AGRITECHNICA is the leading trade fair for agricultural technology. Under the motto "Touch Smart Efficiency", AGRITECHNICA 2025 will give visitors direct access to innovative, networked agricultural systems that use digital technologies to increase efficiency, sustainability, and productivity.
More efficiency, precision, and automation are the keys to green productivity. We show how dSPACE solutions accelerate the development of innovations in the agricultural technology industry.
We will be presenting the following product highlights in Hall 17, Booth 17C21
- RTMaps and AURELION enable precise real-time simulation and control of spraying processes, taking environmental influences into account.
- SCALEXIO offers a HIL test environment for realistic modeling and validation of key sprayer functions such as nozzle control.
- ADAS HIL with AURELION simulates realistic environments and ground conditions for validating autonomous vehicles and robots.
November 7, 2025, AgEng LAND.TECHNIK Conference, 2:00 p.m., Hannover Messe
Dr. Nico Rüddenklau, Senior Project Engineer
“Concept and Implementation of a Real-Time-Capable LIDAR Simulation in the Agricultural Domain”
The presentation introduces concepts and implementation for adapting the AURELION environment sensor simulation tool from the automotive to the agricultural domain. It focuses on modeling agricultural environments - such as plant populations, unstructured soil, and dust clouds - and their interaction with LIDAR sensors, emphasizing real-time capability for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) testing.
Hybrid approaches combining ray tracing and stochastic models are discussed, with validation using measurement data. The talk also compares different modeling methods regarding performance and fidelity, and provides an outlook on future developments enabled by advances in GPU computing and AI.
November 11, 2025, 1:30-1:55 p.m., Hall 17, Booth 17H02
Carsten Schmidt, Product Owner, Automated Driving & Software Solutions
“Accelerate Innovation: Rapid Implementation of Multisensor Applications”
To fully automate agricultural processes, complex systems are required that process a wide variety of sensor data. RTMaps, a graphical development framework for multi-sensor applications, accelerates the development of such systems by providing solutions for many standard tasks. This allows developers to fully focus on functionality. In this presentation, we will use an intelligent sprayer application to demonstrate how this graphical tool supports the development of multi-sensor applications. We show how an efficient real-time processing chain for sensor data looks like and how off-the-shelf components for sensors, buses and perception algorithms simplify development. We also address ISOBUS support in RTMaps and show how a task controller interface can be implemented with it. In addition, we show how to efficiently develop and test the application using a closed loop simulation.
