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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The so-called “Helmholtz Energy Transition Roadmap (HETR)” is intended to serve as an overview and guide for research, industry and politics and thus as a guideline for the transformation of the energy system. IAI researchers were also involved in the creation of this roadmap for energy research. In order to implement the topics and objectives set out in the roadmap in practice, research at the IAI is carried out particularly in the Energy Lab environment.
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Lorenz Wührlon passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Methodenentwicklung zur automatisierten Hochdurchsatz Biodiversitätsforschung unter Invertebraten”. The exam date was on July 15th, 2024.
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The next two lectures in the “KIT International Excellence Talks” series will take place on June 27th, 2024 at the IAI as well via Zoom. Prof. Dr. Christian Beck will explore the complex dynamics of electricity consumption with data-based load profiles, while Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Yalçın will present new approaches to complex network representation and their application to air quality in Istanbul.
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Am Samstag, 15. Juni 2024 fand das zweite Energie- und Klimafestival auf dem Karlsruher Festplatz statt, das IAI hat sich auch hierbei beteiligt. Am gemeinsamen Stand des Reallabors Smart East und FZI sowie Christoph Schlenzig wurde mit einer Vielzahl an Interessierten wie der Bürgermeisterin für Umwelt und Gesundheit der Stadt Karlsruhe Frau Lisbach über interessierte Familien bis hin zu Studierenden über die Energie-Themen Flexibilität, Mieterstrom oder Smart Charging gesprochen.
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Das IAI wird sich am Real:labor Festival des KIT beteiligen, das vom 02. bis 06 Juli 2024 am Kronenplatz in Karlsruhe stattfinden wird. Am 4. Juli sowie am 5. Juli können Interessierte mehr über die Forschung der Reallabore EnergyLab und SmartEast (als Teil des EU-Horizon-Forschungsprojekts „WeForming“) zu verschiedenen Themen der Energiewende erfahren.
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Moritz Frahm on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Occupant-Oriented Demand Response with Model Predictive Heating Control in a Multi-Zone Residential Building”. The exam date was on June 17th, 2024.
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On June 4, 2024, we cordially invited everyone to the Welcome Event and Lecture Evening with Professor Dr. Gerling. This special event provided the mentors and mentees of the new round the opportunity to get to know each other and experience an inspiring lecture together.
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As part of the mentoring program MINToring, we invited mentors and mentees to the MINToring retrospective to reflect on the last round of the MINToring program together. This event provided the opportunity to review our experiences and insights from the past year and gather valuable ideas for the future.
moreTo the list of all student theses (Bachelor and Master theses as well as HIWI-Student projects)
To the list of all student theses (Bachelor and Master theses as well as HIWI-Student projects)