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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...

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...

Tim Goller, Julian Kißkalt, and Fadi Snobar were attending this year’s European Control Conference (ECC) in Stockholm from 25 – 28 June. They presented their papers and enjoyed conference life by listening to interesting presentations, meeting other control engineers, and having inspiring discussion...

Since January, Philipp Santer has strengthened our team at the Chair as a new research assistant. As part of the KARMA joint research project, Philipp will be working on the development of intelligent motion prediction models and predictive collision avoidance methods in the field of human-robot int...