Welcome to the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics

The Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI) is a research institute of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the Helmholtz Association (HGF). It conducts research and development in the field of innovative, application-oriented information, automation, and systems technology for sustainable energy systems and complex industrial and laboratory processes. Interdisciplinary working groups are working on integrated systems solutions, whereby all development phases being covered from conceptual design to modeling and simulation, prototyping and practical testing, also under industrial conditions. Novel, reusable methods and tools, which are developed and applied in the context of system design, are further results.

The work of IAI is embedded in the program Energy System Design (ESD) within the HGF's research field Energy and in the programs “Engineering Digital Futures: Supercomputing, Data Management and Information Security for Knowledge and Action”, Natural, Artificial and Cognitive Information Processing (NACIP) and Material Systems Engineering (MSE) within the HGF's research field Information of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres.

The projects at the institute are carried out in cooperation with partners from industry, administration and other research institutions in Germany and abroad. Among others, the institute is involved in projects of the EU, various federal and state ministries, the DFG (German Research Foundation), AiF (German Federation of Industrial Research Associations), and German industry. The institute's staff members are active in a wide range of standardization committees, expert and review committees and programme committees.

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Field study on the use of wireless M-Bus reveals risks to privacy

A field study in four major cities shows that 48.5% of the sensors used to record heating and water consumption are unencrypted. These sensors can reveal detailed information such as sleep/wake cycles and presence/absence. The results were presented at this year's Energy Informatics 2024 conference, which took place in Lugano, Switzerland, from October 9 to 11, 2024, and explained in a scientific publication.

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Retreat of the doctoral candidates in Lermoosprivat
Retreat of the doctoral candidates in Lermoos

From September 25–28, 2020, the first IAI doctoral candidates' retreat took place. After a small group had taken on the planning for the retreat, almost 30 doctoral candidates from the IAI traveled together to a self-catering house in Lermoos in Austria, where the aim was to strengthen professional exchange and cohesion among the doctoral candidates over the three days.

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IFAC Young Author Best Paper Award (TDS 2024)
IFAC Young Author Best Paper Award (TDS 2024)

Tessina Scholl was awarded the Young Author Best Paper Award at the “18th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems” (TDS 2024) from September 24 - 27, 2024 in Udine, Italy. The paper is entitled “Lyapunov-Krasovskii Functionals of Robust Type and Their Legendre-Tau-Based Approximation”. Prof. Veit Hagenmeyer and Prof. Lutz Gröll are involved as co-authors.

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ZDF contribution IAIZDFheute
ZDF contribution IAI

In the ZDFheute program from September 27, 2024 on the topic of “Energiewende: Construction of electricity highways”, Prof. Hagenmeyer can be seen in a short interview from minute 13:43. The video is about the “ground-breaking ceremony” at the southern converter site of the SuedLink 2 GW HVDC line in Großgartach near Heilbronn.

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Dissertation von Herrn Stefan Meisenbacher

The IAI congratulates Mr. Stefan Meisenbacher on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Automated machine learning for time series forecasting in smart grid applications”. The exam date was on September 23th, 2024.

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IAI at “CERN's 70th Anniversary” celebrations at the Swiss Embassy

On 18.09.204 in Berlin, the Swiss Embassy hosted a commemorative event on the 70th anniversary of CERN on the topic of “Open Science and Biodiversity Research”. One of the highlights of the event was the lecture by Professor Rudolf Meier from the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN), who presented state-of-the-art biodiversity research developed at the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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Best Paper by Young Author Award (Process Control 2023)privat
Best Paper by Young Author Award (Process Control 2023)

Mr. Jan Schaßberger received the “Best Paper by Young Author Award” at the 24th International Conference on Process Control from June 6 - 9, 2023 in Štrbské Pleso (Slovakia) for his contribution “From Stationary to Flexible Plant Operation: Extension of a Co-Current Rotary Dryer Model for Energy Demand Flexibility”. Prof. Lutz Gröll and Prof. Veit Hagenmeyer are involved as co-authors.

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MINToring – Industry PhD in Focus
MINToring – Industry PhD in Focus

On August 7, 2024, the MINToring team had the great pleasure of inviting three inspiring industrial PhD candidates: Patricia Dold from Bosch, Carola Krug from Vivavis, and Manuel Treutlein from Netze BW. These three impressive PhD candidates shared their personal experiences on the topic of “industrial doctorates” with our mentors and mentees.

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