Year: 2024

Knut Graichen and Maximilian Pierer von Esch attended the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024) held in Milan, Italy, from December 16th to 19th. Knut Graichen, as the Editor-in-Chief of Control Engineering Practice (CEP), chaired the journal's annual editorial board meeting. Meanw...

The Chair of Automatic Control is proud to be part of the Department EEI's strong patent performance. From 2022 to 2024, five of the department’s chairs, including ours, ranked among the top 10 patent-active chairs at FAU. This highlights the innovative research conducted at the Chair of Automatic C...

Mehdi Koochak joined our team in November as a new research assistant. Mehdi will focus on the modeling and control of micro-ring modulators for optical data transmission systems.

Meet Savla, Nayanaprasad Deepti Kumar, Ramesh Mummina, and Saisatyasubrahmanya Rahul Yendapalli – the students behind the latest team project in Autonomy Technology. Over the past six months, they have designed and implemented mapping and planning strategies for the four-legged robot Spot, significa...

Philipp Hartmann, Florian Goppelt-Schneider, and Thorben Südhoff attended the 28th IEEE Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC 2024) in Sinaia, Romania from October 10th to 12th. They presented their papers and enjoyed the full conference experience by listening to engaging prese...

On Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, the Chair visited Company Loesch Verpackungstechnik GmbH + Co. KG in Altendorf. The day began with a warm welcome and an introduction to the world of packaging machines for chocolate, chewing gum, and confectionery by Dr. Ferdinand Schwarzfischer, Deputy Chief Technology ...

Tim Goller, Johannes Reinhard, and Markus Schumann attended the 8th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2024) at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne from August 21 to 23. They presented their papers and enjoyed the full conference experience by listening to engagin...

As part of a DAAD exchange program, a group of students from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru visited our chair on August 14th to explore ongoing research projects. They were introduced to various scientific setups, including a demonstration of the robotic dog "Spot" from Boston Dynamics. ...

At the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Engineering on July 19, 2024, our employee Georg Rabenstein received the Baumüller Holding GmbH & Co. KG Graduate Award for the mechatronics course in 2024. The award honors him for his master’s thesis titled “Analyzing Normalizing Flows for Model Pre...

This summer semester, the Lab Course Mechatronic Systems took place again. A quadcopter was used as the basis, and students designed a mechanism to pick up water from a base station and drop it over a target identified by a camera. The student group, supported by us together with the Chair of Res...