M.Sc. Ferdinand Rewicki (DLR Institute of Data Science) visits our laboratory. He will give a talk on Machine Learning for Space Gardening at 2023/06/07, 01:00 pm in 2/W040. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Dhruvkumar Patel, student at IIITDM Jabalpur (India) visited our lab during a research internship.

M.Sc. Dario Dennstädt (Universität Paderborn & Technische Universität Ilmenau) visits our laboratory. He will give a talk on Funnel-MPC at 2023/04/27, 02:15 pm in 2/NK003. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Dr.-Ing. Daniel Schubert (DLR Institute of Space Systems) will give a talk on From the South Pole into Space – Vegetable Cultivation in Antarctica at 11:15 am in 2/N013 (in conjunction with Physikalisches Kolloquium). Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

The professorship warmly welcomes its new external team member Jannis von Salzen. He works at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück in the group of Prof. Andreas Ulbrich and will work toward his PhD in cooperation with our lab. He will be working on process optimization and automation for cultivation of water lentils and will be part of our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.

The professorship warmly welcomes its new team members, Daniel Pusicha and Kiran Sathyanarayanan who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
Daniel studied Engineering and Business Administration for his bachelor's degree and Electrical Engineering and Information Technology for his master's degree at Leibniz University Hannover.
Kiran studied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at Anna University Chennai for his bachelor's degree and Automation and Robotics at TU Dortmund for his master's degree.

Our laboratory presented its research results at the opening of the worldwide unique research facility CUBES Circle - Future Food Production at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In it, a circular production process of food through three different stages of the food chain (plants, fish, and insects) is tested in the form of a production plant. The research facility is a result of the CUBES Circle consortium, which is part of the National Research Strategy BioEconomy 2030 in the funding line Agricultural Systems of the Future by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The German Agricultural Research Alliance (German: Deutsche Forschungsallianz DAFA) represents the majority of German agricultural and nutritional research institutions. The DAFA provides an integrative platform for its members and supports interdisciplinary cooperation.
The steering committee for controlled environment agriculture is responsible for the overall strategic planning and direction of the research in Germany in this area. Prof. Streif was elected into this committee due to his long standing experience in modeling and optimal control of agricultural systems as well as the optimization of coupled food production units.
See also here for more information and for a press release (in German) and (in English).

Dr. Manuel Schaller (Technische Universität Ilmenau) will give a talk on Data-based predictive control using eDMD with guarantees at 3:00 pm in 2/W043. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.