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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Erfolgreicher Startupantrag im BW-Programm Junge Innovatoren

Das IAI gratuliert Frau Dr. Martha Maria Frysztacki und Herrn Dr. Maximilian Parzen zur erfolgreichen Einwerbung ihres Existenzgründungsvorhabens „Energiewendeplan A“ im Rahmen des Förderprogramms „Junge Innovatoren“ des Landes Baden-Württemberg.

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2023-09-23_EnergiewendeNachhaltigkeittagDaniel Ketzer (KIT)
IAI-Beteiligung an Energiewende- und Nachhaltigkeitstagen 2023

Auch im Jahr 2023 hat das KIT an den Energiewende- und Nachhaltigkeitstagen 2023 teilgenommen und sich auf der zentralen Veranstaltung auf dem Platz vor dem Schloss in Stuttgart sowie am KIT-Campus Nord präsentiert. Das IAI hat sich hierbei mit dem „Digitalen Zwilling des KIT-Campus“, der „Energie-Eisenbahn“ sowie „NaiS – nachhaltige intelligente Sanierungsmaßnahmen“ beteiligt.

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Successes at IEEE SEGE 2023 conference
Successes at IEEE SEGE 2023 conference

The following successes have been achieved at the 11th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (IEEE SEGE), August 13-15, 2023, in Oshawa, Canada: Mr. Moritz Weber was awarded the 2023 Best Paper Award and Mr. Rafael Poppenborg was awarded the 2023 Best Presentation Award (Online Session).

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Best Paper Award (CARV 2023)privat
Best Paper Award (CARV 2023)

Dr.-Ing. Tobias Müller was awarded the Best Paper Award for his conference contribution at the 9th ”Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference” (CARV), held in Bologna, Italy, June 20-23, 2023.

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Dissertation Yanke Wangprivat
Dissertation by Mr. Yanke Wang

The IAI congratulates Mr. Yanke Wang on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Robot-Assisted Full Automation Interface: TouchResponse On Zebrafish Larvae”. The exam date was on July 28th, 2023.

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Dissertation Miao Zhangprivat
Dissertation by Ms. Miao Zhang

The IAI congratulates Ms. Miao Zhang on passing her doctoral examination. The title of her doctoral thesis is “A Novel Plenoptic Camera based Measurement System for the Analysis of Flight and Combustion Properties of Refuse-derived Fuel Particles Utilizing Tracking-by Detection”. The exam date was on July 25th, 2023.

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Best Reviewer Award of ACM e-Energy 2023
Best Reviewer Award of ACM e-Energy 2023

Professor Hagenmeyer was granted the Best Reviewer Award as one of three best reviewers in appreciation for contributions to the ACM e-Energy 2023, which was the 14th edition of the ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, held June 20-23, 2023, in Orlando, Florida.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Bretthauer erhält Grashof-Denkmünze des VDIFoto: Bernd Lammel / Bundesfoto, Quelle: VDI
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Bretthauer erhält Grashof-Denkmünze des VDI

Zum 31. Deutschen Ingenieurtag 2023 am 25. Mai in Berlin wurde Professor Dr.-Ing Georg Bretthauer die Grashof-Denkmünze des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) für sein berufliches Lebenswerk verliehen. Diese wurde 1894 zum Andenken an VDI-Mitbegründer Franz Grashof gestiftet und ist die höchste Auszeichnung des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure.

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