General

Reinhard German has recently been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty for IT at the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He will do research in the field of “IT for Energy”, first planned steps are to model the Monash Microgrid and to supervise a related PhD thesis.

Reinhard German has been appointed by State Minister Hubert Aiwanger for a new term as scientific representative for Connected Mobility in the Center Digitalization of Bavaria (ZD.B).

"Electric cars are not so green" is a much-discussed phrase in relation to the environmental impact of electric mobility. Not only in the mobility sector, but also in the field of energy storage, an analysis of environmental influences is of increasing importance. Our research assistant Daniel Schar...

Our research assistant Jonas Schlund presented a paper titled „FlexAbility - Modeling and Maximizing the Bidirectional Flexibility Availability of Unidirectional Charging of Large Pools of Electric Vehicles“ at the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy 2020). I...

At the 29th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2020), our research assistant Thomas Deinlein presented a paper entitled "5G-Sim-V2I/N: Towards a Simulation Framework for the Evaluation of 5G V2I/V2N Use Cases". The paper introduces the OMNeT++-Framework developed at our lab, w...

Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic: strategies for controlled take-back of restrictions

As stipulated by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts on 10 March 2020, we are hereby cancelling all lectures, seminars and classes which students are expected to attend in person indefinitely and with immediate effect.

The paper entitled with "Coupled Traffic Simulation by Detached Translation Federates: An HLA-Based Approach" was presented at the Winter Simulation Conference 2019 in Washington D.C. by our research assistant Moritz Gütlein. Besides describing the concept for reusable submodel translation in theor...

Our former research assistant Ibrahim Alagöz has successfully concluded his PhD. He defended his dissertation titled "Development of a Methodology for the Efficient Validation of Safety-Critical Systems Using Machine Learning Optimization Techniques" last Friday. After publishing his work, he will b...

In our paper "Optimized Integration of Electric Vehicles in Low Voltage Distribution Grids" we analyse the impact of unccordinated charging of electric vehicles and different smart charging strategies on a representative European semi-urban low-voltage grid. The paper was published openly accessible...