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


• 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

• 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


• 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