Seminar: PowerCare Meets R-PODID

25-09-16 00:00

The R-PODID Consortium Meeting officially began today in Istanbul, bringing together partners to discuss ongoing developments and collaboration opportunities.

Istanbul, Turkey – 16 September 2025

A key highlight of the opening agenda was a seminar by Dr. Schellenberger, titled “PowerCare meets R-PODID.” The session introduced the PowerCare project, outlining its objectives and exploring areas of potential convergence and knowledge exchange between PowerCare and R-PODID.

This seminar underscored the significance of clustering opportunities, emphasising collaboration as a pathway to innovation and shared impact.

PowerCare is a Fraunhofer-funded project, and its collaboration partners aim to develop AI-assisted failure prediction models running on a compact, high-performance microcontroller. The AI-enabled microcontroller will be assembled with high-efficiency GaN semiconductors to form a power module. A co-design of power semiconductors, microcontrollers, and prediction models will result in a miniaturized and energy-efficient module that can be directly integrated into the drives to be monitored. The aim is to detect power electronics faults at an early stage. Unexpected failures of these components would thus be minimized. For industrial applications, this offers the possibility of efficient and cost-saving maintenance planning. In the area of mobility applications and critical systems, increased safety can also be ensured in this way.

Bringing together the competencies of the Fraunhofer institutes in PowerCare enables the rapid implementation of qualitative demonstrators. For a market-oriented development of cognitive power electronics, the project partners Siemens AG, X-FAB Dresden GmbH & Co. KG, NXP® Semiconductors Germany GmbH, and TU Dortmund University provide support and valuable practical feedback.

More information: PowerCare