M. Sc. Pirmin Breisacher

M. Sc. Eric Wagemann

M. Sc. Linus Witucki

The application window for the Winter Term 2025/2026 is now open. The deadline for submission is Sunday, October 5th, at 23:59.
Please apply by email to rascl∂irs.kit.edu, including an up-to-date transcript of records as an attachment.
 

If you have attended compulsory lectures of the specialization but have not yet taken the corresponding exams, please list these lectures in your email.

Note that due to the limited number of available places, priority will be given to students enrolled under SPO18 with Field of Specialization 5, followed by those with Field of Specialization 8.

Applicants will receive feedback by Tuesday, October 14^th.

Knowledge in automation, control and robotics in general. Recommended, but not mandatory, lectures are:
 

• Practical Tools for Control Engineers
• Cyber Physical Modeling
• Seminar Industrial Process and Plant Engineering
• Optimal Control
• Multivariable Control Systems
• Nonlinear Control Systems

This module is designed to teach students the stated qualification objectives in the fields of automation, robotics
and control by means of a complex automation task. The task not only covers the automation concept itself
but also underlying aspects like hardware design, communication using an industrial bus system, drive system
control and others. To do so, laboratory systems, namely laboratory scale robotic manipulator arms, are provided
to the students.

• Introduction to the test stand (15h)
• Introduction to single-axis motor control (15h)
• Construction and print of end-effector components (30h)
• Introduction to ROS (15h)
• Implementation of hardware-interfaces in ROS (30h)
• Automation, motion planning and control (30h)
• Implementation on the real robot (15h)
• Presentations and preparation (15h)
• Oral exam and preparation (15h)

• Students are enabled to develop approaches to various problems in a group, solve them, and present and
  defend their results. In addition, they are able to present their approach, thought processes, applied methods,
  and results in a comprehensible and scientifically precise style.
• Students are able to familiarize themselves independently with a complex technical system and its components
• Students can discuss problem-solving strategies with team members in technical language and argue their
  preferred solution. Further they are able to reflect on the solution approaches used.
• Students can implement and validate automation solutions in various development environments (e.g. MATLAB/
  Simulink, ROS, …). They are further able to apply their solutions across various system boundaries
  (e.g. automation concepts on Windows, ROS on Linux).
• Students gain insights into various engineering disciplines (e.g. mechanical engineering) and in rapid prototyping
  processes.
• Students are able to use industrial bus systems (e.g. EtherCAT) in an automation context.
• Students are able to apply methods that they have previously acquired in lectures on automation, control and
  robotics.

The examination takes place in the form of other types of examination. It consists of pitches after every thematic block, a final presentation and an oral examination in the amount of 20 minutes. The overall impression is evaluated.
The module grade results of the assessment of the pitches, presentation and the oral exam. Details will be given during the lecture at the beginning of the semester.