Automation Technology

• Field and service robotics
• Robot societies
• Energy & fuel cells
• Home & building automation
• Submarine applications
• Space applications
• Other automation technology projects

Autonomous Systems

• Autonomous systems and robotics
• Machine perception
• Estimation and sensor fusion; biological information processing
• Modeling and control of nonlinear dynamic systems
• Communication protocols and software methods for automation

Information and Computer Systems in Automation

• Reliability of Energy Infrastructures
• Assessment of Industrial Adoption Potential
• IT in Industrial Applications
• IT in Agricultural Applications

Generic Intelligent Machines

• Modularity of Generic Machines
• Power and Energy Systems
• Transmission of Power and Data
• Control Architectures (Task Managing and Planning System)
• Perception and Navigation Systems
• Human-Robotic Machine Interaction
• Motion Systems
• INTEGRATOR Project - Integrate, Validate, and Demonstrate

Control Engineering

• System Theory
• Process Control
• Mechatronics
• Operations & Maintenance
• Wireless Automation
• Micro- and Nanorobotics
• Power Electronics & Electric Machines
• Cybernetics
• System Dynamics