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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 ...

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!