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Philipp Santer, research staff member at the Chair of Automatic Control (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Knut Graichen) attended the 9th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2025, held from August 25 to August 27 in San Diego, California. There, he presented his paper titled “A Model Predic...

The research project „SPP2364“ is a Germany-wide cooperative project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Here, a plethora of different particle processes, relevant in industries such as food, pharmaceutical, or petrochemical, are researched in the context of automatic control. Inno...

The research project “Synergy-Based Model Predictive Interaction Control for Robotic Hand-Arm Systems,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is being conducted by the Chair of Automatic Control (ESI-Member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Knut Graichen) in collaboration with the Chair of Autonomous System...

The 19th Embedded Talk will take place on October 10th, 2025, 1:00 pm on the premises of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg at Erlangen Südgelände (Cauerstr. 11, Erlangen, lecture hall H12). Immerse yourself into the world of  Embedded AI and find out more about the latest devel...

ESI-Member Prof. Voigt is delighted to announce the publication of a new podcast about the key role of creativity in the future of education (in German). In a fruitful discussion with Alban Imeri, Freelancer and Initiator/Founder from STORYWELT, he emphasizes the importance of approaching recent ch...

The Erlangen ENT Clinic is one of three centers worldwide to use smart cochlear implants for the first time. “It's comparable to the leap in innovation from push-button cell phones to the first smartphones,” says ESI member Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hoppe, head of audiology and the CICERO Cochlear...

Tobias Baumeister and his supervised students, Paul Hofmann and Lea Klein, from the Chair of Computer Architecture received the Best Paper Award at the EAI CSECS 2025 Conference for their paper „Block-Based Learning: A Gamified Simulator for GPU Programming Education.“ The paper presents µGPUSim...

Prof. Teich gave a talk at the NHR PerfLab Seminar with the title “(Re-)Configurable Processor Arrays On-Chip—Low Energy/High Performance Loop Nest Acceleration”. Please find all information on the following website: https://hpc.fau.de/2025/07/10/re-configurable-processor-arrays-on-chip-low-ener...

Satellites that are as small as a shoe box are called small satellites. A research project at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is now investigating how to maximize their technical potential. The long-term goal of “FORnanoSatellites” is to set up automated small series product...

SPARC member Pit Henrich was awarded first place for his presentation at AIBEConf, held at the Digital Health Innovation Platform (d.hip) in Erlangen. His research focuses on advancing robotic interaction with deformable tissue and objects (a critical challenge in surgical robotics) by providing st...