Munich. The BMW Group is endowing RWTH Aachen University with a brand new professorship in “Quantum Information Systems” within the Department of Computer Science. Last Wednesday noticed the official inauguration of Prof Dr Dominique Unruh, who will head the chair. In addition, the funding of an endowed chair on the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has already been authorised for 2021. The Chair of Quantum Algorithms and Applications might be headed by Prof. Dr Barbara Kraus.
Alexander Buresch, Senior Vice President BMW Group IT, explains the BMW Group’s dedication: “Our goal is to create an open software ecosystem that optimally integrates quantum software and hardware and thus accelerates the industrialisation of automotive applications. This is precisely where endowed professors at universities such as the Technical University of Munich and RWTH Aachen make an important contribution to jointly creating pioneering innovations.” While the TUM chair lays the algorithmic foundations for industry-relevant functions, the RWTH chair creates concrete software program options and the required software program experience.
Over the previous seven years, the BMW Group’s dedication to analysis into quantum computing has led to an more and more far-reaching understanding of the expertise. At the identical time, the corporate is reaching the boundaries of typical {hardware} resulting from ever bigger and extra advanced optimisation issues, simulations and functions of synthetic intelligence. The BMW Group is a longtime a part of the quantum computing ecosystem and an innovation chief within the automotive sector. With a focused collaboration technique, the BMW Group is utilising synergies and driving ahead the sphere of quantum computing analysis whereas already exploiting some great benefits of this expertise in its worth chain.
“For years, we have been involved in many consortium projects in the fields of battery production, artificial intelligence and system engineering, in bilateral contract research and in the joint organisation of education and research, and now we are also increasingly active in the promising field of quantum computing technology. As a mentor for this exciting and important future topic for the BMW Group, I am looking forward to working with Prof Dr Unruh and Prof Dr Kraus and to the results of our joint research,” says Stefan Floeck, Senior Vice President Product Line MINI and Compact Class BMW.
Powerful optimisation algorithms, simulations and synthetic intelligence within the areas of planning, manufacturing and logistics – this requires increasingly more computing energy as a result of rising complexity and drawback sizes. Quantum computing was recognized again in 2017 as a possible reply to the tip of Moore’s Law, which implies that the computing energy obtainable worldwide will not proceed to extend exponentially as earlier than. The BMW Group due to this fact established a devoted quantum computing workforce that’s already contributing to the corporate’s worth creation by reformulating real-world issues from growth, manufacturing, distribution and lots of different areas and fixing them with quantum (impressed) algorithms. In collaboration with Amazon Web Services, for instance, the actions of robotic arms throughout the sealing of the underbody have been optimised and it was found that quantum computing-inspired algorithms have the potential to cut back the cycle time on the Munich plant by as much as 10%.
Other promising use circumstances embody the simulation of battery and gas cells, numerical simulations of auto aerodynamics and acoustics, environment friendly coaching of machine studying fashions and lots of different areas. Today, the processing of such computationally intensive processes typically represents the bottleneck within the growth of latest functions and merchandise.
The BMW Group is a co-founder of the QUTAC consortium, during which eleven of the biggest German firms are working collectively to advance quantum computing from an industrial perspective and conduct application-related analysis. The BMW Group can also be a member of a complete of 4 funded initiatives that deliver collectively wonderful educational companions with industrial enterprises and start-ups with totally different focuses with the intention to examine the potential of quantum computing utilizing actual {industry} use circumstances.
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