Research

Current research projects

• DigitalSOW2 - Development of software and system solutions for automated and autonomous transport processes on the waterway and their practical testing with the test vehicle Boris Kluge in the digital test field on the Spree-Oder waterway (SOW)
  BMDV funding guideline for research and development of digital test fields on federal waterways (DTW III), project period: 01/2025-12/2027, project management: Alberding GmbH, cooperation partners: Department of Design and Operation of Maritime Systems at the Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Automation Technology at the University of Rostock


• ORMOBASS - Operational R-Mode Baltic Sea System to support resilient navigation
  Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme, project period: 11/2023 - 10/2026, project management: German Aerospace Center (DLR), cooperation partners: 13 project partners, including Alberding GmbH, and 6 additional associated organisations


• SensorSOW - On-board sensor and assistance systems for automated and autonomous inland navigation on the Spree-Oder-Waterway (SOW)
  BMVI funding guideline for investments in the development of digital test fields on federal waterways, project period: 01/2023-06/2025, project management: Alberding GmbH, cooperation partners: Department of Design and Operation of Maritime Systems at the Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Automation Technology at the University of Rostock


• RUBIN - Travel support for inland navigation based on precise traffic and flow forecasts
  BMDV mFUND, project period: 12/2022-11/2025, project management: Alberding GmbH, cooperation partner: Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW)

Completed research projects

• IWETT - Inland Waterway use of EGNOS for Tracking and Tracing
  GSA/GRANT/01/2021-04 Acceleration of EGNOS Adoption in Transport, project period: 2022 – 2024, project management: National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE, Hungary), cooperation partners: Alberding GmbH (Germany), Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV, Germany), Port Authority of Seville (APS, Spain), project observers: Centre for Studies and Expertise on Risks, the Environment, Mobility and Urban Planning (CEREMA, France), Ports of the State (PdE, Spain)



• DigitalSOW - Establishment and operation of a digital test field for the investigation, development and testing of concepts, algorithms and technologies for automated and connected driving on the Spree-Oder-Waterway (SOW)
  BMVI funding guideline for investments in the development of digital test fields on federal waterways, project period: 2021-2024, project management: Alberding GmbH, cooperation partners: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt Potsdam GmbH, Department of Design and Operation of Maritime Systems at the Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Automation Technology at the University of Rostock, Association for European Inland Navigation and Waterways e.V.



• IW-Net - Innovating driven European Inland Waterways Transport Collaborative Network, Sub-project "GNSS Monitoring" EU TenT Projekt
  Project management: University of Bremen - Institute for Maritime Shipping and Logistics, 26 cooperation partners including Alberding GmbH


• AutonomSOW II - Development of an information platform based on waterway, traffic and transport process data for plannable and networked transport operations on inland waterways
  BMVI mFund, project period: 2020-2023, project management: Alberding GmbH, cooperation partners: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Lutra GmbH - Port of Königs Wusterhausen, German National Association of Public Inland Ports (BÖB), Department of Design & Operation of Maritime Systems at the Technical University of Berlin, Berliner Hafen-und Lagerhausgesellschaft mbH (BEHALA)


• SSRoverDAB+
  ESA NAVISP Element 2, project period: 2022-2023, project management: Alberding GmbH, cooperation partners: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Geo++ GmbH, inPosition GmbH, associated project partners: Bavarian Agency for Digitisation, High-Speed Internet and Surveying (LDBV), Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), BayWa AG Munich


• SCIPPPER - Lock assistance system based on PPP and VDES for inland waterway navigation, Sub-project „Land-based services, data transmission and system monitoring“
  BMWi, project period: 11/2018-10/2021 (extended until 02/2022), project management: Argonics GmbH, cooperation partners: in-innovative-navigation GmbH, Weatherdock AG, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV), Alberding GmbH



• MI-DAM - Multi-parameter monitoring and real-time risk assessment of hydroelectric DAMs in the Kyrgyz Republic, Sub-project "GNSS Monitoring"
  BMBF, project period: 2017-2020, project management: Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), cooperation partners: Technische Universität Berlin, Airbus Defence and Space Geo GmbH, Alberding GmbH


• AutonomSOW - Basis for automated and autonomous inland navigation on the Spree-Oder waterway
  BMVI mFund, project period: 2019, project management: Alberding GmbH, cooperation partners: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Lutra GmbH - Port of Königs Wusterhausen, German National Association of Public Inland Ports (BÖB)


• LAESSI - Guiding and assistance systems to improve safety of navigation on inland waterways, Sub-project "Land-based service and data transmission"
  BMWi, project period: 2015–2018, cooperation partners: in-innovative-navigation GmbH, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV), Alberding GmbH



• GSA/OP/07/13/SC24 - Support to Maritime Service Providers for the transmission of EGNOS corrections via IALA beacons and AIS
  2017-2019, cooperation partners: Advanced Logistics Group S.A., Indra Sistemas S.A., European Satellite Services Provider S.A.S., Alberding GmbH