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Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Düser, born in 1979, has been head of the IPEK - Institute of Product Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since October 2022.

After his studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and subsequent doctorate at IPEK - Institute of Product Engineering, Tobias Düser held various positions within the AVL Group in the field of innovative development and validation methods. In particular, he worked on novel automation and simulation solutions for test benches. Among other things, he was involved in the development of a new business area, the product portfolio and partner network in the area of Advanced Driver Assistant Systems as well as for Automated Driving. He was a member of the global ADAS/AD leadership circle and also intensively involved in global strategy development.

From 2015, he was responsible for the Advanced Solution Lab at AVL and head of the Karlsruhe branch office. In 2020, he additionally assumed global responsibility for ADAS/AD Virtual Testing Solutions. Tobias Düser and his team worked on virtual and XiL-based validation methods for the validation and testing of Advanced Driver Assistant systems as well as for Automated Driving.

Furthermore, he participates in various working groups such as IAMTS or UNECE.

Research

Rapidly advancing digitalization, which is being accelerated by the current effects of the Corona pandemic, is heralding a radical change for business and society. 
On the one hand, the behavior of users will change significantly, on the other hand, products will become smarter, more networked and more efficient and thus become integrated product systems (System of Systems). New technologies will be developed ever faster - increasingly in development cooperations, interdisciplinary teams and partnerships in order to exploit synergies or to enable the development of system solutions in the first place. Fast and flexible startups as technology providers as well as open source communities are gaining more and more importance and are becoming an essential part of product engineering.
For many users, product innovation will possibly even have a higher priority than product quality. However, digitization does not only mean that development processes are very strongly software-driven. It is essential to consider the topic of product engineering in an integrated manner (e.g., with production technology). The validation of products and product systems is taking on an increasingly important role or is crystallizing as one of the greatest challenges in product engineering. In the case of automated driving, for example, it can be observed that many technological problems have already been solved, but the final validation and the associated release represent a major hurdle.

Therefore, Prof. Düser's research focuses on methods and processes for validation-driven product engineering.

•  SGE - System Generation Development
•  X-in-the-loop methods for validation of systems-of-systems
•  Advanced systems engineering methods in product engineering and validation
•  Methods and processes for virtual validation of highly automated vehicles with special focus on environment, infrastructure, human and sensor technology
•  Trustworthiness and credibility of cyber-physical and virtual validation methods
•  Metaverse-based approaches in system generation development (industrial metaverse)
•  Update and upgrade capability of software-driven, mechatronic products
   

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