Research program
The Joint Lab's work and research program is based on the many years of preliminary work and resources of the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) and Osnabrück University (UOS): On the ATB side, the research topics of the Joint Lab are precision crop production, precision animal husbandry, intelligent food value chains, food processing and nutrition, biomaterials and residue management, as well as the overarching methodological focus on measurement and control technology, data science and microbiome management.
On the part of the UOS, the initial content orientation results from the contributions to AI and data science from computer science, cognitive science and mathematics, which are supplemented by environmental systems / Biology. In terms of content, the UOS covers a broad spectrum of AI and data science methods, including in particular machine learning methods, knowledge-based approaches, optimization and data mining.
Research areas
The structure of the Joint Lab AI & DS follows a thematic division into three research areas.
Method development and data analysis : Artificial intelligence and data science
Department spokespersons:
Prof. Dr. Martin Atzmüller (UOS) & Prof. Dr. Marina Höhne (ATB)
PostDoc:
Dr. Hamid Ebrahimy
PhD students:
Viacheslav Barkov (Slava), Moritz Lucas, Clara Lößl & Freddy Sikouonmeu
Sensor networks, robot control and data acquisition : Distributed autonomous systems in agriculture
Department spokespersons:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mario Porrmann (UOS) & Prof. Dr.-Ing. Cornelia Weltzien (ATB)
PostDoc:
Dr. Thomas Hänel
Doctoral students:
Mario Dyczka, Lennart Kaiser, David Rolfes & Verena Tessaro
Application-based development of process controls and digital twins : Hybrid process and system modeling
Department spokespersons:
Prof. Dr. Tim Römer (UOS) & Prof. Dr. Annette Prochnow (ATB)
PostDoc:
Dr. rer. nat. Juan Carlos Saborío Morales
PhD students:
Jonas Schmidinger, Tim Wollschläger, Kevin von Bargen & Mandala von Westenholz
Industrial project (agricultural engineering) : Artificial intelligence and data analysis
Duration: 2023 - 2024
Responsible for the project: Prof. Dr. Martin Atzmüller (UOS) & Prof. Dr. Tim Römer (UOS)