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The start-up team “inveneer” at LHFT was chosen as one of the winning teams in phase 1 of this year’s BayStartUp business plan competition in northern Bavaria. In two rounds, inveneer was first able to impress with its business plan and then with its pitch in front of a twenty-member jury! The fo...

ESI member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Vossiek was elected in the DFG review board election 2023 (for the term of office 2024 - 2028) for the review board: 4.42 Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, subject: 4.42-02 Communication Technology and Networks, High Frequency Technology and Photonic...

At the "4th International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems" (ROBOVIS 2024) in Rome, the paper "Human Comfort Factors in People Navigation: Literature Review, Taxonomy and Framework" by Matthias Kalenberg, Christian Hofman, Sina Martin and ESI member Prof. Dr.-Ing Jörg ...

Is it possible for robots to develop social intelligence and skills to play a role in social interactions? The kick-off on February 20, 2024 was dedicated to a day full of research in the context of the main question. Because at the end of the project, we can confidently answer the question in th...

On January 18, 2024, the Bavarian Chip Design Center (BCDC) reached an important milestone in making Bavaria a leading location for innovation and excellence in chip design. As part of the "Symposium on Chip Development - More Innovation through Chip Design" at Fraunhofer IIS, Bavaria's Minist...

Julian Motzelt, a FAU student at the chair Electrical Smart City Systems (ESCS) of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norman Franchi won the best submission in the Altair Student Contest for the month of December in the EMEA region. Together with his supervisor Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Lübke, they investigated the performa...

At the "11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications" (ICIEA 2024) in Nice, the paper "Optimizing Intralogistics in an Engineer-to-Order Enterprise with Job Shop Production: A Case Study of the Control Cabinet Manufacturing” by Patrick Bründl, Micha Stoidner, Huong Giang ...

The BMBF-funded Project BIOTEXFUTURE will be continued for another year until end of 2025. The vision of BIOTEXFUTURE is to transform the entire textile value chain from petroleum-based to bio-based. Within the innovation space, the role of the Chair of Industrial Management at FAU is to examine con...

ESI member Prof. Knut Graichen has been elected as new Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Control Engineering Practice (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/control-engineering-practice). Control Engineering Practice is one of the flagship journals of the International Federation of Autom...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Research Training Group at FAU. The research training group entitled “Synthetic Molecular Communications Across Different Scales: From Theory to Experiments”, SyMoCADS for short, is being run by the Institute for Electronics Engineering (LTE) in ...