Teaching
Basic knowledge and advanced topics of control and automation engineering are taught in many interesting lectures as well as in calculation and laboratory classes.
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Research
Academic and practical problems of control and automation engineering are studied wtihin the framework of several research projects and industrial cooperations.
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Retzhof
Every two year the Styrian Workshop on Automatic Control takes place at Retzhof castle. Current topics of Control Engineering and Automation will be discussed with industry members and researchers.
mehr...Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium in Boppard 2026
Several members of the IRT attended the "60th Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium" in Boppard, Germany, where Katarina Stanojevic presented her work titled “Effizienter Entwurf von vernetzten Regelkreisen”.
Retzhof 2025
In September 2025, our IRT internal seminar took us to the beautiful Retzhof Castle. We enjoyed social activities, joined workshops on technology and ethics, and visited the Verbund power plant in Mellach-Werndorf, which includes hydropower (run-of-river) as well as thermal, district heating, and combined cycle gas turbine facilities.
Interns Support Our Team
We are pleased to welcome two dedicated summer interns to our institute this July. Over the course of one month, they will gain exciting insights into our research activities and actively support our team. The photo shows them together with staff members during an excursion to a bioreactor.
We wish them a valuable and inspiring experience!
Best paper award
The best paper award in the 25th international conference on process control (in Slovakia) was given to the paper ‘Real Time Optimization of a Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Process Based on Hammerstein Models’ from the authors: Hazem Damiri, Martin Steinberger and Martin Horn.
Open Lab 2025
On May 08, 2025, an Open Lab once again took place at the Institute of Automation and Control. Current research topics at the institute, bachelor and master theses topics, and live demos of lab experiments were shown. The following pictures give an impression of the event.
Contact information
Institute of Automation and Control
Graz University of Technology
Inffeldgasse 21/B
8010 Graz
Tel.: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 7021
Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 7028
Bachelor-/Masterprojects and theses
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Research projects