Year: 2025

At this year’s Long Night of Sciences on October 25, the Chair of Automatic Control presented current research from the fields of robotics, autonomous systems, and optimization. Visitors could explore how control engineering shapes modern technology through several interactive exhibits – from a b...

Lars Ullrich attended the 2025 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Region 8 Chapter Meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, where he received the Best Poster Award for Researchers and Practitioners. The award recognized his contribution on a framework for trustworthy AI use in high-risk appli...

The project autotech.agil (Architektur und Technologien zur Orchestrierung automobiltechnischer Agilität), the follow-up project to UNICARagil, has successfully concluded. Since its start in October 2022 within the funding guideline „Elektronik und Softwareentwicklungsmethoden für die Digitalisierun...

Philipp Santer attended the 9th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2025, held from August 25 to August 27 in San Diego, California. There, he presented his paper titled “A Model Predictive Control Approach to Trajectory Tracking with Human-Robot Collision Avoidance”, which...

We are pleased to welcome Dr.-Ing. Germano Schafaschek, who joined our team in June. Germano’s work addresses modeling and control of discrete-event systems based on supervisory control theory as well as on tropical-algebraic methods.

The research project „SPP2364“ is a Germany-wide cooperative project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Here, a plethora of different particle processes, relevant in industries such as food, pharmaceutical, or petrochemical, are researched in the context of automatic control. Innov...

The research project "Synergy-Based Model Predictive Interaction Control for Robotic Hand-Arm Systems," funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is being conducted in collaboration with the Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics (Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Philipp Beckerle). The project seek...

Georg Rabenstein participated in the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), held from August 1 to 3 at the University of Portsmouth, UK. There, he presented his paper "Cable Manipulation for Cable Shaping Tasks Using Elastic Rods", which focused on path planning...

Maximilian Pierer von Esch attended the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC 2025), held from July 8 to July 10 in Denver, Colorado. He presented his paper titled “Asynchronous Sensitivity-Based Distributed Control for Nonlinear Systems,” which explores how to accelerate large-scale optimization us...

On June 27, our former student Eva Nistler was awarded the “Hanns-Voith-Stiftungspreis 2025” in the “Digitalization” category for her outstanding master thesis “Experimental Validation of a sensitivity-based DMPC algorithm”. The award ceremony took place in Heidenheim. We sincerely thank the organi...