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The joint research project "POV.OS - Hardware and software platform for mobile professional operation vehicles" funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) aims at developing an innovative automation platform for mobile professional operation vehicles bas...

AUTOtech.agil (Architektur und Technologien zur Orchestrierung automobiltechnischer Agilität) is the follow-up project to UNICARagil that started in October 2022 within the funding guideline „Elektronik und Softwareentwicklungsmethoden für die Digitalisierung der Automobilität (Mannheim)“. More info...

We are pleased to welcome Thorben Südhoff as a new employee at the chair from October. Thorben will work on concepts for model-based control of particulate processes.

At the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications 2022 (CCTA), our colleague Julian Dahlmann received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for his paper „Trajectory Optimization for Truck-Trailer Systems Based on Predictive Path-Following Control“. Congratulations to Julian!

At the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation 2022 (ICMA), our colleague Tim Goller received the Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics for his paper "Model Predictive Interaction Control based on a Path-Following Formulation". Congratulations to Tim!

The project "Formulation of dispersed systems via (melt) emulsification: Process design, in situ diagnostics and regulation" was approved as part of the DFG priority programme "Autonomous Processes in Particle Technology – Research and Testing of Concepts for Model-based Control of Particulate Proce...

After being awarded the "Ernst-Blickle-Studienpreis" in May, our employee Julia Kowalewski received another award for her outstanding master degree. The "Department EEI Master Award" was presented during the 45th "Tag der EEI" of our department on July 22, 2022. Congratulations!

At the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Engineering on July 1, 2022, our employee Lars Ullrich received the Baumüller Holding GmbH & Co. KG Graduate Award for the mechatronics course in 2022. The award honors Lars for his master thesis "Analyzing the effect of design choices in Model-Based ...

Last Saturday, the LRT participated in the Long Night of Sciences with the event "Control in Technology and Robotics - invisible, but omnipresent". Various experiments encouraged the visitors to experience and understand the field of control technology with the help of their own intervention or oper...

On May 6th, 2022, our employee Julia Kowalewski was awarded the Ernst Blickle Study Prize 2021 of the SEW-EURODRIVE Foundation for her master thesis "Model predictive control of the circulating currents for a modular multilevel converter". The award ceremony took place in the castle in Bruchsal. We ...