Activities 2025

On this page you will find a list of upcoming or ongoing events in which we as the Systems for Measurement, Control and Diagnosis department of Fraunhofer IOSB are involved.

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

The 8th 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-organizer and represented in the committee.

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.

Visit us, your contact person is: Janko Petereit, Organizational management

The most important international trade event for all topics relating to measurement and testing technology as well as vision technology, image processing and sensor technology is the annual Control trade fair in Stuttgart.

Machine learning as a key technology for quality assurance with image processing

This time, Fraunhofer IOSB and its Systems for Measurement, Control and Diagnosis (MRD) are presenting the exhibit 

Inspection of (partially) reflective surfaces with deflectometry for quality assurance

However, the inspection of reflective surfaces poses special challenges in practice: On the one hand, most common surface inspection methods, such as fringe projection, rely on diffuse reflection. On the other hand, the results of such methods cannot easily be used to evaluate reflective surfaces, as the customer assesses the quality based on reflections of the surroundings in the surface. The deflectometry method closes this gap in measurement and testing technology and offers the possibility of applying objective standards in quality assurance using simple means.

Joint stand of the Fraunhofer Vision Business Unit

We would like to invite you to get an overview of the new developments of the Fraunhofer Vision Business Unit and the exhibits at the joint booth of the Fraunhofer Vision Business Unit.

Visit us and your contact person is: Jan Burke

For most applications, a machine vision system is still not an off-the-shelf product, but requires application-specific customization. The seminar therefore aims to provide participants with an insight into the state of the art in the field of surface inspection and characterization. Participants will learn about the possibilities and current limitations of automatic surface inspection in order to derive guidelines for their own investment planning.

We are involved with the following contributions:

3D measurements on surfaces

Michael Heizmann

Deflectometry for the inspection of reflective surfaces

Internship station with Jan Burke