Activities 2026

On this page you will find a list of upcoming and ongoing events in which we, as the Measurement, Control, and Diagnostic Systems Department at Fraunhofer IOSB, are participating.

A cordial invitation - we look forward to meeting you on one of these occasions!!

The Control Engineering Colloquium in Boppard is the annual meeting place for the control engineering community in German-speaking countries. Around 80 control engineering professors, numerous automation engineering professors, around 100 research assistants and a number of industry and association representatives regularly take part.

In contrast to specialist conferences, the Control Engineering Colloquium primarily has the character and function of a forum in which universities and research institutes in German-speaking countries present and discuss the latest results and innovative ideas from research and development in the field of measurement, control and automation technology.

Another aim of the colloquium is to bring together representatives from research and teaching with invited guests from industry for a mutually beneficial discussion on current issues and tasks in industrial practice and the applicability of new, efficient solution methods and concepts.

👉 MRD is responsible for organizational management here, led by Janko Petereit.

The 9th ML4CPS offers a platform for exchange between researchers and users from various fields. Cyber-physical systems have the ability to adapt to changing requirements. In conjunction with machine learning, various areas such as predictive maintenance, self-optimization and fault diagnosis are conceivable. An essential prerequisite for exploiting this potential is the accessibility of machine learning techniques for engineers.

It is hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB, Helmut Schmidt University (HSU), Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) at RWTH Aachen University.

👉 We are co-organizers, on the committee and represented by two presentations by Christian Kühnert:

"Demand Forecasting in Water Distribution Systems: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Operationalization, Transferability, and Scalability" and

"Analyzing and Comparing Ecosystem Assessments of Reservoirs: A Data-Centric Approach"

Girls'Day aims to make technical, scientific, trade and IT professions in particular more attractive to girls and young women.

In addition to practical experience, female role models in STEM subjects are the key to encouraging girls to learn a profession in this field. The key message of the 2017 Microsoft study was that girls can be inspired to pursue STEM disciplines through female role models and more practical experience.

Fraunhofer IOSB will be represented again this year with six workshops.
We are participating with a workshop:

👉 Getting started with programming – with your own game! 🔧✨ 

Try out programming for yourself and make the game your own little project. At the end, you can take your source code home with you.  Supervisor: Anne Sielmann and Tobias Hellmund (ILT).