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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...

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...

Klaus Löhe, Johannes Reinhard, Niklas Petrasch, Sebastian Kallabis and Knut Graichen have received the Best Paper Award 2025 of the AIST (Association for Iron & Steel Technology) Committee in the Hot Sheet Rolling category for their work “Work Roll Speed Drop Compensation for Hot Strip Mills red...

Rutvik Virani, Shukrullo Nazirjonov, and Sunny George are the students behind the latest team project in Autonomy Technology. Over the past six months, they have designed and implemented a human-robot interaction system for our four-legged robot, Spot. Thanks to their work, Spot can now autonomously...

In the research project “OXO-LOHC: Autotherme und ultratiefe Wasserstoff-Freisetzung aus LOHC-Systemen”, two innovative approaches are being investigated to significantly increase the efficiency of hydrogen release from liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) systems. This project is led by the Helmh...