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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...

Prof. Knut Graichen has been elected as new Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Control Engineering Practice (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/control-engineering-practice). Control Engineering Practice is one of the flagship journals of the International Federation of Automatic Contro...

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...