The interface was established in cooperation between the German Association of the Automotive Industry and VDMA e.V. with the support of the Institute for Material Handling and Logistics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT IFL) as an all-purpose interface for communication between a master control system and mobile robots.

You can download the current version here free of charge. Suggested changes can be posted to the GitHub repository http:/github.com/vda5050/vda5050. They will be reviewed by the VDA and VDMA and, if a positive decision is made, will be included in a new version. Older versions of VDA 5050 are no longer recommended or developed further. You can download them here.