FlexCrash webinar – Intelligent scenario modelling and simulation using AI techniques

FLEXCRASH WEBINAR

Intelligent scenario modelling and simulation using AI techniques

5 May 2026 | 16h - 17.30h CEST

The FlexCrash project invites you to join the webinar “Intelligent Scenario Modeling and Simulation Using AI Techniques.”

Discover how Artificial Intelligence is transforming scenario modeling and simulation for autonomous and intelligent systems. This session will showcase innovative approaches to improve the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of simulation processes.

Participants will explore the FlexCrash project, the role of digital twins in advanced simulations, and new approaches that go beyond single-vehicle testing by incorporating interactions between autonomous vehicles and humans. The webinar will also address key challenges in testing learning-enabled systems from a software engineering perspective, focusing on quality, diversity, and adequacy.

This event offers a valuable opportunity to understand how AI-driven simulation is shaping safer and more reliable autonomous technologies.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The FlexCrash project is developing a flexible and hybrid manufacturing technology to enhance weight reduction and crash resistance by locally reinforcing the critical areas for a crash event, creating structures that are safer and lighter compared to current solutions. The project selects vehicle parts and applies surface patterns onto performed parts with the objective to reduce weight, increase safety and optimise crash performance of current and future vehicles.

The main ambition of the project is to provide a general improvement of car safety with a reduction of risks and fatalities in crashes, as well as a reduction of CO₂ emissions coming from the direct contribution of the lightweighting of car body parts, and from the simplification of the entire supply chain.

Agenda

16.00h – Welcome and introduction

Deepak Dhungana, Head of Institute for Digitalization. Program Director Informatics, IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences

16.05h – Discovering the FlexCrash platform

Deepak Dhungana, Head of Institute for Digitalization. Program Director Informatics, IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences

16.20h – The potential of digital twins in simulation

Stefan Klikovits, Software Engineer, Johannes Kepler University

16.40h – Beyond single ego vehicle testing: bringing AV interactions and humans in the loop

Alessio Gambi, Professor, Austrian Institute of Technology

17.00h – Testing Learning-Enabled Autonomous Vehicles: A Software Engineering Perspective on Quality, Diversity, and Adequacy

Vincenzo Riccio, Associate Professor in Software Engineering, Università degli Studi di Udine

17.20h – Questions & Answers

17.30h – Closing & final remarks