About ICAS
The ICAS Innovation Cluster addresses autonomous systems in a holistic context and is particularly focused on their integration into economic processes. The research and development topics of ICAS focus on unmanned autonomous surface and air vehicles as well as on corresponding infrastructures and services. The projects classified in ICAS explicitly cover activities and goals of the Berlin-Brandenburg cluster Transport, Mobility and Logistics.
Funding
ICAS stands for “Innovation Cluster Autonomous Systems” and is funded by the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Energy of the State of Brandenburg (MWAE) within the framework of the Joint Task “Improvement of the Regional Economic Structure” (GRW) with about 5 million EUR at 50% and supported by the Wirtschaftsförderung Land Brandenburg GmbH (WFBB). The innovation cluster is supported by TITUS Research GmbH. The duration is initially three years, the start was in November 2020.
Research and development for highly automated and autonomous systems
The innovative research and development activities of ICAS are focused on unmanned autonomous vehicles and their ecosystems. ICAS brings together innovative and future-oriented projects with actors from different disciplines that deal with highly automated and autonomous systems on land, water and in the air and the corresponding infrastructures.
These collaborations result in solutions for new application fields, services and technologies. This is accompanied by significant contributions to the widespread introduction and use of digital processes and their sustainable expansion.
An innovation network in Brandenburg
Currently, 12 companies from Brandenburg and Germany are participating in the project, and additional companies can join. ICAS offers them integration into a large innovation network and access to national and international research institutions and associations. This results in outstanding opportunities such as increased innovative capacity, stronger potentials and improved competitiveness.
ICAS currently has no equivalent in Germany or Europe. The innovation cluster offers the state of Brandenburg the opportunity to take a leading position as a “high-tech location” in the field of unmanned autonomous systems – and thus to increase its national and international visibility and attractiveness in the long term.