The use of LLMs in systems engineering offers a wide range of possibilities for process optimization and is demonstrated in practice by the Requirements Checker, which creates and checks requirements.

Innovative cloud solutions from KIT and the University of Stuttgart increase the range of electric vehicles and reduce costs in public transportation.

In a recent presentation round, colleagues from the Institute of Information Processing Technology (ITIV) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) presented their research projects.

The Franco-German project "Kaligo-based Intelligent Handwriting Teacher" (KIHT) aims to combine the advantages of handwriting with digital media.

Prof. Eric Sax gladly accepted the invitation to give an inspiring keynote speech at the anniversary celebration “10 Years of Innovation - IPG Automotive Japan” in Tokyo.

The future is electric: come to KIT on November 20, 2024 or participate online if you live further away.

We congratulate the founding team - Dr. Simon Stock, Marius Gerdes and Prof. Dr. Markus Schinle - on receiving the award from the start-up competition - Digital Innovations of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK).

Intensive scientific exchange and team building in the picturesque Monbach Valley.

The “ÖV-LeitmotiF-KI” research project was successfully completed on September 30, 2024 - a milestone for local public transport.

A step towards international cooperation.

Lennart Ries, doctoral student of Prof. Eric Sax at the FZI, has successfully defended his dissertation titled „Driving sequence clustering for data-based scenario analysis for the validation of urban automated driving functions“.

From September 7 to 15, Nikola Lukezic, doctoral student of Prof. Eric Sax, visited the Thessaloniki International Fair to present the innovative OTRACE project.

Join our dynamic team as a tutor for the Laboratory for Applied Machine Learning (LAMA).

The KIT Chipdesign House is being built on the South Campus for cutting-edge research in chip design.

Prof. Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti (A.K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta) combines fundamental knowledge with practical, real-world applications in an intensive 12-hour course.

As part of the course “Laboratory in Software Engineering (PSE)”, an excursion with 30 students to the company IPG in Karlsruhe took place on July 18, 2024.

Fabian Kempf from Prof. Becker's doctoral team has successfully defended his dissertation on "An Adaptive Multi-Core Architecture for Runtime-Configurable Redundancy in Mixed-Criticality Systems".

We congratulate and wish him all the best for the future!

Congratulations to Prof. Eric Sax, who was awarded the Teaching Prize 2024 for outstanding teaching by the students.

With his dissertation "Adaptive scenario selection for simulative testing of perception functions in automated driving", Johannes Bernhard has successfully completed his doctorate as an external doctoral student of Prof. Sax.

Congratulations!

The ITIV team congratulates Johannes on this fantastic milestone! Hard work and determination have led to this academic success with distinction.

On June 14, 2024, ITIV issued an invitation - and the graduates of the Institute of Information Processing Technology came back to campus in large numbers.

Lynn Conway, a visionary in the field of digital computing, a pioneer in the field of chip design in microelectronics and a fierce advocate for the rights and dignity of LGBTQ-T people around the world, passed away on June 9, 2024 at the age of 86.

At the KIT Campus Day, interested visitors came to get a taste of the university or with specific questions about studying.

We will be there with the ITIV soldering workshop to experience the construction of electronic circuits using concrete examples. You will receive a kit that you can solder and test yourself. 

On May 15, we experienced InnoSpring 2024 at Infineon Technologies in Dresden - an event of innovation and collaboration that was extraordinary.

The IT-TRANS trade fair and conference, an important platform for the digitalization of public transport since 2008, offers an inspiring mix of lectures, interactive workshops and inspiring exhibitions from 14 to 16 May 2024. It is a unique opportunity to exchange views on the latest developments in the industry.

From artificial intelligence to cybersecurity - IT-TRANS presents a wide range of topics that are shaping the future of mobility. ITIV will be on site with three demonstrators and together with Christian Steinhauser from the FZI, Prof. Eric Sax's team will present new innovations at the joint stand 'Karlsruhe Mobility Lab' in the dm-Arena.

The futuristic U-Shift II vehicle concept shone in the halls of the Hannover Messe 2024, at the Baden-Württemberg stand. The modular design of U-Shift allows the drive unit to be flexibly combined with various capsule technologies. Whether passenger transportation, goods transport or services in urban and rural areas - U-Shift adapts to requirements and sets new standards. The ITIV team with David Kraus and Veljko Vučinić under the leadership of Prof. Eric Sax has done a great job: an adaptive E/E architecture enables seamless reception and integration with the drive unit. The modular diagnostic system they have developed for automated vehicles processes live data from the cloud server and displays it in real time. U-Shift II shows that the future of mobility has already begun - and it is electric, automated, safe and quiet. A path that we are taking together to shape the world of tomorrow.

We are delighted to welcome Kai Zhou from Prof. Stork's group of external doctoral students for his successful dissertation entitled "Stress and Emotion Recognition based on Remote Photoplethysmography" - an important milestone in his academic career.

The dissertation is about using a camera to measure physiological parameters such as heart rate, respiratory rate and heart rate variability without contact and to identify stress and emotional states. Potential applications for this technology would include driver condition monitoring or patient monitoring.

In a relaxed atmosphere, the participants of the KIT UpGrade Mobility Winter School recently had the opportunity to talk to a high-ranking executive from Baden-Württemberg: Dr. Ulf Zillig, Vice President Group Research for Sustainability at Mercedes-Benz AG, was a guest at a fireside evening that provided the ideal setting for stimulating discussions.   

After a brief round of introductions and a keynote speech by Mr. Zillig on the topic of sustainability from the perspective of Mercedes-Benz AG, a lively discussion developed, which was moderated by Prof. Eric Sax. In addition to technical topics, Mr. Zillig gave interesting insights into his professional career and how he arrived at his current position in the company.

We would like to thank Mr. Zillig for the time he spent with us and look forward to further opportunities for exchange in the future. 

Organised by the Mechanical and Process Engineering (MACH/CIW) and Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (ETIT) student councils, the Master's Orientation Week (O-Phase) is taking place again this week with a variety of events. One of these was held yesterday at ITIV, where various demonstrators and projects were presented: KIHT pen, 6G real-time radar, demonstrator "CAVIL" and Brain-Computer-Interfaces for visual acuity measurement.

In March 2024, an exciting research exchange took place between ITIV and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Tim Hotfilter and Julian Höfer, two PhD students from Prof Becker's team, travelled to Beijing to visit Prof Yu Wang's lab. Here they were greeted by a variety of projects: from computer chips to large language models - the research foci are diverse, and everyday life at the university is both hectic and inspiring. In addition to research, there was also a cultural exchange. The two tried their hand at the Chinese language, savoured local delicacies and explored the historical sites of Beijing. The great hospitality, helpfulness and openness of their Chinese colleagues was always remarkable. The research exchange lays the foundation for future collaborations. It is a bridge between cultures and a reminder that research should know no borders.

The CeCaS (CentralCarServer) research project of the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) under its "Mannheim" funding programme aims to support the German automotive industry in assuming a leading role in global competition even in the era of IT dominance. Under the leadership of Infineon AG, 30 partners from industry, research organisations and universities are conducting research into future high-performance computers in cars. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Becker gives an insight into the work on the CeCaS project.

Discover the fascinating world of microcontrollers in our workshop "Green thumbs through technology: the world of microcontrollers for beginners!" Find out how microcontrollers - the "brains" of our technical devices - work and how you can program them. In this workshop, you will become developers and create your own microcontroller that will remind you to water your plants. At the end of the workshop, you will take your self-built and programmed circuit home with you and can even automate watering. We look forward to an inspiring day with you! Places are limited - register quickly!

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) mourns the loss of its founding president Professor Horst Hippler, who passed away on 6 March 2024 at the age of 77. Hippler had been Rector of the then University of Karlsruhe since 2002, which he led to its first success in the Excellence Initiative with the idea of founding KIT in 2006. From 2009 to 2012, he headed KIT together with Professor Eberhard Umbach. He then served as President of the German Rectors' Conference until 2018. ITIV's thoughts and sincere condolences are with his family and will honour his memory.

The annual winter school of the graduate school UpGrade Mobility, a networking event of the KIT Mobility Systems Center, took place from February 12 to 16, 2024. It offered a platform for doctoral students from various mobility disciplines to expand their knowledge, exchange ideas and collaborate in interdisciplinary workshops. An excursion through ITIV's research labs allowed participants to learn about various research topics in the field of autonomous mobility of the future through four captivating project presentations.

In 2024, the Seamless Engineering course was once again able to teach students on the MIT Master's degree program about robotics hardware (gripper robots, AGVs) and the associated software tools (Robot Operating System) using a practical logistics problem. The final presentation of the group results took place yesterday on the IFL's test area: a fictitious customer order for which various blocks representing the fictitious customer had to be picked up in the developed material flow system and transported to a storage box at the end of the material flow. The task was successfully completed by all participants. Next year, Prof. Eric Sax's team and Prof. Kai Furmans' team (IFL) will again be coordinating the teaching module.

ITIV was able to present itself at two events at the Balthasar Neumann School (BNS) in Bruchsal as part of the cooperation program with BNS. At the school's in-house exhibition on January 27 and as part of a lecture by Prof. Eric Sax on January 31 about studying electrical engineering and information technology at KIT, his research assistant Houssem Guissouma presented a demonstrator (ATLAS) to the students to illustrate the role of embedded systems in modern networked vehicles.

Both events were well attended and focused on the importance of digitalization and information technology for society and the economy. The students showed great interest and asked questions about studying at ETIT, internship opportunities at ITIV and the demonstrator. In terms of promoting young talent, this was a practical way of further strengthening cooperation.

From January 6 to 10, 2024, the international conference VLSID 2024 for VLSI Design and Cyber-Physical Systems took place in Kolkata, India. For over three and a half decades, it has provided a global platform for the presentation of current research results, solutions and trends within panel discussions, innovation forums and lectures. The conference was sponsored by numerous major processor and chip manufacturers with the support of representatives of the Indian state and central governments together with the VLSI Society of India (VSI).

As one of the keynote speakers for KIT, Prof. Becker presented the prospects for integrating high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) and chiplet solutions in the field of future automotive electronics, including AI components and based on the latest innovations in semiconductor technology.

With around 1,400 international participants, including numerous students, the conference was the ideal setting to present current projects and developments and also to further intensify and network the global Chipact initiatives.

Several universities, companies, career and study guidance services from the employment agency, the Chamber of Crafts and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce were invited to the first contact exchange last Wednesday at the Carl Engler School in Karlsruhe. As part of ITIV's cooperation with the school, Prof. Eric Sax and two of his doctoral students, Marco Stang and David Kraus, took part in the event, which was held under the motto: "Prospects and opportunities after the Carl Engler School - or: CES and then what?". Information talks on choosing a course of study in the context of vocational training were offered in various rooms, Prof. Sax gave a presentation on the electrical engineering/information technology course and there were information stands for individual questions in the foyer in front of the staff room.

16 members of Professor Sax's Systems Engineering working group were invited on a guided tour behind the scenes at Karlsruhe Zoological Garden.
Zoo vet Marco Roller accompanied the group for almost two hours through the depot, the surgery, the elephant enclosure and the technical area of the tropical house, where the first breeding successes (see article) could be marveled at. The day gave rise to many ideas for new final theses and projects, which will be worked on and put out to tender in the coming weeks. The cooperation has now been in place for almost two years and three theses and two internships have already been completed. Two further bachelor theses are currently in progress. If you are interested in the topics, please contact Vitus Lüntzel by email (luentzel@kit.edu).

Xiang Xie was honoured with the NAMUR Award for his dissertation entitled "Artificial Intelligence for spectral analysis: a comprehensive framework", which was awarded "summa cum laude". In his thesis, he developed a "pioneering framework for spectral analysis based on neural networks", as Dr Dorothea Pantförder from the Technical University of Munich said in her laudatory speech.

NAMUR, the "Interessengemeinschaft Automatisierungstechnik der Prozessindustrie e.V.", is an international association of user companies. The prize for the best dissertation is endowed with €3,000. A further €5,000 (doctoral thesis) goes to the supervising chairs.

Congratulations!

In the field of information processing, prospective students were given a guided tour of the ITIV at four different stations, focusing on a range of topics: from the development of an intelligent learning device that helps students learn handwriting, to the presentation of realistic traffic scenarios using model vehicles, the importance of digital technology as a basic subject in the degree program and the use of neural networks in medical technology. Afterwards, there was still time for questions and individual discussions.

At the Institute of Information Processing Technology, we will show you a treadmill demonstrator that can be used to present realistic scenarios for driver assistance using model vehicles.
You can also find out how we are developing a digital pen that uses sensors and artificial intelligence to help children learn to write.
Artificial intelligence is also playing an increasingly important role in medical technology. We will show you how AI could be used to detect neurological diseases such as dementia much earlier in the future.

How? Guided tour at ITIV
Where? Foyer - Ground floor - Building 30.10 - South Campus
When? 10:00 - 11:00, 22.11.2023

2023 PhD students Florian Schade, M. Sc., Iris Fürst-Walter, M. Sc., and Christian Maximilian Karle, M. Sc. from ITIV won the faculty teaching award for the course "Laboratory Circuit Design" at ITIV.

In the current winter semester, the laboratory was again very popular as a 3-week block practical course. In their feedback, the students considered the lab and the practical relevance as an optimal experience for their further studies.

Next year the lab will start again. The number of participants is limited, so early registration is recommended. Places will be allocated via the campus portal using SignMeUp within the period specified there.

A new board was elected in the KIT Faculty Council ETIT on October 10, 2023. The new Dean of the Faculty is the previous Vice Dean Prof. Eric Sax. He is followed by Prof. Thomas Zwick (IHE) as new KIT Vice Dean and Prof. Marc Hiller (ETI) was confirmed in office as Dean of Studies.
In his résumé, the outgoing dean, Prof. Ulrich Lemmer, addressed special challenges of his three-year term of office: the faculty had come through the Corona period, in which the rapidly changing framework conditions required special flexibility, well. The development of online formats, which had become necessary in the process, had become an integral part of teaching, to the benefit of students. Likewise, the major change toward budgeting has taken shape in recent years, and the faculty has grown gratifyingly through numerous newly appointed professors. For all of this, he said, the collegial interaction and good communication within the board and across the ETIT faculty had been crucial. The newly elected dean Prof. Sax confirmed this assessment in his words of thanks and promised to continue on the path taken.
(Picture from left to right: N. Landeck (Managing Director), Prof. U. Lemmer, Prof. M. Hiller, Prof. E. Sax)

As part of the orientation phase for the bachelor's degree programs in electrical and information engineering and medical engineering, a guided tour of the building with all 3 institutes (IHE, IPQ and ITIV ) took place. After the welcome by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulusoy (IHE) and a get-together with coffee and pretzels with Prof. Dr. Randel (IPQ), a presentation of the ReLoDAQ demonstrator (Open 6G Hub), an optical flow demo, the treadmill demonstrator (see pictures), the Space Invaders and the demonstration of a medical engineering experiment by Marius Gerdes awaited the students at ITIV. As a conclusion, the institute tour was again very well received this year.

In recent years, the ELIV Congress (Electronics In Vehicles) has become the most important event of its kind - also internationally. This is where vehicle manufacturers and suppliers exchange information and identify innovations, developments and problems in automotive electronics at an early stage. This is where trends are set and essential decision-making bases for the automotive industry are created.

Prof. Eric Sax will be represented by a team of his doctoral students, the Tempus demonstrator will present the development of platooning in automated local traffic and Nicole Kechler will give a lecture with the topic "Key Factors of a robust and safe Automated Driving Function - Transferable Insights of City-Bus Platooning in Munich".

At KIT Science Week 2023, a diverse program with exciting insights into the world of science awaits those with a thirst for knowledge. In 2023, everything revolves around the topics of climate protection and sustainability. Look forward to many hands-on offers, also for children.
We cordially invite you to the opening on 10.10.23 at 7 p.m. in the Audimax of KIT. ITIV will be there with the team of Prof. Eric Sax and will present the TEMPUS demonstrator.
Venue: At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Karlsruhe and online.
Date: October 10 - 15, 2023

On 09-12-2023 the advisory board of the U-Shift II project met at FKFS. The project partners (DLR-FK, FKFS, KIT FAST, KIT ITIV, UULM MRM) jointly presented the current progress in building the U-Shift II prototype. Prof. Eric Sax and his research assistant David Kraus from ITIV are involved in building the E/E architecture and are researching a reconfigurable software architecture for modular vehicles as part of the project.

Afterwards, the first driving tests were demonstrated in the workshop hall. The research results have the potential to consolidate Baden-Württemberg's position as a location for innovation and progress. Excerpts from U-Shift II will certainly be on display at one or another conference and trade fair next year.

Prof. Yu Wang, the co-founder of Deephi Tech (acquired by Xilinx), a leading provider of deep learning computing platforms, is a professor at the EE Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Together with Prof. Guohao Dai and PhD students Zhenhua Zhu and Yu Zhu, he was a guest at ITIV to concretize the next steps of a cooperation after an initial meeting a month ago. Within the Sino-German mobility program "Efficient Machine Learning for Multi-Agent COoperation Systems" (in short: MLCOS), there is already a collaboration. Yu Wang also holds the Humboldt Fellowship, which serves as a basis for further successful projects and collaborations. Prof. Becker will travel to China in March 2024, and there will also be an exchange of PhD students over several months.

We welcome our new research assistants to the team of Prof. Sax:
Julian Lorenz, M.Sc. (left) and Nikola Lukezic, M.Sc. (right).
Have fun and success with your exciting tasks and projects!

The largest mobility event in the world is currently taking place in Munich. In the middle of the city, projects and innovations will be presented to interested citizens from September 5 to 10 - freely accessible and free of charge. Cars, micro-vehicles, bicycles, new solutions for traffic and a colorful supporting program will be presented. As part of the TEMPUS research project, ITIV will be present at the Open Space area on Königsplatz. Here, the trade fair team will present, among other things, the bus demonstrator and the platooning principle using the follow-on vehicle equipped with sensors and other hardware in a convoy as an illustrative model.

At the beginning of August, ITIV hosted an exchange meeting within the Sino-German mobility program "Efficient Machine Learning for Multi-Agent COoperation Systems" (short: MLCOS). The guest was Professor Yu Wang from the EE Department of Tsinghua University, China. 
After the institute presentation, the meeting continued after lunch break at the FZI for the presentation of the research center with a tour through the House of Living Labs: a research environment on more than 2,000 square meters, especially for small and medium enterprises. Another meeting with Prof. Becker will take place in September to deepen the cooperation.

The FPGA Ignite Summer School 2023 took place in Heidelberg from July 31 to August 04. The Summer School series brings together young researchers in the field of hardware design for reconfigurable computing with FPGAs.

During a hackathon on the last day, Iris Fürst-Walter from Prof. Becker's team and two other students from Heidelberg University won the Best Design Award for the integration of a CPU in the "Multi-Project Die".
In this project a chip was designed and mini-projects were realized in small groups. An FPGA fabric was provided centrally, to which further functionalities were integrated. The criteria for the award were creativity and progress/maturity of the design. Congratulations!

His doctoral thesis entitled "Realization of Highly Transparent Wave Front Printed Holograms for Display Applications" deals with the recording of highly transparent holograms for augmented reality displays (e.g. so-called smart glasses). 

The holograms are produced using a novel method called holographic wavefront printing. In the course of the PhD, fundamental interference effects were identified, so that in particular the transparency and complexity of the holograms could be increased.

Congratulations!

As part of the "Smart-e-Meter" project, a team led by Prof. Stork traveled to Ethiopia for a month in mid-April.
Ethiopia needs energy. By 2025, the country aims to have a nationwide power supply. However, currently only about 45% of Ethiopia's 120 million inhabitants have access to electricity. Especially in rural areas, very few people have access to electricity. Blackouts can occur at any time due to outdated equipment. The focus is therefore on stabilizing the power grid and taking better precautions in the event of bottlenecks in the energy supply.
To this end, the ITIV team is on site studying outage data to make better use of the existing grid. The local utility gets continuous access to the measurement data and can thus better respond to outages and investigate the reasons for them.

Within the project days at the Tulla Gymnasium Rastatt, a group of students visited a workshop organized by the ITIV - in cooperation with the institutes IPQ and IHE - with a varied program. After a guided tour through the institutes, the workshop with the demonstrators and a welcome by Prof. Becker, the program continued with interesting lectures and practical exercises. The students showed interest in the many possibilities of studying in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

From 4.-5. of July 2023, the 23rd Stuttgart Symposium took place at the Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart. During this interesting event with many representatives from the automotive industry and research, the PhD student team of Prof. Eric Sax presented the conference paper entitled "Concept for an Approval-Focused Over-The-Air Update Development Process" during a presentation in the session Vehicle Technology.

In the context of the SofDCar project, the paper was developed under the leadership of Jacqueline Henle (FZI Research Centre for Information Technology), a doctoral student of Prof. Eric Sax, who supported her, and his other doctoral students Houssem Guissouma (ITIV), Mona Gierl, Felix Müller (both from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) and Goutham Bharadwaj Ramesh (BMW Group).

Prof. Jürgen Becker's keynote was focused on the issue of reliable high performance computing (HPC) in embedded systems and was awarded as the best keynote of the conference.

Matthias Stammler and Fabian Kempf presented work on information flow control in software systems and adaptive redundancy for fault-tolerant processors. The latter paper was awarded as "Distinguished Paper", for which we congratulate the authors!

At the parallel SS-CPSIoT, the XANDAR team around Prof. Becker and Tobias Dörr organized a tutorial on the design of real-time software, which was created in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and met with great interest in Montenegro.

The TEMPUS project consortium met at the end of June at the BMW Four Cylinder for a diverse program of technical and personal exchange. Here, the individual use cases were presented and the TEMPUS test vehicles were exhibited. The timing of this year's consortium meeting also sets the stage for the final spurt to the end of the project term on Dec. 31, 2023. A special highlight will be the appearance at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Munich in September. ITIV will exhibit the bus demonstrator and illustrate the platooning prototype with two buses from SWM/MVG manufacturer Ebusco. 

Organized by the VDE university group KIT, the specialization evening Electrical Engineering and Information Technology 2023 took place in the Tulla Hall. Over drinks and pretzels, there was the opportunity for personal discussions with the professors, subject advisors and doctoral students of the individual institutes.

Almost 100 students came to the ITIV booth to get information about the majors "Systems Engineering (Model 13)" and "System On Chip (Model 21)" and asked questions about open theses and HIWI jobs.

You want to know more about the different specializations you can choose in the Master? You want to learn more about the different specializations in the Bachelor? Or do you just want to establish some contacts to institutes?
Come to the specialization evening Electrical Engineering and Information Technology 2023, where the different institutes will present their specializations and answer all your questions.

Talk personally to the professors, advisors and PhD students of the individual institutes of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and get an overview of the different majors and offers of the institutes.

Within the cooperation with the Balthasar-Neumann-Schule 1, two students from the J1 were given the opportunity to do an internship at ITIV that was perfectly tailored to the profile subject of computer science. They were allowed to work on projects at ITIV, similar to auxiliary scientists. The two students were given practice tasks and assistance from doctoral students at the institute in order to familiarize themselves with the subject matter.
Both students got an excellent insight into the work of an auxiliary scientist as well as into the daily study routine at ITIV.

The tour started in the morning with a visit to the Rudolf Fettweis plant in Forbach. The complex of the pumped storage and run-of-river power plant includes several plants connected by tunnels and pipelines, which were to be discovered during an interesting guided tour. After a delicious lunch at the Naturfreundehaus Badener Höhe, there was an opportunity to visit the Mehliskopf with its wide range of leisure activities.

On May 24, 2023, students of the IMP profile subject in grades 9 and 10 at the St.-Dominikus-Gymnasium were given an insight into how a microprocessor works by Dr.-Ing. Tanja Harbaum. The students followed the explanations with keen interest to learn how a "NAND gate" for the logic operation "not a and b at the same time" can be built from two transistors, which then serves as the basis for circuits for all other logic operations.

On 24.05.23, the kick-off for the new research project MINGA (MINGA = Munich's Automated Local Transport with Ridepooling, Solobus and Bus-Platoons) took place in Munich at the Stadtwerke.

Around a dozen project partners (including KIT with the Institute for Information Processing Technology) and four associated partners from administration, research, business, and industry are working in six work packages on, among other things, the integration of automated vehicles into the existing mobility ecosystem, on-demand services, automated bus line operation, and the simulation of automated local public transport.

Interested visitors came to the Campus Day at KIT for a taster session or with specific questions about their studies. During the institute tour at ITIV, the demonstrators in the foyer were the main focus - in the soldering workshop, the participants could make their first experiences in handling soldering stations and printed circuit boards and take home the circuits they had built themselves.

Here, cutting-edge research at KIT, presented in a popular scientific way, meets young talents from the environment of the Karlsruhe University of Music. The event series offers comprehensible lectures on current research of young scientists at KIT. Afterwards, young musicians perform a concert program, mostly chamber music.

The programs are curated and organized by the KIT Event Management in cooperation with the Förderverein für Kunst, Medien und Wissenschaft e.V.. Since 2022, the KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V. has also been involved. Occasionally, short art tours to one of the numerous artworks in front of or inside KIT buildings are also offered by KIT art curator Andrea Stengel shortly before the event begins.

On the part of ITIV, Moritz Zink will give a scientific lecture entitled "Automated Public Transport - from the Niche into the World".

During a guided tour of the institute, the young people were given information about IT1 and IT2. With a presentation by Prof. Eric Sax and the presentation of the project demonstrators in the workshop, they were able to gain further impressions of the everyday life of studies and the institute in the field of "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology" before they concluded the day in the refectory.

For his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of efficient design of dynamically reconfigurable embedded systems, especially in the area of safety-critical applications, Professor Jürgen Becker has been awarded the Robert Piloty Prize 2022 of the TU Darmstadt by the President Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl on July 08, 2022. The honor, which the TU awards biennially to 2 laureates for outstanding achievements in computer science, electrical engineering and information technology as well as applied mathematics, is endowed with a total of 10,000 euros and a medal.

Please note: the first lecture HSO (LVNr.: 2311619 "Hardware synthesis and optimization") on 17.04.2023 will take place in room 339 of ITIV (Geb. 30.10).

Sustainable energy is becoming increasingly important. Photovoltaic systems in particular play an important role here. Stefanie Eski (17), Florian Brütsch (17) and Babett Ludwig (17) have also recognized this. The three have developed a system to make the entire energy of the plant usable even in the case of shading or pollution. They have now received an award for their commitment and met Prof. Eric Sax at the presentation of their project "Photovoltaics on fire!". They will participate in a 3-day research internship at ITIV in June.

ITIV is organizing a workshop about "Green Thumbs through Technology: The World of Microcontrollers for Beginners!" on 4/27/2023 as part of Girls' Day 2023.

"Girls'Day" is a nationwide career orientation day for girls* in 5th grade and above. Girls' Day gives schoolgirls the opportunity to gain insights into career fields that are rarely chosen by women - fields in the natural and technical sciences.

In the workshop, participants develop systems to accomplish a task in a logistics context. The systems are developed, implemented and tested first in a simulated digital twin environment and then on a real testbench using hardware that is close to industry, such as robot arms, AGVs, etc.

At this year's open day at the industrial training center in Bruchsal, visitors had the opportunity to explore both the theory building and the workshop building from the inside. As a cooperation partner, ITIV was represented by Marco Stang with a replica of the Steinbuch demonstrator to attract young people to study at ITIV/KIT.

The range of electric vehicles, in this case city buses, can be increased by sharing data from vehicles or vehicle fleets. To this end, information from the vehicles is sent to the cloud and analyzed there in order to exploit energy-saving potential in the vehicle by means of new data-driven functions.

We are delighted with Xiang Xie from Prof. Stork's PhD group for successfully completing his dissertation entitled "Artificial Intelligence for Spectral Analysis: a Comprehensive Framework". Congratulations!

Xiang Xie's dissertation provides an advanced AI-based system solution for a fast and accurate qualitative and quantitative analysis. With the help of this framework, a highly-efficient workflow can be realized at minimal cost in the mass production.

We are pleased with Markus Lücking from the PhD group of Prof. Stork about the successful dissertation titled "Konzepte zur Kollaboration zwischen Intelligenten Geräten zum Aufbau vernetzter Städte". Congratulations!

We welcome our new employees to the team (from left to right):

Roman Moldauer (IT Administration), Luca Seidel (Research Assistant in the group of Prof. Sax) and Annina Gutermann (Research Assistant in the group of Prof. Becker). Have fun and success with the exciting tasks and projects!

From Jan. 16-18, 2023, an ITIV team of Prof. Becker participated in this year's HiPEAC conference in Toulouse, the premier European forum for experts in the field of computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for general purpose, embedded and cyber-physical systems. 

The conference featured a workshop hosted by the XANDAR project, "XANDAR and Beyond: X-by-Construction (XbC) in the Design of Safety-Critical Systems." 

Besides, the conference was a great success for Fabian Lesniak, who won the Best Paper Award of the RAPIDO workshop with his paper "Non-intrusive runtime monitoring for manycore prototypes". Congratulations!

The aim of the Electrified Coach project - abbreviated to ELCH - is to develop a modular powertrain including two emission-free and practical demonstration vehicles over the next four years. These will then be tested under real operating conditions.

Last Friday, the cooperation agreement between ITIV and the Balthasar-Neumann-Schule 1 in Bruchsal - represented by the principal Frank Heusch - was signed in the presence of district administrator Dr. Christoph Schnaudigel.

Prior to the signing, Prof. Eric Sax gave a lecture on the study of electrical engineering and information technology at KIT as well as on the research fields at the institute. The ITIV team discussed the studies with the interested and highly motivated students and answered questions. In addition, a research demonstrator on the topic of "Automotive OTA updates" was presented.

And in the evening, there was a film report on Baden-TV about this all-around successful event.

On the occasion of the opening of the Munich Moosach depot, Nicole Kechler and Prof. Sax from ITIV presented the TEMPUS demonstrator. KIT contributes to the project by designing the concepts for platooning of city buses and developing corresponding algorithms for automation.

In platooning, several vehicles drive in close succession by means of electronic control. These columns can be adapted at will to the respective demand.

The new bus depot is intended to create the prerequisite for complete electrification of the Munich bus fleet.

After a successful special session titled „XANDAR: X-by-Construction Architecture for Safety Critical Systems” at the IEEE SOCC 2022 in September, the XANDAR project meeting was held at KIT in mid-October. This second major face-to-face meeting of the XANDAR consortium was attended by 23 participants in person or virtually. The project partners used the opportunity of the three-day event to present the results of their work and to discuss future directions. They are looking forward to the next meeting, which is scheduled for early 2023.

Cooperation with the information technology high school (TGI) at the BNS 1 in Bruchsal
On November 25, the Institut fuer Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV) and the Bruchsal Technical High School will agree on a comprehensive cooperation, the aim of which is to familiarize the learners of the main subject information technology with the study contents of computer science courses at an early stage. In addition, enthusiasm for topics such as information processing, artificial intelligence, software and hardware applications, and for KIT as a place of study is to be aroused. Mutual visits for information and study orientation are planned as well as internship offers for learners of grade 1 and the possibility to complete vacation jobs at ITIV. 
We are looking forward to the cooperation with Frank Heusch (OStD), principal of Balthasar-Neumann-Schule 1 Bruchsal, and his team.

A new lecture "System Integration and Communication Structures in Industry 4.0 and IoT" will start at ITIV on Tuesday, Tues 25 Oct 2022. 
The lecture describes the milestones of automation from the beginning of Ethernet and fieldbus system developments as well as the emergence of the OSI model and the automation pyramid. It provides a focus on the development of field devices and automation components in the context of the influence of electronics, µ-controller- DSP, FPGA, multi-core processor and chip-on-bond developments as well as software and algorithms.
The lecturer is Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Babel, a double doctor of electrical engineering, who has been familiar with international automation for 40 years and has helped to shape the experience in 5 automation technology groups.

From 18.10.2022 to 19.10.2022 the annual meeting for the project cooperation "KIHT" (Kaligo-based Intelligent Handwriting Teacher) took place at the institute. For the coordination of the development of an intelligent writing device for automated handwriting, the project partners from Stabilo, IRISA and Learn&Go met with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Becker and Dr.-Ing. Tanja Harbaum from ITIV for a lively exchange of the first project results, which look promising.

On 12.10.2022, the Innovation Campus Mobility of the Future (ICM) celebrated its third anniversary together with its partners and invited guests. And ITIV was there with exciting future topics!
Under the motto "Future Mobility Open Labs", the Science Day was all about the ICM topic areas of mobility technology, production systems and software systems. The event included lab tours, the presentation of demonstrators and test vehicles, a presentation of current projects, and a panel discussion.

For 35 years, the IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC) has been one of the leading forums of advances in SoC architecture, systems, logic and circuit design, process technology, test, design tools, and applications.

Professor Juergen Becker of ITIV served on the organizing committee - as he has for many years - and asked Lynn Conway, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Emerita University of Michigan, to give the dinner talk on "Surfing the waves of techno-social evolution". He was supported by Dr.-Ing. Tanja Harbaum.

In the EU-funded research project "XANDAR", in which KIT/ITIV is the coordinator, eight partners from science and industry - including the working group of Prof. Jürgen Becker - are working on a novel toolchain for model-based design of embedded systems. At the conference with about 150 participants, we were able to hold a special session and present the project.

Professor Hartenstein was a pioneer of hardware description languages, reconfigurable computing, and reconfigurable supercomputing.

Reiner Hartenstein had studied communications engineering at the then University of Karlsruhe (TH), today's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), until 1959 and received his PhD in 1969 in the field of automatic character recognition under Professor Karl Steinbuch.

Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family and loved ones during these difficult times. We will always cherish his memory.

For his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of efficient design of dynamically reconfigurable embedded systems, especially in the area of safety-critical applications, Professor Jürgen Becker has been awarded the Robert Piloty Prize 2022 of the TU Darmstadt by the President Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl on July 08, 2022. The honor, which the TU awards biennially to 2 laureates for outstanding achievements in computer science, electrical engineering and information technology as well as applied mathematics, is endowed with a total of 10,000 euros and a medal.

ITIV was represented at the student advisory evening with a hardware-in-the-loop demonstrator for testing and securing over-the-air updates. At this event, students were able to talk to PhD students and professors about the areas of specialization and research fields at ITIV.

From 11.06.-15.06.22 the International Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition (EVS) took place in Oslo, Norway. At this year's largest event on the topic of electric vehicles, ITIV exhibited the H2Rhein-Neckar project in the Baden-Württemberg area. The Minister of Transport of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Hermann MdL, visited the joint stand, where a brief presentation of the stands was given by the exhibitors.

The TEMPUS funding project on automated driving in Munich, in which ITIV is also involved with Prof. Sax's working group, has won the "Innovationspreis Reallabore" of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection.

The TEMPUS funding project started in January 2021 with a duration of 30 months and deals with how automated and connected driving will change the future of our mobility, how the advantages of this technology can be used in an urban and environmentally friendly way, how the safety of all road users can be increased and how risks for the environment and traffic flow can be avoided.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eric Sax participated at the Lifelong Learning Summit (among others with the head of human resources of VW Commercial Vehicles and the head of development Rolls Royce Power Systems) of the International Department, the Business School of KIT, on May 20, 2022.

At the congress, experts from industry together with university research and teaching institutions presented qualification measures in technological developments and their application in business. Interested parties thus received inspiration and best practices of in-service training to shape the change in renewable energies and digitalization and to ensure a sustainable knowledge addition in the company and competitive advantage in the market.

Impressions of the Lifelong Learning Summit:

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The Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften recognizes and promotes excellent scientific work with its annual award ceremony. The Ecology Prize of the Viktor & Sigrid Dulger Foundation is intended to promote scientific work in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering that deals with environmental problems and their solutions.
In 2022, the prize will go to Dr.-Ing. Gabriela Molinar, former doctoral student of Prof. Stork, whose work "Machine Learning Tool for Transmission Capacity Forecasting of Overhead Lines based on Distributed Weather Data" makes an important contribution to power load forecasting using artificial intelligence as an optimization method for grid operation and for supporting the energy transition in Germany.
 

The two master graduates of Prof. Stork, Robin Göbel and Max-Felix Müller, founded the startup Inventife. Inventife is the first company in the world to enable automation in the smart home based on the behavior or condition of the occupants.
With the help of a room sensor, state-of-the-art algorithms and artificial intelligence, it is possible to recognize the physical state of people. This can then be used to trigger automations or alarms.

Handwriting is an important tool of the knowledge-based society. Repeated studies revealed that writing a text by hand results in a higher quality of the result than typing. A smart digital pen that helps persons learn to write is currently being developed in the framework of the German-French project “Kaligo-based Intelligent Handwriting Teacher“ (KIHT). The collaboration project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Within this project, researchers of KIT study algorithms of artificial intelligence (AI) that enable reconstruction of a writing trace and interpretation of handwriting.

Kollegen der Arbeitsgruppe von Prof. Eric Sax haben das ITIV auf der ELIV (Electronics in Vehicles), die vom 20.-21. Oktober 2021 in Bonn stattfand, wirkungsvoll vertreten.
Die ELIV ist der Branchentreff für Fahrzeug-Elektronik in Deutschland und ein Stelldichein für OEMs, Zulieferer und Tool-Hersteller, die sich über die neuesten Entwicklungen und Innovationen informieren möchten.
Mit dem weiter optimierten Demonstrator des Spurhalte-Assistenten auf dem Laufband und erstmals der Darstellung des Bus-Platooning-Projektes TEMPUS in München (in 1:87) kam man schnell ins Gespräch über Hintergründe und Fachthemen.

Die Master-Veranstaltung Seamless Engineering verbindet Praxis mit spannenden Vorlesungen aus den Fachgebieten Logistik und Systems Engineering. Der Kurs beginnt mit Einführungsveranstaltungen, die Sie auf Ihre Gruppenarbeit über ein ganzes Semester vorbereiten. Ihre Aufgabe besteht darin, einen Materialfluss mithilfe von praxisnaher Hardware zunächst in einer Simulation (digitaler Zwilling) zu realisieren und anschließend den Transfer in die reale Welt auf einer Testfläche am Institut für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme (IFL) umzusetzen. Dabei verwenden Sie State of the Art Tools wie Robot Operating System (ROS) und Gazebo. Nach Beendigung des Kurses sind Sie in der Lage moderne Aktoren (Roboterarme) und Sensoren (Lidar) aus dem Bereich der Logistik anzusteuern und dadurch einen koordinierten und robusten Warenfluss in Betrieb zu nehmen.

Der AMALEA Kurs vermittelt ein grundlegendes Verständnis für Machine Learning und den Umgang mit Algorithmen. Nach einem Einführungsteil auf der Basis inhaltlicher Wissensvermittlung, haben Sie intensiv die Möglichkeit, Kompetenzen durch forschendes Lernen und anhand realer Szenarien zu entwickeln. 

AMALEA lädt Sie dazu ein, selbst KI-Lösungen mittels Python zu implementieren. Mögliche Herausforderungen können dabei sein: Machine Vision, Natural Language Processing, Zeitreihen-Prognosen und Entscheidungssysteme. Bei Abschluss des Kurses sind Sie in der Lage geeignete Verfahren des Maschinellen Lernens auszuwählen, KI-Anwendungsfälle im Unternehmen zu identifizieren, Verfahren des Maschinellen Lernens zu implementieren und KI-Ergebnisse zu verstehen und zu interpretieren. 

Die Bundesregierung unterstützt seit Juni 2021 das Leuchtturmprojekt „SPELL – Semantische Plattform zur intelligenten Entscheidungs- und Einsatzunterstützung in Leitstellen und Lagezentren“, mit dem Ziel bei Notfällen, Feuer, allgemeiner Hilfe sowie bis zu Großschadensereignissen, Pandemien und Naturkatastrophen Maßnahmen zur Hilfe und Versorgung für die Bevölkerung schneller und situationsgerechter zu gestalten.

Mehr als 600 Teilnehmer werden zum SPELL@hackathonamring vom 1. bis 3.10.2021 am Nürburgring erwartet, um als Experten und/oder Architekten von Lösungen gemeinsam mit enthusiastischen Hackern an zukünftigen Lösungen bis hin zu Prototypen zu arbeiten. Prof. Becker hält dort den Vortrag "KI – Wo stehen wir heute/Was bringt die Zukunft/Offene Fragen".

Flyer SPELL@Hackathonamring

Die Stadt München will ab dem nächsten Jahr ein Pionierprojekt zum sogenannten Bus-Platooning starten.
Mithilfe von Sensoren und eines Bordcomputers könnten Busse benzinsparend in Kolonne fahren und bei Bedarf mehr Passagiere transportieren.

Prof. Sax erklärt im Deutschlandfunk Nova vom 07.07.2021, wie durch ein System von Sensoren, Radar und einem Bordcomputer ein Informationsfluss etabliert werden kann, der es ermöglicht, dass ein fahrerloser Bus einem anderen geführten Bus automatisch folgt. Weil Sicherheit an erster Stelle steht, sollen elektronische Warnhinweise zwischen den Bussen aufleuchten, damit niemand zwischen die Fahrzeuge gerät. Zudem kann der Fahrer des vorderen Busses die Verkehrssituation einschätzen und dementsprechend eingreifen.

Aus dem Team von Prof. Stork heraus entstand die neue Ausgründung "Metis Neurotec", die u. a. eine Gründerförderung durch die Programme "EXIST Forschungstransfer" bzw. "Helmholtz Enterprise Spin-off" erhielt.

"Metis Neurotec" zielt auf die Detektion von Demenzerkrankungen in einer frühen Phase, um irreversible Schäden zu verhindern. Durch die KI-gestützte Plattform (App und QEEG) von Metis Neurotec können Ärzte schnell und ambulant kognitive Leistungseinbußen bei Patienten feststellen, um beispielsweise Alzheimer bereits im Frühstadium zu erkennen und behandeln.

The automated, driverless, electric vehicle concept of the U-Shift project, in which ITIV (Prof Sax group) is involved, was honoured with the German Innovation Award (https://www.german-innovation-award.de/preistraeger/preis/gewinner/u-shift/) in the Excellence in Business to Business Automotive Technologies category. The special feature here is the semi-trailer changing principle in the form of a capsule, which allows the transport of people and goods as required. ITIV is responsible for designing the electrical/electronic architecture of this highly innovative vehicle.

For their paper "Time Series Segmentation for Driving Scenario Detection with Fully Convolutional Networks" Philip Elspas (externer Doktorand von Prof. Sax), Yannick Klose, Simon Isele, Johannes Bach und Eric Sax received the Best Industrial Paper Award of the 7th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS).

VEHITS took place online from 28-30 April 2021.

The aim of the Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems Conference is to bring together engineers, researchers and practitioners who can exchange ideas in the fields of vehicle technology and intelligent transport systems.

Seit Anfang des Jahres ist am ITIV im Team von Prof. Jürgen Becker, gemeinsam mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (MPI) und der Technischen Universität München (TUM), ein neuartiger Neuronaler z-Vertex Track Trigger für den Belle II-Detektor entwickelt und aktiv geschalten worden. Das Belle II Experiment ist ein global sichtbares Teilchenbeschleuniger-Projekt am KEK-Forschungszentrum in Tsukuba (Japan), das die weltweit höchsten Luminositäten erreicht. Innerhalb des SuperKEKB-Beschleunigers kollidieren Elektronen und Positronen, um nach seltenen Zerfallsprozessen zu suchen.

Es werden in diesem Kontext am KIT interdisziplinäre fakultätsübergreifende Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten durchgeführt, sodass zahlreiche Studierende die Möglichkeit haben direkt an einem internationalen Großforschungsprojekt forschend zu arbeiten.

Zum Oberleitungsprojekt eWayBW, das momentan im Murgtal entsteht, gibt Prof. Eric Sax im Interview mit Baden TV Aktuell vom 04.02.2021 (Beitrag zu eWayBW ab Min. 08:38 bzw. Interview ab Min. 10:30) seine Erkenntnisse dazu wieder.

Die Ergebnisse der Teststrecke seien möglicherweise nicht so umfangreich wie erhofft, da die Strecke doch sehr autobahnähnlich sei. Zudem plädiert Prof. Sax für einen Technologiemix. Eine geeignete Anwendung für Oberleitungen sieht er im Shuttle-Betrieb, der durchaus mit autonomem Fahren kombiniert werden könnte.

Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft zu vernetzen, Projekte schnell zu realisieren und erfolgreich auf den Markt zu bringen: Das ist das Ziel der neuen Innovationsplattform „ITK InnoLab“, die das Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), die ITK Engineering GmbH und die Technische Universität Kaiserslautern gemeinsam zum 1. Oktober 2020 in Rülzheim gegründet haben.

Die Plattform gibt Studierenden aus der Region die Möglichkeit, intensiv in Projekten mitzuarbeiten, um von praxisnahem Wissen profitieren und wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse in der Wirtschaft anwenden zu können. Die Forschenden vom Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV) und der Professur für Pervasive Computing Systems (PCS) des KIT kümmern sich um Ansprache und Auswahl passender Studierender sowie um deren anschließende wissenschaftliche Betreuung.

Den ersten fahrfähigen Prototyp des futuristischen Fahrzeugkonzepts „U-Shift“ hat ein Konsortium aus baden-württembergischen Forschungseinrichtungen, an dem auch die Forschungsgruppe von Prof. Sax am ITIV mit der Entwicklung einer neuartigen Elektrik-/Elektronik-Architektur beteiligt ist, bei der Zwischenbilanzkonferenz des Strategiedialogs Automobilwirtschaft Baden-Württemberg am 17.09.2020 in Stuttgart vorgestellt.

In the practical AI course "Laboratory for Applied Machine Learning Algorithms (LAMA)", the practical handling of common algorithms and methods of machine learning is taught in a project-based and hands-on manner. Students will implement algorithms and structures independently and at the same time learn the methods and tools commonly used in business and science today.

Daniel Grimm, Tim Hotfilter, Gabriela Molinar, Marco Stang and Simon Claus Stock received the ETIT 2020 Faculty Teaching Award for their work in "LAMA".
Congratulations from ITIV!

In einer feierlichen Festveranstaltung am 17.02.2020 verlieh die KIT-Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Hasso Plattner die Ehrendoktorwürde.
Sein Diplomstudium in Nachrichtentechnik schloss Hasso Plattner 1968 bei Prof. Karl Steinbuch ab, der bis heute als einer der Pioniere der deutschen Informatik gilt.
Dietmar Hopp, ebenfalls Alumnus der Universität Karlsruhe (TH), hielt die Laudatio und erinnerte an die gemeinsamen Anfänge bei SAP.
Sichtlich gerührt nahm Hasso Plattner den von ITIV-Doktoranden gebastelten Doktorhut entgegen.

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BNN Artikel vom 18.02.2020

Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung Artikel vom 18.02.2020

Zwei Milliarden Essen werden jedes Jahr in Betriebsrestaurants in Deutschland manuell kassiert. Dies führt nicht nur zu langen Wartezeiten für Essensgäste, sondern verursacht auch hohe Kosten für die Betreiber.
Die ITIV-Ausgründung auvisus (https://www.auvisus.com/) ermöglicht durch künstliche Intelligenz in der Bildverarbeitung eine Automatisierung des Kassiervorgangs.

Die Neue Interaktive Videoreihe zeigt Gründerinnen und Gründer des KIT, die Künstliche Intelligenz als Werkzeug nutzen. Folge 1 präsentiert das Start-up auvisus: https://www.sek.kit.edu/video/auvisus/index.html

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth, Vizepräsident für Innovation und Internationales des KIT, Prof. Dr. WU Zhiqiang, Vizepräsident der Tongji University, Vertreter vom DAAD, dem deutschen Generalkonsulat in Shanghai sowie Teilnehmer der beiden Universitäten, darunter auch Prof. Becker und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter des ITIV feierten am 11.10.2019 in Shanghai das Bestehen der 20-jährigen Partnerschaft des KIT und der Tongji University.

Die Partnerschaft zwischen dem KIT und der Tongji University begann offiziell im April 1999 mit der Vereinbarung über die wissenschaftliche Kooperation sowie den Austausch von Studierenden und akademischen Mitarbeitern. In Zukunft soll die Kooperation um das Thema „künstliche Intelligenz“ erweitert werden.

The largest and most important international automotive congress for manufacturers, suppliers and their partners, ELIV (Electronics In Vehicles), took place in Bonn from 16-17 October 2019. Prof Sax and some colleagues from ITIV were there and presented current research results. Our research associate Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. M. Sc. Raphael Pfeffer won the Auto Electronic Excellence Award for his presentation "Potential of training neural networks using virtual environments" - congratulations!

Foto: Kollegen des ITIV am Laufband-Exponat

For their paper "Model-Based Resource Analysis and Synthesis of Service-Oriented Automotive Software Architectures", Philipp Obergfell, Stefan Kugele and Eric Sax received a Best Paper Award in the Practice and Innovation Track of the IEEE / ACM 22nd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), which took place in Munich from 15 to 20 September 2019.

Am 19.11.2019 fand der erste KIT-TI University Day am ITIV statt. Mit dem von Texas Instruments entwickelten TI Robotic System Learning Kit kann Ingenieurstudenten ein praxisnahes Wissen von eingebetteten elektronischen Systemen vermittelt werden.
Mit viel Spaß und Elan machten sich die Teilnehmer daran, ihren eigenen Code zu entwickeln, um anschließend ihr eigenes, funktionsfähiges Robotiksystem zu bauen und zu testen. Ziel war es, den Parcours als schnellstes abzufahren. Die drei erfolgreichsten Teams erhielten von TI gestiftete Preise.
Wir danken TI für diesen durchgeführten lehrreichen und konstruktiven Workshop ganz herzlich!

Vom 22. bis 24. Juli 2019 fand die 6. Sino-EU Doctoral School for Sustainable Engineering (SESE) in Lissabon am HIT statt. Sie bot die jährliche Austauschplattform für Doktoranden im Rahmen der CLUSTER-SEEEP-Programme „Energy and Transportation“ und “Collaborative Robots for Elderly Assistance and Advanced Manufacturing” (CREAAM).

Mit ca. 70 Teilnehmern aus Europa und China war dies die bisher größte der SESE Summer Schools. Beteiligt waren neben dem Gastgeber Instituto Superior Téchnico in Lissabon das KIT sowie die Tongji University aus Shanghai, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University und die Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

Im Interview "Take the power back" mit worldwind-technology.com gibt M. Eng. Gabriela Molinar, Doktorandin am ITIV, Auskunft über die Forschungsarbeiten an selbstlernenden Sensornetzwerken, welche die Kühlwirkung des Wetters anhand realer Daten modellieren.

Während Deutschland bei der Erzeugung von Windenergie weltweit führend ist, bleibt der Verbrauch dieses Stroms aufgrund von Defiziten im nationalen Stromnetz zurück. Um das derzeitige nationale Netz des Landes zu optimieren, arbeiten Forscherinnen und Forscher des KIT im Verbundvorhaben PrognoNetz daran, dass vorhandene Freileitungen je nach Witterungsbedingungen besser ausgelastet werden können.

Be among the first who experience this brand new course on innovation starting in the winter term of 2019/2020. Application is possible until the end of July!
The lecture Entrepreneurship conveys theoretical foundations as well as application-oriented competences of innovation management and agile system development methods.
Theoretical foundations are applied in a practice-oriented seminar and in different labs. After choosing one of three labs you develop an idea as a team up to a final pitch (KIT Neuland) in front of investors.

Mit diversen Veranstaltungen stellt die Landesvertretung des Staatsministeriums das Land Baden-Württemberg in Berlin vor. Vom 01.10.-17.10.2019 wird dort eine kleine Auswahl von "Open Codes" Werken, darunter auch die original Lernmatrix von Karl Steinbuch aus den 1960er Jahren, zu sehen sein. "Open Codes" wurde vom ZKM Karlsruhe als ein Pilotprojekt konzipiert. Die Ausstellung bringt eine Reihe von Kunstwerken zusammen, welche immersive Technologien erforschen und verschiedene Modalitäten von Codes aufzeigen.

Vergangenes Semester wurde am Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV) im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit an einer Künstlichen Intelligenz gearbeitet, die eine Echtzeitanalyse an Bienenstöcken ermöglicht. Die Arbeit fand in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Unternehmen apic.ai statt. Das Karlsruher Start-Up baut Hardware, Software und Infrastruktur, um den Daten über den Gesundheitszustand von etwa 60 Bienenstöcken im Ökosystem Karlsruhe in Echtzeit zu erfassen. Die Geräte werden am Eingang der Bienenstöcke befestigt und visuelle Sensoren erfassen ein- und ausfliegende Bienen.

Betreut wurde die Masterarbeit von Simon Stock am Lehrstuhl von Prof. Dr. Stork.

Das ITIV und mehrere Industriepartner arbeiten im Verbundvorhaben PrognoNetz zusammen an selbstlernenden Sensornetzwerken, welche die Kühlwirkung des Wetters anhand realer Daten modellieren. Dies wird am KIT Innovationstag NEULAND am 10. Juli 2019 innerhalb des Themenbereichs „Information & Künstliche Intelligenz“ mit dem Thema „Erhöhung der Übertragungskapazität mittels Intelligenten Stromnetzen“ präsentiert.

Der rasante Ausbau der Erneuerbaren Energiequellen belastet die deutschen Stromnetze zusehends. Das Forschungsprojekt PrognoNetz soll es ermöglichen, bestehende Freileitungen je nach Witterungsbedingungen besser auszulasten. Somit lässt sich der Bedarf an Neubautrassen reduzieren.

Um die in der Regel volatilen erneuerbaren Quellen in die Energieversorgung zu integrieren, sind höhere Kapazitäten im Stromnetz erforderlich. Der Bedarf an Neubautrassen lässt sich jedoch reduzieren, wenn vorhandene Freileitungen je nach Witterungsbedingungen besser ausgelastet werden können. Dazu arbeiten Forscherinnen und Forscher am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) im Verbundvorhaben „PrognoNetz“ an selbstlernenden Sensornetzwerken, welche die Kühlwirkung des Wetters anhand realer Daten modellieren. So lässt sich bei günstigen Bedingungen mehr Strom über die Leitung schicken.

ITIV Projekt PrognoNetz

Nach dem erfolgreichen Kick-Off des BMBF geförderten Projektes Step-Up!CPS (Förderkennzeichen 01IS18080D) Ende Oktober 2018 in Oldenburg, fand vom 18. bis zum 20. März 2019 der erste Workshop des Projektes am ITIV und am Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) statt.

Beim Workshops haben die 15 Teilnehmer den aktuellen Stand des Projektes sowie die nächsten Schritte erörtert. Gemeinsam wurden die bisherigen Anforderungen und Konzepte in Gruppen diskutiert und weiterentwickelt.

In diesem Projekt erforscht das ITIV zusammen mit den Projektpartnern Software-Methoden und Technologien für die Absicherung modularer Updates für Cyber Physikalische Systeme in verschiedenen Anwendungsdomänen.

Mit dem Workshop "Moderne Technik zum Anfassen- Die Welt der Mikrocontroller für Anfängerinnen" beteiligt sich das ITIV wieder am Girls Day , der dieses Jahr am 28.03.2019 stattfindet.
In diesem Workshop können die Schülerinnen ab Klasse 8 selber zur Entwicklerin werden und ihren eigenen Mikrokontroller programmieren. Sie bekommen einen Einblick in die Welt der Schaltkreise und digitalen Schaltungen. An diesem Tag werden die Teilnehmerinnen Drähte verlegen, eigenen Code schreiben und LEDs zum Leuchten bringen.

Anlässlich des Verkehrsgerichtstags in Goslar, an dem es um wichtige juristische und ethische Fragen zum autonomen Fahren ging, äußerte sich Prof. Eric Sax in den Tagesthemen darüber, dass ohne strengen Datenschutz die technische Entwicklung beim autonomen Fahren schon weiter fortgeschritten wäre. Durch die unzähligen, durch Sensoren gesammelten Daten und Bilder seien dem autonomen Fahren in Deutschland gesetzgebungstechnisch Grenzen gesetzt.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Juergen Becker presented in Santiago de Chile in October 2018 with his talk: "Integrated Digitalization in Industry 4.0 @ KIT: Challenges, Concepts and Solutions with Global Research, Education & Innovation" at this year's German-Chilean Business Days, which focused on Industry 4.0, selected activities, projects and models of KIT in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
The event with the motto "On the Way to Industry 4.0: Smart Alliances - Smart Solutions", which has been taking place annually since 2010, has positioned itself as the most important business summit between Germany and Chile and will be organized by the German-Chilean Chamber of Industry and Commerce CAMCHAL.

From July 8-11, 2018, the IEEE Microelectronics Symposium ISVLSI, founded in the 1980s in Florida as one of the first international VLSI conferences, took place in China for the first time with about 200 participants from academics, industry and several international keynote talks. Prof. Jürgen Becker is Steering Committee Chair of ISVLSI, e. g. with this 2018 Symposium in Hong Kong in addition the cooperation with China and strategic KIT partners has been extended.

Some impressions: 2018_ISVLSI Hong Kong Fotos_2.pdf

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6436071030099406848

Wenn das Herz nicht mehr schlägt, kommt es ohne Reanimationsmaßnahmen innerhalb von Minuten zu irreversiblen Schäden im Gehirn. In den wenigsten Fällen wird bei einem Herzstillstand überhaupt etwas getan. Oft sind Ersthelfer selbst hilflos angesichts der Situation. Etwa 65.000 Menschen sterben so jährlich in Deutschland am plötzlichen Herztod. An genau diesem Problem setzt EmergencyEye an.

Im Interview mit MEDICA.de am 02.07.2018 erklärt Prof. Wilhelm Stork, wie EmergencyEye in Notfallsituationen helfen kann, warum Telemedizin generell so wichtig ist und inwiefern Deutschland bei der Digitalisierung der Gesundheitsversorgung noch hinterherhinkt.

Auch in diesem Jahr beteiligte sich das ITIV mit dem Kurs "Moderne Technik zum Anfassen- Die Welt der Mikrocontroller für Anfängerinnen" wieder sehr erfolgreich am Girls' Day, der am 26.04.2018 stattfand. Unter Anleitung von Dipl.-Informatikerin Tanja Harbaum erreichten alle der interessierten und sehr motivierten Schülerinnen das Ziel - einen "digitalen Würfel" selbst zu bauen und zu programmieren.

Im japanischen Forschungszentrum für Teilchenphysik KEK nimmt das neue Teilchenbeschleuniger-Experiment Belle II den Betrieb auf.

Die Forschungsgruppe um Prof. Jürgen Becker entwickelt hierfür hochperformante Hardware auf Basisvon FPGAs und neuronaler Netze. 

Diese erlauben es nach neuen Phänomenen in seltenen Zerfällen von Tau-Leptonen zu suchen.

Mit den dadurch gewonnen Daten wird es möglich sein Vorgänge, wie sie kurz nach dem Urknall vorherrschten, zu untersuchen und dem Geheimnis der Dunklen Materie auf die Spur kommen.

Am 5. Mai soll in Karlsruhe auf einigen Straßen und Autobahnstücken das autonome Fahren getestet werden. Dabei bleibe es auch nach dem Unfall von Tempe, betont Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eric Sax im Interview mit der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung vom 21.03.2018. Er ist überzeugt davon, dass autonomes Fahren einen großen Beitrag zur Verkehrssicherheit liefern werde, auch wenn man vom komplett fahrerlosen Verkehr „noch unglaublich weit entfernt“ sei.

Im Rahmen der am 16. Januar 2018 stattfindenden Veranstaltung des VDI TrendForums gab Prof. Eric Sax ein Interview zum Thema "Herausforderung Autonomes Fahren". Im Mittelpunkt standen die Fragen, welche Erfahrungen die Projektpartner in konkreten Anwendungsfällen unter anderem auf dem Testfeld bereits gesammelt haben und wie er die Zukunft des Autonomen Fahrens sieht.

The ITIV spin-off emmtrix Technologies GmbH has been nominated for the Embedded Award 2018 in the "Tools" category, which is presented as part of the Embedded World trade fair, one of the most important international trade fairs in the embedded sector.The award recognises particularly innovative, unique and future-oriented products.

Embedded World will take place this year from 27 February to 1 March 2018 in Nuremberg. You will find the emmtrix Technologies GmbH stand in hall 4A, stand number: 637e.

Das Forschungsprojekt ARAMiS II hat erfolgreich den zweiten Meilenstein gemeistert. Die Arbeiten an einem effizienten Einsatz von Multicoreprozessoren und den zugehörigen Prozessen, Methoden, Tools und Plattformen sind in vollem Gange und die Demonstratoren sind in der ersten Iteration verfügbar. Zur Rekapitulation der bisher durchgeführten Arbeiten und zur Planung der nächsten Schritte traf sich das Konsortium, bestehend aus 34 Partnern aus Industrie und Forschung, am 10.01.2018 am KIT im Hector Hörsaal des International Departments. 

Autonomes Fahren ist ein wichtiger Baustein neuer Mobilitätskonzepte – nicht nur im PKW-Bereich. Eine Studie des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (KIT), des Forschungszentrums Informatik FZI am KIT und der Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB) zeigt, wie autonomes Fahren auf Busbetriebshöfen funktionieren und zur Kostensenkung beitragen kann. Ihr Modell eines teilautonomen Busbetriebshofs präsentieren die Projektpartner vom 9. bis 11. Oktober 2017 auf der Messe EVS 30 in Stuttgart.

Video vom fahrenden Bus im Modell:  
http://www.sek.kit.edu/downloads/busbahnhof.mp4 

https://www.golem.de/news/autonomes-fahren-busbetriebshof-soll-automatisiert-werden-1710-130384.html

Im Rahmen der weltgrößten Messe des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs war die „Profilregion Mobilitätssysteme Karlsruhe“ (www.profilregion-ka.de) vom 15.-17. Mai 2017 am Gemeinschaftsstand der Technologieregion Karlsruhe vertreten.
Im Rahmen der „Global Public Transport Summit“ sollte der Mobilitätsstandort Karlsruhe weltweit bekannt gemacht und damit gestärkt werden.

http://www.profilregion-ka.de/index.php/news/41-profilregion-praesentiert-sich-auf-weltgroesster-messe-fuer-oeffentlichen-verkehr-am-gemeinschaftsstand-der-trk 

Vom 28. August bis 2. September 2017 fand die 4. Sino-EU Doctoral School for Sustainable Engineering (SESE) in Karlsruhe am KIT statt. Über 30 Doktoranden und 20 Professoren der Tongji University, Shanghai, dem Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin (China), der Técnico Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) und dem KIT nahmen daran teil. Neben Präsentationen und Keynotes zu Themen wie Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Transportation, Sustainable/ Advanced Manufacturing und Industrie 4.0 gab es auch einen interessanten Ausflug nach Heidelberg und Speyer.

Vom 28.08.2017 bis 02.09.2017 fand die diesjährige Summerschool der Sino-EU Doctoral School for Sustainability Engineering (SESE) am KIT statt. Neben Teilnehmern der Tongji University, China, dem Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, und dem Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal, nahmen auch 8 Doktoranden des KIT teil, die den aktuellen Stand ihrer Arbeiten präsentierten.

Das Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV) des KIT hat für die Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB) das Konzept für einen autonomen Betriebshof in Stuttgart-Gaisburg erarbeitet und einen Demonstrator im Maßstab 1:87 gebaut. Auf der EVS30 – Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition im Oktober werden ITIV und SSB das 2 mal 1,5 Meter große Modell des Bus-Depots zeigen. Das Video zeigt den Demonstrator im Aufbau; das fertige Modell wird vor der Messe im Oktober zu sehen sein.

For their paper "A Reconfigurable High-speed Spiral FIR Filter Architecture" Shalina Percy Delicia Figuli, Peter Figuli and Jürgen Becker received the Best Paper Award of the 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) in July 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. 

For their paper "Test scenario selection for system-level verification and validation of geolocation-dependent automotive control systems" Johannes Bach, Jacob Langner, Stefan Otten, Marc Holzapfel und Eric Sax received the Best Paper Award of the 23rd ICE/ ITMC Konferenz in June 2017 in Madeira Island, Portugal.

Das Multimedia-Zeitalter wird kommen: Das war für Karl Steinbuch schon 1966 klar: Bereits zu dem Zeitpunkt sagte der Informatik-Pionier voraus, dass digitale Technologien die analogen verdrängen, Telefon- und Rechnernetze zusammenwachsen und Unterhaltungselektronik und Datenverarbeitung in den Endgeräten verschmelzen werden. Den Begriff „Informatik“ führte er 1957 in die deutsche Sprache ein.

Am 15. Juni 2017 hätte Steinbuch, der 1958 das heutige Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV) gründete, seinen 100. Geburtstag gefeiert. 

http://blog.hnf.de/karl-steinbuch-von-der-kybernetik-zur-politik/

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Der-Vater-der-Lernmatrix-Zum-100-Geburtstag-von-Karl-Steinbuch-3744028.html 

Im Rahmen der weltgrößten Messe des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs ist die „Profilregion Mobilitätssysteme Karlsruhe“ (www.profilregion-ka.de) am Gemeinschaftsstand der Technologieregion Karlsruhe vertreten.
Im Rahmen der „Global Public Transport Summit“ soll der Mobilitätsstandort Karlsruhe weltweit bekannt gemacht und damit gestärkt werden. 

The Charles Kao Award 2015 of the IEEE Communication Society received David Hillerkuss et al. for the paper “Single-laser 32.5 Tbit/s Nyquist WDM Transmission”, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Volume 4, No. 10, October 2012, pp. 715-723. Prof. Jürgen Becker is co-author.

The CyberChampions Award takes place once a year and addresses young companies in the IT and high-tech industry.
At this year’s award ceremony the founding team of emmtrix Technologies GmbH was awarded with the 2nd place. 

press release Cyberforum (https://www.cyberforum.de/newsroom/detail/news/cyberchampions-awards-2016-verliehen/)

Introduction video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4c2yCmRN0)

For their paper "Ranging Errors in UWB Networks and Their Detectability" Frank Hartmann, Christian Enders und Wilhelm Stork received the Best Paper Award of the 39. international conference TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING in Vienna, in June 2016.
Congratulations!

For their poster "Evaluation of Analog and Digital Signal Processing on PSoC Architecture with DCT as Use Case" Stephan Werner, Bernhard Stiehle and Jürgen Becker received the Best Poster Award at the DASIP in Poland, which took place from the 23.-25. September 2015.

Die Veröffentlichung "Prediction of temperature and damage in an irradiated human eye - Utilization of a detailed computer model which includes a vectorial blood stream in the choroid" von N. Heussner, L. Holl, T. Nowak, T. Beuth, M. Spitzer, W. Stork ist zu den besten 10% der Veröffentlichungen 2014 des Journals "Computers in Biology and Medicine" gewählt worden

Dipl-Phys. Thorsten Beuth hat als Mitglied des institutsübergreifenden Teams der Akademischen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des "Workshops Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik" den Fakultätslehrpreis bekommen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Jan Heisswolf, Aurang Zaib, Andreas Zwinkau, Sebastian Kobbe, Andreas Weichslgartner, Jürgen Teich, Jörg Henkel, Gregor Snelting, Andreas Herkersdorf und Jürgen Becker haben für ihr Paper "CAP: Communication Aware Programming" auf der Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2014 den HiPEAC Paper Award vom European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation erhalten.

Für ihr Paper "The Road to “ITIV Labs” – an Integrated Concept for Project-Oriented Systems Engineering Education" haben Thorsten Beuth, Tobias Gaedeke, Carsten Tradowsky, Jens Becker, Alexander Klimm und Oliver Sander den Best Paper of the Session Award des Committees der ICMEI 2014 in Paris erhalten.

We congratulate Markus Völker, Johannes Schmid, Tobias Gädeke, Klaus D. Müller-Glaser und Dorothea Wagner on the Best Paper Award for their paper "Force-Directed Tracking in Wireless Networks using Signal Strength and Step Recognition" at the International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), Starnberg, 2012.