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 IAI congratulates Mr. Rafael Poppenborg on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Optimized Energy Hub Scheduling Using Evolutionary Algorithms”. The exam date was on December 10th, 2024.
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Mr. Rafael Poppenborg was awarded the 2024 Best Paper Award at the 4th Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2024 (EI.A 2024) from October 23 - 25, 2023 in Bali, Indonesia, for his contribution “Dynamic Phenotype Mapping in Evolutionary Algorithms for Energy Hub Scheduling”.
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Manuel Treutlein was awarded 2nd place in the “Energy Campus 2024” ideas competition by the foundation “Energie & Klimaschutz” for his doctoral project researching the topic of “Machine learning methods for load estimation in the low-voltage grid using metadata from distribution system operators”.
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Patricia Dold was awarded the 3rd Place Paper Award at the 43rd edition of the “International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics” (ICALEO 2024), which took place from November 4 to 7, 2024 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. Her thesis is entitled “Event-Based Vision in Laser Welding: An Approach for Process Monitoring” and was written in collaboration with Prof. Ralf Mikut.
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Die EFFEKTE-Reihe ist eine wissenschaftliche Vortragsreihe, die an zwölf Abenden zwischen Juni 2024 und Mai 2025 im TRIANGEL in Karlsruhe stattfindet. Am 12. November fand der Abend zum Thema „Gute Grundlage – wie digitale Systeme sinnvoll Daten aufbereiten“ statt, an welchem neben dem Fraunhofer Institut und der Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg auch das IAI vertreten war.
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Moritz Böhland on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Generation of Synthetic Data for Large-Scale Image Analysis with Generative Adversarial Networks”. The exam date was on November 13th, 2024.
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On October 15th, 2024, the MINToring team had the opportunity to attend an engaging event with OpalRT. Mr. François Tempez and Ms. Marija Stevic shared valuable insights into their career paths and experiences in the industry. Mr. Tempez explained how his technical background helps him effectively market products like the real-time simulator, while Ms. Stevic discussed her research experiences and the challenges she faced during her PhD.
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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.
To 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)