• Startup program tailored for autonomous agriculture robot innovators
  • Enables fast prototyping, multisensor fusion, and AI deployment
  • Licensing and mentoring optimized to reduce risk and speed up development
  • Integration-ready with industrial protocols and functional safety alignment (ISO 18497)   
  • Scalable autonomy, real-time performance, and startup-friendly access

Task 

Help startups in the field of agricultural robotics bring their autonomous robots and solutions from concept to deployment, by reducing software development risks and accelerating time to market. 
 

Challenge

Startups in agricultural robotics and automation face complex software hurdles: real-time constraints, synchronization of multiple sensors, limited computing power, and the need to ensure functional safety (e.g., ISO 18497, which is the agricultural equivalent of ISO 26262 for road vehicles). These challenges are not only of a technical nature.
Overall, a whole range of requirements must be met in order to overcome the challenges: 
  

  • Shortening time-to-market through fast debugging and simplified integration cycles  
  • Reducing development costs through efficient tools and reduced development effort
  • Achieving faster certification of functional safety through deterministic design and traceability
  • Obtaining acceptance of the product and trust in the brand by ensuring reliability in practice
  • Ensuring high competitive flexibility by avoiding technical bottlenecks that limit the ability to iterate quickly and respond to market demands
Solution
RTMaps Studio lets you easily develop real-time multisensor applications. The option of connecting ROS 2 combines the advantages of both development environments. With RTMaps Embedded, you can deploy your Real-Time Multisensor applications on embedded computing systems.

Solution

The RTMaps Startup Accelerator offers a risk-minimized, performance-oriented development path that allows you to develop your real-time multisensor applications intuitively and via drag & drop, and also to take advantage of a connection to the widely used ROS 2 (Robot Operating System) – and all this in accordance with common ISO certifications for agricultural applications. 

  • RTMaps Developer Studio provided for rapid prototyping, ROS 2 interoperable and low-code development and testing
  • Startup-friendly offers for automotive grade RTMaps Embedded – no upfront lock-in
  • Designed for real-time, deterministic execution across embedded platforms
  • Support for functional safety alignment (ISO 26262 certified, ISO 18497, and ISO 25119-ready systems)
  • Integrated tools for logging, replay, and debugging of real-time multisensor systems
  • Built-in industrial protocol support (e.g., CAN, ISOBUS, Ethernet) for seamless system retrofitting
  • Technical mentorship & co-development support to accelerate milestones
  • Visibility via joint demos, conferences, and trade fairs to boost reach and credibility

This sounds interesting:

Contact

Get in touch with us:

dSPACE GmbH
Gautam Dobariya
Tel.: +49 5251 1638-1877
E-Mail: gdobariya@dspace.de 
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautam-dobariya/  

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