Welcome to the Intelligent Embedded Systems Lab
Everything is Embedded
Embedded computer systems are omnipresent in everyday life, often without us even noticing their presence. Computers are nowadays incorporated into a vast variety of objects, ranging from a coffee machine over a car to a person’s heart pacemaker. However, to improve these systems they require an ever growing amount of resources.
The Intelligent Embedded Systems lab (IES) focuses on research, development and advancement of such ‘invisible’ computer systems. We specifically aim to create resource constrained but intelligently acting devices in the Internet of Things.
New and Interesting
2025-12-03 Annual Research Summit Annual Internal Research Summit 2025
From November 14–16, 2025, our annual research summit took place. Our doctoral candidates gave presentations on their current research and outlined their plans for their dissertations.
In addition, there was a keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Herman Engelbrecht from Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
2025-10-28 field trial TransfAIr Third field trial as part of TransfAIr
As part of our research project TransfAIr, the third field trial was successfully launched in collaboration with our industry partner HARTING and, in particular, the HARTING Innovation Hub in Osnabrück.
The project focuses on equipping mechanical agricultural implements (e.g. ploughs, cultivators) with smart connectors.
2025-09-24 Research Summit in Armenia The second Armenian-German Research Summit
On the 4th and 5th of September, the second Armenian-German Research Summit on Intelligent and Data-Based Systems took place in Yerevan.
We were represented by a large group and gave various presentations. We were supported by Dr. Nelson Baloian (l.), who obtained his PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen and is also a visiting professor here.
Core Aspects of our Research
The goal of the Embedded Systems research group is to develop algorithms, concepts and procedures to develop networked embedded systems. Examples include the so called Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) or Industry 4.0. Currently our research consists of the following core aspects:
- Embedded Machine Learning
- Programming Adaptive Embedded Systems
- IoT Deployment and the Edge
- Embedded Security
Funded Projects
Here you can find an overview of the different third-party funded projects of this department
Member of the paluno research institute for Software Engineering
and of the CENDIQ competence centre