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FZI (Research Center for Information Technology) and IPG Automotive GmbH, a leading provider of simulation solutions and test systems for the automobile and automotive supplier industries, have announced that they will jointly develop a testing and integration platform for active safety and energy-efficient driving strategies. The two partners based in Karlsruhe, Germany, have already been successfully cooperating in the field of fusion in camera-based driver assistance systems. Now taking their collaboration to another level by pursuing the development of partially autonomous and user-adaptive driver assistance systems, FZI and IPG are positioning themselves in this forward-thinking market.

About 100 attendees from more than 30 OEMs and suppliers in the automotive sector as well as renowned research institutions met at “apply & innovate 2010,” the international technology conference hosted by IPG Automotive GmbH, a leading provider of simulation solutions, test systems and engineering services in Ettlingen and Karlsruhe (Germany) on September 15 and 16, 2010.

In collaboration with Haldex, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of brake systems for commercial vehicles, IPG Automotive achieved the first successful simulation-based homologation.

About 100 attendees from more than 30 OEMs and suppliers in the automotive sector as well as renowned research institutions met at “apply & innovate 2010,” the international technology conference hosted by IPG Automotive GmbH, a leading provider of simulation solutions, test systems and engineering services in Ettlingen and Karlsruhe (Germany) on September 15 and 16, 2010.