that can help to address these very challenges through interdisciplinary research. The objectives of the VerSich project are hence two-fold: Firstly. it shall establish a roadmap of research topics which reflect the identified ethical, legal and social challenges. Secondly, it aims to provide a methodological toolbox which shall serve the advancement of interdisciplinary research and responsible technology development at the Institute for the Protection of Maritime Infrastructures in particular and the German Aerospace Centre in general.

Completed projects