Year: 2023

The joint research project "KARMA - Entwicklung eines innovativen kamera-überwachten Arbeitssystems für die kollisionsfreie Bewegung von Mensch und Maschine" funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) aims at developing an innovative safety system for human-...

On November 23rd, our master's student Philipp Santer was awarded the "VDE Bayern Award 2023" in the category of "Science" for his master's thesis on "Predictive Maintenance for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors." The ceremony took place at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich. We congratulate Phil...

Last Saturday, the Chair of Automatic Control left a lasting impression at the Long Night of Sciences, and the response exceeded our expectations! Under the theme "Control in Technology and Robotics - invisible but omnipresent," various experiments allowed visitors to immerse themselves in the wo...

We're pleased to welcome three new members joining our team on October 1st: Kai Weber, who will be focusing on control methods for modern fuel cell concepts. Georg Rabenstein, who will be working on the topic of Robot Manipulation of Deformable Objects. Fynn Thomas, who specializes in dynamic ene...

Kaja Wille joined our team in August as a new research assistant. Kaja will be working on Discrete Event Systems with an interest in using methods of Supervisory Control Theory.

On June 23, our employee Lars Ullrich was awarded the "Hanns-Voith-Stiftungspreis 2023" in the "Innovation & Technology/Artificial Intelligence" category for his master thesis "Analyzing the Effect of Design Choices in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning". The award ceremony took place in Heidenh...

Our new bachelor and master program “Autonomy Technologies” will be started in winter semester 2023/24. You can find more information and the new video at: https://www.at.study.fau.eu. “Autonomy Technologies” is an internationally oriented study program in English. Our students can expect cutting...

We welcome our new technical employee Gerhard Heger, who will strengthen our team in the electromechanical workshop from March.

Since January, Philipp Kögler has strengthened our team at the Chair of Automatic Control as a new research assistant. Philipp is working on the POV.OS project and is concerned with the development of a modular and learning control and planning concept for professional operation vehicles.  ...

The Chair of Automatic Control is involved in the recently accepted BMWK-funded project „Agent-based data-driven modeling for stochastic and self-adjusting control of building energy systems“ (AGENT-2) together with RWTH Aachen, Robert Bosch GmbH and Bosch Building Automation GmbH. The goal of the ...